So, i'm writing a program/dll to make API calls to a data provider. For the API itself, disregarding authentication, i have only implemented GETs. Well, i just did a POST and after verifying it worked, i thought to myself, "that was my first post". At which point, i felt a strong need to post that here.
There is a Michigan Left directly opposite the exit of a busy parking lot. It's difficult to explain a mindset, but there are three major reasons you exit: to go straight to the turnaround, to turn right onto the street, to turn right and get on the freeway. All three options are common.
The turnaround has a sign that says, "turn right only". I argued with a friend if that meant, "do not go straight" or if it meant "if you turn, it must be to the right" because it is one way traffic. Turn signs here are confusingly placed; even when you get on the freeway there's a no left turn sign. What's up with that?
Anyway. i went straight out of the parking lot today (just like the guy before me did a minute or two earlier) and a cop stopped me, telling me i couldn't do that. I told him, everyone does it and there are two lanes in the turn (no line marker, but you could easily fit two cars in there with room to spare) and there is only one lane leading up to it. (It is obviously made to do this, because of the placement of the turnaround (which came second) and the two lanes.) He told me the width was there for long cars and i almost did not give him enough room to make the turn. (He was in an unmarked car, though from the looks of it, i figured he was probably a cop anyway. I did the turn right in front of him, because i thought it was legal.) He also explain the solid white line barred the maneuver. He was nice the entire time, and i was not argumentative. Anyway, i got a ticket for "improper lane usage". The remarks read (in all caps):
Drove across NB Greenfield RD from private drive to get to turn around lane 4 lanes over over solid white line
That sounds pretty bad. Heh.
Anyway. the street is shared by two cities, and northbound isn't in his, so, i wonder how he could give me the ticket anyway. That is, the violation itself was in a different city that he is supposed to patrol.
The court date is in 14 days. I have to speak to a lawyer and see what's going on. At the very least, i can finally get clarity on two things: can a cop of one city give tickets in another, and is that straight across drive allowed.
MARTIN ESPINOZA
2277 GLENROSE AVE
ALTADENA , CA , 91001
(480) 516-7385
This person has given my email address to Jiffy Lube so that I would get spammed. Obviously it would be inappropriate to call them and tell them they're an ass. "Please" "don't" DO THAT.
I finally have my laser engraver in, after two months at port due to insane fucking importer fees. Nice piece of equipment. I thought I was about to get ripped off for $330. Noooooope. This beast is a straight industrial-class machine.
When "you" (or your OS) upgrade[s] Firefox it opens a new welcome screen. This one says "Your privacy respected, automatically". Yeah, no. I configured my home page to be my most visited sites, not some page you decided I should visit so that you could collect statistics. Gaslighting much?
Let's say I'm running a servo off PoE, 48V. The servo at maximum can handle 30V. Assuming that, could I toss 18V worth of LED drop in there, and still have PWM control signals pass through cleanly from LED to the servo motor, since the LED is a passive component? I'm thinking that this would serve also as an indicator for operation, as if it is on obviously the signal/current/voltage is passing and the circuit is complete.
When I submit a comment, the resulting page usually doesn't load. It just spins for ages. Now it works. If you can see this, the journal is also fixed — I haven't been able to post to mine for months. Is this a nginx fail or something?
I wrote some user scripts for
I got interested in actually doing this because I couldn't leave comments on *.slashdot.org a few days back, only on slashdot.org. But it's annoying all the time, IMO.
My scripts probably have no elegance whatsoever, but they work.
Last time I tried to post to my journal I got an error, so I'm trying again now.
The Cambridge volume has been released. A bit expensive, so i will either have to wait for the price to come down or to borrow it from a library that may have it.
I started this search on 9/10/13, and now it ends about 5.5 years later. Time passes and things happen, i guess.
Project Gutenberg finally has De Temperamentis available for reading. It took nearly 5 years but its done. Wow.
The Cambrige volume has a release date of February 2019, but is still not out. I assume it will be done very soon.
I've been hanging out on reddit, all while hating it. I've known for years it was a cesspool and avoided it, until eventually TIL pulled me in. I have noone to blame but myself.
Sometime back, Storium popped up on Kickstarter. I loved it so much i pledged $40 and played it quite a bit. I got a lot of time to let my imagination run free, and it was fun; it really was a good forum for creative outlet. But there was no forum. I asked the owner if there was to be one or for permission to create one, and he asked me not to, and pointed me to reddit. I accepted his request and eventually gave up on Storium. I figured, no forum, no real product. Storium was the type of product that needed a decent forum to support it, and reddit was a cesspool.
