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blatantly··on The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
A concentration camp for people of a certain race. Blocked by judiciary but proceeded anyway. Nope need more evidence.

It is not prison if there is no due process.

blatantly··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
Probably April or May 2025. I'm bullish still. But then I'm not all US stocks anyway.
blatantly··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
Cheap stocks people. Got my eye on some that below a certain price it would be a no brainer to buy. Global trade is rerouting around the bottleneck.

Didn't think there would be an opportunity so soon after March 2020.

Got my eye on a tech stock that has dropped about 40% already but was undervalued before IMO.

blatantly··on Coding Is Over. Now What?
We are not at the stage where AI can replace graduates. No where near. I worked with an intern recently and it was a pleasure. The quality was excellent. An AI couldn't do what they did. In particular it cannot be accountable or really learn anything. Beyond adding more instructions but that is not tacit knowledge. That is like giving a run book to an idiot who doesn't have experience and may or may not understand it.

Stop talking about coding and talk about what humans do.

Otherwise chatgpt could replace any politician because it can recognize and say words. Wording is dead what now!

blatantly··on The blissful Zen of a good side project
A side project is creative while work is reductive (not necessarily a bad thing!)

Side project is graffiti art on your shed wall, day job is 3 coats gloss white on the ceilings. That needs to be finished by Friday.

I have some side project ideas but need the time! Mainly these would be contributing to OSS databases to get (any!) knowledge of systems proprogramming. Node.js or Go preferred due to familiarity.

blatantly··on Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
I lost the thread a bit. Are we talking about Doge? Yes that is a abysmal. No defence for that.

But in general people need to learn some stuff on the job. E.g. hire an 18 year old hacker and by 20 they are leading projects, debugging code, preparing for SOC compliance etc. Is possible.

blatantly··on Bored of It
Oh nice. A culture where asking questions is punished. If this was a problem don't fire people. Train them. Make sure everyone does required training. If they refuse then you may have a case for PIP.

Otherwise it is just landmine driven performance

Rant not at comment! But the situation of the comment. Hope it worked out for you!

blatantly··on Bored of It
Crypto or AI?
blatantly··on On JavaScript's Weirdness
I'd forgive a few of those. Unicode is Unicode. The for loop capture behaviour makes sense to me. Missing semis should also be in your linter. Sparse arrays is the sort of feature you'd read up on if you use and not rely on intuition. It makes sense that if you loop over a sparse thing the looping is sparse too.
blatantly··on Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
They'd get training presumably. I wasn't qualified for my current job. Luckily they have training! And people to help.
blatantly··on Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
Hire a burglar to give home security advice.
blatantly··on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
I think with AI my productivity had increased 1% at most. If I measure time saved per week.
blatantly··on Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
And then someone would pay their drug supplier 60M for a monkey NFT
blatantly··on Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
At $2/m SRE is powered by love only.
blatantly··on Latent Space Guardrails That Reduce Hallucinations by 43 Percent Now Open Source
What's a Latent Space again (in LLMs?)
blatantly··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
This make no sense. Tariffs are paid by the supplier who is receiving money from the US customer. Are you saying if they pay the tariff in doge coins the tariff is zero doge coins?

As for other polices that "punish USD" "reward MagicCoins" ... well the market would hopefully see both currencies as crap and use Euros or Yuan. Or maybe new currency baskets will emerge to decentralise power.

blatantly··on Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
Yeah I think this why "Book a call" level customers are really subsidising it. Say $10/m/u and you get 200 seats. You pay $2000/m but the bugs you hit are likely uniform so you loaf support like maybe 20 individual users. 20 individual users only bring in 10%. So you need the whales to keep it going.
blatantly··on Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
$2 is fun for hobbies but hope you are not running in production for your customers with that sort of service level!
blatantly··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Which is like burning all the houses (including your own) so you can use your houses to buy other people's houses cheap.

This only works if you have superior manufacturing infra. To some extent the FAANGs export tech. But if FAANG is a tiny thing compared to say Toyota.

blatantly··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Not quite the same.

An item sold for $1000 say would pay $100 at 10% VAT. The items in the supply chain all charge VAT and reclaim VAT they spent. I think usually this terminates at the import (maybe?)

blatantly··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
But then by the same logic isn't income tax a tariff.
blatantly··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
I don't think it is obvious to everyone that a 20 year old laptop had a better survival chance over the next year than a new one.

Most people think old is more fragile.

Sometimes it is though (e.g. parts for a plane need to be replaced every X hours of service)

blatantly··on Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
According to linkedin and Google high ups, you need to do an honest 60-80h a week as an employee so you can gain the highly lucrative, liquid and bullish asset of your boss maybe remembering you worked 60-80h a week.
blatantly··on Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
Imagine affording an avacado
blatantly··on Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
A good chunkn of YC seems to be this model.
blatantly··on Restructuring Announcement
Plus severance will be paid but didn't say how much.

I was thinking this is a boilerplate firing email though!

blatantly··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
G'day! 24/7 SRE coverage. Yay! R stands for respectability.
blatantly··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
When the technologists enter politics it is even harder!
blatantly··on Why F#?
What about libraries though? They might force you to use certain monads rather than IO?
blatantly··on Stop syncing everything
Well yeah choosing what to query, a filter and an order is at the heart of all query-like things. Buy SQL specifically is a text language not a fluent api.
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