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> I've told them over and over I'm not capable of that I can relate and empathize. And also provide this suggestion based on my own similar experience: if you can't provide evidenc…

> Concert tickets are almost certainly in the 'dinner reservation' category. They have no need to identify me for national security reasons Admittedly I haven't been to many concer…

In my workplace, its availability. We have to use US-only models for government-compliance reasons, so we have access to Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4, but only Gemini 2.5 which isn't in th…

And you'd lose that wager. I complain about movie costs while I watch movies at home, drive a VW that was under $40k new, live in a state with a minimum wage over $17 an hour, and …

> when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. As someone who lives alone, two ways…

Sounds good. So they've cancelled all Starship-related construction at LC-39A at KSC, because Texas, right?

I haven't tried it myself so you might be right, but I was thinking of the silver conductive pens from Chemtronics with a conductivity of 0.02-0.05 ohms/sq/mil. For attachment, I'd…

For the 2D version, you might not need very much custom. Use a regular pen plotter and use a pen with conductive ink. These both exist today, though personally as a hobbyist PCB de…

For me its the commodities. I grant that SpaceX engineers are smart people and can figure out how to make Starship and Superheavy reliable and reusable. But if they have to launch …

I'm an embedded software engineer by day and like it or not I have to acknowledge that AI tooling is coming to our work, so I'm currently working on learning to interact with AI co…

Not OP, but one example I can think of: Jeff Bezos moved from Washington state to Florida two years after Washington enacted a 7% capital gains tax "on the sale or exchange of long…

You don't support trying to save the planet? The Bezos Earth Fund: https://www.bezosearthfund.org/

I think it might be a organizational architecture that needs to change. > However, we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an action of “execute”. > This is a stra…

> In particular, our code to parse .deb, .ar, .tar, and the HTTP signature verification code would strongly benefit from memory safe languages > Critical infrastructure still writt…

Oh yeah, derp. I was thinking unaligned-PER, not BER.

I worked with ASN.1 for a few years in the embedded space because its used for communications between aircraft and air traffic control in Europe [1]. I enjoyed it. BER encoding is …

> This friend told me she can't work without ChatGPT anymore. It doesn't say she chooses to use it; it says she can't work without using it. At my workplace, senior leadership has …

> those who want to parse a JSON document with a YAML parser. I've done it. We already had a YAML parser in an internal library I maintain since we were already ingesting YAML file…

It has not so far. "Experts say that airdrops, another measure Israel announced, are insufficient for the immense need in Gaza and dangerous to people on the ground."[1] "[T]he air…

We're in the greater Seattle area and I make north of $200k, so I feel like yes :shrug:

My department at the place I work is actively hiring Software Engineers. We have nine open requisitions for any seniority level and are regularly conducting interviews, but the new…

That's very interesting! Thanks for the recommendation, definitely something I'll consider.

> the price seems way high. How much is your child's finger worth? I'm looking at getting a SawStop table saw so I can teach my child woodworking with slightly more peace-of-mind t…

> I'm still a bit upset that they took away vertical taskbars from us After getting a new W11 laptop at work and discovering the removal of vertical taskbars (ridiculous on 16:9 mo…

> most classes are not designed to be inherited but want to expose a clean public API. > While true that all classes can be inherited That's what the 'final' keyword in C++ is for:…