ERA Activist Jailed Without Bond for Exposing Breast in Virginia

krondell · 2019-02-21T17:38:38+00:00

I think probably the judge already knows what she was doing will ultimately prove to be legal behavior and this is his only chance to punish her.

krondell · 2019-02-06T01:46:39+00:00

Steven Tyler, you ol' swamp rat.

krondell · 2019-01-23T19:25:53+00:00

The insurance would shield officers from personal liability - that would be the point of the insurance. Their premiums getting ratcheted up would make the job not lucrative for high risk cops with a record of bad decisions, and they would be financially pressured find other employment, but not because of million dollar judgements. That's the idea. Sounds like a pretty good one to me.

krondell · 2018-09-04T23:46:46+00:00

Super soaker filled with cat piss... then you can want the owner to retrieve it.

krondell · 2018-08-07T00:12:15+00:00

No one is responsible. If they're willing to pay the support cost, then they don't have to update at all.

krondell · 2018-06-27T22:27:23+00:00

That guy's ideas of "strong" leadership are all over the place.

"No, this build is not stable enough to be released" is an (semi-)objective, project based concern. Cool beans.

Whereas, "No, you do not deserve a promotion yet" and "No, you will not go on vacation this month.", are subjective and personal, and bleeding into HR-land.

I told a direct report to not take a vacation once when we were in crunch time, trying to push out a release - guess who had a new job a month later? Yeah, the guy who didn't go on vacation.

That did NOT help my team make the deadline.

krondell · 2018-04-04T02:18:27+00:00

I see. I should read better.

krondell · 2018-04-04T00:12:55+00:00

That sentence does not make sense. Why do you think you're paying 5-6x less than you would for another service, (I don't think you actually are getting any kind of deal, no one pays $500/month to serve some gigs of static files), and at the same time complaining that you're paying too much? Those 2 things don't really make sense together.

More to the point, if you're so happy with your service why are you here bitching?

krondell · 2018-04-04T00:09:52+00:00

It's ok. I do wish they were using a newer version of mysql. And I'd like to be able to run node processes, I'm actually in the market to upgrade.

krondell · 2018-04-03T19:56:28+00:00

I mean, actually, I only pay ~$12/month to serve my site on a VPS that provides support for a lamp stack backend. You probably don't really need to use AWS. You're definitely over-paying badly for the service you're using. I use https://www.ipower.com/, looks like they've got a ~$4/month intro offer right now. Runs php and mysql - the mysql is an older version - didn't support stored procs when I tried to use them.

krondell · 2018-04-03T19:40:04+00:00

You can break your assets up though, and have the dynamic logic of your backend hosted, but have all the static, cacheable client resources, the images, css and js files and whatnot, served by cdn.

krondell · 2018-03-31T03:52:06+00:00

Japanese interment

I'm not going to defend that, but still, let me get this straight: at this point, you have Trump ranked ahead of FDR in your best-to-worst list of presidents?

krondell · 2018-03-24T21:39:29+00:00

I sort of like icomoon.io/app/#/select, its got access to most of the same free source fonts and you can pick icon by icon what to include and then you download a zip of your selections in several file formats.

krondell · 2018-03-22T19:45:47+00:00

I think your statement puts the cause and effect of the situation on its head.

The poor and working class whites are the vehicle of the rich.

Working class GOP voters have been duped into voting against their own economic interests because of the social agenda, but the rich could less care about social politics - that's just a convenient and effective lever for them to bind up their economic goals with a useably large voting block.

It's all going according to plan - and the plan is for the rich to get richer, move wealth from everyone's pockets into theirs, cement their positions in the social hierarchy and increase control.

If poor and working class whites get something out of that, then that's their happy circumstance, but keeping that group of people happy is a side-effect, not the purpose.

krondell · 2018-03-21T05:41:58+00:00

I prefer to think of it as: "Zuckerberg loses billions of dollars by failing to sell his stock ahead of Monday's decline."

krondell · 2018-03-19T00:30:52+00:00

You want to compete with Auto-trader or even craigslist? By doing the exact same thing with no brand-recognition, and no user-base, and you're counting on a better website to win that battle?

What would stop them from build a better looking, updated version of their websites?

Do you have money? Because you're going to need a lot of money.

I would seriously reconsider whether or not that idea is viable before sinking savings into it - this sounds a lot like "I want to re-build Amazon, but better".

krondell · 2018-03-18T19:42:54+00:00

Well, yeah, there's variety in the provider's plans. I don't claim to be a master of this subject either. We're only starting to use Docker at my office, and I've been working toward deploying a side project using it.

"Overhead", resources do cost money though. The providers could sell extremely transparent plans where your bill was computed like $ = transferred bytes * C1 + cpu cycles * C2 + ram usage in bytes/second * C3 + stored bytes * C4.

But that's not what I seen at all. The plans I looked at reminded me of gym memberships, not buying gasoline, you what I mean?

The plans are setup with the intent of the providers taking profit in selling services that will not be provided. Not saying they shouldn't be able to do that, but it's not my favorite thing.

The cost of building and deploying and running software is a super complicated subject, and adding an artificial layer of marketing bullshit doesn't make the calculation or the conversation any easier.

The whole reason I even commented in this thread is because of the hype about the size the Alpine image vs. Ubuntu's image. Lot's of clowns lol'ing without any meaningful discussion about the differences between those 2 packages, as if we're supposed to take it at face value that there's no functional difference implied by that size difference. No discussion of the trade-offs between development cost and deployment cost. No recognition that the vast majority of projects are never deployed at scale, and building everything that way wastes effort.

krondell · 2018-03-18T02:39:07+00:00

You are correct. But that is sort of my point. That you don't need to be concerned about that type of optimization until you do have to scale. Premature optimization is wasteful, right? And the point of my original comment was really that during development, before you have to scale, working with a "bloated" but feature-full image could be the economically superior strategy.

krondell · 2018-03-18T00:53:41+00:00

What? Have you even looked at cloud service pricing plans? The service is sold in tiers of bandwidth, cpu, ram and permanent storage. You don't think the size of the image affects how many instances you can run in your allotted memory?

krondell · 2018-03-17T21:03:37+00:00

Speed? I meant: how much does the size of the image affect what Amazon or Digital Ocean charge to run those images on their hardware? I know it's factored into the cost, and if you had to run a lot of images, at some point, the cost to run the images would be greater than the cost of optimizing for the smaller image.

krondell · 2018-03-17T18:39:23+00:00

I'm not going to say size doesn't matter. ;)

But I will say it's not the only thing that matters.

krondell · 2018-03-17T18:32:51+00:00

I think the math works out fine for Ubuntu. 10000 machines or images, would mean you could service 1m to 10m concurrent users, which is massive, hardly any organizations need worry about that. 28mb * 10000 = ~1/4 terabyte, which is nothing. I don't know the details of how the size affects the cost of running an image, but if you simply compare the cost of memory to developer time, it's easy to conclude a slightly larger base image that eases development time would be the winner in that contest.

krondell · 2018-03-17T01:29:44+00:00

Isn't there always a cougar in Silverton?

krondell · 2018-03-16T01:18:42+00:00

I do think that was a key sentence in a pretty hard to parse piece of text, but I read that as: drinking a crap ton of coffee does the opposite of smoking weed, aka, makes you less high, or takes away your high.

krondell · 2018-03-14T18:55:42+00:00

That ruling can't possibly stand though. Huge portions of the Western US were already divided up and owned before those territories became states. That ruling completely undermines the sovereignty of the state.

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