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SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | (UTC +7)

Remote: Yes, 9 years of remote experience, as a lead developer as well

Willing to relocate: Yes

Résumé/CV: http://www.loskutoff.com/resume.pdf

Availability: Full-time, although 30h/week is a bit more favorable

Email: igor [at] loskutoff.com

Upwork profile: https://www.upwork.com/fl/upwork

Have built web apps from scratch and have improved existing ones. Good at reworking existing poor/insufficient solutions.

Made (backend) apps/components with Typescript (Node, various incl. Next.js, Meteor), Rails, Java (Dropwizard), and small-ish apps with Scala (Akka HTTP), Rust (Hyper). With SQL (Postgres, MySql, Oracle), Mongo, Redis, and Elastic Search for Data storage layer.

Made (frontend and mobile) apps with Typescript-ed React (+React Native), Redux, Mobx, GraphQL/Apollo, Angular

Deployed components with Jenkins (+Ansible), DigitalOcean Apps (+Docker), GitHub Actions, AWS (Beanstalk), Heroku

Made components work together with the AWS stack (DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda/API Gateway), RabbitMQ, Zookeeper

Collaborated using such tools as Git (Github), various task trackers/boards

An ethic I’m looking for in a team is “I’m going to build upon this [code, infra, solution] in a year from now; will I thank myself then?”. Seeing solutions through; product-oriented.

Enthusiastic about: FP, Haskell, Rust
There might be a really slightly legitimate argument to not letting people enter buildings without being vaccinated. But unless whoever made this rule is really so stupid as to think COVID spreads over local wireless networks, they're doing this just to demonstrate their dominance over the student body, and not for any legitimate reason whatsoever.
We'll go back to invite-only forums.
You’re being extremely naive if you think of yourself as a traitor. If you stopped performing at your current level due to a major life event, most companies would fire you. You’re a resource being expended by your employer. Even if they treat you well we all know that they’d stop paying you if you became terminally ill for any real length of time, and you very likely weren’t given a pension to support you in old age either. The companies least affected by this trend are the ones that have given their employees better bargains (see fedex v UPS)
> I kinda think part of the problem is the pervasive expectation that there should be someone to vote for with a Platform They Believe In And You Should Too. That's fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of our system

Yeah, our systemic duopoly and the associated requirement for backroom coalition building (and the associated papering over of differences for marketing purposes) to build viable parties is a significant defect in our structure of government compared to many other modern democracies.
Boaler claimed she needs 11 hours for each session-hour.

If you believe that (e.g. if you think the sessions are heavily customized for each school district, and not just the same thing at each place), then you'd divide the 5k by 11+1, getting $417/hour.
I predict that my left thumb is closest to the top left window, which was the one I was viewing and thus most likely to want to close; and that the two-finger action of tapping the top-right show-mini-windows/topish-left close-window buttons - like it used to be — is a better Fitt. I’m confident that this latest UI change was someone’s busywork. Gotta look like your doing something.

Thx for correction re: Gnome & ribbon.
My favorite MUGEN-related thing is Salty Bet: https://www.twitch.tv/saltybet

This is a continuous stream of CPU vs CPU matches from a massive collection of fan-made MUGEN characters, some of which are deeply weird (Col. Sanders, anyone?) You can pay them for some fake internet points to gamble on the outcome of the matches, but I've found that watching all the strangeness that folks came up with is entertaining enough on its own.
I pray that someday everybody can see how horribly arrogant and culturally imperialist it is for English-speakers to condemn other languages as "problematic" and demand they fundamentally change based on their limited outsider understanding. It's one of those few things which screams woke white supremacy.
Fair point, but I think the risk of not giving people drivers licenses is quite a bit greater. Not too many people fly their Cessna's to work. But prohibiting people from driving would have a major impact on the economy. There's also a larger political risk since the share of people who would be unhappy with such a policy would be orders of magnitude larger.
I have zero musical knowledge or experience and I just spent the last 30 minutes tweaking the examples in the project homepage. Super fun, incredible project! Thanks for this!
Emory and the CDC are co-located.
The radar cross section of any falling debris would not necessarily be big enough for a radar to detect, especially with 1953 tech on a stormy night. Also, two blips "merging" on a radar scope is a common occurrence when two targets are closer together than the pulse length.

This article tries really hard to make this a UFO mystery, but jets fell out of the sky pretty regularly in 1953, especially in storms and at night. Radar technology was also not anywhere near what we have today and even with modern technology we can still just outright lose a plane. MH370 still hasn't been found for example.

(I'm not a radar operator per se but I did study weapons engineering at the NL naval college and spent several years of my military career specifying specs for advanced naval radar systems)
Likewise, chose a cute little New England town when I realized that the benefits of living in a city are mostly... drunks, drugs, and concerts that are neat, but I'm unlikely to attend.

