That’s what a district court judge will do when they know their work is going to be heavily scrutinized on appeal. They’re mainly writing to persuade appellate judges because nobody likes getting reversed and overruled.

The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that’s there to look neat. It’s not intended for swimming. It’s an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It’s been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was there.

Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire “a guy he knows” without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.

Also, I think they’re painting directly on to granite, not concrete.

There’s also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.

On the US census, “hispanic” is not a race; it’s an “ethnicity”. So your daughter will be faced with the choice of selecting a “race” and then also choosing “hispanic” or “non-hispanic.” Many other surveys use the same scheme.

How your daughter makes these decisions is up to her. As a social construct, race is what we humans make of it. 100 years ago, Irish and Italians were often not “white.”

The Constitution specifies that the justices and other federal judges shall serve “during good behavior.” This is interpreted as a lifetime appointment, subject to impeachment. That’s why this proposal is written as a constitutional amendment. It would need a 2/3 majority in both houses, and then 3/4 of state legislatures would need to ratify.

There’s another idea floating around to impose de facto term limits by regular federal law by rotating justices in and out of lower federal courts at defined intervals.

There are also a bunch of other things that an angry Congress could do to rein in the court (using regular federal law):

• they could use the good behavior clause to impose a written ethics code, or the CLE requirement that another commenter mentioned.
• they can set the court’s jurisdiction (except for suits between states). They can take jurisdiction away.
• On another jurisdictional topic: currently nearly all of the court’s docket is discretionary. They get to decide which cases to take up. Congress can take that power away and force the court to hear appeals on a mandatory basis again.
• Congress controls the annual budget. They get to decide whether the justices have money for clerks, robes, and office supplies or not.
• Congress can specify what dates the court is in session and for how long. At least one time, this power was used to try to prevent the court from meeting.
• Likewise, for a large part of the court’s history, Congress decreed that the court meet in the basement of the Capitol. Not the big fancy marble building. It could happen again.
• as part of its oversight power, Congress has the power to subpoena justices to hearings and to grill them on their decisions on live TV. This actually happened to Justice Kennedy after Bush v. Gore.

At the time that C was designed, ASCII was not a universal standard. It was one encoding competing with other encodings.

In C and C++, the source character set is implementation defined. This means that each compiler sets its own rules about what characters are accepted. For example compilers could choose to accept ASCII or EBCDIC or Unicode, or some combination, etc.

So the ISO standard will say that ; character is the end of statement punctuation. But it is up to the compiler to say which character(s) or code point(s) represent the ISO ;.

The ISO standards also require compilers to define a separate execution character set to specify values that can be stored in char and used with the string library functions. The execution character set doesn’t have to be the same as the source character set.

Edit: I should also mention that the rules for this stuff are changing a lot in ISO C23 and C++23. (Which standards I haven’t yet personally adopted.) Basically the ISO 23 standards mandate compilers to support UTF-8 source files, and they map every source character in the ISO standard to its corresponding Unicode character.

Rudy Giuliani, when asked, “What does the fifth amendment mean to you,” responded by…pleading the fifth.

Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.

Renea Gamble was found by a municipal judge to be not guilty of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and providing a false name to law enforcement. (The allegedly false name was “Aunt Tifa,” which is hilarious).

She has filed a civil claim seeking monetary damages of $2 million and attorneys fees.

Low approach. Delivery truck was on the public highway. Not a runway incursion. Pilot’s about to lose their job.

A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don’t have to talk to each other.

A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It’s hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.

And I’m still getting at least 20x speedup on my applications. I don’t know where this 0.001 stuff is coming from.

No, I’m quoting the Constitution because it means something to me, and maybe to you as well. I’m not talking to them.

“They” will only accomplish their goals when enough regular people go along with it. Conversely, the Constitution will continue to have meaning as long as enough regular people are still invested. Despite some serious cracks and strains, it is holding up so far. I hope it continues to do so.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

• Constitution. Article III, section 3.

possibly the worst Supreme Court decision ever handed down

Perhaps, but you’re going up against the classics. Dred Scott. Plessy v. Ferguson. Korematsu.

The legislature is changing the law to eliminate the entire public office before the election winner can be sworn in.

The political dynamics are that the state legislature is controlled by the (largely white) Republican party, while the electorate of Orleans Parish tilts to the Democratic party, largely on the support of black citizens.

This amendment to state law only affects the structure of elected offices in Orleans Parish, and not any other part of Louisiana.

And they can kick NASA out of the Madrid station on the Deep Space Network.

The types of visas that are available and the rules for them are set by laws passed by Congress. Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category. So if you look at the fine print, this is actually some other already existing category that allows the president to admit individuals at discretion, and the fee is just a donation to the US Treasury. That’s also why it’s not racking up a bunch of court challenges.

I’ve done professional work on an old Unix system where the full build was more than 2 hours, and an incremental stop-rebuild-restart cycle was 20 minutes.

You get to where you really stare at your edits for a while before you hit build.

That’s an implementation-defined behaviour.