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Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet by Lindsay Owens became available today, and I have purchased ebook and will begin reading today.

I'm guessing it might be less easy to physically drive, though.

I'm sure the wildly circuitous routes generated will be useful for rhetorical purposes though.

It is however allowable to correct grammar nits if done in the midst of a prison riot, as in The Naked Gun.

I was angered and frustrated to find (the hard way) that some states have statutes which explicitly relieve storage companies from responsibility in the event of loss from theft.

The entity in the best position to know how to secure the premises is not liable to do so at all in some states.

Oh, and don’t get me started on ballooning but opaque rental rates.

I wanted to pay up front for 2-3 years of storage but most places “couldn’t” quote me what the rate would be beyond 3 months in advance.

Such a scammy industry.

| In general, stop trying to steelman the looters. Sometimes a con artist is really just a con artist.

Re-read my comment in the context of the message to which it replied.

Maybe even use the tariff proceeds to provide incentives to those very same domestic industries? (I am not an economist.)

“You think you’re better than me?”

We’ve got to be sure the manufacturers get a solid decade or two to profit off of these schemes, so that future manufacturers know it will be worthwhile perpetrating future schemes.

Even prior to that, how long is your commute?

I became interested in OpenWrt when I noticed that the cloud portal for my ISP reported to me the names and types of devices that were associated to my home access point/router.

Suddenly I want to put every IPS device into dumb bridge mode, and run my own damn router.

> Wouldn't you consider defining the schema doing the domain modeling?

To an extent, yes.

But to the extent that a so-called impedance mismatch exists, this is going to put your domain model on the faraway/difficult side of that impedance mismatch.

And will result in your domain model existing in an (on average) less expressive language which is more difficult to test.

I'm happy making one-shot payments for most types of media.

But I want to start a new bittorrent tracker for individual movies or episodes for which the provider requires you to create a recurring subscription, to rip off such content unabashedly.

Watched it. It reads interesting indeed. Makes me suspect that, at least during the Fitzcarraldo period, Herzog might’ve thought misery was valuable or even necessary to good filmmaking - misery in the form of stunts and geographic setting, and misery in the form of lead actor’s personality.

Best part of My Best Fiend was Herzog’s own thoughts (soliloquy?) on nature and the jungle itself. Those bits were some pure solid gold Herzog.

I always enjoy hearing from him because he’s so unorthodox and I never have any idea the approach he’s going to take when giving an interview or answering a question.

And I always feel the need to point out that Grizzly Man was a truly good movie. I’d heard about it for years and based on the premise expected to have a low brow appeal, something for dumb people to feel superior to someone. But no, it was a respectful and in-depth character study (with some downright poetic narration) and probably Herzog’s best movie.

Corporate apartments raise their rents in lockstep with the market, whereas at least some randos will leave it stable for some years in a row.

I might suggest that anyone who wants to make it concrete to go through the article

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...

while visiting https://dotnetfiddle.net and typing the code samples in, experimenting with what manner of changes and additions to the code cause the compilation to fail, and considering how you would leverage those abilities in your everyday development work.

I think this would be even more powerful if you then come back and re-read some of the pro-Union comments in this very thread.

Knew a guy who owned an I.T. consultancy who was fond of (privately) saying, "This job wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the customers and the employees!"

I used Claude Code to prepare my personal income tax return this year, and so far the IRS hasn’t come after me.

Had Claude generate yaml files for the input/source documents, then had it generate code to process the return into output yaml files.

Manually typed the results into the IRS Free File Forms website, and was pleased to see that it did some input validation.

Had it generate Code modules to match the IRS forms and schedules by name, keeping the nomenclature in code as close as possible to that in the official IRS instructions.

Spot checked a whole lot of it and found very, very little of it that needed correction.

Stored all of it in git so that I could monitor the diffs as it went along.

Maybe the neatest part was when I asked Claude why I wound up owing so much it gave me a list of reasons and dollar amounts in descending order.

That maneuver they were attempting looks WILD. Would have been amazing to have pulled of. Or, perhaps to have regularly pulled off until today. I'm guessing that must be some sort of vectored thrust trickery.

Quies foamies. After wearing military issue 3M foamies around jet engines for years, I bought some of these Quies and were very surprised to discover that they could be made so comfortable, and also long lasting.

F# is so elegant and terse for writing functional-style wrappers around OO code packages! Unfortunately, you find yourself needing to write functional-style wrappers around OO code packages.

LinkedIn itself is far from great, but this seems like a good thread to share my LinkedIn tip of creating a job alert using a search query like

rust embedded NOT lensa NOT jobot NOT alignerr NOT mercor NOT “crossing hurdles”

ramraj07 went on to clarify that they were advocating for putting the onus for cleanup back on mess generators.

They clearly were not advocating for flat out refusing.

Devils advocate: what if a facial recognition system with a large enough database can always find an unrelated/innocent person that looks similar enough to convince the human?

I’ve been screaming this too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237

It’s refreshing to see the same sentiment from so many other people independently here.

Software Complexity Vs Experience, diagram:

https://www.awesomesoftwareengineer.com/assets/resources/arc...

The “Firefighter Becomes Arsonist” Organizational Anti-Pattern

I mean really most companies have a backlog of feature ideas a mile long, and some tool comes along making your employees 40% more efficient, and the best thing you can think to do is the exact same thing at the exact same tempo but with fewer employees?

The CEO who thinks that way should be replaced due to incompetence, or at least due to lack of vision and imagination.

For fun, ask your preferred LLM (or perhaps a google search would also work?) for specific questions that lifestyle polygraph interviewers typically ask to throw you off your rhythm or to establish a baseline for later questions. No joke, it's an absolute riot.

More seriously, I'd be reluctant to take a polygraph-based job. If the very concept is flaky and you fail out at the beginning, no big deal. But I'm not sure I'd want to invest in a career in which something that flaky could on its own start creating career problems for you years or decades in.

I don't think current employment law allows, but as a software candidate I'd much rather assess the company/team fit on a trial basis as well. (Am neither a lawyer nor HR)

I wonder what some solutions might be?