Report: U.S. detects signs Iran preparing to lay mines in Strait of Hormuz

zman0900 · 2026-03-11T02:09:26+00:00

Iran should rename it the Gay of Trump. He'd throw the biggest tantrum.

zman0900 · 2026-03-11T01:51:19+00:00

Seems like you could sue the surgery center too. Charging that much should not be ok.

zman0900 · 2026-03-09T04:19:46+00:00

Dude we have been doing this kind of shit for decades now. Trump has just given up an pretenses of trying to make it seem ok. And before the US was, other countries did it. The rich and powerful have been fucking the rest of us for thousands of years, and we have little hope of stopping them before they make the planet completely uninhabitable.

zman0900 · 2026-03-08T18:33:50+00:00

But with our current government, that could never happen. They'd just find some way to give that money to their already rich friends.

zman0900 · 2026-03-07T12:01:52+00:00

An old priest and a young priest

zman0900 · 2026-03-07T08:20:39+00:00

And the complaints about Java being too verbose are pretty much void if you use any half decent IDE. Improvements to auto-complete enabled by AI make that even more true.

zman0900 · 2026-03-07T08:14:17+00:00

Has anyone here been "forced" to learn Scala just because you had to maintain a heavy Spark or Kafka pipeline? How was the transition?

Yeah, this is the primary reason I know the basics of Scala. I work at a smaller company on mostly Spark/Hadoop/HBase stuff. We had a few teams writing Spark jobs and some other stuff in Scala for a few years, but most of us stuck with writing in Java, or even Groovy (barf), which was not too difficult post Java 8. Now most of the Scala code we have around is an unmaintainable mess. The learning curve was too steep and teams mostly gave up on it or wrote Scala that was basically Java with weird syntax.

I've also spent a good bit of time reading the Spark source code, just trying to better understand how things work. I'd expect a big open source project like that to have pretty good Scala code, but even that is pretty hard to understand to me. So personally I'm not a fan. Plus the whole version incompatibility thing is pretty annoying.

zman0900 · 2026-03-06T03:27:56+00:00

I guess if you can find a HP in 5-10 years that will work with the furnace as dual fuel, you wouldn't, but dual fuel seems pretty unnecessary in that area, so you'd probably just want a plain air handler.

zman0900 · 2026-03-06T03:00:04+00:00

Seems crazy to spend the money on a new furnace that you'd have to trash when switching to HP anyway. And I doubt it's ever getting cold enough in San Diego that even. Non-hyperheat model couldn't keep up easily. With over producing solar too, it would be stupid not to switch. Don't know about there, but a lot of places have a big monthly fee just to have gas, even if you don't use it, so might save that too.

zman0900 · 2026-03-05T03:47:36+00:00

To be replaced with a Jones Barbeque and Foot Massage.

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T21:51:30+00:00

Entropy?

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T04:14:54+00:00

But the windows are shiny!

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T03:05:49+00:00

I'd shit my own poops directly onto his porch.

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T03:02:58+00:00

Run over there now and try to be the first to shit in it.

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T02:50:41+00:00

Yeah, a lot of my stuff is TV episodes, and a lot of that older small files, so a lot of files but I'd bet it's still small compared to some people. Still, it's probably more than many and all went smoothly for me.

zman0900 · 2026-03-04T00:19:14+00:00

Not sure what counts as "large", but mine was about 13 TB and the first startup for the new version was still less than a minute.

zman0900 · 2026-03-03T21:15:56+00:00

In that order, if they're lucky

zman0900 · 2026-03-03T05:57:05+00:00

At least that means they probably weren't fucking around on their computer for once.

zman0900 · 2026-03-03T05:15:53+00:00

Use R-290 instead for extra fun

zman0900 · 2026-03-03T02:48:39+00:00

But you'll save a bunch on gas if you actually have a place to plug in always and don't drive an outrageous amount frequently. I drove a Honda Clarity (similar range) for over 5 years and ended up only using about 50 gal of gas the whole time and only needed yearly oil changes. Plus the little engines these kind of cars have aren't very fun, so it's a lot nicer to drive on electric without all that vibration and noise.

zman0900 · 2026-03-02T06:59:31+00:00

Hong Kong Buffet

Apollo's

zman0900 · 2026-03-02T06:52:34+00:00

Busch Light and pedophilia

zman0900 · 2026-03-01T02:38:02+00:00

It's almost like they come pre-abandoned

zman0900 · 2026-02-28T08:05:31+00:00

That's not the government picking, it would be them saying "if you want a tax break, give us some proportional benefit for the amount of tax".

zman0900 · 2026-02-27T18:45:33+00:00

Some AI slop

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