A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning....
Would it influence the judge? Maybe, but modern jurisprudence strongly disfavors anything that enables litigants to choose their own tribunal. The question of whether the American legal system does a good job of that notwithstanding, the problem is that if you enable a defendant to get another roll of the judge dice by assaulting the first assigned judge, you’ve created a perverse incentive to assault court personnel in a non-zero amount of cases. You don’t want to allow for the possibility of rewarding a defendant for bad behavior. Consider:
Capital defendant is on trial for murder. The first judge they draw is strongly in favor of the extreme penalty. The alternative with a different judge would be life–maybe even with the possibility of parole, depending on the jurisdiction. If convicted, the sentence for assaulting a judge is always going to be less than death. Ergo, if you’re the defendant in this case and have the opportunity to assault the judge, knowing that doing so gets you a new judge, then rationally you should assault the judge. Courts generally expect litigants to be rational. That is, if the penalty for x is less than the risk value of y, a reasonable litigant will do x, even if x is jumping over the bench to take a swing at the judge.
That’s no good, and it’s not a new phenomenon. Usually this kind of “forum selection legal game theory” applies in questions wherein a litigant has the choice to initiate an action before one of a number of courts, and forum (and judge) shopping is a major topic in legal academia. [It’s not an accident that Aileen Cannon is Trump’s judge of choice.]
All of that said, should this judge recuse herself? Personally I don’t think so, for the aforesaid reasons, but I also don’t want to give the impression that it’s cut and dry. Being pragmatic, many judges wouldn’t want the hassle of being personally invested in this kind of debate. Some might stand on the principle (and they would be right), but in my experience, most judges would rather take a punch in the face than be reversed on appeal.
A hypothesis is “I think x is true” or “x will happen if I do y.” It is a conclusory statement based on existing knowledge that then has to be proven and is one of the first things you learn to do in science. Asking “what happened to x” or “what is x” is not a hypothesis, it’s an open-ended inquiry. While both are useful, the hypothesis is specifically part of the scientific method. You’re proving or disproving smaller conclusions to answer a broader open-ended inquiry.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues....
This is why, on the occasion of necessary permissions not being set, a lot of apps nowadays have a popup which tells the user something like “you need to grant permission for X because it actually lets this app do legitimate thing Y” like you just told us, with a button to click over to do the permissions grab and trigger the OS popup.
For simplicity, we will assume that the nipple is a positive Z axis integer with the head of a body positioned at positive Y. Any rotations would then fall on the X axis, in degrees, unless specified otherwise. This way, the rotation would be on a standard body rotation of left and right. Else one may have to take a photo with a rotated body in possibly an inverted position… Or I suppose simply rotating the camera, which is less entertaining.
Probably The Prince, followed by Debt. For whatever reason, it broke my brain, and I stopped being intensely angry at rules breaking (by others or by myself). Growing up, I had this fairly common internal experience of viewing rules (often social rules, often implied) as being immutable moral truths. I would be furious if I had been taught a rule “Don’t do X when Y”. I would be both furious and distraught if someone did Y and was either not punished for it or even rewarded. Now it’s very much tied to context and power. It’s still frustrating when people are treated differently, but it doesn’t keep me up at night in the same way.
I think this was also around the time I started watching Adam Curtis documentaries. Whatever else I think about him now, he does talk about power and society a lot, and the liberal confusion that occurs when they try to ignore power in their explanations of society.
Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr…::Tesla has updated the range estimates across several Model Y, S, and X vehicles in the US, reducing the figure on certain trims...
Tesla has lowered the range estimates across several Model Y, S, and X vehicles in the US, reducing the figure on certain trims by up to six percent.
Estimates for the Model S Plaid have also been updated — more specifically, the configuration with 19-inch wheels which has fallen from 396 miles to 359.
Drive Tesla reports that the changes are related to two things after reviewing internal company documents.
First, are “comfort and functionality improvements” made by Tesla that require more energy, and second is the implementation of revised EPA testing requirements that result in a “higher consumption and a slight decrease in overall range.”
Last October, the DOJ opened a probe into Tesla’s estimated mileage following reports that many of its figures were intentionally inflated.
Update January 5th, 8:18AM ET: Added report from Drive Tesla on reasons for the revised range estimates.
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Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million vehicles in China over issues with steering software and door-locking systems, the country’s regulator says....
