syngrog66

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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python & Java (many years each), Go (newest preferred), Rust (newb but admire), C (recent refresh, once daily/fav lang but avoid), web dev, SQL, git, Linux,
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   ie. like asbestos causing lung cancer
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   bingo, agreed judge people only by the content of their character. (ie. MLK's dream.) Help based only on their economic means, or their health needs. I believe some folks in recent years have "gone overboard" and have devised
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   and pointers! and address offsets! C was my main/daily lang by age 18 or 19 and I got drunk on its power
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   summary. or synopsis lets kill that already-anachronistic hipster acronym. ideally with fire (LKTAAHA;IWF) also: kids, get off my lawn
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   PEBKAC
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   Hard to answer. Because the most technically challenging and interesting work I've done has been for employers or clients, and under NDA, closed source, and now part of their IP or trade secrets. Whereas for myself in my own free time
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   if us-east-1 is not in Tokyo its safe
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   by syngrog66 4y ago

   meanwhile MJ smoking is way up. even if not carcinogenic compared to tobacco the act of taking all that hot smoke and its fine particulate matter into one's lungs is unlikely to make a person more healthy
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    related to a bigger risk I see for the US. if the US gets into a war with China its going to hurt us massively. We're heavily dependent on them now during peace time as it is -- and all those two-way flows can stop in war. and they ha
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    I see companies ignoring or actively scaring away talent left and right.
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    yet another thing well-solved by plain text files, and vim
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    its extremely distracting. its like attaching an anchor to my brain. its like driving in traffic while simultaneously trying to text back and forth with someone on your phone. both suffer and very unnatural and insulting to an experienced p
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    I believe some pieces were made in Europe and shipped to Samsonite in the US. But some pieces were truly made in the Samsonite factory in Denver, using molds provided by LEGO corporate. I imagine the pieces that LEGO felt were most IP sensi
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    The title is somewhat misleading. The story might be about LEGO's first directly built and branded factory. But it wont be the first LEGO factory in the US. Back in the 60s/70s the company Samsonite had a license from LEGO to make
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    rule of thumb: media sharing startups gladly host porn when they're early, small and growing. Then once they mature, get big enough, the Adults Take Over, they then ban the porn. Seen this sequence happen a dozen times from afar over d
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    I'm looking for FT paid work. Keeping busy by working on an interactive simulation intended to educate about climate and democracy dangers, and possible fixes. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10qPeczFPaJJKmINZ
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    when I design new software I bias/default to CLI, monolithic, local-hosted, and offline-only, first. Then only if and when I have a good pressing reason to give it a GUI, or make it client/server, or require connectivity, or be cl
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    This reminds me again that the carbon climate crisis is tangled up with democracy itself and cannot be separated. Our best chance to do the massive changes needed requires national gov level buy-in by all the world's biggest nations. W
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    agreed. the best papers are often better reading than the vast majority of technical books or websites. perhaps because of the pressure to be clear and concise. with books I find I often must wade through lots of fluff or "novel to nov
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    SpaceX has taken massively more US gov funding than NPR. and many Tesla car buyers were persuaded to make the leap due to US gov tax incentives on EVs I do miss the old Elon Musk, the one I could respect and appreciate without reservation.
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    Lisp is good "hellp world" being a 784k exe is bad
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    I've found vim best for distraction-free writing. Not a full word processor, true, but its easy enough as a separate step to copypaste text into a word processor doc when WYSIWYG formatting is desired. Or use something like a pandoc sc
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    flashbacks to the time I wrote up a speculative proposal to win a NASA/FAA SBIR phase 1 grant. related to airport sims (one we hoped was relatively novel, compared to prior efforts.) my partner and I at the time ultimately decided not
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    > and further removed from it on ISO Ada 2012. and in that precise moment Ada proved it had garbage collection all along
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    reasonable I've used Python a few times as the raw material out of which I craft a DSL-like thing. esp if I need a Frankenstein mix of executable code and data, blurring line with an API I mean, yes, ostensibly I use Lisp. but at the l
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python & Java (many years each), Go (newest preferred), Rust (newb but admire), C (recent refresh, once daily/fav lang but avoid), web dev, SQL, git, Linux,
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    took me a while to decode the fact that Codon is (AFAIK) just a Python-to-native compiler. and an incomplete/non-conformant one to boot. The title and OA was written in a breathless, but murky style "Oh... a native compiler. That
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    I've made about 30 games over the last few decades, and did it FT solo indie for a few years. as a PT hobby currently I'm building a new interactive sim, with game-like aspects, related to democracy. Goal for UX is a mix of educa
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    by syngrog66 4y ago

    short answer: yes. you can do that. you can do anything you want. you're CEO of your life. you're young. have lots of cash. just recommend to spend more on the frugal side while income is zero. theres a recession in software anywa