Joel Gross's Blog

I ran into a strange bug in my application I am building:

When I saved a datetime of 2020-04-09 06:30:00 to the database it would convert to 2020-04-09 13:30:00, 7 hours different. Why?

First, I checked that MySQL, Python, and my Windows environment were all using Pacific time. Yes, they are. Everything shows the same time.… read more “Python Datetime, MySQL & Django – Weird Bug”

David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) Tweeted: NEWS: Graphic video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery, 25 of GA., whose family says he was out for a run, confronted by 2 men who shot him dead saying they thought he was a burglar. A prosecutor wants a grand jury to decide whether the men should be charged. https://t.co/kEYYJW7UlM https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1257737290786443266?s=20

Have you ever wondered if you can sell your house yourself without paying the 3% fee to a real estate agent?

I have. Now I am actually doing it! Below I will share with you what steps I have done so far and what the results have been.

For every $100,000 in house value you are selling, you will lose $3,000 to a real estate agent.… read more “Selling My House By Owner – Step By Step Guide in 2020”

https://ncase.me/covid-19/

Unless we want to starve to death because of broken supply chains, we need to reopen the world now… https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-produce-rots-in-the-field-one-florida-farmer-and-an-army-of-volunteers-combat-a-feeling-of-helplessness–one-cucumber-at-a-time/2020/04/30/6230c3ae-842b-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

We are not operating in a vacuum. The world needs to reopen, or far more people are going to die of other causes. Only one in six people who usually would be diagnosed with cancer or diagnosed in the last two months. The additional cancer deaths were going to see alone are going to outstrip the virus.… read more “Reopen California”

A GENTLEMAN’S PRIMER ON SHORTING INSOLVENT SHITCOS

So you’ve found a ShitCo. It’s such an ugly zombie it couldn’t be an extra in season 19 of The Walking Dead
But it’s still got a $185m cap
And you want to be the one to mung the last rancid, putrefying drops out of that corpse

— Dirty Texas Hedge (@HedgeDirty) April 27, 2020

We must reopen the world now. The virus is not as dangerous as continued closures are.

Serological studies are showing that 20x the people we thought had the disease have the disease. That means the disease is 20x less deadly than we thought.

We should use testing and tracing, as well as isolation of the vulnerable, but we must reopen everything now.… read more “Reopen The World Now”

Best actor of his generation – https://youtu.be/uW56CL0pk0g