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  • I dunno. I keep remembering what my old Pebble did, and how well it did, and nothing more… And yep, I want it back.

    Basically, a dumb watch, with an HR monitor, accelerometer, and could sync that data to my phone app.

    Its API let me do cool things like pause/unpause my music while running, which was nice. But, it required the apps to be have an API for doing so.

    Battery? The thing went an entire week between charges.



  • A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.








  • ubergeek@lemmy.todaytoMemes@lemmy.mlSo anyway
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    7 months ago

    Yes, sorry… the militia clause, as its known

    The purpose of the militia is to put down insurrection, not to engage in it.

    The word “regulated” has had only one actual meaning… the same as it means to regulate interstate commerce.

    And only a couple of years later, the militia acts passed.


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    7 months ago

    I pray you actually read what people point you too:

    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law




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    7 months ago

    I’m not keen on the 2A, based on it’s original purpose and use. I am, however, pro “Under no pretext shall arms and ammunition be surrendered, and any attempts to do should be frustrated, by force, if necessary.”



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    In your case, I’d suggest considering the fact that gun laws usually have grandfather clauses, in order to pass constitutional muster (Depriving people of property, without recompense).

    So, the fash will be heavily armed, and any resistance to that cannot arm themselves.



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    In this context when they write about a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a “free State,” they actually imply that the security guarantee is against a tyrannical state of which they had recently been at war with.

    No, it doesn’t. Read Article 8, as it describes what the militia’s purpose is. At the time “the people” meant “the states”, as each state was to be secure in it’s own abilities and authorities to manage it’s militias. The purpose was to put down insurrections and slave revolts.

    Remember, also, that to be “in the militia”, you were also reporting for regular muster and inspections. By the government.