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> Alexis consistently proposed solutions that were both practical and innovative, illustrating his commitment to our project's success above his own billable hours

I grabbed a piece shared by one of my customers, there are more comments at https://wiringbits.net (you can ring my phone from there).

I'm generalist that commonly deals with tricky problems, broken projects, flaky infrastructure, etc.

My goal with projects is that they work smoothly without much maintenance.

I'm looking for work to fund my own product, my time-commitment would increase/decrease based on your needs, we can work together for a few weeks or a few years.

I have worked in anything from tiny companies to even enterprises where we delivered projects to FAANG.

These are the tools I commonly work with, I'm happy picking new ones: Scala/Scala.js, Java, Rust, Postgres, Pulumi, Ansible, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Blockchain.

There are many code samples at https://github.com/AlexITC
Wasn't aware of this, do you have references, instances?
No, we're not in a war. Thanks Biden.

What's your counterfactual?
Gotta be honest here, I use a pretty simple Makefile. I don't have anyone else working on this program, so I can afford simplicity.
He used to hang out in a telegram channel that was associated with a vlog which was somewhat popular for a few years in the Bitcoin community despite being somewhat more critical than supportive of cryptocurrency overall, growing more skeptical with time.

I think he was a guest a couple times on the program, and it became a regular in the telegram channel afterward. He had a penchant for ridiculous set dressing even then, although from what I have heard he went way over the top once he started the hex scam.
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I managed an old japanese house as an airbnb back in 2015. The house was at least 50-60 years old and was doing pretty well except for some exterior problems. I will say that the traditional style houses are built with way fewer materials and way less insulation than western style houses which means the material waste is not nearly as high on demo. Also, they were remarkably bug free due to the wood used, being elevated, and not having tons of wall cavities to harbor pests. Overall, this style of house fits their very humid climate without needing AC to be livable whereas here in the US southeast, a house without AC and with contact with the ground, will become a bug infested mess in no time. And then the demo will create probably 10x the waste.
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I ride a hybrid and use thorn resistant tubes now. As my daily rider when I first started I was getting about 2 flats a week. After I made the switch my tubes last so long they fuse to my tires from time, heat, and friction.
Pessimal, clearly those are the full, wrinkly brains.
Wouldn't the battery itself still have resistance? Or is the superconducting material itself a battery?
I agree with this. I got a security clearance with the Canadian government, and the only way they could have interviewed my friends was to find them across EU and the world. They relied on police check, including federal, and fingerprints.
Who is pointing the CIA and NRO at you?
Portugal is disaster. I went there but here is a link [1] :(

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
Sounds excellent. Thanks! Even the default pattern they use on start up is pretty sick.
Yes the war on droogs predated Reagan, but marijuana use was not a disqualification for getting a clearance until Reagan's crew changed the rules.
>These people became not so much people but just a threat.

This is part of the problem. They are a threat, but they're also still people.
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There are good free ones too, but this one is still best IMO.
Community Managed “Disaster Timelines.”
I have talked to noone who finds wasting half your tokens spitting out empty platitudes and weasel words was worth the effort. Just search 'gpt apologizing' and see how many people are liking, or even okay with the huge waste. Just think how many megawatts have been wasted on mildly insulting gpt 'politeness' cycles.
> ONSITE (fully-remote now)

That is ambiguous. Which is it?
Would love to hear more. Is it still being used?
I got so hungry watching Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Fuckin' Ang Lee. Couldn't get enough Jane Austin so made his own.

If I'm ever under doctor's orders to eat more calories, that'll be at the top of the list of movies I watch for inspiration.
He is going to use his skills as a poweruser of an AI program to have it output a script; which runs an image generation program to produce and record sales transactions of images. He will take the money from the sales of those images to invest in a SPAC targeting potential room temperature super conductor start-ups.
I suspect there may be a network effects / regulatory arbitrage problem. If only a small number of places decriminalize drugs, that will attract lots of drug addicts without being able to support them. The policies need to be more universal in order for them to bear fruit... Though I realize this sounds like doubling down on failure. It would explain why a country wide program like Portugal could be more successful.
Who knows? NPR recently had a segment where they had told a lady for months during the interview process that she was a perfect fit for the agency.

At some point they went cold on her, and then told her to reapply the following year (which she tried for a few years). She'll never know why it didn't work out.

I know at least one person who was not intimidated by the lie detectors, and were able to conceal things which might have been an issue.
WizMap - A tool for the visualization of latent spaces
what a terrible name, I thought this was some kind of USD stablecoin
It’s a zero resistance wire. Build a loop and pump electrons in. Need them back? Connect an off-ramp.

There are limits how much you can pump into it, it isn’t magic… but it almost is actually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene...
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-dru...
>Most people I talk to don't recognize the importance of room temperature superconductivity.

I don't. I read someone saying it would be the biggest breakthrough since fire. Is that true or hyperbole?
The solution that seems most likely to work IMO seems to be a European-style welfare state. All drugs have long been decriminalized in Portugal and you don’t see that kind of thing on the streets of Lisbon. But I don’t see that happening any time soon in the USA.
It's the entire IC.
Been saying this for awhile. As dumb as some nfts are, I do think that having a public registry that logs a paper trail for all human-generated media is a necessary solution in response to AI.
Autopilot comes as standard. Autopilot is only lane keep and Traffic Aware Cruise Control.

