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wetmore

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I'm a software engineer.

http://mattwetmore.me

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wetmore··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
They get to pick the sentencing they are aiming for, and that can depend on race.
wetmore··on The Causes of Long Covid
I had covid 7 or 8 times lol. Basically 2-3 times a year from Jan 2022 until spring of 2025. Luckily there have been seemingly no long-term effects for me, and it's been over a year since I last tested positive.
wetmore··on Facing life-threatening miscarriage in Arkansas, calls to governor didn't help
This article is absolutely infuriating and so many of the people included should be deeply ashamed of their behavior (as described). I understand that the people at the hospital are in danger of legal retribution so for many of them their cowardice is excusable. But the examples of the hospital CEO making empty promises without actually doing anything, and the hospital refusing to foot the $5,000 bill to transfer the patient to a location that would actually care for her are morally disgusting. The lawmakers that intentionally created this grey area though are the true villains for willingly gambling with women's lives to score political capital.
wetmore··on 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber
The latter are generally called alpinists.
wetmore··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.
wetmore··on The Five-Week Solo Startup
Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.
wetmore··on Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle
Google even and odd permutations to learn more :)
wetmore··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.

wetmore··on Trump wins presidency for second time
I don't know if you saw the "Kamela is for the/them" ads, but they stoke a much more general fear and hatred of trans people than the issues you are referring to. Those issues are picked because they are most popular amongst a broad swathe of the electorate, but they are couched in a deeper hate and distrust.
wetmore··on Diagram as Code
It's an embedded DSL or "eDSL", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language#Exter...
wetmore··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
My body is also something I constantly work on yet I can't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice.
wetmore··on The Death of the Minivan
Yeah but it's easier to own two pairs of shoes than it is to own two cars.
wetmore··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
Condemnation from a lot of those names is a strong positive signal imo.
wetmore··on Why I failed in $1,7k monthly revenue in my first SaaS?
So you built a tool to make spamming people easier?
wetmore··on A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed
I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

wetmore··on Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database
This looks very cool and could be useful to me. I've been uploading my tracks to caltopo. Could you say a few words about what this offers over that?
wetmore··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
I don't get your pessimism, after we are replaced we can all work at the glue factory :)
wetmore··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
And that's why no murders are ever committed, because the possibility of jail time or capital punishment dissuades anyone who would consider committing murder.
wetmore··on S3 is files, but not a filesystem
You're right technically, it's an abuse of notation that isn't uncommon. My physics profs would do it in college.
wetmore··on Show HN: Piping logs, visualizing in a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen"
What's better? I ask out of ignorance, but personally I think Datadog is amazing for viewing logs.
wetmore··on Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer
In a similar vein, I remember that when I was learning to program, I would look at applications like Word and get overwhelmed with the idea that you would need to implement everything from scratch.
wetmore··on A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168284
wetmore··on Do Elephants Have Souls?
How does that line imply animals have no soul?
wetmore··on Nicholas Saunders and "Alternative London" changed British food
It's an exploration of a man's life and impact on the world. The length was fitting. Personally I didn't find it tortuous at all.
wetmore··on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
It is reasonable, although niche enough to be a bad defense.

Here is a popular Instagram account where someone does exactly what you are saying is unreasonable: https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic

wetmore··on Quebec man who blamed wildfires on government pleads guilty to setting 14 fires
I think they are referring to the idea that r/canada is pretty antagonistic about the government.
wetmore··on The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors
Could you elaborate here? Spurred by you and the person you're replying to painting such different pictures of what sources are out there, I took a look myself. I didn't find it so trivial to find sources backing up the person's claims.

> Most places do not have "time limits".

I couldn't find anything about slaughterhouses having lifelong limits for employees and would love a link or search term to use because it's an interesting concept to me.

> I find no evidence of abattoir workers becoming more likely to be serial killers.

I also could not find evidence for this. Here is a meta analysis of many studies, none of which mention slaughterhouse workers being more likely to be serial killers. Some studies show higher crime rates in towns with slaughterhouses, but not for violent crimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009492/

> People used to kill their own animals and weren't vegetarians.

This is trivially true?

wetmore··on Lessons from building nine startups in 2023
It's definitely grifty. The shipfa.st copy makes it sound like you need it to build products so you too can make lots of money like he does. Except if you look at his website, the thing that makes all that money is.... shipfa.st.

It reminds me of people who sell classes using tales of their success, except all of their success comes from selling the classes in the first place.

wetmore··on AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
Pretty sure this can already happen.
wetmore··on Particle Life
I assume it falls off at inverse of r squared, which is why the person you're replying to is mentioning other functions besides that one.
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