neutronicus

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by neutronicus 1mo ago
I think they just want, broadly, to divest from the American tech work force, whether that's via AI or outsourcing. If "the remaining employees just collapse" it's a data point in support of the thesis that developing so
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
A "private tracker" is basically a speakeasy for media piracy. It's BitTorrent, so it's peer-to-peer, but it's exclusive and secretive to avoid letting in surveillance bots that get everyone threatening letters from
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
Can you expand on needing to varnish? Why is that? I guess acrylic won’t set on top of it?
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
FWIW, I think it's a blind spot to think of power users as "Arch Linux people" using "developer tooling". My wife is a UX Design consultant and she had an engagement where a bunch of state government accountants wer
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
I do think ROI is the best lens for trying to explain why something is priced at a substantial fraction of a million dollars.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
The author seems in his blog posts to advocate for mass deportation of recent immigrants to Europe. This is an inflammatory enough position to make any of his output into a de facto political statement.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
A University education is priced as though as it has near-term ROI. The government has subsidized it on the basis that it's opening an investment with strong near-term ROI to its citizens. I don't think you can claim that this ROI
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
The "npm-ness" of Cargo (centralized and standardized dependency management used at every opportunity) is generally pitched as one of the primary developer experience advantages over C++.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
The application I work on has an extension API that only requires C++11, but we compile against all the same headers in C++20. Obviously we need ABI compatibility between the two standards for this to work.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
C++ at least rescues you from defining a million callbacks with a void* context argument that you then cast into whatever you know it actually is
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Amazon's logistics are a cut above, both in terms of turnaround time and their drivers actually knowing how to deliver to my house.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Losing WhatsApp would be pretty painful for me, personally.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Wow, their "high" threshold is 150 minutes / week. That's really not a lot, it's like 3 days / week of running a slow 10k.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Yeah, Instagram is by far the most reliable communications channel from my kid's school, believe it or not. Like, there are mailing lists and portals you can log into, but the IT aspect of actually getting access for even one parent, l
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
If you want to "make it" as an artist / restaurateur / musician / million other things you kind of have to. Hell, the most reliable communication channel for getting information from my kid's school is Instagra
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
I have had the same work Windows box since 2019 and it has become agonizingly slow over the last 7 years. Anytime I look in Task Manager "Anti-malware Service Executable" is pegging at least one CPU core.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Go to the barber, to to the tailor, go the gym... All these things help.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
I'm sure ADHD medications / antidepressants / GLP-1s are huge drivers.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Visual disturbance. I get a blind spot near the center of my vision that looks a bit like what you see when you rub your closed eyes. It gets large enough to mostly obscure faces and prevent reading
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Did you try Excedrin? It has some caffeine in it. It does seem to be especially helpful relative to just Tylenol for me as a migraine sufferer. Specifically for helping to disperse the aura.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
I swore off energy drinks in high school after someone brought a case of them on the bus to a football game and I drank one and got horrible diarrhea and had to shit in the woods at halftime.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Yeah, the real problem with Red Bull is that it's caffeine-spiked Gatorade. So you're drinking to satisfy cravings but also just because you're thirsty.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
As a coffee drinker the "bizarrely addictive" comment does not resonate with me at all. I don't really have trouble keeping myself to, like, 1.2 coffees a day. I can't imagine drinking 6-7 coffees in a day to get to 800
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Well, to be honest, a cleaning service is a much more logical purchaser for a cleaning robot. Since you can truck it all over creation, work it 60 hours a week, and undercut all the human cleaning crews on price. As opposed to a household w
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
They might have other objective functions like wear-and-tear on the elevators, total energy usage, or something
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
2500 finished square feet in a MCOL east coast metro (Baltimore). Wondering if you're closer to the southern border or something.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Similar here for 2500 finished sq ft.
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
I mean, a twice-monthly house-cleaning service is running you ballpark 5k/year and people treat that shit as non-negotiable. I tried to claw back that line item after our second baby was born (wife didn't want them in the house an
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by neutronicus 2mo ago
Yeah, I mean, I know it exists, but the mythology of Lisp is built around "I can drop into a REPL and execute arbitrary code on a production system and that is a good thing"
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
> Personally I think/hope they would have earlier discoveries / more broad usage of the deterministic systems like nix etc, which are built upon functional principles of immutability etc. Yeah, that, uh, doesn't sound like

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