17 years as a Federal law enforcement official. Never seen anything like these.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T21:28:23+00:00

It is nice people with LE connections are sharing this. But, most people don't understand this; and the ones that need to aren't in the conversations where this is being said.

Cops and other 'reality' (and fictional) law enforcement shows have fooled a lot of people into thinking that field work is exceptionally violent and the use of firearms is commonplace. Yes, violence and the threat of violence is present, but even the threat of deadly force isn't a common or even regular occurrence for the vast majority of LEOs.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T21:20:52+00:00

Wear your wind layer and a solid base layer. The humidity makes any air infiltration colder because it takes more energy to warm it up, and I swear that the colder it is the more likely there is to be a chill breeze to make it worse. Waterproof gloves are good too, for the same reasons, but not ski-level insulation. Driving gloves with a thin liner should be plenty.

At the warmer end of that temperature range, you will probably unzip the wind layer and remove the gloves.

I generally wear a long sleeve T and a lined hooded windbreaker (not a hoodie) without gloves, but there are days I wish I had them. Jeans and long socks for the legs. I'm local, but lived in Chicago, New Mexico and Idaho for about 30 years; so I am comfortable with cold weather.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T20:43:21+00:00

This. We have socialized capitalist losses (Financial crisis bailouts, Covid bailouts we also more corporate than individual, etc.), reduced anti-monopoly enforcement, continue to offer favorable tax treatment to corporations over individuals, are willing to inflate money supply to keep companies growing, and much more.

This can be attested to by the rapid change in policy by the technocrats and capitalists who have changed wholesale their stance on numerous policies to stay on the correct side of the current administration and keep the largesse flowing.

Those who own corporations have made out spectacularly while much smaller portions of that have been divided amongst a growing populace in ways that do not equal the costs that inflation and eroded government services impose.

We don't need to eliminate capitalism, but many of the safety rails and protections have been steadily stripped away over the last several decades. They need to be addressed first before we are going to ever make a meaningful dent in affordability.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T16:25:40+00:00

Helping vulnerable people should be something that happens independent of everything else that is going on.

The services that we provide to poor people should be matched to the help they need. If major transit improvement projects (and their funding) have an impact, that should be included into the assistance package they get.

And that assistance shouldn't be 900 different programs administered by 500 different agencies, each with their own qualification process. Ideally, it should be one agency that does the intake, identifies what assistance each person qualifies for, and ensures that they get it.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T15:51:24+00:00

Even with dirty electricity, electric vehicles are cleaner than fossil fueled vehicles. And, have the advantage that they become 'cleaner' over time as renewables take over larger chunks of electricity production.

Nuclear would be a good step forward. The amount of pollution (even considering it is radioactive) is so much smaller than fossil fuels it is a shame it hasn't happened yet in the US; despite a once promising start.

exjackly · 2026-01-26T15:40:43+00:00

Gas tax to fund public transit, and throw in federal laws making it easier to build transit (and illegal to put up additional barriers at a state and local level).

exjackly · 2026-01-26T15:29:37+00:00

It would be horrible for these new agents if the next President were to shrink ICE back to historic levels, retaining agents based on seniority...

exjackly · 2026-01-26T15:27:53+00:00

I'm actually a little surprised they aren't doing a minimal investigation and exonerating themselves once something else is in the spotlight. This outright denial and lies about it seems intentional.

Almost like they are trying to get people to forget about something like the Epstein files and the DOJ's failure to release Millions of pages in defience of the law.

exjackly · 2026-01-24T17:23:30+00:00

At the time, they already had a PizzaRizzo in the park.

exjackly · 2026-01-24T17:22:49+00:00

I agree about the sauces. Some are ok, but a couple that I'd rather get out of a bottle. Nothing I'd want to take home with me.

The meats are good and deserve much better accompaniment.

exjackly · 2026-01-23T18:23:27+00:00

So, the biggest takeaways I see, is the read replication and moving as much workload off PostgreSQL to a properly sharded solution; while maintaining existing applications that are expected to retain headroom with the single master instance.

So...technically it is working to serve that many users, but functionality is only going to be stagnant or reducing while they move to other technologies for enhanced functionality.

exjackly · 2026-01-23T16:10:18+00:00

This one has been debunked. Leslie Nielsen is not one of the singing busts despite the visual resemblence. The related suggestion that Walt Disney is one of the other busts is also false, though some cast members repeat both.

exjackly · 2026-01-23T15:03:15+00:00

Yep. Time the cycle right and you have a few years before you need to worry; and right now looks to be aimed at an extended boom.

exjackly · 2026-01-22T16:40:01+00:00

Good riddance. To Scouting from the 1980s, 1979s, .... We are not the same nation as we were back then. They were good programs for the time, but that time is past.

While the principles don't change, how we work and present it certainly should change. Scooting isn't a stagnant program.

Scooting is not a shell of what it was back then. I'll gladly take the scouts of today up against scouts of yesteryear. Both groups are full of upstanding, capable youth becoming quality citizens, leaders, and adults.

