[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 hours ago

The One Star State is at it again. "Freedom" there is not really a thing since the government obviously owns the citizens.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 43 points 10 hours ago

So... our children could be in school and ICE officers push through the door to their classroom, snag a classmate, and haul them out in handcuffs?

Yup, we're headed to quite the terrorist government approach to a republic.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago
[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 125 points 2 days ago

Hey look! Let's just raise a huge middle finger to what's left of our ecosystems.

How did it go? Yes, humanity was destroyed, but for one moment we maximized profits!

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The story just went down a spiral. It's worth the read. This person needed the timeout.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

The fun part is that every country that progresses past the industrial revolution stages of technology goes through the same demographic shifts. The end result is a declining population, and the reasons have a lot to do with stability, safety, healthier children, education, and gaining civil rights.

The world's global population is starting to tip into decline, not just "The West's" (whatever the OP idiot) means by that. The only nations who continue to have classic population gains are ones with generally shorter lifespans, higher risk communities, lower education levels, and more oppression by oligarchies. So, yeah, I'm in no way interested in the shit OP is pedaling because I value my children's lives and futures.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 332 points 1 week ago

The prior president pardoned a family member who was blackmailing and raping people, then appointed the same criminal to be ambassador to France. I don't give a fuck what President Biden does now. We're a country of criminals and oligarchs now.

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submitted 2 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.

Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html

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submitted 3 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 120 points 5 months ago

Based on the GOP approach to school shootings, they should deliver thoughts & prayers then arm the ticket taker event staff.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 667 points 8 months ago

The important piece of this to me is this: She made $1 mil on OnlyFans and $42k/year as a teacher. She wants to be a teacher despite making plenty of money from other sources. This tells me that unless you have other evidence of impropriety she's someone we want in the classroom. It also reinforces my stance, along with plenty of other studies that have been performed, that a universal basic income won't stop people from working.

Pay people better and we'll just keep working because we like it. It's part of being human, but we shouldn't be suffering to survive at the same time.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 128 points 9 months ago

Elections have consequences. This is just the latest step in the FAFO process for Idaho.

First, it was the clinics in the North Idaho, and now the rot is moving southward. More and more women and children will be affected by this attitude of anti humanism that focuses on declaring women property of the state.

Women in Idaho should be looking to move somewhere that doesn't consider them owned by the legislature. Good luck to you if you're stuck in Idaho. The scenery is beautiful, but the rights are contracting.

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submitted 10 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/java@lemmy.ml

This is kind of an open question for me: does any code coverage tool work in Java with Junit5? I'll admit that I'm no Java configuration specialist, so I find the complexity of XML-based configuration systems to be quite opaque. I've got a few simple Maven-based build projects on hand and I wanted to add code coverage to the test harnesses. Unfortunately, I have never managed to get one stood up and running. I do this all the time with Python pytest/coverage tools, but it's been elusive for Java projects.

Could someone here please point me to a working example of any Java project using Maven / Junit5 / [any code coverage system]?

My latest attempt to get a working example came from this howto: https://howtodoinjava.com/junit5/jacoco-test-coverage/

But, it once again gave me the: [INFO]


jacoco-maven-plugin:0.8.7:report (default-report) @ JUnit5Examples


[INFO] Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file.

As near as I can tell, JaCoCo just never runs. Ever. It's been very frustrating. I've read tutorials, followed suggestions on configuring surefire in various ways. I've pulled misc repo that claim to have it working. I've tried different computers with different OSes, versions of java, different maven installs, etc. There's something somewhere that I'm missing and after months of off and on attempts to get this working I'm at my wit's end.

Please help.

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submitted 10 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 137 points 10 months ago

Georgia apparently would rather put 10 year olds into debt than feed children. It's the best they can do as Christians.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 138 points 11 months ago

I love the ticket systems in places like Berlin, Helsinki, Heidelberg, and Tampere. They don't use turnstiles at all, just occasional onboard ticket checkers.

It's so much faster for large groups of people to move through the stations so it keeps people moving instead of piling up at a ticket machine, even ones as fast as those in London.

You don't need officers standing guard at turnstiles, just extra onboard sweeps to keep most people honest.

Even better is a whole free system like some cities are going to. LA is having a freeway widening project happening. If the money for that went to their public transit system, they could make it fare free for 20 years at the same price point as "just one more lane, bro" of freeway that will still be a parking lot anyway.

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.

My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.

We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to drive there, park, hit one store and drive away.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns their pedestrian traffic deaths to zero for several years.

The article does note that half of the streets have bike lanes, they've put buffers between pedestrians and cars, and continue to redesign intersections with a focus on safety instead of just focusing on car speed/throughput.

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/chatgpt@lemmy.ml

What I'm looking for is some kind of desktop tool that uses the OpenAI GPT web endpoint. I'd like something where I'm able to upload one or more documents (text files) and then include them as part of the conversation/query.

I have access to the GPT-4 API and I've been writing Python3 code against it for some various applications. I can see how I'd write a tool that takes in one or more documents to include in the total prompt history, but I'm hoping to not have to write it myself, mostly due to time constraints.

Is there some kind of application that has a similar feature set to this that I should look at? Or, is there a wiki/site that lists off the current tools available that I could look over?

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

I'm enjoying the wefwef feel, but I have a question about copy/paste with comment text: is it even possible?

When I click on a given comment it collapses. When I click and drag it swipes. Is it possible in the web browser (desktop) to highlight a comment's text at all? It's not rare that I want to copy/paste some text, especially Lemmy links lately, to search/work with them. I'll also want to copy/paste quotes or other material on occasion.

So: what's the trick or instructions, if they exist, to be able to copy/paste text in wefwef?

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submitted 2 years ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

Given that it's June, my suggested book to read is "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett. Yet another wonderful work by one of the best authors in the history of humanity.

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