Steve Berry, a Democrat, was also running as independent in that election. He peeled off about 8k voters.

Classic Rock is an ever expanding black hole of music

I've had kinda an inverse experience of this.

I was on a vacation to Mexico with my family and we decided to visit a local zoo. For the most part it was pretty similar to what we have back home with lions and gorillas but there was one exhibit that was drawing a large crowd so we decided to go see what it was. Once we are able to get a look inside there were just 4 or 5 white tailed deer grazing on some grass. We got a good laugh because back home these things are common to the point of nuisance. I don't speak Spanish but I then started to notice several children pointing and mentioning "Bambi" to their parents and all the commotion made sense

Making a pun about people losing their jobs in the title of an article is a bad look

This guide explains what's going on and how to fix it. Scroll down to the section titled "Oh no but wait"

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/truenas-scale-ultimate-home-setup-incl-tailscale/186444

Here's the corresponding video

https://youtu.be/R7BXEuKjJ0k?si=TvTONP3tbsCQeU5X

The Mississippi River seems like an odd choice for the dividing line of East vs West. By what other metric would you consider Saint Louis in the Western half of the country?

IDK I saw Logan Lucky for the first time last year and it kinda blew me away. I think heist movies can still be great with the right script

its a map for ants

I've seen versions of this meme before but I just noticed what he's wearing. Is that a Mortal Kombat shirt?

Damn it, I can't here to make that joke

The bar is so low that I am genuinely surprised she hasn't denied it was her or claimed it was wasn't a big deal and actually admitted she messed up

Yeah I've envisioned sharable block lists that you can subscribe to similar to pihole. That'd be great

This is legit amazing. Thank you

Any idea on any of these sources? It'd be great to be able to point to actual articles dating back more than a century when having a conversation/debate/argument about the "nobody wants to work" narrative

Spring is the industry standard for basically everything you mentioned. Not sure how much its used in FAANG (I know for a fact Netflix uses it) but its used by a large majority of other companies such as Edward Jones, Enterprise Rent a Car, John Deere and tons of others. Its a well designed framework that has libraries for basically everything you'd want to do. They have tutorials on their website and for anything they don't cover a quick google search will reveal 100's more. I like Baeldung for a lot of in depth guides as well. Finally I'll mention that IMO the Spring site has some of the most extensive and comprehensive documentation I've seen and is a great resource

As for where to start I'd start with Spring Boot, it's a module focused on quickly getting something up and running. So it makes things like dependency management a bit easier as well as running a web-server and connecting to a database. Speaking of dependency management you'll want to take a brief look Maven and Gradle. They're both build tools similar to NPM in concept. Spring supports both equally its just preference. I personally use Maven b/c that's what I was introduced to first through an internship back in the day

Outside of Spring Boot you'll want to take a look at Spring Framework and Spring Data. Spring Framework is the core project that all the others are kinda built on top of and will introduce you to a lot of the concepts you need to learn such as dependency injection. Spring Data is focused on interacting with databases so it helps manage the connection to the db and modeling to/from POJOs and the query language. The nice thing about it is that they do their best to abstract things from the underlying db technology. Working with a tradition sql db or a nosql db are pretty similar from a Spring perspective so go with whatever you're more comfortable with or more interested in

EDIT: Quick edit to clarify, you'll be exposed to Spring Framework and Spring Data just by going through and messing with Spring Boot. I was just suggesting that those would be good places to do deep dives once you're comfortable with the basics in Spring Boot

Shouldn't this be a membrane keyboard instead of mechanical to REALLY get that NES feel?

This is gonna sound crazy but Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. It was the first game I played on a computer we got when I was in the 4th grade and since then I've made it a tradition to make that the first game I play on any new computer.

To my knowledge it wasn't even a technical power house when it came out but it is always interesting to see it run at resolutions way higher than it was intended for

Star Fluxx

Kinda sounds like it might be easier to get away with if it was a crime and the burden of proof was higher

"I didn't know the router Comcast gave me came with an unprotected 'Guest' network enabled by default. Someone in one of the other apartments must have been using it to download torrents"

Sounds like a reasonable doubt to me, I'm sure there'd be plenty of other explanations. Plus the work to retrieve everyone's computers to investigate who actually downloaded it would be prohibitively intensive in anything other than the most extreme cases

I KNOW, RIGHT! Talk about dream scenario