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do it today. its friday. its been a tough, weird week. baby steps i spose....

A hospital in a rural area outside of Idaho’s capital city of Boise closed its labor and delivery and neonatal intensive care units April 1, citing declining birth rates and staffing issues. West Valley Medical Center is the third facility to close its maternity services in Idaho since the state enacted a near-total abortion...

A Republican who voted for DeSantis, Hispanic restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart is panicking because of DeSantis’ new immigration law. It forced him to fire 19 members of his staff and pay a $500k fine.

William David Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an American actor who is known for his television roles, notably as Mark Craig on the drama series St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards; the voice of KITT on the television series Knight Rider; and George Feeny on the sitcom Boy Meets World, which earned him...

George Frey/Getty ImagesA woman in Utah who was dubbed a “Karen” after video of her losing it over a young woman wearing a miniskirt went viral has been charged with sexual battery in connection with the incident. Ida Ann Lorenzo, 48, allegedly pulled down the woman’s mini skirt as she complained that it was too small and...

When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.

Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed

Florida passed in 2023 one of the strictest immigration laws in the country, and now businesses struggle to find workers in several sectors of the economy

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im trying to wrap up a minor process (small dir tree of crap) into a zip file for use by others, but microsoft has decided zips shouldnt include empty folders? wtf?...

i think ive discovered why the system keeps falling over after 24-48 hours. its been haunting me since earlier this year, and seemed to get worse when the messaging queues exploded in quantity from the 1.5.0 upgrade....

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in...

In \cite{entombed}, John Aycock and Tara Copplestone pose an open question, namely the explanation of the mysterious lookup table used in the Entombed Game's Algorithm for two dimensional maze generation. The question attracted media attention (BBC etc) and was open until today. This paper answers this question, explains the...

finished the upgrade to 1.5.1. everything should be functional at this point....

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i have implemented all sorts of rate limiting at the protocol/database level to keep the server from falling over....

its taken a few days for the traffic to settle down, but i think were synced back up. i have increased messaging workers, and it appears to be helping.

Hoboken, New Jersey, recently marked seven consecutive years without a traffic death. Officials there credit their decision to take away some street parking, a change that increases visibility for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.

The Philadelphia Phillies have scrapped their popular $1 hot dog nights for the 2024 season.

Adam Sandler in a spacesuit as an anxious astronaut headed toward Jupiter? At one point in his career that could only have been a comedy.

A driver who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a Walmart store in suburban Detroit was likely having a health incident at the time.

finished upgrading the system to mbin 1.4.1. the upgrade necessitated the install of amqproxy, which has turned out to greatly increase system performance....