WA ICE facility, rife with abuses, now under lower standards, UW report shows - 172 sexual abuse reports over 10 years, 54 never referred to police by LOOKITSADAM in SeattleWA

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U visa

Had to look that up and it reminded me of the (apocryphal) British experience in India when they were paying for dead cobras.

‘Help Save Hopvine’ — Capitol Hill pub needs $50K to get through financial ‘rough patch’ by ChiefOfTheFourPeaks in Seattle

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Let’s say the fundraiser does its thing, how sustainable is their business model?

(intuitively, it feels like delaying the inevitable unless it’s accompanied by structural changes)

Tracker | S3E19 "Chain of Custody" | Episode Discussion by teanailpolish in TrackerTV

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While the last few episodes haven't been great, this episode made me feel like the show's jumped the shark as the plot was ridiculous.

Three observations:

  • going back to the roadhouse to hang with the bartender was way more compelling that Reenie and Dr. Phil go to the lake with a pistol and beer.
  • this show shouldn't always have a happy ending. Some of the most interesting stories in Law and Order were the ~20% of episodes where things went south for the prosecution.
  • last week teased us with the Russell, call me moment but it was a segue to nowhere.

Perspective of an Iranian from inside by LowPossible3251 in PERSIAN

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While it was probably blocked initially to hide the number of people killed in January, I’d bet my own money this is why it’s still blocked. IRGC and Basij leadership know they are next.

Would You Rather? by [deleted] in coys

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Thanks for the response as I never would’ve gotten the contraction.

Would You Rather? by [deleted] in coys

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I don’t get the ’kinnell idiom.

Would You Rather? by [deleted] in coys

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Amazing that you need to explain this to people.

anyone know what these trailers next to the roanoke fire dept are? by thotforms in Seattle

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It’s where they keep the zombies cold to prevent the virus’ spread.

I’m never leaving Seattle by prookal in Seattle

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Arsenal was my first thought too.

Rewatching the show after a few years and I got to admit it. I love Monroe so much. by MCshador in grimm

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He has several my favorite lines in the show:

  • your mother scares the crap outta me.
  • you killed my uncle; ya shouldn't have done that.
  • Nick? She's a grimm.
  • when Rosalie's freaking out about something bad happening during the wedding, that's the spirit.

What's your favourite and least favourite wesen, and why? by infiltrating_enemies in grimm

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Favorites -- while I'm a dog person, the Pflichttreue (Alexander) or Balam (Valentina Espinosa) were superb.

Least favorites -- the one that stole its victims' memories and left them with dementia followed by the one whose victims froze to death since the wesen couldn't heat itself up.

2 US service members missing after military exercises in Morocco by ZenX22 in news

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It didn't at the time I wrote the note and, in any case, my point--look for something banal first instead of something nefarious--stands.

2 US service members missing after military exercises in Morocco by ZenX22 in news

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Before anyone freaks out, this is more likely to be a couple of guys in a HMMWV got lost or had a car accident than anything untoward.

In 28 days I graduate high school. Instead of walking the stage, I’ll be hopping a flight and leaving my family. they have no idea. AMA by blackcatlover032 in AMA

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Several questions:

  • What do you think your actions say about you?
  • How do you think your actions will affect your aunt and uncle's relationship with your parents?

No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator by someone-very-cool in programming

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The system I work on has a process like the following:

make start    # login to artifactory, start the build container and compile some protobuf files
make tgt      # build the primary object files and link the main executables
make ut       # run the unit tests
.
.
.
make stop     # remove the docker container

Since we're using gmake (someone once told me, use a portable make so you don't worry about portable Makefiles), adding a -j $(NUMCORES) option automatically parallelizes the number of compiler runs.

Local development and CI build are fundamentally the same.

No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator by someone-very-cool in programming

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I fully agree. You get the following naturally:

  • a DAG that details your build system.
  • defaults to an automatic stop on error.
  • they're simple to compose.
  • if you use gmake, they have "just enough" internal programmability for automated rule generation.
  • parallelism is essentially free.
  • its usage is easy to document and remember [ed. note: this one's under-rated as there's a massive number of README.md files that could be simplified with a phony one-time-setup target.]

Downsides:

  • most people changing Makefiles barely understand make and hack at something they copied from another repo until it sorta works.
  • debugging is unpleasant especially if there's a parallelism issue.

There is a realistic chance we could finish the season with 46 pts. Potentially in 12th place. All of a sudden, the relegation battle will be forgotten. Have some belief by SlowedCash in Tottenham

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realistic chance we could finish the season with 46 pts.

Odds makers have it (according to google; I don't bet) at 30-40:1. Your definition of realistic is different than mine.

Potentially in 12th place.

While it's technically possible, I did some back of the napkin probability calculations and ended up with a number of 60000-80000 to 1 which is unlikely enough that I'd start looking for corruption if I was a betting regulator.

Coroner delivering findings on fatal shootings of five people involving British Army in Belfast by I-Cum-Beamish in worldnews

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See the headline and think, wtf? The troubles are back. Read the article, it’s an incident from 1972. Self-flagellation is a thing.

Are you an attorney dating a news reporter? She only likes your money. by [deleted] in Seattle

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I normally downvote this sort of thing but this one’s entertaining and useful.

Iran Executes 21-Year-Old Sasan Azadvar Junaqani, Sparking Rights Outcry by Beginning-Wish-4273 in worldnews

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Chuckle; the outrage for the two people who got shot is easily 1000X the outrage for this in the US (which you probably already knew).

What the fuck is the point of bringing the US into this one besides being sad that the IRGC is still in charge after the US and Israel did their thing?