adbachman

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by adbachman 3y ago
Could be that, could be restaurants and construction companies looking for a population that will settle for minimum wage.
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by adbachman 4y ago
I can say confidently that asking potential refugees--who were born and have lived in a refugee camp for their entire lives--if they intend to pirate software when they are in the US is hilarious to refugee officers, too. In some languages
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by adbachman 4y ago
This system will create at least three times as many Lords. But that's not enough Lords! Strong, "let them eat cake" energy with this one.
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by adbachman 4y ago
For me this manifests as changing jobs about every two years. I also keep a Fred Brooks quote taped to the wall behind my monitors: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. They build their castle
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by adbachman 4y ago
whose, the airplane's?
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by adbachman 4y ago
Tether and Bitfinex have the same owner. They print the Tethers for free, move them to an exchange, exchange them for Bitcoin or other token, convert that to USD. As long as it happens slowly enough and with enough steps, that's 1 USDT
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by adbachman 4y ago
It took a long time for you to get around to it, but was the reason your comments keep getting moderated because you show up in every gender / transgender thread dropping links and "just asking questions"? More important than
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by adbachman 4y ago
> untouchable jurisdiction like Russia When the international organization can point directly to you as now holding $100M+ worth of crypto tokens and you're in a "jurisdiction like Russia," then the international organizat
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by adbachman 4y ago
"Embedded systems" is probably the space where this happens the most and it's a super super broad category. Everything with a microcontroller in it is running someone's code. For example, a quick google search of "
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by adbachman 4y ago
> It's not that the engine doesn't let you do cool things, it's that you're a software developer at heart that wants to find reasons to add new features to your engine, instead of making a game. This is so true. Yak s
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by adbachman 4y ago
This is why I'm getting back into watching my local sports teams. There's nothing more civically uniting (in my city) than taking about the Ravens. If you can get over the geek, middlebrow dismissal of "sports ball" and
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by adbachman 4y ago
You just replied to an actual experience of predatory behavior with the statement, "it is fairly harmless". > "It is also a good real life sandbox where children can safely learn about the online world" It's not,
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by adbachman 4y ago
Go looking. What have you tried that didn't work?
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by adbachman 4y ago
mid-atlantic US checking in. We've had three cases in our family since 2010. it's always a bad year for ticks, it feels like :( still hopeful for a vaccine, though. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.h
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by adbachman 4y ago
The "money printing machine" relies 100% on inducing new suckers to participate. If you sit still (i.e., don't spend $$ on customer acquisition) the whole system dies.
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by adbachman 4y ago
As an election judge, I'm not sure how different Baltimore is from Philly, but we are not permitted to physically leave the polls if the count (voters_entered - votes_cast = 0) is off by one at the end of the day. There is not slop in
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by adbachman 4y ago
We just picked them up across an engineering/tech org of ~350 to do precisely what they describe here. PagerDuty for notifications and on-call rotations, Datadog for monitoring, Slack for communication in-the-moment, Google Docs for po
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by adbachman 4y ago
> There is a reason that Valve is not too fond of crypto Because, like with third party Counter-Strike knife skin sites, it always devolves into money laundering and illegal gambling. Only in an ecosystem like cryptocurrency that exists
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by adbachman 4y ago
You named two examples that only make sense in a centralized platform world. FIFA licensing will always be a thing and collecting and selling WoW gear / accounts only worked because other people wanted to play WoW that badly. Both work
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by adbachman 4y ago
Have you talked with a therapist?
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by adbachman 4y ago
Anything over 8 is probably an epic.
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by adbachman 4y ago
Because they use public infrastructure and in their passing almost exclusively move through spaces we share with them. This is a story, in part, about those externalities. As this author describes, linking extremely dangerous chemical cars
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by adbachman 4y ago
Also shout-out to https://glitch.com/ which puts particular emphasis around community and learning. I use it anytime I'm preparing code for a class, workshop, demo, or open source documentation.
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by adbachman 4y ago
ayyy, I started here when co-founding Baltimore Node ( https://baltimorenode.org ). was very heavily involved in the birth and first few locations, say 2009 - 2012. tailed off as my family and work responsibilities grew. happy tha
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by adbachman 5y ago
> this sounds like political activism Everything is political activism, by that metric. Inviting tech workers to openly talk about their experiences and your warning tech workers not to openly talk about their experiences are both politi
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by adbachman 5y ago
The straightforward path has existed for most of human history: Step 1: make art Step 2: don't starve Big difference between tech careers and art careers is you probably won't find anyone to hire you to be an artist,
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by adbachman 5y ago
> companies essentially do anything to fill jobs and devalue our work what on earth are you talking about? I joined the industry 15 years ago after getting a BA in theology. The history of software creation as job has never been a gated,
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by adbachman 5y ago
How? You just told a story about the system working without NFTs. Your acquaintances could still be phished, scammed, funneled, whatever, into buying fake tickets and the takers at the gate would still refuse them.
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by adbachman 5y ago
Apple will kill the APIs. If you haven't switched, Rectangle comes with a Spectacle compatibility mode so all the keyboard shortcuts and behaviors transfer. When I swapped out work machines a couple years ago I cut over and it was pa
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by adbachman 5y ago
Or increase the risk posed by microplastics. Very tiny, very sharp flakes of very strong materials could be asbestos 2.0

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