There's culture and museums and lots of different food in cities, but all I really need is a small smattering of decent establishments in exactly the vein you just mentioned. And of course a good environment for working from home.
I think I probably played with it at my job on my early model IBM PC/XT since evaluation was one of my jobs. But I also had a Lisa on my desk for a while, which was much better (but insanely expensive). PCs back then were just not powerful enough to do much in the way of a graphics UI. Visi On was ahead of its time but way too far. Most people were using DOS based UI which wasn't bitmapped and was mostly fine for the time. Even Windows wasn't all that great until 3.0. Today we take for granted how ridiculously more powerful everything is.
I was in the same boat but made the shift a month or two ago.

My family and I created free Google accounts.

I bought a subscription to Fastmail

I have multiple domains sending mail to Fastmail

Fastmail has rules to forward to the free Gmail accounts.

The free Gmail accounts reply from the address they are sent.

All been working well. I like Gmail/Cal which is why I have stuck with them. This setup however gives me the freedom to move to a different mail client or calendar if I choose.

The only reason I wanted G Suite Legacy was for custom domains. I would have paid Google for this service. I think they dropped the ball there.
> Don Miguel translations of RPG Maker (…) is how I got into programming.

Same here, but I never finished any game. I spent most of my time dissecting other people’s projects and engines. With some creativity you could do impressive stuff despite the limitations.
I am not a radar operator. My understanding is that radar reflections are related to the size, shape, and texture of an object. A normal plane will be a large blob on the return, while, for example, a B2 stealth bomber is designed with special materials and angles to appear around the size of a large bird.

So an intact jet fighter will show up as a big dot, while falling debris might look like many small dots, or be too small for the resolution of the radar display.

There's also numerous sources of interference and background noise, including from weather. So on a stormy night it might not be apparent what is debris vs water.

The article is really more of an advertisement for a TV show than journalism and doesn't give a very clear account, but it sound plausible that two dots converging and disappearing from radar could represent an in-air collision. And if over the great lakes during a storm, investigators would be looking underwater for hundreds of pieces of non-magnetic aluminum spread over many square miles.
If you like the new job then you have nothing to worry about. Forget the “traitor” thing entirely. It’s just business.

There has been a huge uptick of “I hate my new job what should I do?” posts in an advice/mentoring community I’m part of.

The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules.

Of course there are people for whom the opposite has happened or who are doing the same work for better pay now. Those people are happy! But I think the “great resignation” narrative being repeated over and over again created a lot of FOMO that also churned people out of otherwise comfortable jobs at good companies, with mixed results.
Pre-school? Seems a bit early to be worried about their standardized test performance. It's a lot of theater to justify your tuition fee.

But even if they have a lower test score (than you wanted)when they are 3/4/5 years old, so what? Don't be fatalistic, they have a lot of growing to do & need your support.
As an expat currently in the UK - my electric tariff is about to go from .18p per kWh to .36p. Gas is doubling as well. Most homes here have awful insulation, so I’ll be looking at 230gbp a month for my little two bedroom apartment. It’s crazy out here.
If you watch the video you'll see the two song samples in the latter half are in the same key and instrument.
OP's original post referenced this article [0] as a concern.

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-k...

Are they concerned about depression because he's afraid his daughter won't be smart enough? Do they think 68% of the population within 1 SD of the mean IQ are suicidal, or should be?
Technologies like those are only useful to fight censored Internet access. They're useless when all access is completely blocked.
Lack of zoning is one element of the equation but having developed before the car is pretty crucial too. Houston, TX has no zoning laws to speak of but because most of its growth happened in the last century, it grew outwards instead of upwards.
Don't many phones do MAC address randomization now? Or does the WiFi use authentication via users/keys?
Can someone explain or link to a resource on how you would get this into a android apk? I see it is mostly demonstrated as HTML5.
Ontologically speaking describing members of any uncountable set is a problem.
This is a sort of stereotypical technocratic solution if you think about it. It ignores any rights or norms about how people and institutions interact and just implements a technical, social-credit style solution. If this was Singapore, maybe it would be something the population would embrace, but it's imo not appropriate for western society.
Not the commenter you were referring to, but for context, i'm in the UK and have seen water increase by 25%, gas and electric increase by 32%.
Christ, this misrepresentation once again. All y’all need to get caught up: that is not a John Hopkins University study, the researchers are not epidemiologists they’re g.d. economists, the thing is not peer-reviewed, and it does not support your claim. Quit being a sucker propaganda that encourages you to get sick.
You raise them like any other child. I've never seen a question like this.
Can't be that hard to train GPT on HN comments. Plus if someone were to do it, they probably know of HN.

I could definitely see someone already having trained a bot to write HN comments and posting them.

