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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
YES! Another MUD programmer! I started writing one in Meteor about eleven years ago. I don't even know if Meteor's still a thing anymore... I've had a few projects in Rust that were mixtures of roguelike and MUD models, conce
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Ooh, this looks fantastic. I'd love to help, but I'm spending almost all of my off-work hours looking for jobs right now. Maybe I'll find a good one sooner rather than later...
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
https://github.com/ndouglas/whispers Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus. Basically a shared knowledge graph of p
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
That was lovely; I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
I feel like it's intuitive for me to think about this stuff as just a second type system rather than to think about the details of how the compiler works or how it'll function at runtime. A given value exists in a kind of superpos
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Location: USA, ET Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Lately Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Node.js, DevOps, SRE, observability, getting into Slurm, Nomad, MLOps, HPC, etc. Résumé: https://ndo
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
You might (discuss with your care provider, disclaimers, etc) try an SNRI. I'd tried SSRIs multiple times and never saw an improvement. I've also been on various dosages and formulations of stimulant medication for ADHD and did no
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
ADHD is both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed, but I suspect that neither will be helped by renaming to ADH. Perhaps we should just normalize encouraging kindergarteners experiencing difficulty to spend an extra year there, whether they&#x2
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Blues scales, various jazz scales, scales influenced by ragas or the countless other music traditions from around the world, microtonal scales, nonstandard tunings like fifths/DADGAD/DADF#A, scales with different fingering and pic
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
A good section to have is one on concept/process issues you encountered, which I think is a generalization of your question about panic. For instance, you might be mistaken about the operation of a system in some way that prolongs an o
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
use a theremin as an input device
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Hey! Good to see you again. Thanks for the kind words :)
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Hi Pierre, I see that the Platform Engineer position (which probably matches me most) says it's Hybrid. I'm very interested, but I live in Ohio. I understand sometimes things get clicked on accident, and just wanted to know if the
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Location: nigh upon Cleveland, Ohio, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, Ansible, Kubernetes, Linux system administration, bad mf at debugging, various programmin
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
What line of work?
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it _is_ a direct attack on higher education.
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
It was the first bit of jargon I had to learn, to understand why I needed to hold "shift" when booting up my 486 to play _Doom_
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
> RPG fan could be someone who collects games and sourcebooks and reads them without a real intention to play them. (I've known a few of those.) It me! I find the systems/rules/design of RPGs fascinating. I've never
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
I'm not a USDS employee, but I'm a federal contractor working alongside USDS employees, some of which I count as friends, and some of which have been fired. My views are my own, and take them with a grain of salt; I'm kind of
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
That’s really cool. Something I struggle with, regarding social and semi-social functions at work, is just having the willingness at the time of $event to actually join it — a “social hour,” an engineering CoP, whatever. I feel like this so
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
That's a really neat idea! I think I'll try to work that into my own Lox derivative :)
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
They pop up in code repositories too, depending on contents and whether the engineer in question noticed it.
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
so we beat on, commits against the tooling, borne back ceaselessly into the technical debt
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
What does “going cold turkey on food” look like here? Because I’ve quit a pack-a-day-for-ten-years nicotine addiction, and I’ve dieted by slightly increasing exercise and slightly decreasing caloric consumption to produce a daily deficit of
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
I’ve always liked “I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.”
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
If you have something like 1Password, it takes one or two clicks to set up 2FA for a given site and Passkey setup for a given site is pretty painless. There’s even a decent amount of CLI integration for signing commits, etc. As a federal co
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
On the other hand, though, it reminds me of the song “Particle Man.”
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
According to the CDC, it seems about 6 people die per day of alcohol poisoning, or ~2,191 per year, so about .07%. Nearly 3/4 are men, which doesn't particularly surprise me, but what does surprise me is that the average age was 4
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Do you mind sharing what your industry is? Just out of curiosity. I’ve been programming side projects in Rust for a few years now, but wouldn’t really feel comfortable doing it for a living. Reading through occasional RFCs, without.boats, e
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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Twenty years ago, in a small college town, my car was broken into and the stereo stolen. I called the police out and the cop said, “okay, what do you want me to do about it?” Well, I don’t know. What should be done about this? I guess I tho

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