And your God emperor is signalling bloodshed if we let you do it.

You don’t negotiate or compromise with Nazis like the Project 2025 people.

It’s wonderful how included and valued nerdiness is these days. Being interested in anything non mainstream in the conformist 80’s was hell outside of a tight friend group.

Time is possibly one of the hardest things to handle properly for a coder. There’s plenty of hard problems (network loss, 3 phase commits, etc), but time stand out as really annoying.

Another one is colors. All it takes is one library to encode colors in a weird way and then mapping them between libraries is a mess.

We had a similar ramp up of anticipation for the Carroll case’s 93 million judgement too. His lawyers were in court bald faced lying to the judge about not having a bond and needing time/reduced bond amounts right up until the last moment. Then they filed the bond in the last hour.

Can he do it again? I don’t know. None of us truly do. He’s a lying con man, so nothing he says matters. Four days is a long time in politics and finance.

My biggest concern on the political/media side of things is that he does have the bond already. All of this thrashing is performative to get the media whipped into a frenzy of anticipation and then he drops the bond at the last moment. This makes him look stronger and the media who frothed over his imminent demise look blundering. Don’t walk into that trap.

The moment the sheriff locks up his properties I’ll celebrate like crazy. Until it’s really done, anything can happen and I wish the the DA, the courts, the political leadership, and media agencies stay sharp while the clock ticks down. Don’t get hit at the finish line.

It’s not over yet until the sheriff actually seizes assets and has the door locks changed.

Every hour between now and the 25th ratchets up the defendant’s willingness to do something desperate. Foreign money, selling any national secrets he managed to hide from the feds, promises of cabinet picks, it’s all on the table and our safety is what’s for sale.

One of the interesting aspects of humanity is how much people like given text editing methods. There’s a handful of approaches and after learning one or two, people really figure out what works for them.

I am more than happy to say I like vim, but in the end you should use what you like best. Just done be surprised when I can write and edit a ton of text really fast while your nano session is comfortable, but slow.

If an IDE doesn’t have vi key bindings it isn’t going to be used by me. That’s what finally get me to change from terminal only dev to vscode. Until I found the vi editing extension the IDE wasn’t of interest.

Yes, vi is just that good.

I hear emacs bindings are also great, but I just know how to save and exit from emacs.

Such great Exploits of a Mom: https://xkcd.com/327/

I’ve wanted that train route for decades now. PDX to BC in a few hours? Wonderful! If it had a stop within shouting distance of downtown in all three cities, stops within 10 mins of the airports (or even right at them) and a connection to the new line to Bellevue… Amazing.

That’s a great spine to build a regional network on. Start putting light rail into all of the stations, local trams, and if you’d be nice to us on the east side, a interurban line to Spokane that would leave during the day. Bam! Cascadia is in great shape.

Hedonic Treadmill is a great term for it. Thank you for passing that along.

I definitely know the feeling.

It would also make a great band name.

This is a timely article. I have been pondering this very topic for a while. What leads some people to attempting to endlessly accumulate more, bigger, and costlier things? I don’t have much desire for expensive items, nor filling my home with junk (it still gets too much), but when meeting others they’re often continually desiring new things. A new car, a bigger boat, a new stereo system, a larger house with more whirligigs.

When does it stop and how do people reach a place of contentment?

I like having systems and resources that are sufficient, not endlessly bigger. I have no idea why I’m this way, but my neighbors seem to have an ever burning desire for a truck that’s bigger with more dashboard features.