As you may (or probably not) recall, one of my concerns has long been that the Democrats are going to struggle to pull together the western wing of the party and the eastern (extended Rust Belt and BosWash urban corridor) wing.
Relax. Take a deep breath. Many years ago I had to learn to accept the fact that most people aren't going to do statistical modeling, or descriptions of models, properly.
Follow-on thought about Mark Kelly... I'm one of the few people that think geography still matters. Not specific states so much as regional things. I wonder if the BosWash urban corridor and the extended Rust Belt will be excited over a ticket with a pair of westerners at the top.
I suspect a joke about a school that should exist to train friend husband. How to use a button hook. Which button hook to use for eyelets compared to button holes. Where to start and which way to go to minimize pressure and wear-and-tear. Hook-and-eye closures instead of buttons.
IIRC, cats' brains also process shapes and motion very differently than humans do. Some things they see better than we do, some things worse.
Most of the weekend is going to be emotional recovery. Regular readers remember that I had to put my wife in memory care early last year. Today I had both our kids, their spouses, and the three granddaughters all get together to take pictures with my wife and me. My wife was having a good day: relatively cheerful and cooperative. Physically she's gotten too slow to keep up with the granddaughters, and she's losing weight again. She's lost everyone's names, and her working vocabulary is very limited.
Nothing gets younger children more enthused about fishing than a pond full of bluegills. Any sort of pole, a bobber, and a hook. No need for bait, bluegills will strike a shiny bare hook.
Mark Kelly is a sitting Senator. If he vacates the seat, the Arizona governor, a Democrat, will name a replacement. Said replacement will have to run in a special election in 2026 to finish the term and then in the normal election in 2028.
The SCOTUS ruled in 2020 that they are, including the ones that replace faithless electors during the state process. 33 states have some law, 17 (I believe) with the kind that guarantees the election results are followed.
Unless Trump wins in a landslide, there could be enough faithless electors to throw the decision to the (new) Senate. No constraints on how Senators vote.
Wikimedia Commons says that it was taken while he was visiting the Ohio Air National Guard location in Springfield. The gear logo proper is beyond my modest googling skills.
Yes, the 17th was the same day Biden tested positive for Covid. He's in Delaware in self-isolation. His doctor has issued regular reports on his treatment and progress.
AP is running an ongoing survey of delegates to the Democratic Convention. Last I looked, 725 supported Harris and 25 were undecided, with the large majority not responding yet.
After it had been out for a week, the standard review was, "If you want an action flick about journalists' possible experiences covering a civil war in the United States, you'll like it. If you want a political statement where the divisions actually make any sort of sense, you'll be horribly disappointed."
For most of my adult life, the current date/time is a 32-bit integer value of the number of seconds past the Unix epoch. Everything else is just conversion rules and formatting.
The Colorado Front Range only flirts with the edges of the big high-pressure heat domes. They tend not to cross the country at the Central Rockies, but either north or south. The Parker Divide to the south and the Cheyenne Ridge to the north also help steer those air masses past.
Last weekend we hit 102 °F here in Fort Collins. According to the local paper, this was the 29th day in the city's history when it got to 100° or higher. According to the article the all-time record is 103°.
Microclimates are wonderful things. 50 miles east out onto the plains the high-temperature extremes are several degrees higher, the low-temperature extremes lower, the blizzards worse, and the thunderstorms much worse.
I have a couple of pieces of software I wrote (or in one case, inherited) decades ago. The one that's all mine dates back to about 1986. The other has parts that date back to the late 1970s. They're written in archaic C. Both still compile and run, but I have to be careful to use the flags to specify a 32-bit memory model, and to ignore that they casually cast 32-bit integers and 32-bit pointers back and forth with abandon. It struck me recently that it's actually possible I will live long enough, and continue using them, to reach 2038 when the Unix date/time indicator -- the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970) -- will roll over for 32-bit code.
