Our city has at least 4 large dog parks intended to allow dogs to run. So, after you calm down, you should check it out locally. You might make a new friend.
In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........
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The one nearby is ~20 acres, with several sections and quite a bit of trails. It's really pretty good, except for the once a year or so when a gator manages to squeeze under the fence and get inside. The rest in the county are just fenced rectangles that aren't useful for anything larger than a shih tzu.The big problem with the dog parks around where I lived in Texas is that they are usually just a 20x20 enclosure adjoined to a park. It really sucks
I'd sit there with a bullhorn and just loudly announce what they're doing to shame them, or constantly post their photos to the local community social media group.
TTPMO: Entitled people.
Entitled people who cut you in line.
Entitled people who cut you in the boarding line at the airport.
TTMMLOL (things that make me laugh out loud): Entitled people getting on the plane after me because the gate agent told them they need to wait their until their group is called.
Look, I hate the ridiculous games airlines play with boarding sequence too. I hate getting on last and needing to gate-check my bag and burn an extra 20 minutes at my destination waiting at the carousel. But we’re all facing the same problem, and the plane is going to get us where we’re going all at the same time.
Relax.
Breathe.
Play some Sudoku on your phone or something.
And wait your goddamn turn like the rest of us.
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Entitled people who cut you in line.
Entitled people who cut you in the boarding line at the airport.
TTMMLOL (things that make me laugh out loud): Entitled people getting on the plane after me because the gate agent told them they need to wait their until their group is called.
Look, I hate the ridiculous games airlines play with boarding sequence too. I hate getting on last and needing to gate-check my bag and burn an extra 20 minutes at my destination waiting at the carousel. But we’re all facing the same problem, and the plane is going to get us where we’re going all at the same time.
Relax.
Breathe.
Play some Sudoku on your phone or something.
And wait your goddamn turn like the rest of us.
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I love dogs, and have no phobia of them. Until they try to lodge themselves in my bike's spokes (It's happened many times).
"Oh, they never do that." Bullshit. And even if true you never really know what might trigger even the best-behaved dog and send them running after someone/something.
It doesn't matter if they've being aggressive or friendly. It's still a danger to them and whom/whatever they're approaching. Putting them on a leash, even one of those extra-long retractable ones, greatly reduces the risk.
Having had both coyotes and foxes on my property, I'd take the foxes every time. No fox even considered getting close to us, but coyotes clearly considered their chances around my toddler. I literally had to take a bat to the pack, and I was swinging for home runs before they finally cleared out (I didn't manage to hit any, but I sure as hell wasn't pulling back).
A pack? Yeah, I don't doubt they'll go after kids, especially toddlers. Hell, a good sized pack of they're super hungry might go after solo adults. Especially if you're out in the woods somewhere. They gotta be really hungry, but I'd believe a pack would.
Today's pissed-offedness comes courtesy of a conversation I had this afternoon with a colleague. 100% not her fault, this was a "state of the country" conversation.
As an academic, one of the privileges and pleasures of the job is to be able to interact with talented and promising students, to mentor them, and watch them develop and mature. And, for generations, one of the glorious things about the US system is that we attracted talented young students from around the world, did that mentoring and teaching, and then a large fraction of those students would stay in the US and their work both enriched and improved the country. Colleague made a point of reminding me that she was a beneficiary of this, coming here in the 80s and was nurtured by a mentor, and has dedicated her career to paying forward that moral debt.
This is something which has served the US well since the end of the Second World War.
Now, and especially today with the {SOAP BOX] events, that's all in doubt. My colleague and I are materials physicists. Our students go on to jobs in the semiconductor industry, energy, advanced materials, quantum, and so forth. The industries of today and tomorrow. But instead, graduating students, who did excellent work and have enormous potential, who ordinarily would have gotten great job offers from US companies, are beset with uncertainty. Students who would have eagerly stayed in the US and whose work would have bettered the country, are now saying "I don't want to, but going back to China is my best option". Potential students are looking at [SOAP BOX] and very reasonably asking themselves if they want to come anywhere near the US or would they be better off staying in their home countries.
In crude financial terms, we made investments in students like that, and we as a country are choosing to rip up those investments and turn away future opportunities to invest. And it's to the benefit of countries we identify as rivals or adversaries.
TLDR: Because [SOAP BOX], I Am Pissed Off.
