ajhurliman

The Brother laser printers are incredible. That, the Oster fast feed trimmer and the swingaway can opener are the best products I’ve ever purchased.

It’s possible to deliver at 28 weeks, use your imagination.

Is it rosy because the interviews reveal information you don’t like? Or because you think the information is attained unethically? Simply saying “I don’t like them” doesn’t advance a conversation much.

I would recommend dabbling in different fields and writing open source stuff. If you like the work, you’ll probably build something cool that may get you hired. If you don’t like it, drip the project and try something else.

I got really into options trading and built a paper trading site that eventually got acquired (for actual money!), and that’s been the talking point of every interview since I sold it.

If you decide you like robotics and you build a library that does fast matrix multiplication leveraging webgl or something, I think a lot of people would be very interested in at least having a conversation with you at that point. People who can “get things done” are always valuable.

Xylitol is actually pretty rare as the main sweetener in gum, it’s a lot more expensive. If gum mentions that it contains xylitol, check the ingredient list to see if there are other sweeteners listed first.

Xylitol is preferable because of its oral hygiene benefits, but most consumers are choosy enough to make sure their gum is exclusively xylitol.

There are some brands on Amazon that sell 100% xylitol gum if you go out of your way to find it though. Be careful with it around dogs though, xylitol is insanely toxic to them.

I may be in the minority here (based off of other comments), but using raw SQL commands has been more performant, easier to write, easier to understand, easier to learn, and easier to build complex queries/ commands than an ORM has ever provided.

Updating some records in a CTE and using the results in a subsequent SELECT? It may take a minute or so on stack overflow, but significantly less than it would with SQLAlchemy.

Want to make a composite primary key? I have no idea how you would do it with most ORMs, but it’s relatively straightforward with SQL.

A lot of times the stuff you want to do won’t even be available in your ORM, but the person lobbying for using it always pleads “it’s okay, it still allows you to make raw queries! We have an escape hatch!” Then when you start writing raw queries, your PRs get rejected: “Please stick to the ORM”.

I don’t understand people’s love of ORMs instead of simply learning SQL, it seems to bring on myriad headaches for nearly zero benefit.

It _is_ a disparaging view, and it’s _not_ clear he intended to survive all his climbs or he would have been using ropes.

Nothing of valor was achieved, and he performed no virtuous acts. It was a string of stupid, pointless acts which led to his death, and now we have people like you hero-worshipping him.

For my own part, I hope that nobody I love ever attempts something like this.

If it was an experimental pilot pushing the boundaries of flight or something, sure, there are inherent risks but you’re doing everything you can to mitigate the risk.

Climbing without a rope is just turning a past time into a needlessly dangerous pass time, with no benefit or glory.

The guy actually dies due to his reckless/suicidal actions, has suicidal thoughts/ ideation, and you’re just perfectly content with assuming they’re completely unrelated?

Has it ever crossed your mind that his mental state manifested itself in his actions that took a sport from moderately dangerous to “flipping the coin on your life”?

The most mike blowing part of this is that the part you’re most concerned with is policing the language used in the conversation, not actual outcomes in peoples’ lives.

I’m sorry if I’m not young, wild and free like you and him are, but I pity any friends or family who might be in a situation where they need a voice of reason to call them back from making a stupid, life-ending decision and all they have is you telling them “it’s okay as long as it’s within your risk tolerance!”

Agreed. It’s literally suicide with extra steps, I don’t understand folks’ permissive attitude about such an unnecessarily dangerous activity.

It seems insane that money transmitters have so little oversight, it’s pretty much conventional wisdom at this point: “their API is nice, but you’re playing Russian roulette with your money by using them”

I'd agree that morality is a luxury, and I understand how most anyone would resort to immoral ways in order to put food in their mouth. _However_, it doesn't make sense to say that "anything goes" when you get into that category of desperation; that disrupting cancer treatment for thousands of people in order to make a quick buck is somehow the same as shoplifting a loaf of bread.

I'd also argue that anyone with enough sophistication to pull off a ransomware attack has enough marketable skills that they're probably not hungry or desperate, just psychopathic.

I thought this was sarcasm at first but I’m genuinely not sure now: Do you truly believe shoplifters are easily and often prosecuted, let alone convicted?

Personally, I’ve never seen or heard of a single person have any repercussions for shoplifting, and I’ve seen a _lot_ of shoplifting in Seattle.

That one always blows my mind when people drop “housing is a human right”. So everyone has an inalienable right to the property and labor of another person? What if you were in John Locke’s state of nature and you were not participating in any social contract, would you still have that right?

China is pretty bad too, I’m sure that comes as no surprise to most.

Agreed. He’s unnecessarily conflating “fast” and “bad”. Often times people move quickly because they know what they’re doing, not because they’re mindlessly flailing.

The attempt to characterize the two traits as inseparable is like drawing a picture of a <demographic_x> robbing a store and showing it to people like “See how awful <demographic_x> is?”. There’s no actual evidence, it’s just a baseless assertion.

This line of thinking has always puzzled me. At some point one’s brain must be so compromised that we really can’t expect them to function as a human, but most people’s reaction to that is “excusing” their behavior.

If you’re willing to admit that they don’t really have self-agency at that point, don’t they become an object at that point? Like we would have no problem putting down a dog that bit a child, let alone a dog that blew up buildings. The only reason we’re so accepting of putting down the dog is its lack of human status.

In our courts, claiming insanity seems to give you a defense against crimes you’ve committed but also maintaining all the rights and privileges of personhood.

Isn’t that effectively just a publishing company?

Easily the worst carrier out there. “Widespread, low-grade fraud” should be their slogan.

I did about a month ago from last month’s post. I was in finance before and had a few offers from finance companies, but I had an offer that stemmed from last month’s post in a totally different field that seemed better. Very happy with it.

Not looking to be hired, but I posted here last month and am now working at a nice job because of it. Happy that this recurring post works!

So YT is too greedy and shows you a lot of ads and loses trust, but if they were to play it cool and stop showing ads you’d sign up for premium?

Does that apply to small-claims court?

I can’t speak for others, but for myself it’s next to impossible to live a good life while working a job where I sink into a “plaintext passwords” type of mindset.

That being said, I don’t really envy that mindset, I suspect there’s something fundamentally broken about a mind that’s resigned to treating a supposedly symbiotic relationship as adversarial, even though it may be a warranted reaction given how so many companies treat their employees.

Thanks for the link, that’s good info. My model is listed; it seems accurate from experience: way too loud for comfort while operating it, would be disruptive to a bbq 50 feet away.

The gas ones are certainly louder, though.

The battery powered blowers are pretty loud too, just FYI. I have to wear hearing protection with it every time.

Silver lining to all those remittances: if the whole world is using our currency to buy goods and services (and also holding dollars as a reserve currency) we can print a lot more money before we’re affected by inflation, or at least that’s how I understood it.

So now that the affordability range for mid-and-high-tier earners is depressed, they’ll be encouraged to buy cheaper houses, thus increasing demand for the lower-end market and making it even more difficult for those with poor credit to buy a house.

Just moved my last few bucks out, let’s hope it makes it. I was so bullish on crypto, anything with that much money and brilliance thrown at it must produce some fruit right? I guess not.

Starting with your house, right?

I wonder if this has to do with changes to curricula.