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notyourwork

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Software engineer in Seattle, WA
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notyourwork··on Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns
It’s easy to disregard when a bottle of water from somewhere in the world is readily available in a plastic bottle in my soda machine for a dollar. A water business is wild.
notyourwork··on Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns
For the uninformed, tell me more. Is it the density causing too much demand on the resource in a specific geographic region? Something else?
notyourwork··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
Both can be true. Start with soft preemptive planning for both reasons.
notyourwork··on Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
For the uneducated, how large is too large? Curious.
notyourwork··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
Trump keeps that kind of stuff in their guest bathroom, cool. Reporter, raid and straight to jail. What a timeline to witness. Elected officials glut preventing them from doing their duty.
notyourwork··on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones
And not one apology or sympathetic comment towards the deceased. Shame on everyone. What a sad timeline.
notyourwork··on Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
We can both applaud the effort and indicate it’s not enough. Two things can be true simultaneously.
notyourwork··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
I think that would lead to society questioning the justification to have them.
notyourwork··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Decentralized surveillance. Only mass if it’s all cohesively accessible by one entity.
notyourwork··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Which really makes me sad that no one from YCombinator is speaking up. It’s all about money.
notyourwork··on Are Tesla Gigafactory Berlin's days numbered?
He didn’t make a turn. He just started sharing himself out loud.
notyourwork··on 62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
Coherent and correct or merely seemingly coherent and factually incorrect.

This is where we’re at.

notyourwork··on Toll roads are spreading in America
Depends on the location. Some are strictly passenger capacity.
notyourwork··on Unifi Travel Router
Can GL inet not do that? Genuinely asking.
notyourwork··on Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
That’s so great! My dad exposed me to computers at a very young age. That lead to a career in software engineering. You never know what a kid will find interesting and what it may lead to later in life.
notyourwork··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Scale of the data behind the service likely contributes. This data is fixed. Therefore it’s easily indexed once into a cache or memory. Your Gmail is ever changing which results in some lost optimization without dramatic cost increase.
notyourwork··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
It’s not different. I take jobs to pay bills and in the selection process pick opportunities that offer career growth and interesting problems. Money pays the bills.
notyourwork··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
Two things can be bad. Rationalizing one due to being less lethal is an ignorant argument.
notyourwork··on 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results
Cannot wait for ads to slip into my iCloud storage.
notyourwork··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
Money pays the bills. It’s probably not deeply rooted.
notyourwork··on Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models
They and Tesla know something no one else does.
notyourwork··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Thank you, I keep reading these discussions and rarely see anyone touch on power and environmental factors.
notyourwork··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Where does all the power come from? Compute increases have to has sustainable power source and we don’t have that.
notyourwork··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
It only works until Mickey Mouse shows up on your Tiktok feed lynching an African American and doing a sieg heil salute. Are you sure Disney wants that or would not care about that??
notyourwork··on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Who is stopping someone from competing against ASML?
notyourwork··on XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
Oh yea - and DCC transfers for content from IRC. mmmmm
notyourwork··on XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
And now streaming services are becoming “cable networks”. Capitalism at its finest.
notyourwork··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
That indicates the low beams are incorrectly adjusted.
notyourwork··on Feds searched security systems at 18 WA police agencies, report finds
Bur daddy Trump didn’t campaign on spending more money. Just results. Im so tired of disingenuous campaign “promises” leading to electing officials who don’t have a clue. And this isn’t about left and right, it’s about politics becoming a PR charade and society refuses to hold those elected really accountable for their campaign declarations.
notyourwork··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
I propose we stop letting government do things that are revenue based and pretend they are “in our best interests”.
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