What's anyone going to do about it? It's super hard to write a discriminator that works well enough to not destroy the site for everyone.
Fair enough. Google-generated content is likewise against my guidelines.
With GPT-3, yes but how about other generators? There are lots of emerging services that spammers can use.
Likely UK or Europe. We've been hit by the Ukraine situation harder than elsewhere, because Putin started hoarding gas last year to prepare for the Ukraine campaign.
This is the same school where students said they felt unsafe because someone, likely another student, wrote "Trump 2016" on the sidewalk with chalk, something very common with other messages too but because that one mentioned Trump, they were in fear of their safety. Paternal nonsense seems to be something the student body, or the loudmouth segment, desires.
Heh, that beats the ratio at my current job: 7 pages and ~45 unique services.
Okay - Emory also requires students to receive or be exempted from 6 other kinds of immunizations [0].

There is nothing unique or interesting about this, except perhaps that they are being extra lenient and apparently only restricting Internet access instead of blocking course registration as described in their immunization policy.

[0]: https://studenthealth.emory.edu/_includes/documents/policy-8...
I don’t know how to reason on the magnitudes and indirect effects here. If we are using the temperature differential, don’t we have to vent that into the atmosphere? Does that heat eventually go into the atmosphere anyway?
It's nothing new. People have always changed jobs. And people who change every two years end up with 50% better salaries over time. If you haven't added enough value in those two years to make it worth hiring you in the first place, then you probably weren't a great hire in the first place.
You have to consider the other point of view, if it's a choice between you or the business, then the corporations will always choose the business. Look after yourself first, you're fine.
Why must I'd be necessarily either/or, black/white, Google/Spammer?

Why couldn't it be that reasonably both sides are to blame. Google enables the commodification of search results. Yes they claim that they want to show the best result. But best for whom? I don't believe that Google is a neutral party as they earn more if they promote sites that lead to additional advertising clicks. How should users know that there are often better results on pages 3 or 4 and below.

And than there are the ones trying to make a living with minimal effort. No need to create great content. Good enough is sufficient. As long as the content is optimized and the page receives relevant traffic from search the revenue via affiliate links is secured.

In this arm's race the other sites loose. They are the collateral between two fighting parties in this arms race. And also people loose. Loose great content and the diversity of the net.
> All of this goes along with what I call the Elderly Tax. As a society, in many ways we punish people for living a long life.

Somewhat related: https://imdb.com/title/tt9270362/

An excellent film about how society simply isn’t built for older people, and the struggles that they go through on a daily basis. Very affecting.
I’m describing an indoor UAV positioning system that works well, not necessarily for this exact project.
Man, they story of JavaScript namespacing: from Window globals to IIFEs to UMD/CJS/AMD to CJS to CJS/ESM.
Renting a car (in the US) can cost $40/day.[a] That’s how much gas costs me in a week or so. It’s not cheaper to rent.

[a]: Don’t forget the $150-300 deposit (that takes a week to disappear). And also being pressured to pay for their $15/day insurance. Rental companies are expensive
Small plane wrecks are not easy to find. When people were searching for Steve Fossett in the Sierra Nevada of California in 2007 they found a number of other wrecked aircraft that nobody even knew were up there. Planes disappear.
Universities are subject to very little oversight and regulation.

They basically are selling a luxury good to very unsophisticated buyers (you can't get much less sophisticated than the average 18yo). A lot of what they are selling will not be worth the time or money put in.

Instead of subsidizing them like crazy, the government should be looking into their dodgy practices.
Yikes - we were rocking $23 in electricity for a 5-room flat here in Canada a few years ago.
Is the CDF W Mass Measurement a Nail in the SM Coffin?
Many university networks use something like 802.1X (P)EAP authentication for their networks, where you have to login with user/password to get access. I'm assuming they're probably using something like that and give individual user groups corresponding access rights.
US Households spend $148 every week on groceries in 2022, up from $142 in 2021
Pretty sure all the Vedas were passed down for millennia as word of mouth. The aborigines seem to have stories of floods from 10,000 years ago.
Can anyone with experience comment on how realistic that is? Both in term of drilling, and in terms of how much power we could extract per drill.
Having entered adulthood in the US during the Great Recession and being laid off the second it benefited the company (despite easily turning a profit), I cannot understand your position. My grandparents had hefty pensions and their careers grew _with_ their companies. Modern management practices dictate short-term margin as a priority meaning high-salaried employees are considered risks before boons. That, coupled with the well-known fact that salaries do not keep pace with CoL, it is nonsensical _not_ to take the same approach - always be on the lookout for your next step at any time.
Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge In Hell" has a subplot driven by a news-story-generating AI run amok. The AI uses reader engagement as the metric (along with really great natural-language stuff). But it doesn't have any truth metric. So, at the time of the book, the widely believed AI's stories have constructed an alternate reality for many people, reinforcing the present polarization of media in the US.

