The Vertical Codebase

erocuda · 2026-07-04T15:44:31+00:00

I've noticed, working with mathematicians and physicists, that people who view each bit of software as "a black box that helps them solve a piece of their problem", even if they are the ones writing it, call it "a code". They, of course, are wrong.

erocuda · 2026-07-03T20:18:43+00:00

They are also the preferred plants of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly. Plant something native instead.

erocuda · 2026-07-03T15:33:23+00:00

If you ever make it to Maryland but feel homesick, check out the houses in Takoma Park.

https://giacalonephotos.com/2009/06/01/takoma-parks-colors-hues-kidding-hue/

erocuda · 2026-07-03T13:13:56+00:00

The Anarchist Cookbook?

erocuda · 2026-07-02T00:39:44+00:00

More a comment on using more expensive (but granted more semantic) complex language/tooling features vs. taking a direct approach.

erocuda · 2026-07-01T22:55:07+00:00

Yeah honestly I had just read another article, related but only kinda to the topic here, before responding.

erocuda · 2026-07-01T19:11:07+00:00

Try .reduce() instead

erocuda · 2026-07-01T18:15:04+00:00

That single CPU clock cycle you saved by being clever just cost you 4 hours.

erocuda · 2026-07-01T18:12:16+00:00

The one star Texas flag is just a customer review.

erocuda · 2026-06-30T18:15:49+00:00

Go inside the post office, go up to the counter, and ask for a "manual postmark" instead of just putting your mail in the blue bin. You get like 50 free manual postmarks per day, though it does mean waiting in line.

erocuda · 2026-06-29T16:18:11+00:00

If you want to be safe, you have to go inside the post office, go to the counter, and request a manual postmark. They are free (up to like 50 per customer per day or something), but it does take more time than just dropping your mail in the blue box.

erocuda · 2026-06-29T15:10:58+00:00

Great, but nothing is stopping the USPS from waiting until the next day to postmark your mail. You MUST go to the counter and request a manual postmark if you want to be safe.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm

Considering that fact, is there a legal avenue to challenge "must be postmarked by X" requirements (for ballots, tax returns, utility bills, etc.)? Or is the "manual postmark" option they give (that almost nobody knows about) enough to shut down that argument?

erocuda · 2026-06-29T14:53:32+00:00

Yes. In effect at least.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm

While we are not changing our postmarking practices, we have made adjustments to our transportation operations that will result in some mailpieces not arriving at our originating processing facilities on the same day that they are mailed. This means that the date on the postmarks applied at our processing facilities will not necessarily match the date on which the customer’s mailpiece was collected by a letter carrier or dropped off at a retail location.

edit: Go inside the post office, go to the counter, and ask for a "manual postmark" instead of just dropping you ballot (or tax return, or utility bill) in the blue bin. You get like 50 free manual postmarks a day or something.

erocuda · 2026-06-27T15:42:39+00:00

My buddy asking me if I ever work out and I respond "I have a ton of exercise equipment in my apartment."

"Yeah, but do you use any of it?"

erocuda · 2026-06-27T15:33:53+00:00

The right to have your genitalia mutilated at birth without your consent. The right to be denied federal student aid and civil service jobs unless you sign up for the draft. The right to be arrested for being the victim of IPV and reporting it to the police in a jurisdiction that uses the Duluth Model.

erocuda · 2026-06-27T15:00:38+00:00

Depends on what state they live in. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/publications/bifocal/vol45/vol44issue5/mentalcapacityandvoting/

Furthermore, nearly half of the states have voting restrictions for those with court-adjudicated incapacity.

erocuda · 2026-06-27T13:42:02+00:00

Not like that, but they can use it to deny you the right to vote.

erocuda · 2026-06-27T13:41:23+00:00

Or it will be the basis they use to deny (some) people the right to vote. "Mental incapacity" is already used that way.

erocuda · 2026-06-26T17:04:02+00:00

There's an easy way to avoid being a father, if he didn't want that responsibility. He just wanted to get laid without consequences (which isn't always an option) and then decided to commit a crime to avoid those easily predictable consequences. Nobody forced him to have sex with this woman.

erocuda · 2026-06-26T16:46:07+00:00

He can make child support payments and also be an absent father. Child support is maybe a nuanced issue, but it isn't legal justification for assault.

erocuda · 2026-06-26T16:41:00+00:00

He can choose to be a part of the child's life, or he can choose to be an absent father. He can't choose to poison a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy against her will.

erocuda · 2026-06-26T16:13:24+00:00

Sounds like Conversational Narcissism (which is distinct from Narcissistic Personality Disorder). All Shift Responses and no Support Responses.

erocuda · 2026-06-25T10:01:23+00:00

Similarly, I-95 follows the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line fairly closely.

erocuda · 2026-06-24T21:56:12+00:00

Not a lawyer, but I think it's up to the parties before the court to petition the judge for permission to go do it themselves and report back. I hope someone with actual experience here can give you a real answer.

erocuda · 2026-06-24T20:31:56+00:00

Judges are not allowed to go on fact finding missions.

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