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Location: Seattle Remote: Yes, or in-office/hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django/FastAPI), SQL, AWS Resume: https://ericabrahamsen.net/EricAbrahamsen.pdf Ema…

The application instructions mention an LLM honeytrap, but the application doesn't include any way to trip that trap. AND, submitting an application results in no automated "receiv…

Hi HN, Location: Seattle, USA Willing to relocate: No Main Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, more than I ever wanted to know about AWS Resume: https://ericabrahamsen.net/EricAbraha…

Don't forget to mention location! This looks to be on location in Boston.

Location: Seattle Remote: Remote or hybrid (or in-office if there's a good reason!) Willing to relocate: No LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-abrahamsen-32a8895b/ I am a p…

It is a practice that leads, as a consequence, to insight. Insight is not information that might be read from a book, it is experience that uses observation to arrive at understand…

Twenty minutes of searching didn't come up with any software jobs related to the Northwest Forest Plan. I'm PNW born and raised, and love old-growth forests more than pretty much a…

Interesting. Are you characterizing Kalman filters mostly as systems of control/refinement on top of alpha-beta filters? I do feel like the core of it is essentially exponential/lo…

Thanks for the recommendation! It would never have occurred to me to look at robotics, but I can understand why that's very relevant. I read Feedback Control for Computer Systems n…

Hi Chris! I also felt like the essay suffered a lot from generalization -- Harrison happened to talk to these three people, and extrapolated way too much from that.

No thread on Kalman Filters is complete without a link to this excellent learning resource, a book written as a set of Jupyter notebooks: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayes…

I attended Deep Springs 1996/97. The school goes through semi-regular cultural oscillations between "mean" and "nice"; between what we'd now call toxic masculinity, and sort of a p…

Exactly the same here. Every once in a while I think "let's see if Google has anything better for this query", and it never does.

I am 100% in on OSMand and the whole ecosystem, but I still curse out loud every time I have to enter a street address into its address "parser". I know it's a hard problem, but it…

This is incredibly helpful, thank you! It's going to save me hours of research. I have a Das Keyboard that I am very fond of, but over the years have definitely started to wonder w…

I've enjoyed using types.SimpleNamespace: >>> from types import SimpleNamespace >>> d = {"one":1, "two":2} >>> ns = SimpleNamespace(**d) >>> ns.two 2 I consider it a bonus that the…

All of my passwords are in the "pass" command line utility, where they're encrypted with gpg. I added my brother's gpg key as an encryption target, and his ssh key onto the sever w…

44, and just got my first job as a software engineer! (I've been programming since circa 2004, tho.)

I live in the Seattle's university district. Homelessness has doubled or tripled since COVID. The vast majority of them mentally ill. Tell me how COVID ruined our citizens' moral f…

> The absolutely staggering level of income and wealth inequality we have experienced in the last decade has taken all of those problems and multiplied them tenfold. This is the ke…

Like a good FOSS nerd (and cheapo), I tried to steer my daughter towards Gimp rather than shelling out for Photoshop. She dug in her heels, and eventually I was able to divine that…

It's odd that in the whole course of this very long article, Moser doesn't use the word "power" in describing the relationship of English and its literature to the rest of the worl…

Butterpat is another "new but like old" cast iron company: https://butterpatindustries.com/

When you stop using signal, you can log in to the signal website and say "I'm no longer using Signal"; that will solve the problem with your Signal-using contacts. I just checked a…

Thai cooking uses it in near everything, including fried rice. And most stir-fried veggies. I've been stewing collard greens in chicken broth and fish sauce: delicious!