I have a large new project that I need to start. I decided that before I do that I need to go back and make sure previous work is in a state where I'm comfortable with it. The list has ten pieces of software on it, written in C, Perl, Python, PHP, and JavaScript. This is going to take a while.
Right? One of the best arguments for supporting self-driving trucks on the interstates is the opportunity to force the trucks to communicate and settle on both a single speed, and spacing that allows cars to get through the 50-truck convoys that result to get to an exit.
I've heard the war chest argument multiple times but it strikes me as easily surmountable with light shenanigans.
The FEC rules are apparently quite clear on this. More important than the cash is that the campaign organization has leases on space in many states, phone lines, data arrangements, contracts for advertising slots, etc. None of that is transferable to another campaign organization.
The "we'll replace Biden/Harris with Smith/Jones at the convention" crowd seems to think that Smith and Jones, with no organization, no space, no advertising arrangements, can jump in six weeks before early voting starts (including, if I recall the dates correctly, every registered voter in California receiving their ballot) and have a winning campaign.
Here, on long rural stretches, it's occasionally mandated. Since essentially all of the surface wear on our rural interstates is caused by the big trucks, the state sometimes puts them in the left lane to even out the wear on the two lanes.
Anecdata... During the part of the pandemic where traffic was significantly lighter due to people staying home, drivers where I lived got a lot more careless about staying in their lane, signaling, etc.
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On “Kamala’s Veepstakes”
As you may (or probably not) recall, one of my concerns has long been that the Democrats are going to struggle to pull together the western wing of the party and the eastern (extended Rust Belt and BosWash urban corridor) wing.
On “Open Mic for the week of 7/22/2024”
Relax. Take a deep breath. Many years ago I had to learn to accept the fact that most people aren't going to do statistical modeling, or descriptions of models, properly.
On “Kamala’s Veepstakes”
Follow-on thought about Mark Kelly... I'm one of the few people that think geography still matters. Not specific states so much as regional things. I wonder if the BosWash urban corridor and the extended Rust Belt will be excited over a ticket with a pair of westerners at the top.
On “If Men Went To That Buttoning School”
I don’t know what “that” buttoning school is.
I suspect a joke about a school that should exist to train friend husband. How to use a button hook. Which button hook to use for eyelets compared to button holes. Where to start and which way to go to minimize pressure and wear-and-tear. Hook-and-eye closures instead of buttons.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Fruits of Prime Day”
IIRC, cats' brains also process shapes and motion very differently than humans do. Some things they see better than we do, some things worse.
Most of the weekend is going to be emotional recovery. Regular readers remember that I had to put my wife in memory care early last year. Today I had both our kids, their spouses, and the three granddaughters all get together to take pictures with my wife and me. My wife was having a good day: relatively cheerful and cooperative. Physically she's gotten too slow to keep up with the granddaughters, and she's losing weight again. She's lost everyone's names, and her working vocabulary is very limited.
On “The Days of Sunfish”
Nothing gets younger children more enthused about fishing than a pond full of bluegills. Any sort of pole, a bobber, and a hook. No need for bait, bluegills will strike a shiny bare hook.
On “Kamala’s Veepstakes”
Mark Kelly is a sitting Senator. If he vacates the seat, the Arizona governor, a Democrat, will name a replacement. Said replacement will have to run in a special election in 2026 to finish the term and then in the normal election in 2028.
On “The Next Candidate To Be Dumped?”
The SCOTUS ruled in 2020 that they are, including the ones that replace faithless electors during the state process. 33 states have some law, 17 (I believe) with the kind that guarantees the election results are followed.
Unless Trump wins in a landslide, there could be enough faithless electors to throw the decision to the (new) Senate. No constraints on how Senators vote.
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Wikimedia Commons says that it was taken while he was visiting the Ohio Air National Guard location in Springfield. The gear logo proper is beyond my modest googling skills.
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I assume this is largely moot, and that Trump electors will vote for whoever Trump tells them regardless of the name(s) on the state ballots.
On “Joe Biden Announces that he is not Running for Re-election”
1,152 Harris, 56 undecided.