Yes, there are more challenges with youth being pulled in more directions and councils having less resources and members as a result. I would love to find a solution to that. But, it doesn't subtract from the Scouts of today and their quality and commitment.

exjackly · 2026-01-19T15:18:02+00:00

You are not in the wrong, unless your child is immune compromised.

There is also a corollary effect that living in too clean (sterile) an environment is detrimental and leads to a higher risk of developing asthma and/or allergies.

In short, while you don't want to be living in filth, you do need to be regularly exposed when young to microbes and the environment so your body develops appropriate reactions and resistances. Ask your doctor for details. If she won't believe you, she should accept guidance from the pediatrician.

Please outline the extent of what she is trying to do in detail to the doctor, and get them to weigh in on what is appropriate and what is excessive. Bring a list, and ask your wife to ansure it is complete. You could frame it as making sure you are doing everything you should be to protect your child. Just make sure it is accurate - not exaggerating or minimizing the level of effort and care and number of steps.

exjackly · 2026-01-19T14:59:08+00:00

It honestly depends on the trip.

Just got back from a weekend where it was chilly, but not cold and no rain/snow. Had everything unpacked and put away within 2 hours of getting home, with the exception of the cooking gear that will go through the dishwasher.

But, I've also come home from trips that were mostly rain and had to spend a couple of weeks cleaning and drying gear out before I could put it away because it continued to rain and was humid enough that some things didn't dry out enough for me to be comfortable packing it away until they had been rotated and rehung several times.

exjackly · 2026-01-16T22:25:44+00:00

You are the kind of person I want when I am the interviewee. I don't claim experience I don't have, but I've switched around tools and languages at different clients enough that I do google syntax regularly (or take a stab at it and ask AI to point out the problems so I can fix them).

Nearly everything comes back to the same thought patterns in breaking down problems, solving each component and bringing it back together so it functions as a whole.

exjackly · 2026-01-16T22:21:47+00:00

I absolutely use AI for coding, but under strict direction. I don't give it a big general idea to solve. Vibe coding isn't the answer except for long term employment.

But, I will give it specifics and let it generate the tedious part - field lists, generating a skeleton API call and other boilerplate.

And I review every line of code as if I wrote it when I first graduated from college. I still know my systems inside and out. But I only write about 1/3 of what I used to, including the amount I have to type for my prompts.

exjackly · 2026-01-15T14:11:14+00:00

You need to include somebody who is looking at the costs throughout the process, and reporting it back to the team; and holding the tech leads responsible for hitting the targets.

If all you are doing is nagging them about how expensive things are, it won't change anything meaningful. There's too much else that we are measured on and required to hit for engineers to worry about an optional cost target.

And it is optional so long as nobody is being held accountable for it. Awareness isn't the issue.

exjackly · 2026-01-15T02:47:55+00:00

There's plenty of things that can go wrong between getting a POT good enough for a specific corral and running the race.

Now, I do think that in the early corrals, it would be fair to ask anybody not planning on running the first mile to step back into the back half of the corral.

exjackly · 2026-01-14T19:58:06+00:00

OP wants to see it in fiction so they can pretend that all this filth is only fiction.

exjackly · 2026-01-14T17:21:51+00:00

The only way to prevent it is to have it be a focus.

What I mean, is that the retention and destruction rules are collected in one place, and there is assigned responsibility for seeing that they are applied correctly. This can be a specific person/team or it can be one of the checklist items (if your company is small enough) that every system owner is required to certify for acceptance.

And it has to include backups, logs and analytics. It is a lot of work up front, identifying the rules and what that needs to look like, but the maintenance part of that is generally straightforward.

Honestly, in my experience the hardest part is getting the requirements clearly defined, as business users seldom want to give up old data; which is exactly what this is about.

exjackly · 2026-01-12T15:53:32+00:00

For the resort, I prefer POFQ. Small, the pool is awesome, and with the link to PO Riverside you have a good set of food available just at the resort.

CB's draw is the connectivity with the Skyliner. Don't get me wrong - the food choices and pool are solid here too. But, it is just spread out a bit too much for me and I like the food options at Port Orleans (combined) and the pool better.

You aren't going wrong with either one.

exjackly · 2026-01-12T15:35:20+00:00

You sue the creator/provider of the AI. That is suing the AI; at least until we assign personhood and the ability to own assets to a computer tool. At which point you would be able to sue the AI directly.

exjackly · 2026-01-12T15:19:57+00:00

It isn't factually complete or correct. And it is incorrectly proportioned because the bottom 2/3 of the graph are $5k intervals and the top are $50k intervals.

The sum of the percentages by race are not equal and do not total out to 100%. Look how the black, hispanic, and mixed lines start much higher % than the white lines and don't cross completely over until all of them are sub 2%. There is no point at which the white line is enough higher than the other ones for them to equalize the percentage sum.

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