Traditionally, forums were hierarchical. The reason was simple. There were so many divisions or subdivisions for what you want, that you ought to find the right one for your question. Hierarchies help with finding the right place because it is like a flowchart. All that works well on paper.
Windows 95 created the Start Menu and replaced the Program Manager interface with a hierarchical one. It was a great idea, but noone used it. Everyone stuffed what they needed in the Start Menu, there were no established subgroups, and start menus everywhere were not navigable. Microsoft could have had a place for everything, but they did not. They never fixed the problem, instead they rolled with it. What did they do? They added a search bar for the Start Menu. It was as if they said, dump your program hewre, then search for it when you need it. They copied Apple yet once again.
When i used Windows, i had my own rules about the start menu. In general, no more then 5 folders per level, and everything used often had a hotkey. I was able to find or start nearly any program with seconds, simply because it had a hotkey, and the ones that did not, i was able to find quickly. To me, that was what the start menu was for. People would see my organization and compliment me, but noone would copy it. Even more, when they tried using my system it would take them a while to find things. They were not used to my way of thinking.
My takeaway was, that most people don't care about how they get their program started, they just want to memorize it and move on, and for the ones that care about a decent method, it is not usually worth the effort to design and maintain. Fwiw, Debian implemented a half decent one in their menu, so a company doing it for many people seems to be acceptable. This left people with unkempt menus and a simple search to find it. I hated it when that was introduced, because it was "wrong," even refusing to use that lazy feature. I use it now on other people's systems, it just is.
Reddit and other top down forums follow the same idea. There's no reason to split into a hierarchy, because searches will find most things. And, for people who want to see everything, the top down approach lets them see what is new. But that only helps if you know what to search for, or you want top watch everything. What if you don't? Ideas came up for tags or pseudo-hierarchies. None really caught on, and a simple top down style is the new approach.
Over time, i realized that like many things, forums could be split into three groups. Groups where only recent things truly matter and a history is kept just in case (like a help forum), top down is the best approach. Conversely, forums where multiple items are discussed or historical discussions are still of value, hierarchical is best. But for forums that do not cleanly fit into either, it comes down to personal preference. If that is true, reddit's TIL or many of their help forums are best as top down, because historiocal posts don't mean much. But r/jung, where the same questions are asked over an over again, would fare better hierarchically.
Storium had both. It was for people to discuss what they were doing (top down) and for discussion of how the system works and is best used (hierarchical). They preferred top down, i preferred hierarchical, hence the conflict. Meh. I'm making much too big a deal over it.
I guess that's it. That's what i wanted to say. I admit that the top-down style has its merits. But that they replaced the hierarchical style instead of adding to it, just replaced one broken system with another one.
So, i'm trying to learn graphql-php, which is really hard to do when you cannot find any good documentation. Everyone seems more interested in explaining how it is better that REST than to explain what it actually is. And (some of) the tutorials don't really work, probably because they expect you do know some things already, and they just want to explain "how to do it here". But i digress.
I was reading About graphql-php when i came across the "Current Status" section with the following text:
The first version of this library (v0.1) was released on August 10th 2015.
The current version (v0.10) supports all features described by GraphQL specification (including April 2016 add-ons) as well as some experimental features like Schema Language parser and Schema printer.
On second thought, that might explain why i don't understand what they are talking about.
I guess this is an ad of sort, but i wanted to share. I have been using Linode for some years and am quite happy with them. Basically, its virtual root with a decent UI and support team. They charge by the server, either by month or by hour, and the basic system is $5 a month. Need a quick server or command line, within minutes your up and running. My only complaint is sometime "recently" they changed from the hierarchical support forum to the top down style. Ugh.
Anyway, i ran across this page offering a $20 credit signup bonus. At the very least, that's 4 months free. If used just when needed, that can last quite some time.
Just wanted to share. I think they are worth checking out if you need virtual root.
FACT CHECK: Snopes is no longer a website (Tb). When you go there without javascript you don't see any images. When I activate all the reputable javascript sources, I still don't see all of the images. I am no longer going to cite Snopes for debunking as a result. Are there any good fact-checking websites, as opposed to Javascript SNAFUs?
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
