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I’m sorry but this comment is hysterical. I have experience with construction and engineering and I shudder to think what type of monstrosity you’ve built.

Although I believe that the war in Ukraine is unjust, I still do love Russia. They are an extreme people and that cuts both ways. If you learn even a little bit of their language and make friends with Russians you will see a glimpse of the Russian soul. It is a tragedy that they didn’t join NATO after the Cold War ended.

If what you are saying is true, then you would see exploit marketplaces list iOS exploits at hundreds of millions of dollars. Right now a cursory glance sets the price for zero click persistent exploit at $2m behind Android at $2.5m. Still high, and yes, higher than five years ago when it was around $1m for both, but still not "largely crushed". It is still easy to get into a phone if you are a state actor.

I love DigitalOcean to the point where I actually applied for a job there[0]. The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things. I've been a paying customer for something like 12 years and I've never had an issue.

[0] They never got back to me, sadly.

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Willing to do remote, yes.

Willing to relocate: Willing to relocate, but nothing colder than Toronto.

Technologies: Python (Django), Ruby (Rails), advanced SQL, MS Excel including Solver.

Résumé/CV: On request.

Email: zachaysan@gmail.com

Blog: https://www.zachaysan.com/writing

GitHub: https://github.com/zachaysan

I'm open to backend roles, including roles I've done before but haven't in a while like Data Science / Machine Learning. But I'm especially interested in a role where I could write technical blog posts for a company like DigitalOcean. I've been a partner at a small company before and I've been a CTO before, so if you have a small scrappy startup and you're looking for someone to hire juniors and to read through Pull Requests, I'm your man.

This doesn’t work for my iPhone that’s about three years old.

I upvoted you even though we presently disagree because you bring an honest perspective to the discussion.

The main reason I was drawn to the Catholic Church was that I believed in transubstantiation, or at least the real presence. I was drawn to the history of the Church and through prayer and conversations as well as a supernatural event as well as a dream I prayed for, I finally came to accept that praying with saints was not worshiping them. All prayers with saints go directly to God, but sometimes having someone intercede for you, as Mary did at the wedding feast at Cana, helps you with God.

If you have an open mind to switching churches, I recommend the following:

1. Pray to God to guide you to the right Church. I believe that he may be guiding some people to the Catholic Church, others to the Orthodox Church, and some to Protestant churches. Or He may have a real preference. I'm not sure, but I tried pretty hard to figure out where to go and I ended up in the Catholic Church.

2. Take the core issues that are show stoppers for you and research (and pray) them from the other perspective. Like I did with prayer with saints.

3. If you are feeling to be led to a certain church, get the full catechism of that church and read through it. I was shocked at how little I disagreed with the Catholic Church's catechism. It gave me confidence that I was truly being led to Catholicism.

4. Talk to Christians that you look up to. This is what I did with prayer with saints. There was a Christian uncle of mine (not blood, married in) that I was just completely sure that he was a real Christian and he was a Catholic. He explained it to me in ways that made sense and he answered any of my questions. I ended up adopting his middle name Jacques. Which leads to the funny sounding name Zach Jacques Aysan.

I've prayed for you. God Bless!

I’ve had a wild life. I was a Protestant for over thirty years and I became a Catholic around two years ago. I’ve had more than a few demons attack me and two confirmed good spirits, probably angels. The test for spirits is to get them to agree that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. It’s sometimes difficult to understand them, but anyway I really believe the Bible and supernatural stuff. If anyone on here wants to reach out my email is in my profile.

I downvoted you for two reasons:

1. I didn't see any obvious AI ticks in the article.

2. If you want to claim that some slop is AI then please bring reasons. Even if they are the stuff of "there is too many em-dashes" then fine at least you brought something.

I remember the first bubble. It was absolutely huge. This is nothing compared to that. This is a bit frothy, but given the difference between AGI and human intelligences it is at least understandable. If AI can replace most workers then we should expect to see sky high valuations. That is a big if but it is at least conceivable.

Have you tried going to a church or a country club or a bar? There is also a find friends option on most dating apps. I really wish that you’d find at least one friend. If you’re in Toronto I could meet up with you at a cafe or a pub.

I'm sorry but only at my most very dedicated periods of work did I work 100 hour weeks, and that was like 3 or 4 weeks tops. I highly doubt that anyone sustains a 100 hour work week for much longer. Eighty hour work weeks? Sure, that is doable, but sleeping at the job site because you are pulling a 100 hour work week is just not sustainable.

Governments need privacy. They literally investigate child mollestation cases. They hunt spies. They handle all sorts of messy things like divorce between couples with abuse.

I'm not commenting on the government coming in at unveiling encrypted communications, but certainly a better approach than "governments should be transparent and the people should be opaque" would be "governments should be translucent and the people should be translucent too".

I remember a time before UTF-8's ubiquity. It was such a headache moving to i18z. I love UTF-8.

I don't really know why we even need commas for lists of things. Just use the white space.

I can't believe how long this Wikipedia article is and complete with sources! Like, it's just a cat! I'm surprised the notoriety police haven't swooped in.

Hahahaha. I wish HN allowed the use of the joy emoji in response for these types of posts.

Possibly Canadian, where it isn't legal to buy human blood.

That's what I was going to say. Big conclusions based of tiny sample sizes are ridiculous.

Travelling would be so much more annoying if we did it that way. Imagine constantly having to double check what the local time is for getting out of bed.

It's about perception. When I look at a old page on GitHub and there haven't been any code changes in two years but it does look like the Issues page is addressed quickly then I can trust the old code. On the other hand if the Issues page isn't addressed I can assume that the code will cause me problems in the future and I'll look for a different library.

I've found more incredible improvements in AI than in consumer electronics these days. I'm still daily surprised at just how good ChatGPT is at understanding my pretty complex queries.

Heroku is decent although I don't like some of the tweaks you can't do with it. For example, setting variables in postgres is neutered.

The post doesn’t definitively answer whether Bond is bisexual but argues for the importance of acknowledging the possibility. It highlights how the franchise’s ambiguity opens the door for diverse interpretations, inviting viewers to see Bond through their own lenses and experiences.

Personally, I don't think Bond is bi.

Tests are embarrassingly parallel. If you can split up the load for CI then at the limit the slowest response is your slowest running test. I wish more tooling would expose this out of the box, but with some effort it is possible.

I'm surprised you say so btilly. I've found the differences in between SQLite and Postgres to be large enough to bring up issues that are hard to find. Timestamp handling, non-trivial indexes, etc.

> is dangerously close to a polytheistic practice in its own right.

I don't really think so. We're supposed to pray with Mary to God and everyone recognizes that all of creation came through Christ, not Mary or any other saint.

Is there a way to figure out if OpenAI ingested my blog? If the settlements are $2500 per article then I'll take a free used cars worth of payments if its available.

The problem is that you don't get the same quality of data if you go about it that way. I love ChatGPT and I understand that we're figuring out this new media landscape but I really hope it doesn't turn out to neuter the models. The models are really well done.

When I was five years old I would walk along a path and take a bridge across a river to visit my friend to play board games. By the time I was nine I was bicycling forty-five minutes to school on a 80 km/h road. The level of paranoia that's infected people around keeping kids near their parents is insane.