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I don’t know. I often look on Reddit but am often still unhappy with the results.

I don’t like that the rich potential of this platform and hardware is often wasted for cheap upsells

12500 ft is 2083.33 fathoms.

I had their MP-201 and that thing was stunning

Good. I wish the internet would go the way of the Gemini Project and, by default have privacy-centric behavior. I'm tried to every company thinking I want to be tracked; I do not. I want simple services that do the thing I ask them to do and no more.

One thing I noticed, which always felt possibly-illegal, was how Binance and other exchanges would frequently freeze up funds that didn't meet minimum withdraws. If a coin fell to too-low of a price, they'd essentially just keep them. Sure, it is only $5-100 here and there, but that all adds up. Where does it go?

With a real bank or exchange, I'd expect some ability to sweep up my accounts and get a paper check for 50 cents if needed.

I've found maybe 3 or 4 jobs from HN, including some well paying consulting work. It continues to be one of the highest signal to noise ratio places out there.

I got burned on “perpetual” licenses from Avid with Pro Tools. I hate licensing games these days

One of my late life dreams is to be an old man with a beard, pipe and cat living in a lighthouse and staring at the sea. I live in Rhode Island, and seriously want to figure out how to get one of these…

Thank you!

Is there a GitHub repo or similar effort where people have been working on this?

I think rhythmic quirks like this are interesting. Sadly, most music today is over-edited to a click for machine-like perfection. Producers and engineers now are quick to snap anything that's "near" a 4/4 timing to a grid and cut off any extra bits. There's artists that deviate from this, but even great drummers like Jimmy Chamberlin are now being smashed onto a grid for the sake of tightness and expediency.

If you are in a union, this is a good reason to push for recall provisions in regard to layoffs

I dig this as a quick intro. I've worked directly with payments at several orgs now, and yet didn't really grok payments until I read Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional. Afterward, I was actually able to understand how the pieces fit together. It is concise, and highly recommended to anyone working with payment systems.

https://amzn.to/447BLVI

Similarly a LimeSDR perhaps?

Using a fraud check service like Sift can help.

I taught at a boot camp from 2013-2015 and it was one of the best moves of my career. I should find a community college to help at

I'm a Principal engineer at a ~300 person organization and I feel a bit stuck/ineffective.

In theory, we aligned the ladders in a manner that Principal sits parallel to Directors in the management track. I'm expected to impact org-wide culture, policy, technology direction, strategy, etc... but so rarely am I allowed into the rooms where decisions are being made, let alone discussed. I don't know (at all) what is being discussed, and by the time I find out about it things are set in stone.

I do what I can with mentoring and team culture, and lead by example for code-related things, but that is all very zoomed in and tactical. We've been told explicitly that we're holding off on having people write technical strategy/vision until we have organization-wide direction from those in upper Leadership. That has been the promise for a long time, but for one reason or another keeps failing to materialize.

At this point, upper Leadership won't even meet with someone of my rank/position, as they only respect others with VP to C-level titles to work with.

This is the type of reality I fear encountering at other organizations. I worry that despite the allure of Principal title, the reality is that too often such things happen and that when it comes down to it, VPs and C-levels only respect similar, and want Principals or Distinguished Engineers simply as "advanced fixers" for problems in a short time.

Probably not, but I wonder if it would be prudent to try to ask for pre-hiring retention agreements. If you make me an offer and I accept, if you retract or downsize between that signature and 90 days after starting - then you pay me some amount?

But... few would probably agree to it for non-executive positions. Executives of course, play by different rules and can have all sorts of special things negotiated.

I got my UO maps framed recently

The biggest differences here are the potential scale, deniability, etc. "We didn't poison the American water system. It did it to itself!"

It is even worse for Rust.

I don’t think it even requires that AI to be sentient or malicious. The humans already are. Given a tool for carnage and hatred, people will use it. How long did it take from us getting the atomic bomb working to use in production? Less than three months.

Will Putin or terrorists hold back from using it in terrible ways if they have it available to them?

Python as a language I find pretty nice. What I don't find is their environment and packaging system compared to something like Rust.

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.", unless it is how to setup your environment.

I only use Python every few months, and it is always a struggle.

In comparison, "cargo build" works 98% of the time just after "git checkout"

Maybe it doesn't really need to fully remember it in order to still do a pretty ok job? I think its ~50 pages of context?

I'm sure a 3% COLA will fix that right up!

I wonder why Amex plays ball with them? They are normally really firm about their chargebacks

Why do you think many people are calling for more regulation on AI? How can that happen if its all open source?

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1635136281952026625

We could do it daily as a nation and call it our Two Minutes Hates!

I hear two things requested a lot - an open source ChatGPT and more controls on the training/data/usage/etc.

How can these two things be held in balance? If it is open source entirely, can't I use the training data and tool in any way I want? What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech?

Given the compute power needed to train/run it; where are people going to do that in any accessible way that doesn't only allow people with a supercomputing cluster at home to use it?

I don't have a CS degree, but I did teach at a prominent boot camp for several years. Folks often complain that people out of boot camp don't have foundational knowledge too. Aside from the fact that it would take more than 12 weeks to do that, another contributing reason is the management/administrators there want to push shiny topics instead of fundamentals. How many JavaScript frameworks can they shove in a short time is more important to them, so graduates can stuff their resumes with React and D3 than them knowing wtf an array actually is, or how to manipulate it.