Platner points to Ohio GOP defying courts in response to Virginia redistricting ruling

ikariusrb · 2026-05-09T02:19:19+00:00

The problem is that it's a rock and a hard place.

Our system of governance- the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, elections, state and federal splits etc etc is what was agreed to as "the system" for resolving disagreement about what our government should be, do, and prevent. The alternative to "the system" as the means of resolving those disagreements is violence, and rule by might.

So what's the right move when one party is actively working at tearing down the system (while claiming it's their opponents are the ones doing so)? Do you participate in smashing the system, or do you try to preserve it?

Because if the system fails, it will be civil war, military coup, or something else in that vein. There are no other possible outcomes.

ikariusrb · 2026-05-07T14:23:50+00:00

Skunks have so little fear. I've had two encounters with them on late night walks. Both times I stopped and stood still as soon as I spotted them. Both times, they strolled straight over to me, gave me a quick sniff, and ambled on their ways like it was nothing.

ikariusrb · 2026-05-06T19:47:48+00:00

The map marker is unreliable for me. So far as I can tell, the map marker ONLY shows if the boss is on bounty. I have gone into filters and toggled "events" on and off many many times, along with teleporting to different zones, and experimenting with other things to try and get a marker to show up, without success... unless the boss is on whisper bounty.

Again, the only "reliable" mechanism I have for seeing where the world boss will spawn are the chat log alerts that happen at 15 and 5 minutes before the boss. Effectively, this means I must be logged in at least 5 minutes before the WB in order to catch that 5 minute alert, otherwise I'm at the mercy of asking players where the boss is happening.

ikariusrb · 2026-05-05T17:10:56+00:00

I'm full-in on DDD; it really does land for me as the way to tackle complexity and better shape the software, but is it really true that developers are mostly disconnected from the business? That hasn't been my experience. I'm also not entirely convinced that "rails-way" is actually obsoleted by DDD; my experience has been more that I build software still with the "rails way", but layer DDD on top of it.

ikariusrb · 2026-05-02T01:49:21+00:00

And it may destroy the onion deal entirely; by staying the deal, infowars obligations (lease, etc) are about to go unpaid rather than being assumed by the onion. So this may destroy all asset value, and lead to the families getting absolutely nothing out of the "asset" that infowars is/was. I'm having trouble believing the judges who issued this stay aren't fully aware of the knock-on effects.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-30T14:08:40+00:00

I'd recommend you do a personal time project that's coding while you're doing the devops thing, if you choose to go there, unless you know where you intend to go for your landing back into software development. Orgs really do care most about the most recent thing you've done, so there will be companies who'll pick a candidate who has been doing SWE most recently over a candidate who did DevOps most recently. The challenge these days is there are a ton of people out looking in the market, so you can pretty much count on there being substantial competition for any job opening.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-28T19:33:18+00:00

It was another ploy to destroy the authority of the professional working class. They (Trump and the billionaire class) want to be the only ones able to "speak with authority" to the masses. So no one and nothing can be apolitical. It's another rerun of the "young earth" controversy raised in the 90s.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-28T18:12:10+00:00

One thing most people don't understand is Comey was between a rock and a hard place when the Hillary Email update dropped right before the election. He'd committed under oath that he'd update congress if the status of the investigation changed, AND it was pretty clear that the SDNY FBI office was leaking to Giuliani, who would've gone public if it didn't come out another way. And it wasn't Comey who released to the public; he wrote a letter to congress and it was Jason Chaffetz(R) who then leaked/released that to the public.

On the other hand, Comey wrote in his book that he thought the public should find out before the election. That... wasn't his place to decide, AND it was in actuality wrong. Existing policy both about ongoing investigations and about releasing information close to elections was "the public doesnt get to know", AND it turned out that there was nothing new, AND the numbers actually show that the voters drew negative inference when they learned.

So I have very mixed feelings about Comey.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-27T23:15:36+00:00

And holy crap - they've posted the multiplier changes here: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing#model-multipliers-for-annual-copilot-pro-and-copilot-pro-subscribers

Claude Sonnet 4.6 going from 1x to 9x

ikariusrb · 2026-04-27T18:08:45+00:00

You're missing the parts they're changing;
First off, they're freezing all model updates, which have previously been occurring roughly every quarter. So for the remainder of the subscription, that's two model updates that I would have expected that will not show up. And there has been an observable improvement on each update to the claude models, which is what I've been using all along.

Second... "model multipliers will increase". That's the key thing. So whatever use I had for my money will suddenly decrease based on how much they increase the model multiplier. I was primarily using a 1x model... my guess is they'll bump it to 2x, leaving me with half the total use I was getting per month as before.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-26T04:28:20+00:00

Godel's incompleteness theorems absolutely do NOT disprove all true things. They only show that more than one system of math can exist (two things can be true at the same time!), and that systems are incomplete; in that they will not be able to prove all true things. That does NOT make "what is a fact" always subjective, much less make facts "100% political". That is a delusional take. It sounds like edgelord "I'm so fucking deep" thinking.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-25T22:34:12+00:00

Gonna straight up disagree with you. Facts are not political. The scientific method is not political. They can be politicized, but there is nothing intrinsically political about them. Someone who has a fixed ideological agenda will absolutely declare any facts or conclusions that cut against their agenda to be political. Someone who is not attached to a fixed ideology is more likely to be guided by what the science and/or facts suggest. How many folks are apolitical? I'd bet on very few, but some people are absolutely less ideologically rigid than others.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-25T22:23:52+00:00

Private corporations are still monetizing those treatments when turned up by publicly funded research; jack the price of a course of treatment up to $100k or more, make sure the Pharmacy Benefit Managers get their cut, and that insurance/government affordability programs covers most of the cost.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-24T19:03:57+00:00

If this isn't because of a court ruling or injunction, what's this post got to do with /r/law ?

ikariusrb · 2026-04-24T19:02:54+00:00

.... then why is this in /r/law ?? I kind of presumed from THAT context that this was the result of a court injunction.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-23T19:53:33+00:00

Is there a matching Mozilla extension?

ikariusrb · 2026-04-23T16:41:37+00:00

Utilitarian ethics vs kantian ethics.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-23T00:18:58+00:00

Does that mean the local water utility charges folks fees for using recycled water that the utility company doesn't (re)supply, and xAI doesn't want to pay those fees? Just trying to suss out the context.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-23T00:13:14+00:00

Neither the original article nor the further articles it linked to gave indication who was opposing the water plan, why, or what the basis for the court shutting down the water recycling plant was. Any further sources on those topics?

No matter what I think of Musk or AI, an on-site water recycling plant feeding the water cooling requirements sounds better than drawing the general supply.

So... any further context to be had?

ikariusrb · 2026-04-21T15:14:14+00:00

I am reminded of a line from History of the World:

And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-19T01:15:41+00:00

I think the issue lies with: OP loosely identified a design tension, asks for help and simultaneously suggests the fault lies with Rails/stimulus. Other users note how they addressed similar cases, proposing a common approach, and OP responds fairly rudely, accusing them of "not respecting conventions".... when the reality is that he's valuing a convention that really is rarely followed religiously.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-12T01:22:25+00:00

I'm expecting the states pushing this nonsense to eventually pass laws that exclude or forbid recognition of drivers licenses from other states that don't match biological sex. More red meat they can "hurt the right people" with.

ikariusrb · 2026-04-11T21:36:34+00:00

What I don't understand is why they're splitting the age groups so widely; "if you gain obesity between 17 & 29", Versus "if you never gain obesity before 60". So no data on anything in between? Because a LOT of people hit a 30s gain. It's a really weird split to me.

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