You can pay for more.
Sorta? Except her career is less "stopped publishing" and "left academia with her department chair and set up a DoD-attached corp that did something for decades we don't know about"
For editing code there's a decent chance of syntax errors or undefined variables since it's only modifying a subset of the code.
I really enjoyed the beach-side cooking scene in Ride Your Wave: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/107905

Great movie overall.
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.
That’s one of the hardest things about leaving California as a lifelong Californian who is accustomed to Mediterranean climates: there’s nowhere else in the United States with this type of climate. It’s generally your choice of cold winters (much of the northern US), very humid summers (the South and the East Coast), or a very long rainy season (the Pacific Northwest). Even the weather of California’s Central Valley, which has hot, dry summers, is a vast improvement over much of the rest of the country.

It’s not that I can’t deal with the weather; I dream of living in the Tokyo area again despite its brutally hot and humid summers. But it’s going to be difficult giving up a Mediterranean climate.
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it depends on what you mean by 'dynamic' and 'stack'; certainly, outside of nim, you can allocate a list of, say, integers entirely on a stack in any of the following cases:

- the size of the list is known when you create a stack frame, as in c:

int xs[n] = {0};

- when the list grows, it grows in that subroutine and not some callee, for example using alloca();

- the list is built on a stack that isn't the one you have to pop your return address off of; examples include perl's data stack, ada's secondary stack, forth's operand stack, forth's dictionary, or an mlkit region. in these cases you can even return the dynamically built structure to a caller;

- each new callee adds some fixed number of items to a linked list, such as, in c

void with_fill(color *c,
env *e,
void (*cb)(void*, env*),
void *userdata)
{
env ne = {
.prop = PROP_FILL_COLOR,
.val = c,
.parent = e };
cb(userdata, &ne);
}

look ma, no heap
lmfaooo, "weapons of mass destruction" anybody?
I absolutely want my government to have an opinion on what people put into their bodies. If I go to the store and buy a loaf of bread, and instead I get a loaf with a high concentration of bleach, used to clean the machines at the factory, and it kills me, I think the government should have an opinion on it. I think they should do what it can to prevent that from happening. I do want a government that regulates drugs so that if I buy Tylenol, I'm going to get Tylenol and not melamine pills. If someone is selling a pill and says it makes me lose weight or regrow hair, I want the government to have the opinion that if they make that claim, they must have scientifically run studies to back that up. I'm not saying the FDA is perfect, far from it! But the government's duty is to its people, so I, personally, think that government should play some role in what goes into people's bodies, to make sure people know what they're getting, and they're getting what they paid for.

That the government has extended their reach to criminalize things people choose to put into their bodies, and the resulting problems that's caused and causing, is a travesty, but I think saying the government should have _no_ opinion on that is going too far.
Copyright detection. All websites with user generated content will need a filter.
Version Control.

Professionally, I've used git, perforce and PlasticSCM. Personally, I've also used SVN and Mercurial. (I also toyed with pijul's claims of being fast). I think Perforce sucks in many ways, but I think it's objectively a better tool than git. Centralized, immutable history, atomic incrementing change numbers are superior (IMO) to a decentralised, signed, hash based model. I think git's branches are a superpower, and the PR-style workflow in github is objectively superior to whatever trash P4 has put out there.

CI Tools - I've used Jenkins, TeamCity, GH Actions, Buildkite and Electric Commander. I strongly prefer Buildkite over all of the others. It strikes the right balance between Jenkins and GH Actions, mostly by avoiding a bunch of the "legacy" that comes with Jenkins.

"Programming Languages" - This is a spicy one. I flip-flop between C++, Kotlin and Go these days depending on the task. Despite the warts, I really really like go. It's a statically typed language, built in (and opinionated) package manager, wicked fast compile times, an order of magnitude faster runtimes than python, OOTB cross compilation support for full statically linked binaries, (and it has a jetbrains IDE). I wish it had _some_ extra features (sum types, real enums, and a slightly wider range of the basics in the standard library), but overall I'm very happy with it!
"It's HAAAAAM" gets yelled in my kitchen every time we have ramen, or just ham.
> It feels like everyone is now choosing its side. You can’t stay in the middle anymore. You are either dedicating all your CPU cycles to run JavaScript tracking you or walking away from the big monopolies. You are either being paid to build huge advertising billboards on top of yet another framework or you are handcrafting HTML.

This is only true because the UX of mastodon, Gemini, GrapheneOS, and other darlings of the non-commercial web crowd are so bad that the only reason to use them over commercial alternatives is ideological.

Which, for Gemini at least, is intentional.

So I guess I agree that the web is fracturing but the post makes it sound like some kind of battle between the commercial side and the 'tech savvy's side, as the post refers to it, when really it is just a minority of tech ideologues rejecting commercial tech, a tale at least as old as Stallman and not particularly interesting.

