Earlier today, a PAC called “Friends of Bernie Sanders” sent out a survey about “Medicare for All.”
Since I’m quite sure this is just a ploy for campaign contributions and not a word of the answers will reach the ears of any policy makers, I decided to answer the questions publicly instead. If my thoughts are going to be a tree falling in the forest, I’ll at least fell that tree in my own forest.
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Every Body is Beautiful.
Including bodies of genders or types you aren’t attracted to sexually. Including bodies of old people. Including bodies battling disease. Including bodies formed by unhealthy lifestyles. Including bodies with excess muscle tissue. Including bodies with excess adipose tissue. Including bodies with user modifications. Including bodies with a different skin color. Or multiple colors. Or none. Including bodies with gender expressions you don’t understand. Including bodies with scars.
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Github didn’t have enough Excel macro modules, so I added one: my library for converting between decimal integers and Roman numerals.
https://github.com/richardtallent/RT.Roman
I spend a lot of time in Excel in my day job. While I’m a software developer, I work in a group of consultants on a variety of projects, sometimes using applications I manage written on ASP.NET, but also using complex spreadheets (and, for many project, a combination of the two).
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Another “finally” post.
I’ve wanted to convert this blog and my main site to SSL for awhile. I don’t do financial transactions through my sites, but some of the latest web tech (such as service workers and push notifications) requires SSL. Google seems to be heading in the direction of prioritizing secure web sites in its search results, and I also don’t want someone else’s ISP to inject ads on my site, recompress my images, etc.
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I’m finally free of WordPress!
Don’t get me wrong. WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform for blogging. It was reasonably easy to set up, use, and update, and I only used a fraction of its capabilities for this blog. It served me well for the past decade.
My issues with WordPress boiled down to:
My blog was literally the only thing left on my server using PHP and MySQL. The rest of my site uses a .
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We all know the primary problem with our delegate voting system–it all but eliminates the odds of a third-party win, because voters have the Sophie’s Choice of either supporting the “lesser evil” major party candidate, or voting their conscience and risking that doing so will tip the scale toward the “greater evil” candidate.
I’ve looked into alternatives such as Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), but they tend to be complicated, and would require both retooling of all existing manual and electronic voting systems and retraining the entire populace in how to vote.
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My main web site (http://www.tallent.us/), which is mostly comprised of galleries of my art photography, runs on a MAPP stack — Mac OS X, Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL. I’ve been playing with ASP.NET Core and loving it, and I’ve been wanting to make the switch to using it for the web gallery API. I prefer C# over PHP, and it’s a good real-world project to learn the new bits, since my day job will be using legacy ASP.
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I’m happy you found in Gary Johnson a candidate who agrees with you on social issues, foreign policy, and domestic security. I’m right there with ya.
But before you jump on that train, you should understand libertarian *economic* positions, because they are downright bonkers.
(If you think I’m making any of this shit up, go read the party platform, as well as speeches and interviews by the current and past candidates.
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Users will always find the limits of your application.
I manage a web application where users primarily edit data by importing and exporting Excel files. This allows them to work on huge swaths of data without the limitations of a web-based interface. The workbooks store 1-to-many relationships using comma-delimited lists of integer IDs, and use macros, validation, etc. to maintain referential integrity.
For almost all cases, this works perfectly, it’s unusual to have more than 100 relationships of a given type for any entity.
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I posted this on Facebook, but since there’s a sliver of a chance that someone still reads this blog, I’m cross-posting it here.
I just got blocked by a photographer friend because I stood up for TG people while he was making demeaning comments people self-identifying as something other than their birth-assigned gender.
I can argue all day with my conservative friends about taxes or federalism or foreign policy, but I won’t stand for belittling of marginalized minorities.
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