So something that would be helpful would be some kind of “re-entry program”? Something that says “hey its X date now. These days here’s what’s available to you and what is expected of you generally as any random person, as a worker, as a member of a family”. Something like that or something else?

I would guess the length of incarceration would also change the content of it too. Folks that have been outside society longer will need more guidance to get up-to-date.

21 months ago, so since about March 09, 2024?

I started to write things out and its all bad news. I’m struggling to come up with anything good that has happened since then. Hmm, the movie Wicked (the first one) was pretty good. So, I guess thats about all the good news.

EDIT: Apologies if this isn’t a welcome topic, you can ignore me if it is. As someone rejoining us, can you tell me what your needs are? I have often held the thought that those that just finished serving time may be some of the most ignored/neglected. I don’t know if that’s true though. What are the needs of someone in your position and what kind of help do you wish existed to make it easier?

If they can effectively fake Ukraine attacking a Russian ship they can effectively fake Ukraine attacking a Turkish ship.

You’re proving my point. They can’t effectively attack their own Russian ship. They planted drone parts of a drone that can’t reach the attack site. They had a tanker supposedly traveling from the port of Novorossiysk Russia in the Black Sea to Georgia travel aaaallll the way West to be on the border with Turkey when there’s absolutely no reason for a ship going from where they claim to to where they claim to be in that area.

A false flag only makes sense if provides a justification to actually DO something you couldn’t do without the attack.

I already provided justification. You’re choosing to ignore it, which is your right, but you’re having to close your eyes to do it.

Russia attacking a Turkish ship would be an unambiguous trigger NATO Article 5. That is something Russia absolutely wants to avoid. There is no Article 5 implications if Russia attacks its own ship.

Two ways:

1. The attack was right off the coast of Türkiye. If this were an attack from UA (which it isn’t), Türkiye could claim that UA attacks were putting Türkiye’s shipping, commerce, and its civilians at risk and Türkiye being a NATO member, that would carry a lot of weight. Russia wanted the idea “if another country’s cargo carrier is being attacked by UA, then UA should be stopped from attacking ships”.
2. UA has been specifically targeting Russia’s petroleum carriers, not agribusiness, which could have nutrition connotations. Russia claimed it was carrying sunflower oil, not petroleum. So Russia would try to claim that food shipments for the nation of Georgia were being attacked by UA, and that the UA attacks on ships should be stopped by NATO allies.

Russia desperately wants the attacks on it main economic lifeline, cargo ships, to end as soon as possible.

This is the one “attack” that looks like a Russian false flag. The drone parts Russia placed on the ship for a photo op are from a model that doesn’t have the range from Ukraine to reach where the “attack” happened among a bunch of other screw ups from the Russians trying to make this look like a Ukrainian attack.

Ruby was the most approachable language I found and sheparded me from my limits of bash scripting and Windows batch file scripting into the next level.

The author derides Ruby’s easy readability and syntax because it has issues scaling to large enterprise applications. I don’t disagree there is a performance ceiling, but how many hundreds of thousands of Ruby projects never rose to that level of need? The author is also forgetting that Ruby had Rubygems for easy modular functional additions years before Python eventually got pip.

I don’t write in Ruby anymore, and Python has evolved to be much more approachable than it was when Ruby was in its prime, however if someone came to me today saying they wanted the easier programming language to learn that could build full applications on Linux, OSX, Windows, and the web, I’d still point them to Ruby with the caveat that it would have limits and they would be better served by Python in the long run.

I like seeing these solutions in the modern day. If you’re looking to get even more use out of the limitations of your phone plan, you can take a page from computing history. Back when our mobile internet was 64kps-128kps we had these same challenges. I was doing remote server screen sharing on Windows with 19.2kps with VNC and could still perform important fixes in emergency situations.

Analogous to your situation though, a very clever approach was to use what was called a “clipping browser” such as Blazer for PalmOS.

It would work with a server with higher bandwidth to receive your web requests, fetch the contents to the clipping server where it would downscale the graphics and remove rich media elements (videos, animation). The result was a surprisingly fast loading graphical web experience. Keep in mind in those days a 320x240 screen was the limit, so you could downscale graphics quite a bit without losing any quality perceived by the end user.

You could probably accomplish this same thing with a modern Squid proxy server with a custom configuration.

Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

I was willing to give a shot to something like the Metaverse, but the instant I heard it was a Facebook/Meta project I had zero interest and hoped it would die. This was my same experience with Occulus. These are both technologies I want for a cyberpunk future, but Facebook cannot be the one to control them.

Every time I go to IKEA I always check and they are always sold out of Blåhaj.

with the same razor

“we’re blood brothers here. We share bloodborn diseases between each other this way. Hepatitis A is for Alphas.” /s

A specific house may be bought up, but others will be available that are similar for substantially less in a deflationary market.

This is my problem with economics. You’re talking about theory and practice as if they’re the same thing.

Way back when, I used to sell computers and computer parts at retail. I assure you this was a regular conversation topic. “When is the Voodoo 4 graphics card coming out? 4 months? Okay I won’t buy the older Voodoo 3 now because I can make do with my Nvidia TNT2 until then.”

All consumers do not make perfectly rational choices.

No they don’t, nor or do they need to if you’re taking a macro view.

Hell, most don’t.

Are you saying:

• consumers NEVER make rational choices?
• consumers don’t make 100% rational choices 100% of the time a choice is available?

I disagree with the former, but I agree with you on the latter. None of that invalidates micro or macro economic theory.

This kind of theory only explains how rich people want you to think things work. It’s not how things work in the real world.

Many rich people get rich because this works. They also play dirty tricks to create the situations, but then again in those situations the theory works.

I’ll be the first to say economic theory is far from perfect and the deeper you go, the more complex, and potentially less reliable, it gets, but the basics are pretty sound.

It’s not like you can wait till next year to eat or have a place to live.

Eat? No waiting. Live? Sure! If prices were consistently falling because of deflation, and you knew renting for a year would allow you to buy a larger house with the exact same amount of money you hand in your hand, most would do that and rent for a bit.

Sounds good in theory, but I don’t think that holds up in practice. For example, computers getting more affordable and powerful year by year didn’t stop people from buying them.

It absolutely delay people buying. If you held out for 6 more months, you’d get a substantially faster computer. Thats the second variable you’re introducing with this example. If your current computer was “fast enough” you’d wait, and people did.

I was shopping for batteries when installing solar a couple years ago. Essentially my choices were Powerwall 2 or Enphase. I specifically did not want NMC/NCA batteries nor did I want a Musk product. The Enphase batteries were more money for less capacity.

I bought the Enphase batteries, and I’m happier for it. The whole Enphase solar system has been bulletproof and I’m very happy with it.

The half human-wook child grows up vengeful that their parents were both throwaways by their respective leadership. The child becomes the next emperor and destroys the Federation.

Niche IT project work actually, but lots of overlap with DevOps type skills/situations.