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My name is Stuart and I live in San Diego.
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lttlrck··on H-1B Visa Holders Disappear from US Housing Market
That's not necessarily what this means though. Is it.

I bought a house while on H1B in 2014.

If the climate was like it is now back then, I would have waited for my GC or, for everything to calm down.

But I wouldn't have left...

Edit: BTW it was far far from a low-risk venture in 2014.

lttlrck··on Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ
Just add a radius.
lttlrck··on Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
Same for me. It's always an add-on but same provider and policy.

This has been true with multiple providers on the east and west coast.

lttlrck··on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th
For many, the reason to pick a console over a PC is as true today as it has always been: UX.

I do wish they'd bring Gran Turismo to PC. If that happens, I think it will signal the end of PlayStation as we know it.

lttlrck··on A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
I used one to find the location of rattles in my car.
lttlrck··on iFixit iPhone Air teardown
Still have my W800. It was a marvel at the time, still is really. The only thing that irked me what the proprietary connector - which has perished now.
lttlrck··on Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement
All true but she still signed the document, and later acted against the agreement with the very same trillion dollar company.
lttlrck··on Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology
If "touch sensitive" means it's a load cell then that's not so bad, simracing has used load cells for years and they work very well.
lttlrck··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Of course it depends on the nature of the business but push that too far and you can lock yourself out of projects that require work to be performed on US soil.

I work for a very small company and we've seen by that stipulation a couple of times on anything _remotely_ close to defense/MIC/security.

And the administration can tighten those screws further if it desires.

(I am the only H1B in the history of the company, now a citizen. It would have been impossible to have taken this path with this alleged financial burden)

lttlrck··on The Worst Air Disaster You've Never Heard Of
It had two disasters?

;-)

lttlrck··on Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
I remember thinking emoji are cheating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lttlrck··on Cassette Logic: technology that never dies but is already dead
They are surprisingly durable. I have a tape I made in 1990, it's followed me across continents and been in cardboard boxes, basements and attics. It still plays flawlessly.

Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.

I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.

lttlrck··on Tesla’s autonomous driving claims might be coming to an end [video]
I am not convinced that a camera fixed in place is equivalent to eyeballs with 6 degrees of freedom. That freedom significantly boosts the available parallax for depth and distance perception something fixed in place cameras lack.
lttlrck··on Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example
I wrote a token ring networking simulator with error simulation (token dropping etc) on a 6502. 128 bytes of RAM. It was a squeeze.

I used a Hewlett Packard development system with a 12" hard disk.

Good times.

lttlrck··on MAGA declares war on the property tax
That the TFA puts forward this as a proposed solution drives your point home

> As the name suggests, a property tax deferral program allows seniors to defer paying their property taxes until death.

More direct pricing of police, fire, education, roads is likely the end game they're looking for - and it's kinda the case in California for new build via Mellon-Roos.

lttlrck··on Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
If this is what AI is going to look like in practice it's a big letdown.

Science fiction has been predicting what an AI would be like for over a hundred years, there was even one in a movie in 1927. We're so far from what we dream that, to me, it feels like a mere leaf blowing in the wind compared to the Wright Flyer.

lttlrck··on The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge
Tremendous. Miss my Amiga and booting up the latest demo with my mates. It was a different time.

Interesting parallels with GPUs too.

lttlrck··on macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
I ran Vista on a 17" Dell Inspiron. Core 2 Duo. It ran magnificently.

Sometimes it seems like I was the only person that had that experience...

lttlrck··on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US
So is reading a paperback in a house full of kids or Starbucks.
lttlrck··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
There is a kernel of truth.

But I think you are, maybe to a large extent, misattributing political apathy.

lttlrck··on The cost of interrupted work (2023)
This is adjacent to the post but most (software) engineers I have interacted with are amazing plate spinners and an interruption is just another (ephemeral) plate to spin and it's not even close to 20 minutes recovery time.

Unless it's an emergency (boohoo it'll take whatever it takes) or it tickles my fancy more than what I'm doing - which is a me problem.

lttlrck··on Today's vehicles have bigger blind spots but not where you think
Atrophied Arm Steering Syndrome is endemic where I live. Not limited to trucks!
lttlrck··on Line scan camera image processing for train photography
They have an amazing painterly quality. I'm not a huge train fan but I'd put some of these on my wall.
lttlrck··on Go is still not good
And in no way do all the valid complaints add up to "not good" imho.
lttlrck··on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
multiple commands in a layer is possible in a dockerfile for a long time, since format 1.4(?) using heredoc, which is just a script netting you loop and branches etc.
lttlrck··on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
I would like to try Zed, but it doesn't run on my system due to impenetrable MESA/Vulkan errors with Intel UHD 700, even though vkcube runs fine.

Running a text editor should not be this hard, it's pretty ridiculous. Sublime Text is plenty fast without this nonsense.

lttlrck··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
The VPN provider should hook into the existing government identify service.
lttlrck··on PuTTY has a new website
How strange. It's just an interstitial to the main websites that look less sketchy to my eyes.
lttlrck··on The electric fence stopped working years ago
This resonates with me and frankly it makes me feel worse about some very specific missed opportunities when I was held back by myself. But can you teach an old dog new tricks?
lttlrck··on Millau Viaduct
Fun to visit that area in Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR.
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