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Seconded. I have been using nixos for a few years. I don't use it for everything, but I like it for dev. It was weird at first, and there were one or two early blocking problems I …

Oddly, literally everything you just described is true about my pure remote software engineering position, except I had to get bachelors in computer science first.

Many years ago someone's caramel Ho-Ho's ended up in a bag of my groceries forgotten by a previous customer at the check out isle, I suspect. I didn't notice until I was home so I …

>> You find yourself in a dark house. You search your person and find nothing but a debit card and a luminescent tablet. Staring into the ceaseless abyss, suddenly you remember: yo…

Love GMG, glad to see it at number one here. It's really quite amazing how much funnier and yet more profound it is without Garfield. If you like this, you might also enjoy Nietzsc…

Nothing except I didn't know about it. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

I need to learn rust for work. Since beej doesn't seem to have a guide for rust, what's the next best thing? :)

I actually thought the same thing. Maybe the misunderstanding here has to do with what kind of manager. An engineering manager making 250k would be making less than many senior sof…

I don't know about that region, or whether they were trying to create a breakfast that would sound classy but credible to a Westerner. However, I can say from first hand experience…

I'm helping an enthusiastic young adult family member write an indie game in a similar space. I'm a professional software engineer in the full stack/security space but I don't have…

I think this is about as reasonable as conflating all hippies with Manson, or all Christians with the Waco people. I have met a few "rationalist" types, and I went to a "rationalis…

Laws are being broken to make the omelet. Will the executive constrain itself to breaking only the laws you don't like, and stop when you want it to? Will the legislative branch ce…

There's a picture of Janis Joplin standing on the sidewalk in SF in which the city looks exactly the same, as though frozen in amber for 50 years.

>> stagflation is dead ahead Why?

This is fine as a high level economic discussion, but I think it misses the point of the complaints from actually US consumers: when I consume healthcare as an individual I am payi…

What fraction of domestic violence shelter occupants are paranoid rather than reasonably fearful? What fraction are paranoid, vs. those who are reasonably afraid of being spied on …

Stop thinking about cloak and dagger shit and start thinking about things ordinary people could do if they had a psychotic obsession, and nothing better to do with 120 hours a week…

Respectfully, a large number of people rightfully fear for their lives, safety, and freedom due to being stalked or abused by a current or former partner. I have personally known s…

>> it is a fallacy to claim that the only anti-authoritarians which exist are those who would be pathologized I don't think that this claim was made in the essay.

Thank goodness my Windows updates are broken!