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Good on CO. I'm in California and not eligible --- I hope we do the same and/or the WA-OR-CA vaccine pact that's been mentioned elsewhere comes to the rescue.

I've honestly never understood people who feel the need to "replace" Spotify. ... Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

I don't know how to say this, but...you have extremely uncommon use-cases:

...during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I'll use an MP3 player), or it's in Airplane Mode.

Many people listen to music on stereos and don't necessarily want a device plugged in, so

I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC.

either doesn't work or is substantially less convenient than e.g. casting from a phone.

Not hating on your setup at all, but it's very niche, in my experience.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/workers-over-billionaires-protests-trump-labor-day-photos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/01/nationwide-labor-day-protests-denounce-billionaires-trumps-orbit/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-labor-day-workers-billionaires-protests-rcna228408

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/trump-labor-day-protests.html

Mainstream media is definitely noticing; never as much as hoped I'm sure, but people's actions are indeed seen.

I don't know about you...but I'm all out of bubblegum.

you cannot observe something without interacting with it in some way

Elitzur and Vaidman would like a word...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

Atomicity (something happens in its entirety or not at all), consistency (database is always in a valid state --- if the database has constraints, they will always be honored), isolation (transactions don't step on each other), durability (complete transaction is complete even if there's a power failure).

Not a database expert, my parenthetical explanations may need work.

I once took a Lyft and the push alert was, "Look for Jesus in a white Toyota Camry."

Some would call the former command cat abuse.

In short, unless you want the contents of a file printed to stdout (or multiple files concatenated), the command can probably be written without cat, instead using the filename as an argument (grep pattern file) or IO redirection (cmd < file).

Stylistics and readability are another thing though.

I think parent is referring to Merkle trees.

Did they really take artistic liberties to make the Bay Bridge coloration look like the Golden Gate?

The 80s? I think you mean the 2360s.

scolding hot metal

I like the mental imagery --- it's not scalding hot, no, the metal is actively chastising you.

...the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.

Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)

Personally, I think the person who cooks should clean the cookware and the kitchen. The incentives are then aligned, and at least for me, it makes me a much tidier cook.

Also, cooking can be fun, cleaning not so much. Separating cooking/cleaning duties just punishes the person who doesn't get to cook.

Yabai+sketchybar make tiling+virtual desktops...at least usable on mac.

Of course, I'd take i3 any day of the week.

Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents' response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused, with Angelenos.

Just keep the Dodgers in SoCal. This is the Giants' city.

When I hear the term, I think of the Rainbow cover of the Quatermass song. But that's just me.

Fascinating.

It's interesting that, with Python, the reference implementation is the implementation --- yeah there's Jython but really, Python means both the language and a particular interpreter.

Many compiled languages aren't this way at all --- C compilers come from Intel, Microsoft, GNU, LLVM, among others. And even some scripting languages have this diversity --- there are multiple JavaScript implementations, for example, and JS is...weird, yes, but afaik can be faster than Python in many cases.

I don't know what my point is exactly, but Python a) is sloooow, and b) doesn't really have competition of interpreters. Which is interesting, at least, to me.

Did the developer use any version control though? SCCS has been around since the early 70s, RCS and CVS since the 80s. The tools definitely existed.

Also, it was a single dev, which makes SCM significantly simpler!