Since we're sharpening our bayonets...

Friends don’t let friends forget the chicken tax

When in 2023 Japan and Korea expanded cooperation / engagement the response of many in the US who scoffed at it was... depressing. To not have a grasp of the history there -- the recent history!! -- is inexcusable.

Imperial Japan did so many things that shock the conscience.

I've seen old interviews with pilots who saw Japanese pilots shooting at parachuting pilots and the unbridled rage you could see in their eyes 50 years later was startling.

Every time I ssh into an EC2 instance I whisper "I'm in" to one of my cats, like a totally normal person.

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Early in my career I had a goal to get invited to certain types of meetings.

Now I gleefully decline them.

Kitty in a caterpillar-shaped kid tunnel

Wondered why the girls wanted to get out their old caterpillar tunnel... It was for the cat!

You can bet your bottom dollar that cop gets qualified immunity in the civil case against them because there's no court opinion that explicitly spells out that you can't eat someone's heart! (A previous court found that destiny their spleen was a rights violation, but this is different)

"Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk." Monty Python, Life of Brian

Pictured: Liberation Front for Em-Dashes

He's probably implying something about Cook...

When she was nominated there were reasonable takes of the flavor "she's a competent person but what's her expertise RE: monetary policy?". Iirc her work on the topic is sort of thin.

If that's not what is being referenced, I got nothing, man.

The problems (since Season 2, really) aren't with the lead actors....

Every day that goes by is simply one day closer to when I finally Homer Simpson my wardrobe.

Black v-neck. Some kind of comfortable house-lounging pants. Nothing else.

One day it *will* happen, and my wife's attempts to prevent this will fail.

My org uses AWS's Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and someone who *isn't me* has all the permissions configured so that things handshake properly and there are no seams.

ECR is really just a special kind of storage that makes storing and retrieving docker images pleasant and efficient.

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Of course, every environment I (initially) build these days takes like 10-15 min because `rix` let's you rip and run.

Once it's in a Docker container...

Building duckdb or arrow is not fun. I'd rather stare into the sun.

Are you using `renv` on the fly or within Docker? (I assume you are using `renv` based on your recent posts and the waiting for installs).

Docker in ci/cd is really nice!

Holding Out for a Hero is another in her catalogue that fits the "hype song" bill!

If there was a way to calculate how many days of compute time arrow and duckdb have saved me, I'd have that splashed all over my profile

I would love to see some work that's been done on this!

Tongs can help avoid cross-contamination of food items (important for those with allergies), but requires someone monitoring them. If someone drops the tongs on the floor and puts them back, you might as well not have them!

In my past life doing serving/catering, tong refreshing was a common task
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Same logic suggests there were no virgins on board. They always survive to the end!

Is mgcv::bam an option? As best I understand it uses some non-concurrent QR wizardry (chunks the data up, combines results at the end).

No, you see, this was a *secret* special election for one of the 435 House seats.

President can also just direct his DoJ to stop pursuing the case.

Glad this is out in the open, and it's Exhibit # 1636843635 in the case against the current pardon power.

I think they might even be the ones in the picture I grabbed (probably because I've searched for them before...)

www.homedepot.com/pep/Phewnyzo...

Grabbed them at Home Depot I think. They're kind of like Chinese paper lanterns, & stay open via tension.

My dad goes overboard and clear-coats them (he uses around deep-in-the-woods deer stands for summer photography).

For residential use they're like new after two seasons w/o all that though.

Fake wasp nests that keep the other shitty wasps / hornets away.

Damn.

This doesn't help you for several months, but we hung some of the big decoy wasp nests under eaves to supplement the quarterly house spraying and it was waaaaaay more effective. They look stupid as hell, but you can't argue with success.

It can be hard to tell through all the overwriting he does, to be fair.

He's joined the "a pox on both your houses" crowd, which is maybe fine when you're not happy with the Obama's and Romney's of the world, but is wholly insufficient right now.

Isn't the issue that this might not even be "war"? It either violates one kind of US law (a ratified treaty) or a different kind of law (federal / state statutes that say "you can't kill people, bro"), but he's 100% violating the law in a murdery kind of way.