nathan_douglas

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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
I don't disagree at all (disclaimer: I don't work on VistA, but systems that communicate with VistA... close enough that the "career suicide" phrase hits a little close to home). I think the bigger problem is that we&#x2
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
VistA is an old system, and it's definitely "aging." But the thing is that it actually works really, really well. For instance, it kills a remarkably low number of people, which is one of the benchmarks I personally value in
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
(I'm actually set to complete Mathematical Foundations II next week, after completing Mathematical Foundations I recently.) Thank you for your comment. I had a very nontraditional path to engineering, even in an era of self-taught prog
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
I third MathAcademy. I graduated high school >25 years ago with almost no math skills and had a major struggle with the math prerequisites for my CS degree ~15 years ago. I've been wanting to get into higher math recently, so a few
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
Location: Ohio, USA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Complicated (see below) Technologies: Pretty much anything DevOpsy/Platformy/Infra-y, Backend-y Résumé/CV: https://bitterbridge.github.io&#
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
I tell it to accomplish only half of what it thinks it can, then conclude with a haiku. That seems to help, because 1) I feel like it starts shedding discipline as it starts feeling token pressure, and 2) I feel like it is more likely to co
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
https://github.com/allengarvin/inform-zork1/blob/main/zork.i... I feel the same about Inform 6 vs 7. I wrote some very simple games in Inform 6 thirty or so years ago, just for personal amusement, but ne
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
I feel like I'm always learning and working as fast as I can and von Neumann's right there, receding from me at the speed of light.
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
Numb the arm by having the patient sit calmly with their left arm in an ice bath.
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
Location: Ohio, USA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Pretty much anything DevOpsy/Platformy/Infra-y, Backend-y Résumé/CV: https://bitterbridge.github.io/resume/resum
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by nathan_douglas 11mo ago
Thank you; I enjoyed this quite a bit.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
BWAAAA I wish I still had one around, just to degauss it occasionally.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
That's an amazing goal. I have TAOCP but I got hung up on some of the early questions, mostly because I wasn't sure I understood what he was asking. I didn't want to get in the habit of "looking at the answers" earl
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
This page: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/pre... explains in more detail what they mean. It's a pretty clean and effective explanation. > Technology advances rapidly and affe
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Oh, that's super cool! I somehow missed that ESO and 1Password would work together. I set up a 1Password Connect Server at one point but ended up not doing much with it. Hmm...
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I haven't had a huge issue with power draw, but I live in a place where electricity is really cheap. I had 3x Dell R720s, an R210ii, and an Aruba 48-port PoE switch and felt like I had way more power than I knew what to do with, but it
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Weirdly, Audio Station is the best app I've found for streaming podcasts from my Synology (given the quirks of podcast hoarding in practice). Admittedly, I haven't looked in a few years... maybe I should get on that.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Synology's fine - even ideal - for that use case. If you want to run Docker containers, run apps for video conversion like Plex, etc, then you'd likely want to consider something with a beefier CPU. For an appliance NAS, Synology&
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
This is really cool - the sort of thing I love seeing on HN. I'm very deeply interested in developing/interacting with realistic characters within a game world and watching them interact with another, e.g. intertribal/interpe
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Oceania, Eastasia, or Eurasia. Pick one :)
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Talos (and Talhelper) seem pretty reasonable so far. Digging Sops too for managing secrets. I was using Ansible Vault before which worked but was weirdly cumbersome to automate (go figure), and Sops seems to Just Work™. > The link seems
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Oh hai Cameron! I'm rebuilding my homelab [1] too, actually, but deprioritizing it while I stave off a wee spot o' burnout. I'm excited to see that you're building on Talos; I am too! I used to use CoreOS back in the day
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Location: Ohio, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: DevOps/SRE/Infra/GitOps stuff, cloud (mostly AWS), backend (mostly Node and Python), a little embedded/lowlevel (mostly C and a few
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Nice, clean layout. Gonna check out Drift too :)
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Ah, that's really cool and I'm going to stay the hell away lest it trigger my GAS :P
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Thank you for sharing this; I'm really enjoying it a lot.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
One of the pages mentioned a 'cello da spalla, which I hadn't heard of before, so I found this YouTube video introducing it and playing part of a prelude on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4kNY34AoE I enjoy
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Ah! That makes sense. Thank you for explaining!
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I suppose I fail to see why evolution through natural selection is not optimizing. That was Darwin's big idea, right? That given heredity, selection, and variation you end up with life forms we'd consider optimized for their envir

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