Yup, we’re the same way. My SO keeps worrying, “what if X happens? What if Y happens?” and they don’t seem to like my answer of, “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.” We’re quite stable financially, so we’re prepared to handle pretty much any surprise, yet she still worries about random things.
I think some people are just predisposed to anxiety. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that.
Was leading onto this side of the debate, but basically our collective knowledge, hell our collective experiences are not objective. Our assumptions, mistakes, wordings which result in different interpreted meanings, etc all contribute to some level of disinformation.
Now let’s not be as nit picky and accept that some detail fudging isn’t the end of the world and happens frequently. We can cross reference each others’ accounts but even that only works to an extent.
Whole cultures might bare witness to an event and perceive it to be about x y or z, whereas the next door neighbor might see it completely different.
AI to me really isn’t that far off from the winners being the ones to write the history books, or that strange or unexpected events naturally cause human brains to recollect them in incorrect detail and accuracy.
I mean… Let’s just take your example of “we have a jumper at x and y street”. Is it really a good idea to have everyone know that? Do we want “journalists” to drive over their and take pictures of people in crisis (possibly worsening it).
Or let’s imagine a car chase, do we really want criminals to know that a spikestrip is set up 2 streets ahead?
Do we want information like warrant and licence checks to be held over unencrypted radio transmitions. Allowing everyone who wants to to listen in and learn about people’s criminal histories?
Just to add, I am aware that the whole idea of privacy isn’t really a thing in the US, the names and mugshots of arrested people are literally made public in some (all?) states, so you probably don’t care about the last point, but the rest still stand, and in lots of countries everyone’s privacy is considered a right, including that of (suspected) criminals.
not consistently. I find there are basically two schools of thought in 3d graphics:
the screen is a graph representing a 3d space: the x axis is horizontal, the y axis is vertical. depth, going ‘into’ the screen, then becomes the z axis. mathematicians and programmers tend to like this.
the screen is a camera viewing a 3d space from within itself: the coordinates to position yourself along a line is one dimensional: x. to position yourself on a plane as in a 2d game, two dimensional: x, y. to position yourself within a volume, three dimensional: x, y, z. humans are kind of inherently planar spatial navigators - it’s easy to think about our position in terms of “where on the ground” we are, then adjust for height. 3d artists and level designers tend to like this.
Well tbf as well, innovative is as subjective as game of the year, what seems to be innovative to some might not be one for another. It’s hard to define “innovation” because it’s simply a process of putting in change on an established thing. Try google “innovative product of (year)” and you might see a tons of “isn’t it just x but y” product.
In my case i haven’t played Starfield nor Baldur’s Gate 3 so i wouldn’t know whether they deserve the award or not, if people think it does, hey, more power to them. Steam Award is a popularity contest voted by people anyway, taking it seriously is missing the point.
This place uses a heat-pump for cooling, in the summer, but it uses a furnace for heating.
It used to reach -20C or colder, here, in the winter…
it’s rained damn-near every week, this winter…
since there is sooo much lag, between the climate-forcing adulteration of our atmosphere,
and the actual climate’s temperature,
it looks like we’re going to be … needing to find some other planet to be inhabiting, in a century…?
Based on actual history, this planet’s current equilibrium-temperature is +5C…+6C, not anywhere near the +1.5C delusion people are still believing-in.
but when one factors-in methane ( & only that one ), that we add, it works-out to +8C…+9C planetary equilibrium… ( using methane’s 20-y equivalent, of 82.5x factor, given the current 1.3ppm to 1.4ppm that we have unnaturally added of methane )
anyways, here’s the link stating that at this atmospheric CO2 the planetary-equilibrium-temperature is between +5C & +6C, in case anyone is interested:
Why the focus on Patriot Act, when it was one of three factors I listed?
Because it’s the one that I see repeated most often by others and the one find most doubtful.
Why do you keep trying to say that I’m saying his stated goals were unbelievable, when I’ve repeatedly said I’m debating the specifics of how he expected to accomplish them? It’s not a “what”, it’s a “how”.
Because we started with a disagreement over what his goals were and you seem to have maintained your side of that disagreement? If you say “it was X, Y and Z” and I say, “no, it was A and B” and you then say “how on earth could what he did have achieved A” you’re not actually arguing about “how” you’re expressing your skepticism that it was A by casting doubt on how realistic it was.
I’ve repeatedly expressed my reasonings.
