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by channel_t 3y ago
Yeah it's funny, after what feels like at least a solid decade of on-demand audio I'm finding myself seeking out more live audio wherever I can find it. Miss the feeling of at least passively participating in something. I think th
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by channel_t 3y ago
From my own anecdotal observations, it sure seems like that the worse it gets the more mainstream denialism becomes. I'm also seeing a rise of cartoonishly absurd conspiracy theories that look loosely something like: "the commie d
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by channel_t 3y ago
Yup, and 2020 was downright apocalyptic, with AQI readings so hazardous they basically went off the charts. Also worth noting that last year the bad air quality in Portland didn't really start until October and stopped during the final
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by channel_t 3y ago
I definitely feel this ever since switching primarily to remote work. I buy PC games periodically that are often amazing but I struggle to find myself able to dedicate much time to them because I already spend way too much time in the room
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by channel_t 3y ago
This is false. It was mostly designed as a tool for Unix hackers, with motivations that seem not too dissimilar from perl. It was the ease of use of the language that brought people in from the math/science community who usually weren&
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by channel_t 3y ago
The only catch there might be is actually being able to find a furnace filter on store shelves during these AQI disasters. They have a tendency to quickly vanish much like toilet paper during the beginning of covid or A/C units during
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by channel_t 3y ago
The primitive "filter taped to box fan" model worked fine for me in Portland during the massive fires of 2020. Maybe not the greatest thing for the fan, but my indoor AQI sensor would go from reading like 250+ to under 100 pretty
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by channel_t 3y ago
This is a pretty excessive amount of SSH brute force but it honestly doesn't seem as bad as some of the cloud machines I run. There are always like at least 3 different IPs going relentlessly hard 24/7/365.
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by channel_t 3y ago
I honestly have a pretty strong hunch that a high percentage of the people out there abusing the drug do have ADHD but are undiagnosed and self-medicating, technically needing it as much as anyone else. The difference is that not seeking
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by channel_t 3y ago
IIRC lightning network transactions only use as much electricity as 10 emails, although I guess at some point a real Bitcoin transaction will happen eventually.
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by channel_t 4y ago
Years ago, when I was receiving a very high volume of a predictable and pretty malicious looking spam, I wrote an ugly Python script to report the unwanted mail to the originating network owner. It worked well at the time and I think defini
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by channel_t 4y ago
In recent years I have definitely found my career history as technical tester to be a bit of a wart on my CV. Having originally come from scrappy fast-moving companies where the line between Dev/QA and even Ops to some degree get blurr
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by channel_t 4y ago
I'd say it's more universally an extremely polarized urban vs. rural divide that isn't really defined by the borders of any particular region of the country, although more rural states like Idaho tend to carry over common rur
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by channel_t 4y ago
I can confidently say that my whole career in software development has basically been the result of riding the wave of a Linux hobby I had. I didn't actually mean to write code for a living but I accidentally walked into the wrong inte
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by channel_t 4y ago
Learning the technical skills and interviewing a lot.
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by channel_t 4y ago
This whole rant is so cringe it reads almost like satire. From the sound of things, the people leaving for other expensive areas were just wealthy semi-tourists who weren't contributing anything meaningfully positive to the city to beg
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by channel_t 4y ago
I consider this book pretty much required reading for junior devs and others in engineering who don't have a decent handle on basic Unix skills for whatever reason--which seems to be a more common occurrence these days than earlier in
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by channel_t 4y ago
Yeah I'm excited about the possibilities of AI as the next HN-er, but this thing is dystopian as hell IMHO.
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by channel_t 4y ago
I was going to say, I know a lot of programmers, maybe even most, who avoid Linux like the plague because they don't want to waste cognitive cycles on fixing their broken machines. I have found myself in this same place after a solid 1
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by channel_t 4y ago
I live on the west coast and generally try to use Lyft first when I need a cab because they seem to be the marginally more ethical company, but I still often find that I can get a car from Uber faster and more affordably than Lyft. I'v
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by channel_t 4y ago
I definitely experienced this at a company I worked at for 7 years, starting out very junior but ultimately taking on responsibilities primarily reserved for the highest paid lifers. The only option was to move on. Now I work on far simpler
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by channel_t 4y ago
I'll go on a whim here and say that all roles in the software industry are bullshit in their own ways.
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by channel_t 4y ago
Stereotype much? Pretty sure a relatively small segment of cannabis users out there are embedded in bar/party culture, although it might be safe to say that a significant number of people in party culture are also cannabis users.
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by channel_t 4y ago
Read and typed along with an early edition of this a few years back and it has continued to be one of my favorite technical tutorials of all time, far surpassing lots of other golang material that I've paid money for.
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by channel_t 5y ago
I remember being 12 years old in 1996 looking for Korn websites on AltaVista and found that a solid half of the links being returned were ksh guides. Maybe that's how I turned into such a Unix geek.
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by channel_t 5y ago
Wow I just found out that a lot of distant family members on the opposite side of the country who I've never met are really bad drivers. Found one of my own moving violations in there too.
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by channel_t 5y ago
I'm the same way, other than the git branch of the cwd where applicable. A minimalist command line is almost like a sacred place of pure intent where I can give my eyes a rest and catch a break from the mad world of GUIs.
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by channel_t 5y ago
This is probably the correct answer in most circumstances, unfortunately. It's just the circle of life. Acquisitions are rough and if you aren't being significantly incentivized to deal with all the extra BS that comes along with
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by channel_t 5y ago
Can collecting has been wildly popular over here in Portland OR for as long as I can remember. Basically no cans that are set on the curb ever last long enough to get picked up by waste management. Typically it's homeless people who co
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by channel_t 5y ago
Call me old-fashioned, but in this modern day internet where almost everything is optimized to be as distracting as possible, it's a real breath of fresh air to still be able to read premium technical content in plain text form.

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