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by RangerScience 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: N/A (Remote) Technologies: Rails, React, Javascript, Ruby, Terraform, AWS Email: nicktbarone@gmail.com Senior/staff level full stack developer. Open to most things, but lookin
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by RangerScience 2y ago
AFAIK, the issue isn't finding that $10/mo; although I'd still definitely agree that financial education is underestimated; I'd certainly love to have had a lot more! But, AFAIK - The issue is when something goes wrong,
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Horray! Also: - Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see - ...KSP did a really good job mimick
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Would that then mean that the historical practice of red-lining is a “woke” practice, since it injected race and identity preferences into a program?
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by RangerScience 2y ago
a) doesn’t track with how many Tesla chargers there are (and how quickly and frequently they’ve been being built over the last decade) b) considering how many fires have been started by power lines… yeah, please regulate
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by RangerScience 2y ago
This hits so many feels, and so... effectively. The corporate speak. The callousness. The vapid emptiness. The confusion. The confusion - that this thing that seems like it should be excellent, isn't, and is in fact damaging - that&#x2
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Hmm! I wonder if there’s then a way to bundle something like ViewComponents as WASM, and use them as a React replacement?
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Abnormal beam steering with kirigami reconfigurable metasurfaces(nature.com)
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by RangerScience 2y ago
"If you met an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole." (or, something close to that)
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by RangerScience 2y ago
> What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to
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by RangerScience 2y ago
I think of this as “humanist” sci-fi; which has heavy overlap with “golden era” SF. Other authors I’d put in this category are Gene Roddenberry (TOS and TNG, particularly), Asimov, PKD, Vonnegut and Theodore Sturgeon. Personally - fantasy s
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by RangerScience 2y ago
It’s back?
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by RangerScience 2y ago
I intend to! And to wrap it in a gem; I’ve got it partly there, but it’s a currently a mess as I ran into a bunch of “oh that didn’t actually work” problems at various points. I’ll post a link later… Edit: Ach, sorry - it's going to be
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by RangerScience 2y ago
FYI - There's some neat ways you can embed React components inside Rails templates. Basically - embed the props in a template-managed `script` tag, and use Stimulus to mount the react code, passing in the props read from the DOM. Now
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Survival of the fittest is the flawed quote, usually used by those with supremacist conceptual frameworks (that there can be an objective “better”, etc). This shows up a lot in fiction, where the quote is used as justification for cruelty,
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by RangerScience 2y ago
All of "wokeness", "social justice", etc, when you look at the "forest not the trees" ends up pretty simple: One group of people is saying: "This hurts, please stop", to which the other group says: &q
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Ah! You’re correct, thank you for the correction. I’ve been LADWP for so long I forgot the rest of the area was SCE. I have a friend who does power pole inspection, and boy, the stories. Infra is crumbling.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
I think city? Which for me is LA itself. Pacific Palisades and Altadena would be different cities, and yes, from the maps the burn areas are public land.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
The last batch of fires were, AFAIK, caused by under-maintained PG&E infrastructure. I would not be surprised if it turns out these were, too.
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Yeah because those are where the money’s going. https://www.google.com/search?q=pg%26e+profits
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by RangerScience 2y ago
AFAIK most of the fires in recent years have been started by PG&E power lines.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
AFAIK, just the shrubs. Particularly, California native trees are fine for and in fires. And if you look at the pictures, the houses have burned but the trees haven’t.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
LA homeowner here. My backyard is also an undeveloped (re: “natural” hillside). I’m responsible for clearing brush in that hillside, so that it’s n-hundred feet from structures. It’s checked in May, or thereabouts.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
> similar cases Can you provide specific citations? And.. normally, I might ask that for argumentative reasons, but… sitting here, south of Pasadena, I really want things to look at to understand what this might do to the place I live. R
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by RangerScience 2y ago
> Oh Noooos, the world will end :) reads this from Southern Californa Legit.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
I went to college with him, but we didn’t know each other well. Talked Ruby and “does it scale” once, he had what’s still one of my favorite comments - something along the lines of: “Ruby is easy to write, and so it’s also easy to re write
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by RangerScience 2y ago
I think you raise an excellent point, and can use your point to figure out how it could apply in this case. All the tools that are stirrups were used "by the horse" (you get what I mean); that implies to me that so long as the AI
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Fav anecdote from ages ago: When hand-held power tools became a thing, the Hollywood set builder’s union was afraid of this exact same thing - people would be replaced by the tools. Instead, productions built bigger sets (the ceiling was ra
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by RangerScience 2y ago
> clean enough Los Angeles after it rains (scrubs the air clean) and during the pandemic (drastically less traffic) was stunning . So, no, at least here, we’re not “clean enough”.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
For that, I’d just use Rails, and the connect AI/ML tools over an api or (riskier) direct to the DB. The stuff I looked at ages ago was for literally embedding Python code in Ruby code. I never used any of it either, so I don’t have an

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