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I dodged layoffs for 20 years, then got caught about 2024. Kinda sucked because I was over employed and had quit my other two jobs to focus on that one because it was the highest p…

It’s trivial to use a cellular connection to control a fpv drone, near real time. I’m really surprised there hasn’t been occurrences of extortion (ie protection rackets) and target…

Do you always make things about yourself? Have you written a parser or interpreter? You should, it’s an interesting exercise. The idea is to add meta tracing to the interpreter (th…

Doesn’t affect me. I personally stopped in 2023, plus I can retire anytime thanks to the money I made then and Taco.

It doesn’t, I have one of these jobs on my resume and I simply don’t mention the others. Who would know if I don’t tell them? The IRS knows I had 3 w2s but they don’t know the date…

Glad I was over working three full time jobs (remote w2) during that period. I stacked A LOT of cash during that those years that has appreciated nicely.

This is a big turn off for me too. I don’t want to “figure it out for myself”. That’s why I became catholic as an adult. With the fediverse I have an overwhelming fear of missing o…

At the very least these ai threads where we argue this ai topic will be of great historical interest as our profession either dies or mutates to something else!

This, I got married at 40 to a 36 year old. We both wanted kids and a family but for reasons it hadn’t worked out for either of us. This wasn’t a Disney romance by any means but we…

It’s my personal belief that btc has been the currency of foreign influence operations ie for paying media figures to influence popular opinion and sentiments. I believe this can b…

A video [1] was posted about his, but here is the paper. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400179

Quitting caffeine helped me with anxiety and some mental health stuff. Ymmv

When I was moonlighting LinkedIn didn’t affect me. Every time I applied/interviewed and got hired for a w2 job, I just left my last non moonlighting employer on there, and checked …

Nice effort but this isn’t interesting at all. You skipped the most interesting part; parsing http. This is beejs networking tutorial with writing a file to a socket. Harsh? Maybe,…

Until science can offer an explanation of "why am I here? what is meaning?" other than random chance, there will always be religion. Some may find random chance comforting and mean…

This is why I became catholic as an adult. I was raised baptist, and became agnostic. Then started attending mass with my now wife. Imo Protestants border on bible (the physical bo…

Let him go build his rockets in Russia or China. If he wants to support anti democratic folks he’ll be right at home somewhere else. Musk and his troll farm can piss right off imo.…

As someone who witnessed A-10 CAS fuck some stuff up in a combat zone ie the real “brrrrt” I’ve been mystified by the meme and current useage. No one knows where it comes from nor …

Whenever people say about someone “they would never kill themselves” it reminds me of a deeply disturbing depression episode I had, thankfully only once, that lasted about 8 hours.…

I tried this several years ago on ebay, selling an hn account with down vote. It did not sell or get any bids at all.

I never understood the "salt scarcity in antiquity" idea. As in they could just use a splash brine water from the sea if you physiologically need salt. And transport sea water inla…

Too much fox/maga media/kremlin propaganda. All the ammo given to Ukraine has been expired and due to be disposed of.