You haven’t expressed a reason to believe that bin Laden wanted the USA to pass a law like the PATRIOT Act. You’ve made implications that you maybe don’t actually believe it that strongly, but not gone so far as to say that you don’t believe it, and you’ve talked about the other things you believe, but you’re quite reticent to talk about that one.
I don’t mind leaving aside the other stuff because this one, I think, is more egregious.
I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...
I just wanted to add that you can run gui applications through ssh with x11 forwarding, options -X or -Y (untrusted/trusted but at least in Debian back in the day they behaved the same). So if you wanted a gui file manager you run it in the ssh session on the remote server, sudo if you need but NEVER logged as root, and the window will pop on your local DE instead of having to run an entire desktop on each server
If i wasn’t lazy I’d link that one XKCD with the line of people that are like “oh, x is just applied y!” “y is just applied z!” Until physics thinks they’re on top but math is so far off the edge they can’t even hear what’s happening
What are you doing to ensure your ability to retire at 65? Anything?
Once upon a time, the government ce up with a new deal, to force people to give up a big chunk of their paycheck, so that they’d have retirement income when they got old. They called it an individual retirement account. They mailed out statements. You could look at your statement every year and see what you put in, and what you’d get for it.
Now, they call it welfare… They call it a drain on your taxes (but you young people still pay that extra chunk to this very day… They’ve hoodwinked your asses into thinking SS deductions are just plain old taxes…). The sentiment is that those people should have planned for their retirement…
Thing is… They did plan for retirement… By letting the government take those deductions…
And again… If those people should have planned for themselves… What are YOU doing to ensure you can retire? Are you gonna rely on the ponzi scheme? You know damned well it’s a ponzi scheme. You know it isn’t going to be viable when you retire. So what are you doing?
Those old dudes can keep those jobs if they want as far as I’m concerned. I’m old enough to have received “individual account statements” from the SS office by mail, but not so old that I didn’t make any other plans (old enough to have had the option to pursue a pension, which sadly is gone for pretty much anyone these days).
I personally feel like anyone born before 1965 has every right to have relied on SS alone, born 1965-1990, you should have seen the writing on the wall, but if you didn’t, it’s kinda excusable. Born after 1990, you absolutely should not be expecting much out of SS (and frankly, y’all should be pissed off at the SS deduction you pay every check…you’re basically being told straight to your faces that it’s an outright tax… That is NOT what your parents and grandparents were told…)
If those 70+ year olds had known that SS would devolve into being called a “welfare program”, most wouldn’t have relied on it (gen x and prior have a strong moral aversion to anything welfare…). They didn’t cause this problem, they believed in the government, and government caused it.
I haven’t read about the specifics of this Tetris crash, but usually what happens with these old games is that memory is very tightly packed, imagine you have a small version of Tetris that has 3 digits XYZ where X is the speed of the game, Y is the amount of lives and Z is the level you are in, so for example if you’re in speed 5 with 8 lives on level 7 the number would be 587, if you go up one level it becomes 588, now on that example if you’re on speed 9 with 9 lives on level 9, i.e. 999, and you go up one level the number becomes 1000, but because only the 3 last matter you’re now on speed 0, with 0 lives on level 0, since speed zero means nothing moves you crashed the game.
Again, this is not exactly what happened here, but probably something similar where increasing a number overflew to the next one in memory and that caused some weird behaviour.
Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5....
So you’re going to ignore the fact that the people she cited didn’t think it was plagiarism either. Again, the difference is in whether or not the quotation used was intended to be passed off as the author’s own words which, in those cases, clearly weren’t since they were in technical summaries and accompanying visualizations that were different from the original context. Saying “the definition of x is y and z” without citing the dictionary is negligence. It’s not plagiarism.
If what you’re describing isn’t a conspiracy theory then it’s also not a conspiracy theory to point out that no other former President of Harvard has had the same type of scrutiny brought against them and that she’s being treated differently because of her status, right?
I think there are ways to impose child safety locks, as it were, on a phone’s access to the internet? Like a curfew or “max hours in a day” limit. I feel like that would make more sense than not giving a kid a phone.
And there are also tricks one can apply to circunvent some of that attention-grabby design, like putting the phone in grayscale mode.
Also, unlike cigarettes, smartphones serve many purposes, and 99.999% of people (in countries where they are ubiquitous) will need to own one at some point. I think it may be better to actively teach a child how to handle the information-overload, attention grabbing tricks, misinformation, and so on of the internet, rather than leaving them to just figure it out for themselves later on.
