The issue isn't that there's no laws covering these transgressions. It's the lack of prosecution that's the main issue. Even if you arrest someone for aggressively panhandling they'll be released without bail that same day. This eliminates the incentive for police to do anything since the core issue is unresolved and they still have to process the arrest.
How do you compel a prosecutor to bring a case forward, if they know the judge is likely to dismiss the case. It's a weird situation honestly where the laws exist, and police can enforce the law, but the judicial system turns a blind eye. It's a systemic issue starting at the federal level.
The article you link doesn't seem to be about the thing you're talking about. It's about whether the suspect is detained pending trial, not about whether they're ultimately convicted or acquitted.
Now of course, you could make the argument that detention pending trial is important because the actual sentence from conviction is too temporally remote from the criminal act to serve as an effective deterrent, but you didn't make that argument. If that's what you mean, you should state it explicitly!
Or, the article seems to also imply people aren't being found guilty or sentenced harshly when it talks about people "cycling in and out" of the justice system, but it doesn't seem to say this explicitly, as the focus of the article is on pre-trial detention. If what you're saying is in fact true, it would have been better to find an article that directly supports it.
(Although, wow, the numbers in there are ridiculous. 77% released on violent offense + breach of conditions??)
Arguably there's an energy cost to running that software as well that's wasted. Plus potential waste on cloud providers adding hardware to support it all.
Home Depot is the most fragile website I'm forced to deal with. It regularly breaks in novel ways for me when it can't load some random dependency that it doesn't actually need the functionality from.
And it doesn’t load at all from outside the US! I once wanted to purchase before coming back, to learn I need to vpn back in to the US to order something. Crazy.
I've done this before where we ran a schema per customer and it was fabulous. Once the customer was large enough we could justify allocating a separate DB for them. The application was written in such a way that it knew which data store to query based on the user.
https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/ is a home assistant compatible board that emulates a garage door opener. It adds local control and is easy to setup.
I usually either start a new hobby or go back to one I haven't worked on in a while. I find that eventually my interest in coding returns and I slowly ease back in. Doing this I find it preserves enough drive to still be good at my day job.
