tenacious_tuna

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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
> collusion I don't really think it's "collusion" so much as it's a question of incentives. Most Western countries want cheap/captive labor, and immigration policy is one way to achieve that with a very long
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
Can you name the works you'd collected? That's a killer lineup, I'm a huge fan of Walter Jon Willams and have enjoyed what Watts I've read.
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
> But they aren’t going to those other developed countries Canada is also in the midst of an immigration crisis. Western Europe has been debating how to deal with a steady stream of "refugees" for as long as I can remember bein
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
A lot of Ruby's syntax lends itself towards cramming as much business logic on the screen as it can. I used to say it's a "semantically dense" language, but I don't actually know if that's technically accurate.
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
> I love writing Ruby I work at an enterprise running Rails (you've heard of us, if you're in North America). Discussions about rails abound, and my opinion has distilled into "I love writing Ruby, I loathe reading it&quot
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
...what's not true? I can't tell what you're disagreeing with.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
In what universe is that "not a big deal?" That makes an entire country a no-go zone. Worse if it's an offense they could reasonably extradite for. I don't intend to ever travel to Russia or North Korea, but that's
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
good lord this is an annoying website. You load in, get a floating modal in the lower right inviting you to subscribe to the author's "field notes," then when you scroll it shades the viewport with the same advertisement.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I'm an American living outside the US. While this is true it feels a bit like how pedestrians have the right-of-way at road crossings: you're legally protected, but is right now the time to test how much people are going to respec
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> 45ish minute reverse commute to Seattle bustling-est neighborhoods for evening fun What is a "reverse commute"? Is that just going into the city at the opposite time of day from normal work? Also, 45 minutes one day (1.5hr to
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Curiosity, why sys76 over Framework? I've a (now ancient) sys76 galp2 that I still use, but I'm confident that I'm gonna get a Framework to replace it.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
previously (july 22 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652374 "My Volvo EX90 Experience" Guy made a CVE style disclosure page about all the issues he'd experienced with his EX90. This feels related.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I typed out the response below but I'm not sure I have a coherent response as to why the secular zeitgeist of death is less intimidating to me than the religious context of it. (Though, I'm not who you're replying to.) I thin
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
When I first encountered this description of grief it really resonated, but it's felt less poignant as I've gotten older, partly because I find myself grieving people who still live, and are simply too different from how I remembe
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Can you elaborate on how Google is locking down Android? I'm not familiar
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> I didn't think any part of linear algebra was boring. My formal linear algebra course was boring as hell, to me. The ~4 lectures my security prof dedicated to explaining just enough to do some RSA was absolutely incredible. I woul
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> Isn’t this a bit obvious? I thought the same thing as I left the church, but it's so ingrained in many people in ways they don't even realize. Another commenter mentions the "just world fallacy," which I agree drive
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Startling lack of mentions of Minneapolis and Chicago[1]! Minneapolis has an extensive "Skyway" at the ~third story of a bunch of downtown buildings. It's kinda one extensive mall, but also makes it possible to meander withou
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I've very much enjoyed maintaining or optimizing or hardening existing systems--I can just never convince my leadership to let me do that. My current org has a terrible case of not-invented-here syndrome, and it's so easy to pitch
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Not OP, but I'm in a similar situation: I have a two-way switched pair of lights on my stairwell, one light at the base, one at the top. The one at the top does not work. We've tried replacing the bulb, we've tried fiddling w
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Gods I would love to work more in a policy space, tho my background is entirely technical. A friend of mine has been trying to get into law school for a few years; she's technically competent and plenty intelligent, but it's been
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> Radios off (GPS/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth) unless needed GPS is a passive technology, no? Downloading GPS assist data obviously isn't, and plenty of phones use wifi scanning as a way to augment GPS position fixes, but this seemed
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> For Japanese casualties, the predictions were essentially limitless, since the plans included bombing every city in the invasion’s path with the tactics used on Tokyo. Viewed through this pitiless lens, Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> The primary purpose of field programming is manufacturing logistics Or if I lose my car key
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> I think it'd be amazing if I had the energy to make up improv bedtime stories every night [...] (Lately, it's "Hey Google, tell a story" if mommy is too busy to read) This feels like the crux of my issues with AI. W
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Oh, I see, almost rubber-ducking the semantic meaning of the term. That makes more sense to me. Apologies for my knee-jerk LLM skepticism.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I enjoy this idea, but it's undercut somewhat by the author asking ChatGPT to define the term they're writing a post about define. I'm not sure what the anecdote is meant to add, either. ChatGPT and other hosted LLMs seem to
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I don't think we (Americans) have a solid understanding of political cause and effect. You see this in low turnout for local/state elections (vs federal), and just a lack of understanding of how the various political mechanics wor
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I'm also between GenZ and Millennial. I don't have many (any?) GenZ friends, but I feel like I say "no" to social events the most out of my peers (and have for a while). I frankly don't know how to juggle it all: be

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