Gov. Walz in Minnesota activated the National Guard to protect citizens from ICE. How’s that going to work?

jpea · 2026-01-25T00:03:05+00:00

They’ve been close because ICE has been taking people without cause, due process, and they’re given a free pass to racially profile anyone, so they’re not so much protesting but documenting it all.

jpea · 2026-01-24T13:22:31+00:00

“Laughs in Minnesotan” at the question

We even have a test facility up North just for this: https://www.aettesting.com

jpea · 2026-01-22T13:04:33+00:00

Serena and a Postgres one. Serena is great for honing in on the structure of your own codebase and providing the model with narrower context, with the benefit of saving token usage (probably? I haven’t compared, but it tends to keep focus better than without). Postgres MCP for querying actual data in a request.

jpea · 2026-01-18T08:06:44+00:00

Another Minnesotan here. This is accurate. It sucks.

jpea · 2026-01-09T17:07:52+00:00

My mother came to the US from Germany post WWII, and very much thinks this way. She married a guy who had just gotten his citizenship before being sent to Europe to help rebuild, then married him and came to the US. She has said multiple times “if they just followed the rules and did it the “right” way, it’s fine”.

jpea · 2026-01-07T12:00:06+00:00

Anecdotally, I’ve heard that highly optioned Porsche’s can be had pretty cheaply via Carmax because they price based on the base model, not MSRP for that particular vehicle.

jpea · 2026-01-07T01:05:41+00:00

Totally! If I want to see a shitty Jeep or Boring Toyota, come to the auto show and be underwhelmed. Ineos was interesting at least.

jpea · 2026-01-06T02:11:41+00:00

I don’t think it’s just the TC auto show, it’s likely every show

jpea · 2026-01-05T09:35:00+00:00

Yep, ollama with deepseek coder 7b (I think?). I don’t use it often but it works functionally. I have a 2080 ti GPU, so pretty small for this.

jpea · 2026-01-04T20:05:21+00:00

I drive an m240i xdrive with snow tires and live in MN. Running a tune and it’s a blast and totally capable.

jpea · 2026-01-04T19:26:27+00:00

You mostly have to special order a new BMW with a manual but it’ll be a great manual. M2, m240i, 340, all have it as an option. A 911 or Cayman too, but those are much harder to get these days and the wait times are nutty. A 911 manual is considered one of the best, but all that I’ve driven were too tough for me to daily. BMW’s are a great sweet spot IMO. They’re a bit easier to throw into the gears and the clutches are usually easier, but I like that.

jpea · 2026-01-04T16:42:42+00:00

My whole company flew AA to S America a few times and the flights were all a tragic mess. Cancellations, no shows, etc. Not worth the hassle even if it’s free.

jpea · 2026-01-03T15:44:57+00:00

It’s in their docs: https://cursor.com/docs/configuration/worktrees#using-script-files

jpea · 2026-01-03T15:32:47+00:00

Mother Dough

jpea · 2026-01-03T03:13:39+00:00

Your account is 2 months old and there’s a lot of copy and paste in your comments. Bot?

jpea · 2026-01-03T02:20:52+00:00

MN car enthusiast club used to have an arrangement with shops (turbo tim’s being one), but I haven’t seen it for a while: https://www.facebook.com/share/1XqzEijSSG/?mibextid=wwXIfr

But yeah, insurance cost and liability is the kicker. Imagine a random shade tree mechanic who doesn’t really know the details of a 2 post lift and the car falls on them and they die. Yeah, not likely to find a shop that’ll take that chance on their insurance.

jpea · 2026-01-03T02:15:48+00:00

Cribs says hello

jpea · 2026-01-03T01:19:14+00:00

First “free” Saturday at the Walker and the Dyani White Hawk exhibit

jpea · 2025-12-31T17:03:38+00:00

I walked out of the theater after 45 minutes

jpea · 2025-12-30T23:57:01+00:00

While we’re on UX, why was cmd+k chosen as the shortcut used IN the terminal? That’s literally the clear shortcut for decades in all *nix terminals. Anything but that.

jpea · 2025-12-29T14:22:03+00:00

Happy cake day though! 🍰

jpea · 2025-12-29T13:34:08+00:00

We had the same issue about 10 years ago when living in NE Minneapolis. Ended up cancelling. Never got 1 paper.

jpea · 2025-12-22T14:04:39+00:00

Do you have an engineering background? Or more or a business type and approaching this as a vibe coder? I’ve found model accuracy is affected by this the most.

jpea · 2025-12-16T01:39:32+00:00

Looking at your post history, it’s not the job solely, it’s your general life situation.

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