Clambake0351
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5·2 days agoThe numbering is weird, there aren’t actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.
Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete “for” and “against” arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the “for” and “against” campaigns.
On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide “Voter guides” like the above, that you can independently research.
The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I’d wager most folks just read the official “for” and “against” blurbs and form an opinion.
ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.
To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.
10·3 days agoDocker helps with software compatibility, SBCs with hardware.
Communities are not legal institutions. The rules are suggestions to keep the community organized and on subject.
Just because a rule doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean mods are powerless to react to content that breaks the social order.
Not everything needs a rule unless it’s a significant problem or common misunderstanding.
The advantage of SBCs aren’t just the price, it’s the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn’t work was either:
“Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad”
Or
“Your system sucks, just buy better hardware”
Now there’s a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a “how-to” community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.
That endorsement from the Michael J Fox Foundation carried a lot of weight, it seems.
78·3 days agoTest them for lead.
For hand soap, I’m partial to this “hydrating hand soap” from Grove.
I dilute it at a 1:2.5 soap:water ratio in a foaming dispenser. It works well without drying me out.
As someone with dry skin, Bronner’s (and castile-based soaps generally) are too good at their job. They leave my skin devoid of oil, and therefore dry and cracking. They are, however, great for cleaning just about everything else.
0.5 tbsp/16 oz of water
Big sucker for a simple diluted castile soap for most cleaning, but love to see what others are up to!
The office of the President has a press budget. They could easily give him a dumpster to shit in over at
whitehouse.gov, woulda made it harder to grift idiots though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
5·5 days agoThis doesn’t at all answer your question, but Handbrake has always frustrated me by being aggressively opaque.
Like if you’re not trying to encode something to run on an iPod Nano from 2007, the presets are all arbitrary and wacky, and it gives you very little control over the underlying commands.
I GREATLY prefer StaxRip. It strikes the right balance for transparency, automation, and configuration for me. Closest thing to working with commands from scratch, without all of the headache. Only downside is it’s only built for Windows.
4·6 days agoFYI, if you alias using someone else’s domain, you fall into the same trap all over again when, say, DDG goes full AI wackjob and now you need to transfer hundreds of email addresses.
The first is a change in engineering culture and engineer mentality. Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.
Emphasis theirs 🤮
35·6 days agoHonestly would be a fun character build with the right DM.
A cursed rock that talks to you and demands sacrifices. After being thrown returns to your inventory in 6 seconds (start of your next turn)
Could do fun things like player can cast spells through the rock like a familiar.
It’s also why I’m excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.
If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it’ll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.