coderjames

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by coderjames 4mo ago
> I've told them over and over I'm not capable of that I can relate and empathize. And also provide this suggestion based on my own similar experience: if you can't provide evidence (e.g. doctor's diagnosis) that you
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by coderjames 5mo ago
> Concert tickets are almost certainly in the 'dinner reservation' category. They have no need to identify me for national security reasons Admittedly I haven't been to many concerts, but 'national security reasons&#x
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by coderjames 6mo ago
In my workplace, its availability. We have to use US-only models for government-compliance reasons, so we have access to Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4, but only Gemini 2.5 which isn't in the same class as the first two.
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by coderjames 6mo ago
And you'd lose that wager. I complain about movie costs while I watch movies at home, drive a VW that was under $40k new, live in a state with a minimum wage over $17 an hour, and refuse to pay $14 plus tip to a food truck that doesn&#
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by coderjames 6mo ago
> when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. As someone who lives alone, two ways I address this aspect: talk to yourself out loud an
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by coderjames 7mo ago
Sounds good. So they've cancelled all Starship-related construction at LC-39A at KSC, because Texas, right?
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by coderjames 7mo ago
I haven't tried it myself so you might be right, but I was thinking of the silver conductive pens from Chemtronics with a conductivity of 0.02-0.05 ohms/sq/mil. For attachment, I'd evaluate their conductive epoxy or mayb
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by coderjames 7mo ago
For the 2D version, you might not need very much custom. Use a regular pen plotter and use a pen with conductive ink. These both exist today, though personally as a hobbyist PCB designer, I can get 2-layer and 4-layer boards cheap enough fr
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by coderjames 7mo ago
For me its the commodities. I grant that SpaceX engineers are smart people and can figure out how to make Starship and Superheavy reliable and reusable. But if they have to launch 10-14 times in order to get the propellant to the LEO depot
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by coderjames 7mo ago
I'm an embedded software engineer by day and like it or not I have to acknowledge that AI tooling is coming to our work, so I'm currently working on learning to interact with AI coding tools like Claude Code more effectively and e
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by coderjames 8mo ago
Not OP, but one example I can think of: Jeff Bezos moved from Washington state to Florida two years after Washington enacted a 7% capital gains tax "on the sale or exchange of long-term capital assets such as stocks, bonds, business in
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by coderjames 8mo ago
You don't support trying to save the planet? The Bezos Earth Fund: https://www.bezosearthfund.org/
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by coderjames 10mo ago
I think it might be a organizational architecture that needs to change. > However, we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an action of “execute”. > This is a straightforward error in the code, which had existed undet
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by coderjames 11mo ago
> In particular, our code to parse .deb, .ar, .tar, and the HTTP signature verification code would strongly benefit from memory safe languages > Critical infrastructure still written in C - particularly code that parses data from untr
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by coderjames 11mo ago
Oh yeah, derp. I was thinking unaligned-PER, not BER.
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by coderjames 11mo ago
I worked with ASN.1 for a few years in the embedded space because its used for communications between aircraft and air traffic control in Europe [1]. I enjoyed it. BER encoding is pretty much the tightest way to represent messages on the wi
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by coderjames 1y ago
> This friend told me she can't work without ChatGPT anymore. It doesn't say she chooses to use it; it says she can't work without using it. At my workplace, senior leadership has mandated that software engineers use our i
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by coderjames 1y ago
> those who want to parse a JSON document with a YAML parser. I've done it. We already had a YAML parser in an internal library I maintain since we were already ingesting YAML files for other reasons, so when we later added new file
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by coderjames 1y ago
It has not so far. "Experts say that airdrops, another measure Israel announced, are insufficient for the immense need in Gaza and dangerous to people on the ground."[1] "[T]he airdrops have an advantage over trucks because p
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by coderjames 1y ago
We're in the greater Seattle area and I make north of $200k, so I feel like yes :shrug:
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by coderjames 1y ago
My department at the place I work is actively hiring Software Engineers. We have nine open requisitions for any seniority level and are regularly conducting interviews, but the new-grad candidates this year have been... disappointing. I&#x2
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by coderjames 1y ago
That's very interesting! Thanks for the recommendation, definitely something I'll consider.
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by coderjames 1y ago
> the price seems way high. How much is your child's finger worth? I'm looking at getting a SawStop table saw so I can teach my child woodworking with slightly more peace-of-mind that if something goes wrong, they'll be le
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by coderjames 1y ago
> I'm still a bit upset that they took away vertical taskbars from us After getting a new W11 laptop at work and discovering the removal of vertical taskbars (ridiculous on 16:9 monitors), that particular loss is specifically what k
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by coderjames 1y ago
> most classes are not designed to be inherited but want to expose a clean public API. > While true that all classes can be inherited That's what the 'final' keyword in C++ is for: https://en.cppreference.com
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by coderjames 1y ago
> I always thought it was weird that I had to apply with my transcripts and resume. I similarly thought it weird when Garmin asked me for transcripts when I applied there a few years ago. It had been 15 years since I'd graduated, so
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by coderjames 1y ago
The grandparent said > support wireless CarPlay and android auto Removing LTE doesn't cost me real-time traffic updates because (preferred maps app) is running on my phone which already has LTE. Streaming media? The media is being p
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by coderjames 1y ago
An outside individual purchasing shares is not the same as employees accessing liquidity. As one example, SpaceX is privately held but routinely does funding rounds with large investors so employees can sell shares and access liquidity[1][2
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by coderjames 1y ago
I use DDG multiple times a day, every day. I don't find ChatGPT to be a suitable substitute for helping me locate resources on the web; hallucinated links waste my time trying to get to useful information.
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by coderjames 2y ago
Do restaurant service fees next! "Here's the bill, with a 10% service fee added so we can pay our staff more without raising menu prices."

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