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Current count is 856 Harris, 25 undecided. (1,976 needed to win.)
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Yes, the 17th was the same day Biden tested positive for Covid. He's in Delaware in self-isolation. His doctor has issued regular reports on his treatment and progress.
"
AP is running an ongoing survey of delegates to the Democratic Convention. Last I looked, 725 supported Harris and 25 were undecided, with the large majority not responding yet.
On “On Civil War”
After it had been out for a week, the standard review was, "If you want an action flick about journalists' possible experiences covering a civil war in the United States, you'll like it. If you want a political statement where the divisions actually make any sort of sense, you'll be horribly disappointed."
On “Joe Biden Announces that he is not Running for Re-election”
So far as we know, he's still testing positive for Covid and is in semi-isolation.
On “The Case For MM-DD-YYYY”
For most of my adult life, the current date/time is a 32-bit integer value of the number of seconds past the Unix epoch. Everything else is just conversion rules and formatting.
On “Weekend Plans Post: It’s too dang hot”
The Colorado Front Range only flirts with the edges of the big high-pressure heat domes. They tend not to cross the country at the Central Rockies, but either north or south. The Parker Divide to the south and the Cheyenne Ridge to the north also help steer those air masses past.
"
Last weekend we hit 102 °F here in Fort Collins. According to the local paper, this was the 29th day in the city's history when it got to 100° or higher. According to the article the all-time record is 103°.
Microclimates are wonderful things. 50 miles east out onto the plains the high-temperature extremes are several degrees higher, the low-temperature extremes lower, the blizzards worse, and the thunderstorms much worse.
On “The Case For MM-DD-YYYY”
I have a couple of pieces of software I wrote (or in one case, inherited) decades ago. The one that's all mine dates back to about 1986. The other has parts that date back to the late 1970s. They're written in archaic C. Both still compile and run, but I have to be careful to use the flags to specify a 32-bit memory model, and to ignore that they casually cast 32-bit integers and 32-bit pointers back and forth with abandon. It struck me recently that it's actually possible I will live long enough, and continue using them, to reach 2038 when the Unix date/time indicator -- the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970) -- will roll over for 32-bit code.
I have a large new project that I need to start. I decided that before I do that I need to go back and make sure previous work is in a state where I'm comfortable with it. The list has ten pieces of software on it, written in C, Perl, Python, PHP, and JavaScript. This is going to take a while.
On “Large Format Vehicles, Moving Violations, and How To Survive Them”
Right? One of the best arguments for supporting self-driving trucks on the interstates is the opportunity to force the trucks to communicate and settle on both a single speed, and spacing that allows cars to get through the 50-truck convoys that result to get to an exit.
On “From The Los Angeles Times: Schiff calls on Biden to drop out, citing ‘serious concerns’ he can’t win”
Schiff is the nominee for the Senate seat in California. He's not going to run the decisions he makes for that campaign past Pelosi.
"
I've heard the war chest argument multiple times but it strikes me as easily surmountable with light shenanigans.
The FEC rules are apparently quite clear on this. More important than the cash is that the campaign organization has leases on space in many states, phone lines, data arrangements, contracts for advertising slots, etc. None of that is transferable to another campaign organization.
The "we'll replace Biden/Harris with Smith/Jones at the convention" crowd seems to think that Smith and Jones, with no organization, no space, no advertising arrangements, can jump in six weeks before early voting starts (including, if I recall the dates correctly, every registered voter in California receiving their ballot) and have a winning campaign.
On “Large Format Vehicles, Moving Violations, and How To Survive Them”
Here, on long rural stretches, it's occasionally mandated. Since essentially all of the surface wear on our rural interstates is caused by the big trucks, the state sometimes puts them in the left lane to even out the wear on the two lanes.
"
Anecdata... During the part of the pandemic where traffic was significantly lighter due to people staying home, drivers where I lived got a lot more careless about staying in their lane, signaling, etc.
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.