syngrog66

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   2025: Gaslighting Americans at Scale(toot.io)

   3 points by syngrog66 1y ago|0 comments
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   AI Prompt Crafting: A Race to the Global Bottom(toot.io)

   2 points by syngrog66 1y ago|0 comments
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   yes prob! :-) DF and NetHack my 2 fave Rogue-likes. plus I'm the creator of 2 of them: Dead By Zombie, and Slartboz
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   Coinbase is a biz built by people willing to sell shovels to the cryptocurrency speculators. They've already filtered themselves as folks with questionable morals. They're like a cigarette manufaturer.
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   easy flag for a shop you want to pass on anyway
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   two people sit in front of same laptop: solved and for decades
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & sca
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   I agree with much (if not necessarily all) of what you said, esp about foreign actors and adversarial propaganda and disinfo (APD.) I worked on the latter problem space precisely for the US State Department. Its challenging, esp at scale, a
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   by syngrog66 1y ago

   all on the side, in free time: - EV charging software - finish writing book on tech topic - finish writing book of short stories - planning next upgrade of LatLearn, my Golang latency instrumentation library (along with a dev session screen
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    by syngrog66 1y ago

    water in the list. yeah the author tried to imply all the tech related to those (air, water, food, etc) by citing a few examples (pipes, AC...) eg. a microwave is an amazingly powerful tool. and pots/pans combined with fire and water?
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    Technologies Far More Impressive Than AI(toot.io)

    5 points by syngrog66 1y ago|2 comments
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    by syngrog66 1y ago

    I love all things perf but stopped reading pretty early once I saw enough foundation mistakes (after which all else is folly anyway, haha): 1. making a note-taking app in 2025: 1st mistake. cuz well solved space with great existing tools&#x
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    by syngrog66 1y ago

    I used Gemini heavily the last several months and was both shocked and nauseated at how bad the quality is. Terrible UI/UX design mistakes and anti-patterns. I felt sorry for the folks who work there, that they felt it was shippable. I
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & sca
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    in D&D race always meant species. No real change there. But the idea that there are no common "baseline" traits based on species is obviously nuts and contradicted by plenty of real world examples. Thankfully individual DMs an
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    should not be on HN front page. shame on you folks
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    The EU should treat Putin's Russia like the aggressive evil predator and danger it so clearly is. And they should assume the US under Trump cannot be trusted. They must assume he's Putin's lackey. I'm American so it pain
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    notes.txt add choice of encryption, vcs, backup. solved for many decades
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    To folks over a certain age this question is hilarious. ;-)
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & sca
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    yikes
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    vi checklist.txt approach works also with diff, grep, find, git, zip, scp/sftp, rsync, pandoc etc etc
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    > Back in the early 90s, when Apple was literally building their first product line with the Mac, cough like saying, "Back in the 70s with Paul McCartney's first band, Wings (...)" kids? get off my lawn
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & sca
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    > "and we continue to be laser-focused on building great products." NO! False. I can confirm they are not. I've known of several major obvious unfixed bugs/flaws in Google apps for years. and in the last year or so es
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    I've learned its best to have everyone's camera off in a VOIP call. For many reasons, one cuz if I see faces on screen live it distracts my brain internals enough it impairs my effective IQ in the moment, and adds a kind of biolog
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    My ability to paint & animate images (2D and pseudo-3D) in my mind's eye has been a strength of mine from childhood on. I believe it helps me to be more effective. One downside however is its power can be addicting. If I let it!
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    wrong type of python for HN
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    its complicated by fact that the Russian and Chinese govs run ops to try to compromise software and systems worldwide, partly to help achieve certain goals like stealing IP or acquiring blackmail, to cite just a subset. And while not in a h
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    by syngrog66 2y ago

    special case of more general rule: don't give time estimates to others. asking for pain