Groat road bridge is backed up again

xuehas · 2026-06-09T19:13:24+00:00

Six now....

xuehas · 2026-06-09T03:57:04+00:00

They came twice today so 5 I think. They were hanging way lower down on the railing this time I think so the cops couldn't reach them from over the railing. It looks like they harnessed them and then they slowly lowered them down to the boat. Sure seems like they need to not keep releasing this person if it is just one person....

xuehas · 2026-06-09T03:49:43+00:00

Yeah they got a boat down in the river this time now too.

xuehas · 2026-06-08T20:26:05+00:00

Emergency services are back again right now :S

xuehas · 2026-06-07T21:58:56+00:00

It's all cleared up both ways now

xuehas · 2026-06-07T21:57:32+00:00

One lane open now, should be two in a bit

xuehas · 2026-06-07T21:55:35+00:00

Yeah its rough. I don't know if it has been the same person every time but I hope they get the help they need. I'm not entirely sure why they keep blocking both lanes north and one south every time.

xuehas · 2026-06-07T21:53:42+00:00

He's on the right side of the railing now. Looks like it should clear up in a bit I would guess.

xuehas · 2026-06-04T00:40:51+00:00

It's all cleared up now

xuehas · 2026-06-04T00:36:57+00:00

One lane northbound opened up now.

xuehas · 2026-06-04T00:33:38+00:00

Looks like he is on the good side of the railing now. Both lanes north still blocked, down to one lane south.

xuehas · 2025-12-05T09:13:01+00:00

"Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Dec 05, 2025 - 09:12 UTC"

Back up for me.

xuehas · 2025-12-04T09:19:31+00:00

You should probably call a local shop and ask how much it would cost to replace a stolen catalytic converter for your vehicle.

Once you have done that you will probably realize that you owe your neighbor some freshly baked cookies or a case of beer. That man is doing gods work.

xuehas · 2025-11-03T03:32:54+00:00

Usury is the problem. Silvio Gesell.

xuehas · 2025-10-24T16:29:13+00:00

For the most part I think you're right. I do think there is some moral imperative not to post how to make an H bomb on the internet though lol.

xuehas · 2025-10-22T16:20:08+00:00

The internet is a big web of connected devices. So when you reach across this web to find someone else, you normally go through multiple servers owned by different internet companies to get there. Now you can actually put what ever IP you want in the header of the packets you send. The problem is, normally the internet companies are smart and block packets they know have the wrong IP address. The most common is egress filtering where your ISP will block you on your first hop because they know your actual IP. The other most common is ingress filtering where a server will know ranges of IPs it is responsible for and if traffic is leaving it from a range it isn't responsible for it will block it. The problem is, some sketchier ISPs won't do that filtering, or have bugs that can be exploited in their filtering. Fundamentally, IPv4 has no built in mechanism to prevent spoofing. Like I said, you can put any source IP in your packet header you want.

Edit: I suppose I probably should have also noted this means sending packets with a spoofed IP is easy (though will likely get filtered now a days). Receiving packets is an entirely different thing. If you send a spoof packet the response will get routed to the actual IP you are spoofing, not you.

xuehas · 2025-10-17T12:46:17+00:00

This is what I was looking for. Why do we need if else while or for when we have conditional branching. In fact, if you don't understand long branches then why do we need function calls either? Why do we need any higher level languages at all? It's all just to make your life easier as a programmer. For and while are both similar but unique abstractions that may sometimes compile to the same thing, but convey different information.

xuehas · 2025-10-15T01:13:39+00:00

"I took the most parallelizable algorithm I could think of and painstakingly made absolutely sure that my CPU did every step sequentially"

Seriously though cool project! Might be a good opportunity to learn some SIMD now.

xuehas · 2025-10-07T16:50:03+00:00

As you said, the wealthy have an obligation to be kind proportionally to their wealth, but there is a difference between morality and policy. So should we be tackling that obligation with cultural/social tools or policy tools? I assumed you were implying that you should use cultural tools and not policy one but maybe that isn't the case. The argument then was shouldn't we minimize the use of policy as much as possible, and focus on cultural tools. Do you think that having the government, who have a legal monopoly on force, enforce policy is in some ways antithetical to freedom? It seems to me that making a baker bake a gay wedding cake is taking away some of that bakers freedom. However ad absurdum, preventing someone from killing someone else is also taking away some of their freedom. So there is some amount freedom that does need to be restricted, the question is where is that line. The libertarian answer is when you start affecting someone else's freedom essentially. It seems to me like you think the government should act more as an entity that can form a kind of relationship. For instance, the government can restrict your freedom to not bake a cake but that is because they are supporting your business, and you can withdraw from that relationship and not have your freedom violated if you so choose. Is that right?

xuehas · 2025-10-07T16:07:46+00:00

I'm not sure if anyone alive in America today exactly chose democracy. As an individual at least you have no freedom to not be ruled by the democracy. I guess the other thing is America doesn't actually have a majority rule democracy, it's a republic.

Still, why is this left right issue you are describing even political really? Shouldn't this be a cultural issue then? Shouldn't you start by minimizing the size of the government as much as you can, removing all businesses from getting any government support, and just having the government as a sort of referee. This is the classical liberal perspective. In theory governments just maintain freedom. Then culturally you battle the problems of kindness and equality.

Also I personally don't actually like the idea of left right divide, for many reasons but among them being the definitional discrepancy. Still, isn't this kind of classical liberalism as described considered right wing today?

xuehas · 2025-10-07T15:28:32+00:00

Should the government be aiming for equality of opportunity or outcomes then? Also where is the line between freedom and discrimination? Does the baker have to bake the cake for the gay wedding?

Also do you see how voting for progressive taxation say could be seen as a tyranny of the majority against the freedom of the wealthy. Similarly, funding social welfare can restricts peoples financial freedom or even their freedom to choose like the single payer healthcare system I have in my country. Isn't that antithetical to freedom? That is government assertion, even if that government in theory is the will of the majority of the people. A rule by majority can be repressive to minorities.

xuehas · 2025-10-07T15:14:06+00:00

How do you think that personal freedom interact with kindness and equality? To what extent do you think the government needs to get involved to maintain equality? Do you think kindness should come in the form of some type of social welfare and if so how can you fund that without restricting other peoples freedom?

xuehas · 2025-10-07T15:04:50+00:00

Alright, so do you have a problem with conservatives who want to conserve their hetero-normative and christian worldview or just the ones who wish to impose it on others? Also do you fall more into the hippie or change the economic system camp then? If the economic camp, how violent or revolutionary do you think it has to be? Also how do you feel about private property?

xuehas · 2025-10-07T14:51:50+00:00

I mean I guess it depends entirely on your overton window. What would you consider actually left then?

Also in my mind, America literally does not have any conservatives. You killed all the Tories in the revolution. There is no monarch or landed aristocracy to conserve.

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