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by anelson 4mo ago
Anecdote time: My Eastern European wife and I recently faced the decision of how to go about getting her a green card. At the time we lived outside the US. One option was to enter the US on her B1 visa pretending to have no “immigration int
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by anelson 6mo ago
US General class here. I got into it recently mainly to play with digital modes on HF for emergency comms and also because it’s an interesting and unexplored field for me.
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by anelson 9mo ago
There’s precedent for Georgian dissidents fleeing to Ukraine. Saakashvili was living in Ukraine for a while before he returned and is AFAIK still in prison in Georgia. I fled to Georgia when the invasion started and lived there 10 months. I
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by anelson 1y ago
If you really believe that you’d be better off somewhere else, and you’re a US citizen in decent financial shape, you are absolutely not trapped in the USA. I’ve in Europe for 7 years now, not to escape any particular political ideology bac
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by anelson 1y ago
The move that I’m fighting in my company now is hiring bargain basement Indian outsourced heads who are very obviously vibe coding slop. It’s a raw deal for us since we’re paying extra for a meat wrapper around an LLM coding agent, but I’m
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by anelson 1y ago
I’ve experienced this as well. If management is not competent they can’t tell (or don’t want to hear) when a “star” performer is actually a very expensive wrapper around a $20/mo cursor subscription. Unlike the author of the article I
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by anelson 1y ago
Not the parent, but I take it by going to any pharmacy in Ukraine and asking for it. Prescription not required. In my case it’s part of a treatment protocol for insulin resistance but the pharmacist doesn’t ask and I don’t tell them. When I
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by anelson 1y ago
You regurgitated Russian propaganda about Russian-speaking people in Ukraine which is clearly not based on your own experience and I provided a counterpoint based on actually living in Ukraine. If you think I have misrepresented the actual
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by anelson 1y ago
This bullshit Russian propaganda talking point needs to die. “Russian-speaking Ukrainians” are Ukrainians. I was at a birthday party in Kyiv about a month ago, the only non-Ukrainian guest. Most of the day most the guests were speaking Russ
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by anelson 1y ago
I had the opposite problem. They closed my account with very short notice back when they decided to purge all customers with any connection to Ukraine. This was an account for a US company owned by me a US citizen receiving payments from th
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by anelson 1y ago
In almost every restaurant and cafe that I frequent in Ukraine, each table has a unique QR code that links to a site with both the menu and an option to pay the bill. The pay option shows the current itemized bill with options to pay with m
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by anelson 1y ago
I too am impressed by Cloudflare Workers’ potential. However Workers supports WASM so you don’t necessarily have to switch to JavaScript to use it. I wrote some Rust code that I run in Cloudflare Functions, which is a layer on top of Cloudf
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by anelson 2y ago
Yes, 1000x this! School for me was a gladiator academy. Useful for producing gladiators I suppose but at the expense of any genuine intellectual curiosity or love of learning. Thankfully I had an informal opportunity to stay after school wh
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by anelson 2y ago
What you're describing is actually not that different from my own conception of what a senior principal SWE is. Simply stated, I would define that level as a very experienced, knowledgeable, competent SWE whose main value to the org i
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by anelson 2y ago
When reading BigTech career ladders like this one, I immediately fall into the trap of projecting myself onto the ladder, and getting upset when the level I've chosen for myself is described as something that sounds far removed from wh
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by anelson 2y ago
That’s a long story. Mostly just a series of unexpected turns and a search for meaning in my professional life. As for why I stayed, it’s hard to believe but even today, modulo the air raids, my life in Kyiv is just better than the life I l
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by anelson 2y ago
It is true that war can rage in a country and people not on the frontline can live reasonably normal lives. I returned to Kyiv in August of last year, and lived for over a year during some of the worst air attacks on the country. It’s not s
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by anelson 2y ago
This is a great visualization. It highlights not only the increased frequency of attacks but the extent to which they happen at night and especially pre-dawn hours. I returned to a Kyiv in August 2023 and in the intervening time I’ve notice
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by anelson 2y ago
It's great to see the rapid iteration on this. Congratulations on the adoption so far! It must be so cool to work at a company that is cool with open-sourcing projects like this ;)
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by anelson 2y ago
I have personally obtained two Starlink dishes in Ukraine. One I preordered more than a year before the war, which was fast tracked by SpaceX shortly after the war started. This was a lifesaver in the early days when power outages took down
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by anelson 3y ago
At my company we’ve written all of our Lambda functions in Rust. It’s a perfect fit with the constraints in Lambda. We did customize the runtime somewhat for our needs but that wasn’t all that complicated.
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by anelson 3y ago
My company maintains an out-of-tree kernel module for changed block tracking. It requires a full-time Linux driver developer to keep it compiling and working on new kernels. Our module is GPL FWIW but I doubt it would be accepted into the k
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by anelson 3y ago
I remember reading this quote in the original print magazine when I was a teenager living in rural Nebraska. For some reason a Safeway in the nearest town had a decent selection of magazines including Dr Dobbs Journal and MSJ. I cut out tha
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by anelson 4y ago
I have a residential Starlink terminal in Ukraine, service costs $60/mo. I assume this higher fee is for a higher tier of service suitable for military use where reliability is mission critical.
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by anelson 4y ago
That’s been our experience as well. Auth0 seemed like a great deal and we were happy to have such a sensitive component handled by a dedicated third party, but their sales team aggressively pursues us as soon as we go over some MAU limit an
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by anelson 4y ago
.308 is probably referring to 7.62 NATO. If so there do exist level IV rifle plates that can also protect against a single impact from 7.62 NATO ball. HESCO make some and I’m sure others do as well. But they’re not cheap. The HESCO plates I
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by anelson 4y ago
Wow that brings back fond memories of my youth. That thread spawned numerous memes across the gun forums I frequented at the time. I remember reading this on ar15.com but that could be the mists of time obscuring my memory.
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by anelson 4y ago
I got this too for my Starlink unit in Ukraine. Dropped to $60 from $100. A welcome change although I for some reason assumed it was specifically for Ukraine. Looks like it’s in a number of markets.
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by anelson 4y ago
We use localstack for as much of our integration tests as we can, and have multiple paid licenses. When we started using it I was skeptical that it could reliably mimic all the AWS services we use, and I was right. Don’t get me wrong it’s a
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by anelson 4y ago
Another NewsBlur user here, ever since Google killed off Google Reader. All of my news and regular content consumption, including HN, is via RSS. If a site doesn’t have a well behaved RSS feed then I won’t be able to follow it. I’ve used a

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