As an academic, one of the privileges and pleasures of the job is to be able to interact with talented and promising students, to mentor them, and watch them develop and mature. And, for generations, one of the glorious things about the US system is that we attracted talented young students from around the world, did that mentoring and teaching, and then a large fraction of those students would stay in the US and their work both enriched and improved the country. Colleague made a point of reminding me that she was a beneficiary of this, coming here in the 80s and was nurtured by a mentor, and has dedicated her career to paying forward that moral debt.
This is something which has served the US well since the end of the Second World War.
Now, and especially today with the {SOAP BOX] events, that's all in doubt. My colleague and I are materials physicists. Our students go on to jobs in the semiconductor industry, energy, advanced materials, quantum, and so forth. The industries of today and tomorrow. But instead, graduating students, who did excellent work and have enormous potential, who ordinarily would have gotten great job offers from US companies, are beset with uncertainty. Students who would have eagerly stayed in the US and whose work would have bettered the country, are now saying "I don't want to, but going back to China is my best option". Potential students are looking at [SOAP BOX] and very reasonably asking themselves if they want to come anywhere near the US or would they be better off staying in their home countries.
In crude financial terms, we made investments in students like that, and we as a country are choosing to rip up those investments and turn away future opportunities to invest. And it's to the benefit of countries we identify as rivals or adversaries.
TLDR: Because [SOAP BOX], I Am Pissed Off.
Lol. During the pandemic I moved a chunk of my 401k into bond funds. I never bothered to move it back. I can't bear to look today but when I checked a couple of weeks ago it had even gained slightly, unlike the index funds.
The timing could be better, since I just got divorced yesterday and I'm going to have to pull the massive equalization payment out of the 401ks.
No, we must have time zones, some of which are on the half hour. And permanent daylight savings because that will make it light later in the evening and who cares if some loser has to walk/drive to work/school in the dark. And seasonal daylight savings, and no daylight savings. In fact, just every hick town and cultural backwater just do your own thing but make sure you insist everybody do the same as you or you'll I don't know what. Set your clocks different, I guess.
Seriously though, you're right. Databases should just be in GMT and you can have your local time on your computer in whatever benighted sweatshop you work in state the time in your local time zone.
I work every day over a distributed communications network to sites ‘round the world to talk to shit in freakin’ orbit.
Zulu / UTC / GMT, all the way at work. Local time is for not-work stuff.
Zulu / UTC / GMT, all the way at work. Local time is for not-work stuff.
Translation: Please don't everybody pull your money out and bankrupt us!
You misspelled Florida Yard Dog.
Dogs required to be on a lead has got to be one of the top three examples of anti-social fuckwads ruining things for everyone else. Both for the owners and the general public. Leash laws are very lax over here, and it would honestly be fine if dog owners paid the slightest attention to training their animals. There's almost always one running about the park with its owner yelling after it - zero recall. I'd be happy to ease up on leashes if it were required and tested to have your dog come when you call it.
I'm impressed by people that manage to get that kind of recall over their dog. I've had three dogs as an adult. One would do everything I asked, no matter the distraction. One would do so as long as he didn't perceive a threat. The current one is good except if a squirrel gets within 3-4 feet of her, at which point she loses control until the squirrel is run up a tree.
There has to be a cultural element to it, as well. I remember being in the Czech Republic (as it was called at the time) and was amazed by the control owners had over their animals. It was simply socially unacceptable to not be able to control your animal. I had a puppy run up and lick my hand in the park and the owner was mortified that it hadn't stopped when told to. It was a puppy! I saw people leave their dogs unattended outside shops while they went in to grab some milk and cigarettes, and the dogs just sat there. Not tied up. Didn't move. I was well impressed.
The English are the complete, total opposite.
The English are the complete, total opposite.
So, a lone coyote generally has something wrong with it. Either sick, injured, or old and may take it’s chances on a toddler if it’s hungry enough. We had one of those at my first duty station, but Old Boy was more than content to get fat on dorm trash and sun himself out on the pedestrian bypass in the mesquite woods. A pack may or may not, depending on the situation. What usually gets me cautious is coydogs and feral dogs. They tend to be bigger and more aggressive in my experience with them in Michigan and Texas. Problem is that this bunch gets confused with coyotes, and with a lot of coydogs it’s kinda understandable, so coyotes get an outsized reputation for aggressive and destructive behavior.
