I gave up and called the Waste Management Oakland phone number again and got a human who could help me--if I emailed in a copy of the grant deed. I did, but she says that their email server is slow, so she'll call me back (she claims) when it finally arrives.

To all maker of web apps and websites: If your website only works with Chrome, tell me. Don't waste my time trying to use it with Firefox.

Is it normal to have to provide a copy of the deed to your house to sign up for garbage collection service?

#Nature #ART by Anna & the Willow. The Huntress of Skipton Castle Woods #SkiptonCastle in #NorthYorkshire, #England.

So apparently with USPS Informed Delivery, if you move from one address to another, you have to create a new account with a new username for the new place you live. Bizarre.

Governor Newsom has announced that California will be imposing a 100% tax on any payments that are received from the orange felon’s criminal pay off slush fund. That’s my Governor. 💙👊

I don't think I've ever written a function to reverse a linked list.

The employees of this RenFest are wearing shirts that say "I've Been Kighted—Golden Goblin Productions". I had a conversation: Me: Is that an inside joke? Them: yeah Me: So what does "kighted" mean? Them: what? Me: It says "kighted", what does that mean? Them: it's a typo, we're goblins

I only had half a cup of jasmine rice left so I mixed it 50:50 with arborio rice and cooked it the same way I do jasmine and... it turned out fine?!

I'm pretty sure that a regular pthreads program can pthread_exit() the initial thread and the others will carry on, but Rust terminates the whole program when the initial thread exits. The latter behavior feels kind of odd to me.

Am I the only one who accumulates a bunch of tabs in a browser window until there's an annoying number, then closes all of them en masse?

@edzitron.com Probably someone pointed this out already but 1 MW is a thousandth of 1 GW (not a hundredth).

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

I briefly thought Redwood City had a new bike shop named J'Adore Cycling but jadorecycling.com turned out to be completely not about bicycles.

my genuine advice for using Rust effectively is very close to the joke of "doctor, it hurts when i do this!" "well stop doing that!" 90% of the time the thing you're losing (like being able to easily throw together a doubly linked list implementation) wasn't worth that much anyways.

Anyone else dreading America’s 250th birthday knowing Trump and his idiot administration are going to make it a trashy shitshow?

Google's new "partner ad settings" do not work.

The people claiming they regret voting for Trump will be right back voting Republican this November and in 2028

John McWhorter's NYT article today says: > The “s” in “island” was added because the Latin word was “insula” I didn't realize that the words "island" and "peninsula" were related, but now it seems evident that the "pen" prefix must be the same one in "penultimate". It's almost an island!

CS papers used to be printed for publication and collected proceedings were given to conference-goers and mailed to subscribers. This is hardly the case anymore. The 2-column PDF-based format for papers assumes this usage, and it's relatively hard to read on a screen. It's overdue for replacement.

Every single day, Trump does something that would have ended any other presidency.

Tap

my conspiracy theory is wall street is doing everything it can to keep everything from collapsing until dems take the house and senate so they can blame the implosion on them

My electric teakettle has 0.5L marked on it as minimum and 1.7L as maximum. That makes sense. It also has 1.2L marked on it. What is special about 1.2L?

Pet rent is such a scam. Often on top of a non-refundable pet deposit. On top of a maybe-refundable normal deposit, which covers the same things as the pet deposit.

What if all these "orbiting data center" proposals are really elaborate tax and fraud havens? Who collects taxes on revenues that are collected 1000 miles above international waters? Who prosecutes Ponzi schemes that are perpetrated there?

Dear America, Please stop saying that Donald Trump is the Leader of the Free World. He is not. We have Zero Respect for Him. Signed The Free World.

Our country can't move forward until Trump is impeached.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

I pay every penny I owe in taxes, but I must say that this year really felt like a gut-punch on account of all the illegal shit that the federal government is doing with our hard-earned money

In #Rust, `struct S<T>` yields a compiler error, but `fn f<T>() {}` does not even yield a warning. Why not? #rustlang

It’s not a ceasefire if the killing continues on one side. Mass atrocities are being carried out by Netanyahu in Lebanon with U.S. backing. (1/3)

A common #rust mistake I see is using `//` (plain comment) instead of `///` (doc comment). It doesn't seem like rustc or clippy knows to warn about this, which seems weird. #rustlang

Commit messages are important, why doesn't GitHub allow commenting on them in PRs?

We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.

Through a series of coincidences I now possess three mini bottles of Scotch that were stored in a drawer at Donald Knuth's house from 2018 until today.

IMPEACH AND REMOVE

I always thought the whole "Great Satan" thing was just hyperbole.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

Jury duty again, ugh. What I really hate about jury duty is how they just waste your time with it. You show up just to sit around and then go home. How about not doing that?

Just think it’s dumb af to have to go to work when the President of the United States says shit like that

For the humanity's sake, this must be a TACO Tuesday.

The United States of America has become a shithole under Donald J. Trump. If you voted for him: Fuck you.

1. This is what America looks like with a President who is both a sociopath AND losing his mind. 2. It’s a good time to remind every member of the U.S. military they swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual, and they have a duty/they are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.

Democratic House Rep. Ted Lieu tells the Joint Staff to ignore illegal orders to commit war crimes from Donald Trump: “If you commit war crimes, the next Administration will prosecute you.” 🔥

It's lucky for vampires that they don't seem to need any particular blood type.

If people can go to prison for lying to Congress... Then shouldn't Members of Congress go to prison for lying to the people? There wouldn't be a Member of Congress left.