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by ecshafer 25d ago
The goal of concept to aircraft in 36 months is admirable. Anduril recently built a jet in a similar timeframe. In the US at least, the last 30 years after defense industry consolidation has caused great stagnation. The F-35 took over a dec
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by ecshafer 27d ago
Come on. I am sure you don’t like DHH. But he’s always taken security seriously in Rails.
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by ecshafer 29d ago
One of the things that is great about htmx (besides being the best library) is the lack of modern silicon valley corpo communication. It has the slightly unhinged feel of a nerd that spent too much time on Newgrounds or 4chan or something a
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by ecshafer 29d ago
They provide services to PKK which is a terrorist group, specifically.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
This doesnt make any sense. If you are married to a us citizen you qualify for a green card. Then you need 3 years for citizenship. You never need to leave the country. Ive been through this process, this is absolutely wrong.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Some of the worst programmers ive ever met have been h1b visa programmers.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Vitess is a distributed mysql database. Github could very well be managing it entirely on their own. I have only seen people managing their own vitess, its entirely open source afaik.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
As opposed to the Jack Dorsey days of twitter where you would be banned for mildly right wing opinions, even if they were factually correct. That wasn't a political project?
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Many of the more esoteric conspiracy theories are hard to debunk. Lets take the earth if round, prove it. You can bring up many cases, sails disappearing behind the horizon, goemetry, etc. but actually doing these measurements and calculati
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
This is good I think. I have a friend that worked for a Law Firm / NGO / Charity kind of thing, whose primary purpose was writing appeals for benefits to the VA. These were benefits that the person in question was legally entitle
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Ethanol was always a political thing, and not technical. It was passed because it would triple the price of corn.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Samuel Tunick is white...
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
The Clay fab is moving along, lots of trucks going through there. So I think it will be built, assuming the local NIMBY and Progressive contingent don't have their way and block it somehow (God knows they put up enough arbitrary hurdle
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
I like this blog and its a romantic view of Biology, and I agree with the sentiments. However I would say its a narrow view of large issue: Lack of Rigor and Depth in School . Biology doesn't get enough into the nuts and bolts, and in
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
These very small dependencies that are then later causing issues either due to malicious nature or incompetence, have become pervasive in computing (for some reason). I think that these should be less of an issue now than ever. Outside of t
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
Anecdata I was living very close to a busy highway, and my young daughter was wheazing when she had a cold, we had to give her medicine via a nebulizer. When we moved out to the country more, far away from any major roads, these issues all
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
As a backend/full-stack engineer I still receive at least a few linkedin recruiter messages a week.
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
The wonderful book "Rise and Kill First" is a history of Israeli assassinations, with their policy of going after the "head of the snake". There are some interesting sections on how Israel used assassination to inhibit m
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by ecshafer 1mo ago
This is so cool. Outside of a cool demo, and maybe some black hat type stuff, this is surely dangerous, a bad idea, and shouldn't be done in prod. But pure hacker ethos at its heart.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Bluesky and Threads both have a fundamental issue in that their entire pitch is "We are like Twitter, but we are not run by Elon Musk, a Republican." Which only energizes the most radical, fringe, terminally online, who happen
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
I am not sure how this is Cassandra. Cassandra didn't say bad things. Cassandra knew the future and know one believed her, making her helpless to see doom unfold. The author even mentions the myth, but Cassandra didn't point out u
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
I don't see why this isn't obvious. Terafab is a FAB not a datacenter.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
That is insanely fast. I had it generate a basic C FFT library that can handle multi-dimension arrays, and it was instant.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Tesla is imo overvalued and has been for a long time. Its bankrupted a lot of pretty savvy investors in the last 10 years trying to short them because its obviously over valued. Market irrationality vs solvency and all of that.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
This is why Microsoft is good, there is an entire industry around fixing their nonsense. They are being a job creator!
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Good. Restaurants are hectic to work in. Menus can change quickly, and many dishes are being cooked and prepped at once. Cross contamination chances are high, so if a restaurant MUST say an allergen is not in X,Y,Z they basically can't
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
The most important lesson about Grilled Cheese that I have learned is that you can buy a mix of expensive cheese, get a nice fresh loaf of sourdough bread, high quality grass fed butter. You can really make an exquisite, amazing, grilled ch
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Taxes paid was actually what was said.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
A big difference I think is that Progressivism was based on Christianity and Utopian Socialist ideals in the 1800s and 1900s (at least in the United States). So it was much easier for them to support child labor laws, pensions, banning drin
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
I am hard-line on this. Sports betting and prediction markets should be banned. Casinos should be banned. Scratch offs should be banned. Its feeding into the worst tendencies of people and hurts the most disadvantaged families. People playi

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