I think the pack came around Quanah Park* in Ft. Worth every so often (coyote packs tend wander around and come through every other year or so) is the clearest case of this. The normal coyotes would slink off into deeper brush if you started coming towards them, but one year they had a big fucker with them. One day I am doing my normal 5k on the trail and I see three of them eating a raccoon on the utility two-track 20-30ft away. They look up and see me and two of them fuck off, but the big one didn’t. The big guy’s shoulders were about head height of the other two and they were mature, and judging from the body he had either some German or Belgian shepherd in his ancestry. Ears were a bit off too, but it was to far and a bad angle to see why. Anyhow, he step upped to get between me and the kill and just stared and I continued to pass by. He was just being food protective, sure, but when animals like that aren’t intimidated by people is usually when the problems start. Usually they’re more likely to have a go at smaller dogs being walked on the trail (another reason to keep them on a leash, so you can keep them out of the undergrowth.) Not a month later, a reported coyotes attack a jogger out in Plano and cull happened shortly thereafter. Don’t know of the Quanah Park pack got wrapped in it or if they moved on, because I didn’t hear or see any of them by the time I moved to a different area.
*Quanah Park is kind of a stupid area. I saw people releasing wild animals in there at least twice a year for the two and change years I lived by there. The best one was three people releasing a fucking BOBCAT (the feline, not the front end loader) in the low wetland area encircled by the trail. I am amazed that thing didn’t try to maul a small dog.
Someone at a major financial institution just sent the private API Keys we generated for them via plain email to "confirm" he had the right ones.
Well, they were correct. They're now invalidated.
Well, they were correct. They're now invalidated.
I've recently had to tell the sender to invalidate a bunch of credentials, as the recipient of such communication.
Good work. What worries me is how many people in the same position as you wouldn't invalidate them...
Given how much time we’ve spent on validation, sign off, legal review, etc on this integration, I half wondered if this was an intentional test.
When I write Kotlin I get a bunch of warnings "unneeded semicolon". When I write Java I get a bunch of compile errors "missing semicolon".
I hate bopping between these 2 a couple times a day. Just when I get my brain in the correct camp someone moves my cheese.
I hate bopping between these 2 a couple times a day. Just when I get my brain in the correct camp someone moves my cheese.
It could be worse. One of the other languages you have to use could be Perl.
I've never confused perl with anything but line noise. And I wrote a lot of perl back in the day.
I bounce between C++ and python. I’ve found using different coding styles helps to keep them separate in my head. For example, in C++ I’m required to use camelCase. So for python I use underscore_naming.
Work coding? Keeping in mind that I am NOT a programmer?
VB & basic for various tools, and as is often the case with space related stuff - a customized derivation of C. I’m going to be adding some python to the mix in the near future as well.
At home?
Nope! Code work is strictly that - work. I don’t want it to spread into my non-work activities.
But bouncing between the C derivation and VB breaks things in the siloed dev environment from time to time, I will admit that.
VB & basic for various tools, and as is often the case with space related stuff - a customized derivation of C. I’m going to be adding some python to the mix in the near future as well.
At home?
Nope! Code work is strictly that - work. I don’t want it to spread into my non-work activities.
But bouncing between the C derivation and VB breaks things in the siloed dev environment from time to time, I will admit that.
And if I plugged work stuff into either of those? There is a non-zero chance of, you know, prison. So, no. No thanks!
Edit: That’s being a bit over dramatic, but still.
My current employer is leaning hard into Copilot, and it's weird, because we're a financial institution with ossified processes around security and approvals.
Oh, for me, CoPilot is explicitly enterprise-approved. We're not on GCC-High, so I don't have to worry about that.
For basic prototype "is this maybe the best UI/UX" or what not, don't see why not. Hopefully you don't actually try and move that to a production product... I hate the term vibe coding. For prototyping, maybe sure, for real work, I doubt it fully considers edge cases, security, etc.
Oh yes, never beyond "proof of functionality" or "personal automation". Never something that does to production.
Do you also get weekly exhortations to use Copilot more? A top 5 list of who used Copilot the most?
At work, co-worker: “I can’t wait until Hegseth kicks the gays out of the military again. I don’t want to know or hear about those peter puffers again.”
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