My concerns with denying children a smartphone altogether include:
Phones are an essential safety device, and smartphones are better at this than dumb phones because of things like GPS and maps navigation (especially for kids who get lost easily), clear emergency alerts (e.g. “expect a tsubami in 3 minutes”, or “there is an active shooter currently around the grocery store at x and y street”), the ability to store easily accessible information for first responders in the phone (which can sometimes also be auto-shared when you make a 911 call), and the ability to easily and silently text 911 if they find themselves in a situation where calling is dangerous.
Phones and social media are now an integral part of most kids’ social lives. If a kid doesn’t have a smartphone and can’t join in on real time group chats, with the ability to see the things their peers share in that chat, or if they don’t have video chat access, they’ll be cut off from a lot of other kids and their social life will suffer for it.
And access to social media is especially important for kids who need to find support they can’t find easily irl, like for queer or neurodivergent kids who benefit from talking to others like them on the internet - even if they’re lucky and their parents are supportive, it’s not the same as finding a peer support group. For similar reasons, access to digital library collections can be a big deal. Granted, some of this would be covered if they have access to the internet on a laptop or desktop, but at that point they’d have internet access anyway so they might as well have the phone too.
Phones are more and more often required for basic utilitarian access, too. Sometimes taking the city bus requires a phone because you can’t pay cash anymore. Sometimes the laundry machine doesn’t take coins, only app or internet payment. Sometimes the menu at a restaurant is just a QR code that tells you to look at their website. It sucks but it’s only getting more this way.
I’m not advocating for giving smartphones to literal toddlers, but beyond a certain (fairly low) age I think at this point the risks of giving a kid a smartphone are outweighed by the risks of them not having one.
Hi everyone. I’m on the verge of building a new NAS/Media server, and wanted to check here to see if any of you could provide some recommendations based on my goals (below) or your current builds. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 4 running some basic services (Portainer, Home Assistant, Plex, sonarr/radarr/prowlarr, sabnzbd,...
I currently have 6x10TB of these drives running in a gluster array. I’ve had to return 2 so far, with a 3rd waiting to send in for warranty also (click of death for all three). That’s a higher failure rate than I’d like, but the process has been painless outside of the inconvenience of sending it in. All my media is replaceable, but I have redundancy and haven’t lost data (yet).
Supporting hardware costs and power costs depending, you may find larger drive sizes to be a better investment in the long term. Namely, if you plan on seeing the drives through to their 5 year warranty, 18TB drives are pretty good value.
For my hardware and power costs, this is the breakdown for cumulative $/TB (y axis) over years of service (x axis):
Defendant who attacked judge in wild courtroom video will face her again in Las Vegas (apnews.com)
A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning....
Researchers publish open-source repository using NLP to analyse the bias in BBC reporting on Palestine. (github.com)
Overview...
A California law banning the carrying of firearms in most public places is blocked again (apnews.com)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues....
Weather app asking for permission to manage calls (lemy.lol)
Damn... I'll take 10 with you's (sh.itjust.works)
What is a piece of media that has changed your life?
Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr... (www.theverge.com)
Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr…::Tesla has updated the range estimates across several Model Y, S, and X vehicles in the US, reducing the figure on certain trims...
Tesla recalls more than 1.6 million cars in China over steering software issues (www.bbc.com)
Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million vehicles in China over issues with steering software and door-locking systems, the country’s regulator says....
How I cannot be worry?? (lemy.lol)
ChatGPT could soon replace Google Assistant on your Android phone (www.androidauthority.com)
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
The more you know (lemmy.today)
Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? (i.imgur.com)
Do you have a Heat Pump in a cold climate?
Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.
Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says (www.nytimes.com)
Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?
I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...
What You're acc to your fav language (lemm.ee)
The Fastest Growing Demographic In The Workforce? People Over Age 75 (www.forbes.com)
Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris (www.polygon.com)
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History (www.thecrimson.com)
Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5....
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Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’ (english.elpais.com)
NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations
Hi everyone. I’m on the verge of building a new NAS/Media server, and wanted to check here to see if any of you could provide some recommendations based on my goals (below) or your current builds. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 4 running some basic services (Portainer, Home Assistant, Plex, sonarr/radarr/prowlarr, sabnzbd,...