diyseguy

Gotta love the sarcastic quotes

I'm just admiring the visualizations this guy built in under a day. Wondering how he did it so fast

Love it, thank you for this. The last one 'Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray' produced some errors: 'Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'selected')

No, it's not cheaper than other options. Pretty much market rate healthcare highway robbery. Afaict, they call themselves a charity because of the cross on top of the building. That's it. Their website mumbled something about helping the community with some sort of program with vague handwaving. Maybe an investigative journalist could figure out what they do that's actually charitable, but based on publicly available information, I could not find much. My sense is people just assume they have good intentions because they named themselves after some saint. Just charity vibes.

I recently had to get surgery at a local hospital with a cross on top and named after a saint. As I waited for my appointment, I noticed the walls were covered with quotes from donors. The lady who was working the desk was an unpaid volunteer from a local church. Out of curiosity, I looked up the financials for the hospital and saw that the board of directors and various executives (around 12 people) were pulling in multi-million dollar salaries. Of the $3B they had raked in from donations that year, they allocated around $300M to a program to help the local people in some ambiguous way. No mention of what happened to the remaining donations. The bill for my treatment was $60K, thankfully insurance covered most of it. Rather seems like charity washing an otherwise ordinary corporation including exploiting gullible people for free labor...

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I have always felt that if I could do a job really well, do work that required no maintenance, was basically 'self-healing' so to speak, with documentation so clear and easy to understand that someone could pick up where I left off without asking me a single question. For me that was always my aesthetic and goal in any work I did.

Yet, here I am, an experienced software engineer, unemployed for over a year now. It still seems to me the right ideal, so the 'karmic' outcome feels unjust really.

I feel like so many people I've worked with have read this and use it like a guide. I now sort of wonder if they were plants put there by competitors...

Also, you have to accept the brainworms to be accepted into the church community. You gotta join the Borg. You can't have a different opinion or be an atheist. Or you have to hide it well and be comfortable with doing that.

It's a cult - a very old one, 20 centuries old. This longevity gives it a feeling of validity or that it's the 'only truth'. But it's really just collective sunk cost fallacy. It's the cultural bandaid that we apply to all problems because no one dares think up a new one. Rip off that bandaid and all kinds of problems it was patching emerge. That's why we dare not speak of parting ways with it.

Sure, the way cult members are happy to greet new recruits. It's very insincere. If you have a real issue and you want to talk to someone - you are very likely to hear something like: "Well, pray to Jesus dear, only he can help you." In other words, if you actually need any support - go home and pray about it - don't expect real connection with people. The only connection comes through the imaginary friends they encourage you to divert all your attention and problems to...

I see this as quite a problem in the US. The default place a lonely person has to go is usually a church - where you can expect a modicum, possibly even a seeming profusion, of welcome. This is their hook. They provide automatic acceptance - of sorts. This is also how the right wing fascist regime convinced people to let Trump take over the country - propaganda through the churches.

The only other options people hear about are 'join a club.' Interesting clubs aren't that easy to find. Hanging out at the local pub has obvious downsides, though I guess it sorta works in some countries.

We need more ways for people to casually meet others that aren't trying to manipulate you or program you with religious doctrine...

link no workie: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook

It seems altogether too easy to put up a website, pretend there's a 100% remote job on offer, then collect all the info needed for identity theft as you apply and then are 'onboarded' entirely through an online process. Especially when they ask for an image of your driver's license. At that point, they have everything they need to steal your identity. And even if they are on the up and up, when they get hacked, there goes your identity anyway. I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm having this very problem at the moment.

I call April Fool's

I wonder if there is a memory consumption tradeoff for this new data structure? Based on a few initial implementations I see in github, looks like it may be significant? Still a nice discovery.

Why do people want to pay for Oracle when PostgreSQL and MySQL are free and work well?

I don't buy it. That's clearly the sun until it reaches that red line and then it shrinks and disappears. I've never seen anything like that happen in the sky. Moon or sun. It's super weird.

It's kind of a fun synchronicity though as just after seeing that video, I watched episode 2 of 3 Body Problem where the same sort of thing happens!

Why does the sun shrink and disappear just past the halfway point on the keogram?

Perhaps if he was able to use some kind of force-directed 3-D algorithm, instead of a 2-D one, they might resemble something other than leaves, which could be interesting.

I'm not sure how anyone can do software engineering part time

This is really impressive. It's not important, but I kinda wish the constellations could be optionally overlaid onto the visualization somehow.

The new political excuse for genocide: wasn't me, the AI did it.

yes and I block them all. T-Mobile has been hacked so many times I don't trust any of it anymore.

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maybe: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37494449/ or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36935365/ found by searching for mentioned researcher: Stavrinidou

also from 2015: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26702448/

I always run any zip/pdf file through https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

Why does it have to be so expensive? Just because they "can"?

Just tried this for equifax got this message. I live in Washington state.

We've encountered an error Sorry, this service is not currently offered to residents of your state. If you need further assistance, you can call Consumer Care at 1-866-295-6801 during our regular business hours 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. ET Monday to Friday, and 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. ET Saturday and Sunday except holidays.

I honestly wish there were some kind of rating system for employers where their code quality is rated on a scale of 0: spaghetti/lasagne precious mess written by a sacred primadonna chief engineer who must be deferred to reverently and takes a year or more to get the hang of, to 10: fully unit tested, integration and pre-prod environments, minimal pagers needed, competent QA, etc.