arwhatever

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by arwhatever 20d ago
| In general, stop trying to steelman the looters. Sometimes a con artist is really just a con artist. Re-read my comment in the context of the message to which it replied.
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by arwhatever 21d ago
Maybe even use the tariff proceeds to provide incentives to those very same domestic industries? (I am not an economist.)
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by arwhatever 2mo ago
“You think you’re better than me?”
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by arwhatever 2mo ago
We’ve got to be sure the manufacturers get a solid decade or two to profit off of these schemes, so that future manufacturers know it will be worthwhile perpetrating future schemes.
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by arwhatever 2mo ago
Even prior to that, how long is your commute?
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by arwhatever 2mo ago
I became interested in OpenWrt when I noticed that the cloud portal for my ISP reported to me the names and types of devices that were associated to my home access point/router. Suddenly I want to put every IPS device into dumb bridg
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by arwhatever 2mo ago
> Wouldn't you consider defining the schema doing the domain modeling? To an extent, yes. But to the extent that a so-called impedance mismatch exists, this is going to put your domain model on the faraway/difficult side of tha
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
I'm happy making one-shot payments for most types of media. But I want to start a new bittorrent tracker for individual movies or episodes for which the provider requires you to create a recurring subscription, to rip off such content
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
Watched it. It reads interesting indeed. Makes me suspect that, at least during the Fitzcarraldo period, Herzog might’ve thought misery was valuable or even necessary to good filmmaking - misery in the form of stunts and geographic setting,
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
I always enjoy hearing from him because he’s so unorthodox and I never have any idea the approach he’s going to take when giving an interview or answering a question. And I always feel the need to point out that Grizzly Man was a truly good
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
Corporate apartments raise their rents in lockstep with the market, whereas at least some randos will leave it stable for some years in a row.
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
I might suggest that anyone who wants to make it concrete to go through the article https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types... while visiting https://dotnetfiddle.net and typing the cod
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
Knew a guy who owned an I.T. consultancy who was fond of (privately) saying, "This job wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the customers and the employees!"
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
I used Claude Code to prepare my personal income tax return this year, and so far the IRS hasn’t come after me. Had Claude generate yaml files for the input/source documents, then had it generate code to process the return into output
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
That maneuver they were attempting looks WILD. Would have been amazing to have pulled of. Or, perhaps to have regularly pulled off until today. I'm guessing that must be some sort of vectored thrust trickery.
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by arwhatever 4mo ago
Quies foamies. After wearing military issue 3M foamies around jet engines for years, I bought some of these Quies and were very surprised to discover that they could be made so comfortable, and also long lasting.
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by arwhatever 5mo ago
F# is so elegant and terse for writing functional-style wrappers around OO code packages! Unfortunately, you find yourself needing to write functional-style wrappers around OO code packages.
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by arwhatever 6mo ago
LinkedIn itself is far from great, but this seems like a good thread to share my LinkedIn tip of creating a job alert using a search query like rust embedded NOT lensa NOT jobot NOT alignerr NOT mercor NOT “crossing hurdles”
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by arwhatever 6mo ago
ramraj07 went on to clarify that they were advocating for putting the onus for cleanup back on mess generators. They clearly were not advocating for flat out refusing.
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by arwhatever 6mo ago
Devils advocate: what if a facial recognition system with a large enough database can always find an unrelated/innocent person that looks similar enough to convince the human?
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I’ve been screaming this too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237 It’s refreshing to see the same sentiment from so many other people independently here.
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
Software Complexity Vs Experience, diagram: https://www.awesomesoftwareengineer.com/assets/resources/arc...
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
The “Firefighter Becomes Arsonist” Organizational Anti-Pattern
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I mean really most companies have a backlog of feature ideas a mile long, and some tool comes along making your employees 40% more efficient, and the best thing you can think to do is the exact same thing at the exact same tempo but with fe
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
For fun, ask your preferred LLM (or perhaps a google search would also work?) for specific questions that lifestyle polygraph interviewers typically ask to throw you off your rhythm or to establish a baseline for later questions. No joke,
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I don't think current employment law allows, but as a software candidate I'd much rather assess the company/team fit on a trial basis as well. (Am neither a lawyer nor HR) I wonder what some solutions might be?
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I deleted my account after many years when X recently made the Chronological Feed setting ephemeral, defaulting back to the Algorithmic Feed each time the page is refreshed. No away I'm going to let that level of outrage-baiting garbag
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I don’t disagree, nor do I have any solution but man, 1-2 years is a LONG time when you start a new gig and can tell within 1-2 weeks that it’s not a good fit.
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
If it’s okay with you, I’m going to very intentionally do my initial learning on mainstream hardware before moving on to anything beyond that.
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by arwhatever 7mo ago
I’m trying to pivot my career from web/business app dev entirely into embedded, despite the steep learning curve, many new frameworks and tool chains, because I now have a full-time infinitely patient tutor, and I dare say it’s off to

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