That presents quite a threat profile. It's far more pernicious than SEO script kiddles doing whatever passes for keyword stuffing in 2022.

I hope the search crawler folks at Google are working hard to detect that sort of thing and prevent it from getting into indexes. Let's hope Neal Stephenson isn't as right about that threat as Arthur C. Clarke was about geosynchronous communications satellites.
I tried to install Acrobat reader on Android.

It asked access to:

- In app purchases (ok, I can pay, but only once please; not a fan of subscriptionware)

- Identity (what for?)

- Contacts (what for?)

- Photos/Media/Files (Ok, I can understand it, but can I please allow only certain folders?)

- Camera (again, what for???)

- Wi-Fi connection information (what for?)

Since it is all-or-nothing, I had to decline. And now I'm looking for another pdf reader without ads.

This whole mobile shitshow is driving me nuts.
Regarding Japan, I think the parent comment was referring to the 1980s US-Japan trade war. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
Thank you for your reply. It's really nice to hear it.
Yes, as far as i understand this is pretty simple given how dall e is made. Simple vector similarity search would work on the image embeddings (i think)
A great great book that helped me with this: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (https://designingyour.life/the-book/).

I first got exposed to it during a career navigation workshop that showed us this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA&ab_channel=TEDxT...

They also published a follow-up called Designing Your Work Life but I haven't read that one.
> but it seems like things are hard to predict when there are a lot of
uncertainty

Have you ever heard of novelty waves?
That depends. A "daily group meeting" doesn't sound like a stand up or project management meeting. It sounds like 30 minutes a day to goof off with your work mates. A way to replicate the downtime you naturally have during an on site work day, a way to increase group cohesion by talking shit and playing games.

If that is the case, then they sound like a great manager.
If you left a job for better pay and other benefits, how do you feel like you betrayed or screwed the company? If they hadn't been underpaying and underappreciating you first, would you have left?
There is no law requiring students to be vaccinated, it is purely a mandate implemented at the university's discretion.
I guess you didn't bother to read the next sentence: "No access meant no rights to music, and no first-hand stories." 'Require' does not always connote a legal limit or even a necessity for permission, it can also mean that necessary elements are unavailable therefore making the project impractical or at least significantly harms it.
Rhetological Fallacies: Logical Fallacies and Rhetorical Devices with Examples
Which isn't to say that clean-room isn't a valid defense, but rather that it's unlikely that somebody would (or could) independently produce something very similar to Mickey Mouse -- especially since nearly everyone had seen Mickey Mouse, so such an implementation would probably be tainted. If you can prove that you independently created that idea then it's still a valid _copyright_ defense (not a lawyer, yada yada).
I know nothing of this subject and probably shouldn't even be commenting.

From the few firsthand wartime accounts I've read of planes being shot down, from the perspective of radar operators they just abruptly disappear.

Also keep in mind this would have been 1953 tech.
Because we wouldn’t be here if Google had supported other means of natural search engine inclusion through quality metrics vs their current only option of pay to play or cheating.
Couldn't agree more. Its all lunacy.
Are there many googlers making $300k in Berlin?
So the students don’t get Wi-Fi or 5G? Draconian :)
The point is that even if being unvaccinated were really a health hazard, making the students use cellular data instead of Wi-Fi wouldn't do anything to mitigate said hazard, so it seems like they're doing this just to be mean.
But you should try to control its spread, such that it doesn’t overburden the healthcare system. Otherwise you end up with not only the inevitable covid casualties, but also those who were unable to get timely healthcare: lots of cancer victims, accident victims, people suffering an organ failure, disabled or dead because covid crashed the system.
I think the lesson to be learned here is: "Just works" means different things to different people. The condescending replies, which seem to accuse the OP of not using the right distro, or not using "the good Linux hardware", are all by people for whom Linux does "just work" (for them). Personally, I don't think that Linux "just works", but again, that's based on the factors that I care about.
Except when one side attempts (and fortunately fails, like most of that leaders dealings) to trigger an insurrection when they lose.
> given that most players turn it off?

source?

> The fact that most players expect sound effects

So players expect them, but turn them off immediately?
It's not a bike problem or a reddit problem but a people problem. Forums were the same way if not worse because people had so much rep tied to their username. It's the same thing with all my different interests, it's like you can take out all the topic-specific language from the flamewars to the constant posts suggesting you buy x brand that the community has ordained as the best product there is for y use, and the forums would be perfectly interchangeable whether people are arguing/showing off about bicycles or skis or ham radios. The hobbiest internet self validates a lot of gear acquisition syndrome too. It's uncanny how similar they all feel no matter the topic at hand.