randrews

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by randrews 2mo ago
Location: Houston area, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primarily Rust, Ruby, JS / TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, many others Résumé/CV: http://sevendral.com/resume-aug-2026.pdf E
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by randrews 4y ago
Looking back at what I've said in this thread, it's "free speech is a societal value like honestly and politeness, not just a constitutional right," "I would be in favor of lifting bans on cigarette ads," &quot
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by randrews 4y ago
We do not live in a pure democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. Our lawmakers aren't able to create certain laws because of limits on their power in the constitution; one of those limits is that no law can be passed abridging
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by randrews 4y ago
Hmm. So the way I interpret this is: true free speech lets people say things that are wrong, and leads to people believing things that are wrong. A company that allows it will perform worse in a market because of people believing those wron
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by randrews 4y ago
Ads in general are probably something society doesn't want, because you have to pay people (in the form of ad-supported content) to look at them. You might say that most people in society think cigarette or gun ads (or DNC political sp
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by randrews 4y ago
I actually think we should allow cigarette ads again, I don't think anyone is harmed by being able to see a sign telling them something. But also, think about it this way: isn't this the other side of the slippery slope argument?
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by randrews 4y ago
I really don't think you're arguing in good faith here. This is a very common tactic for people of your political alignment, at least on HN: to nitpickily demand sources for completely obvious facts, and then if provided, shift th
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by randrews 4y ago
> It just doesn't allow ads that say "Glock is the best pistol". Until, well, yesterday (edit: not yesterday, that says "June." My mistake), it was illegal in Germany to advertise where you can get an abortion. A
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by randrews 4y ago
Yep. The answer here is that Hulu should probably run the ads. Free speech is more than an amendment, it's a social value that should be respected by everyone, not just the government. I'm sure I'd disagree with every one of
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by randrews 4y ago
I always wonder about these sorts of comments. Do you think sources for these easily-googleable facts don't exist, or that the pretty uncontroversial events I'm talking about didn't happen? Am I supposed to somehow be argued
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by randrews 4y ago
Pretty predictable responses. > Are you somehow implying Google and Facebook are run by Democrats Again, there was a White House office made specifically to coordinate these platforms banning "disinformation" content. It was la
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by randrews 4y ago
Absolutely. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill to ban ads for firearms. Google and Facebook already ban that as well. If you have no problem with that then why should you have a problem banning ads against guns? More right-wing persona
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by randrews 4y ago
Perhaps Hulu recognizes that some people just want to watch TV and not be bothered by campaign ads. Also perhaps I'd be more sympathetic to the Democrats here if exactly this sort of deplatforming hadn't been part of their own pla
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by randrews 4y ago
Parts are, but other parts, like the gulf coast, have plenty of water. Texas is not the giant desert you see in cowboy movies.
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by randrews 4y ago
I think we're arguing over terminology. But "it takes resources to create" is not the same thing as "it stores those resources." That's the whole misconception with Bitcoin. It takes a lot of resources to make
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by randrews 4y ago
> doesn't it also take resources to create baseball cards, art, books etc. Baseball cards are generally valued more than an equivalent-size rectangle of cardstock. Books are priced higher than a ream of paper; saying the value of a
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by randrews 4y ago
A store of value allows you to get the value back out: if I spend a bunch of money and effort mining iron ore, or growing wheat, or building a house, I have the ore or wheat or house which has intrinsic value. Maybe now I don't need to
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by randrews 4y ago
I have a hard time believing that anyone actually falls in that category. No living grandparents who remember the great depression? No memories of 2008? And even if they were in a total vacuum, why wouldn't it occur to them, as it did
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by randrews 4y ago
I'm not shrugging. I think you shouldn't be allowed to do fraudulent ads for investments, and that the loophole of "it's not USD so it's not a real, regulated investment" is wrong. I would like to see most of t
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by randrews 4y ago
This is hard to write. In 2015 I joined a local club for electronics hobbyists. It was great, we met every other week, had show-and-tell presentations of the things we were learning and building, I made a lot of friends and learned a whole
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by randrews 4y ago
So you're saying, in the scenario where someone asks directly "will this company lay anyone off," you'd rather the company deflect the question and not answer it than just say "no?" I really can't imagine
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by randrews 4y ago
I'm not well-connected, and if you have a bunch of experience on your resume, you're probably established enough. Send your resume out to a bunch of companies. Expect that most of them will reject you, some subset of those will wa
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by randrews 4y ago
I think you might be putting a bit too much stock in what a recruiter thinks. Recruiters generally do not know the first thing about the industry they're recruiting for, and in my experience, having a history of solving problems across
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by randrews 4y ago
As much as I want to agree with you, and as much as I usually go by that rule myself... The place I work at now said, in March 2020, that they weren't going to do any layoffs. And, they haven't. And are now making more money than
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by randrews 4y ago
For anyone like me wondering how many 1/3 is, they apparently reduced their workforce to 730 people, meaning they laid off 365 (or thereabouts). That feels to me like a pretty big layoff, not just a headline trying to make a number sou
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by randrews 4y ago
It's hard to express some of this in layman's terms, but it's good practice for me because I plan to write a book about exactly this: Generally what a CPU does is, fetch an instruction (represented by a number) from memory, r
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by randrews 4y ago
I'm tempted to email the author answering that question, because it's actually a really good and profound question. Edit: except I can't, there's no way to contact him from the blog. Oh well, in case OP is the author: In
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by randrews 4y ago
My experience exactly. I wrote an emulator in Rust for a thing implemented on an FPGA that generates a video signal. For the first pass, I just ported the Verilog code to Rust, essentially: big loop over all the pixels every frame, figure o
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by randrews 4y ago
Thank you! When I read the headline I wasn't even thinking of propulsion: gliders have no moving parts for propulsion, neither do solid rocket engines, so what? What I wanted to know was how on earth they made something to do the job o
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by randrews 4y ago
How exactly do you do that? I work for a company also struggling to find good senior developers and since the team is 100% remote, it's not like we'd have any idea if they were disabled or not...

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