Like the famous scene from Mad Men:

Tech Savvy Web: "I feel bad for you, commercial web"

Commercial Web: "I don't think about you at all"
well, the thing with mental healthcare compared with regular healthcare is that the first bit of it is often kind of coercive?

Like folks with chest pain want it fixed.

But folks who hear voices/are addicted to something/suffer from crippling anxiety often don't want to fix it for a variety of reasons, some of which are even pretty good (such as nasty medication side effects). Crossing that hurdle is tough

And you can talk someone out of a chemical dependency. Or rather, you can talk them into suffering through it, much the same way as you can talk someone into suffering through climbing a mountain or similar.
Kenmore stove by Sears,
Samsung dryer, same
Instant Pot (they filed for bankruptcy later :-)
Building Nix Flakes from Rust Workspaces (2022)
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Sure, it would make the wiring smaller and more efficient. But I also don't see how it would help in the chemical energy transfer to charge the battery.
Even compared to Hawaii?
> Other states pay for addicts/homeless to be shipped off to California

This has happened but it's not substantial, most homeless in CA were living here and homed before becoming homeless[0]

> San Francisco has a drug problem simply because it’s one of few places in the country where it’s safe to have a drug problem

I've spent a lot of time volunteering with the homeless in SF. This doesn't match the data or anecdotal experience. Many drug addicts follow the path of becoming homeless (overwhelmingly because of cost of living) and transitioning into hard drugs to cope with the pain of living on the street.

[0] https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/our-studies/califor...
Wait till you hear about politicians.
I don’t know what the US Capitol is like in this regard but the Westminster parliament for instance is notorious for the number of bars onsite, and the amount consumed in them by its members (all subsidised!)
Interestingly enough, there's already some idle speculation that the apparent variability of LK99 synthesis might be improved with zero-G manufacturing.
Superconductors also have an inherent current limit above which they go back to having a resistance.
YOU IDIOT! W need the gold to turn the slaves back into carbon,m so we can make more slaves to harvest the gold!!* - https://youtu.be/rMz7JBRbmNo

--

I know we hate jokes - but apropos
How many people do you know who work in harm reduction? How many of your friends are regular drug users? I’m speaking from direct experience are you? or are you just making assumptions that make you feel more comfortable?
San Francisco doesn't have a problem with marijuana, it has a problem with store robbery, muggings, crazies smoking/ shooting "hard" drugs on the metro and on sidewalks, etc.

For too long, San Francisco and California more broadly have rejected The Stick in favor of The Carrot -- and they didn't improve the balance, they just through it out of balance in a different direction.

If folks want to fry their brain on whatever, I think that's their right. They don't have the right to do that on the sidewalk in front of my house, in the park where kids play, on the subway, etc. SF and CA lost the plot.
> I think there are point of views that are a much larger burden on society, and yet people are free to have them.

I claim this is an apples to oranges comparison. Controlling peoples views is an attempt at mind control vs regulating substances directly or indirectly which is a common practice, not putting lead into gas for example. Or indirectly regulated, eating of highly radioactive substances.
What kind of speed up do you get?
I’m not an expert on this, but I think superconducting wires have an current limit, as a current flowing creates a magnetic field which the superconductor has to repel. I read that the paper states a very low current limit for LK-99, meaning it loses superconductivity once a very modest amount of current is passed through it.
Unfortunately that's not true. While not entirely raw sewage, Chicago opened the locks at Navy Pier in July of this year...not all the water in the city can flow to those reservoirs unfortunately, there was just so much rain around 4th of July this year.

Swimming advisories were only in effect for a few hours after the lock was open for nearly 8. Things are getting better but we still have work to do.
The answer to that is simple: We do.

We try to catch things before public release.

We run UNSPEAKABLE amounts of regression tests.

We ask people to test unstable things.

Almost no one actually does test the unstable things. There's too much friction.

Almost no one actually gives us feedback on them. There's too much friction.

Things land on stable, people FINALLY actually mass-use them, the stable thing turns out to be busted, and THEN people overcome the friction to complain because they (rightly) fear it is going to be unfixable. Sometimes it is. Most of these have been very minor so far, and only affected things easily rolled back, but there will come a day when it is not so minor and not so easy to roll back. And nothing we can do in simulation or stress-testing on our end can replace contact with actual programs.

We're not making a typical "product" here. You can't think of it in typical product terms. We're making a programming language here. A contract, effectively, though not a legal one, as it is itself a system of expressing contracts. We cannot simply roll back things that are part of the language's contract in our stable releases if something is flawed, unless the flaw is SO dire as to result in one of the handful of situations that allows us to break it anyways.
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I have never seen it advertised, and if it were impressive, I cannot imagine why it would not be advertised.
Nobody fed that false fact into any LLM. Garbage in, garbage out isn't fake news.
Anything that can be used as blackmail and/or show lack of good judgement/trustworthiness. Different agencies have different requirements, but past drug use is usually not an issue as long as it's disclosed.

The FBI/DEA has/had stricter rules on drug use likely because part of the job could entail dealing with drug seizures.