James Bennett

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The man with the plan and the pocket comb.


Ex-Mozillian.

I have enough opinions of my own to tell you about, without wasting time trying to give you my employer's.

Don't forget to tip your servers and normalize your Unicode.

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Bloghttps://www.b-list.org/
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James Bennett1d ago

I am not traditionally a Pokémon completionist, but I decided to be one for Scarlet/Violet.

All storylines complete, all Pokédexes complete. Took a lot longer and a lot more effort than I expected, but it's done.

James BennettOct 18

Today was when I realized that the Mail app icon on iOS and macOS has Apple’s address in tiny print on the back of the envelope.

Apparently macOS has had it for a while, but on iOS it was just added.

James BennettSep 30

This is noted "progressive" organizer, activist and PAC leader, not to mention briefly a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, David Hogg, saying that a cabal of international Jewish financiers are successfully influencing our politics, and noted far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes agreeing with him.

And yes, it really is him and if you want to verify it yourself I'll leave a link to the exchange in a reply to this post.

Friends, please live your lives in such a way that Nick Fuentes does not take time out of his day to come agree with you about the malign influence of the Jews and their money on your country's politics. And if you have been using rhetoric like Hogg's, please let this FINALLY serve as a wake-up call about what you've been saying and who you've been sounding like.

Show threadJames BennettApr 17, 2025

Apparently it’s not a singleton.

Perhaps there’s an “implements ToteBag” somewhere inside.

James BennettApr 17, 2025
Static typing in action
James BennettApr 8, 2025
Comparing JSON objects in #Python can be tricky because the default equality checks care about ordering (of items in lists, of keys in dicts, etc.) in ways *you* might not. Some fancy JSON comparison packages solve this properly, but instead I used a horrible good-enough hack in a script this week.
Show threadJames BennettNov 1, 2024
If you still don't believe this is what's happening, here's a graph that makes it pretty stark. The light gray on this graph represents the bell curve of poll results you'd expect from an actual tied race being polled with reasonable accuracy. The huge spike right on the "it's a tie" result is what's actually being reported. That's about as obvious a sign of thumbs-on-scales as you're going to get.
James BennettNov 1, 2024
For everyone who's been dooming and worrying because polls showed such a tight election (despite literally every other indicator, including the early voting, saying otherwise), over in the New York Times today Nate Cohn (their newer polling guy, a different Nate than their previous polling guy who was also a Nate) finally just admitted what's been obvious for a while: that the entire polling and polling-analysis industry is fiddling with the knobs to get a preordained result (tie, or slight Trump lead).
James BennettSep 19, 2024
I don't think Miguel realizes how dangerous his rhetoric is here, or the really awful tropes he's enthusiastically sharing here, but I am not going to be the one to tell him because I block on sight for this stuff.
James BennettAug 21, 2024
How you think you look versus how you actually look