But the bad part is that it's extrajudicial punishment/retaliation for protected speech. She hasn't been accused of anything that she can mount a defense against, so why is the government retaliating against what is presumably legal behavior? It's presumably legal because she hasn't been indicted for anything or notified of a pending indictment.

If the justification ends up being that they've marked you as a "domestic terrorist" for exercising your first amendment rights then why are they letting you travel at all? Are they going to give you random secondary every time you travel? Will they let you move your money out of the country? Why would they? After all, you're now a terrorist (but apparently not worth arresting).

I've found that once it's inconveniently long for a synchronous client side request, it's less about the performance or metrics and more about reasoning. Some things are queue shaped, or async job shaped. The worker -> main app communication pattern can even remain sync http calls or not (like callback based or something), but if you have something that has high variance in timing or is a background thing then just kick it off to workers.

I'd also say start simple and only go to Kafka or some other high dev-time overhead solution when you start seeing Redis/Rabbit stop being sufficient. Odds are you can make the simple solution work.

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I've solved this (clumsily?) by making B a bool and the only values are T and Null. This feels real dirty since F is a possible but irrelevant value, but I'm basically trying to hack in a dependent type check by exploiting the null uniqueness semantics of postgres.

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a cleaner alternative? I kind of wish there were a nullable unit type in PG.

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Citation seriously needed. This is untrue unless the words you are using are not to be understood in any sense common to English speakers. The most generous fact based interpretation I can give it is that Saudi financiers were underscrutinized for political reasons, resulting in missed opportunities to stop the attacks. The actual attackers were not CIA nor FBI assets.

Also, not sure if you're getting hugged to death but I'm getting this in the interface but not seeing any network failures.

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At least one Florida man is out there plinking Walmart drones at 400 feet with a 9mm. Saw another who took one down from a boat also with a pistol (probably 9mm also), but can't find the video now.

The Venn diagram of "shoots at drones" and "concerned with other people's safety" is two separate circles.

This! This is why I don't particularly care for gradual typing in languages like Python. It's a lot of extra overhead but you still can't really rely on it for much. Typescript types are just barely over the hump in terms of being "always" enough reliable to really lean on it.

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Another option might be a LORAN style system put up on towers. With lower gravity and no atmosphere I imagine we could stick transmitters up very high without super complex construction, maybe even just a giant carbon fiber tube with a transmitter at the top.

I modify A_0. Does this modify A_1 as well or just kind of reify the new state of A_0 while leaving A_1 untouched?

Currently working on a few rust tools for drone stuff.

https://github.com/BWStearns/ulog-rs/ https://github.com/BWStearns/flight-engineer

The example code is helpful for seeing how it'd be used (might be cool to link to it from the README while the docs are still todo)

We use about 4-6 calls per improvement and use a mix of Anthropic and OpenAI. Interestingly we really couldn't get sufficiently good performance from just one model. It's interesting how they can be good or bad at different tasks where one task doesn't seem materially harder than the other.