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jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
I’ve done some of my own electric work and the logic isn’t dissimilar to what we do. Just way less abstract, way slower, and way simpler. I found it kind of interesting.
jagtstronaut··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
This. I think Amazon is doing the same thing and leaving the door open for Walmart or another player with some logistical muscle to take a bunch of the market from them. Amazon search used to be so simple. Now you sift through so many ads and hidden ad garbage to find the thing you want to buy.
jagtstronaut··on Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
Edited to a week. I was actually shocked how quickly my in-laws got power back with how widespread the destruction was and how many of the roads are out. They have well water so as soon as power was back on they obviously have water.
jagtstronaut··on Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
At least last time I looked into starlink it most definitely cannot. Definitely more ideal for very rural or very poor areas where you are gonna be one of a few dishes. That may have changed now though.
jagtstronaut··on Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
Despite the hate on the promo the tech they offer is still pretty cool. Only way I knew my in-laws were safe near Asheville was because one of their neighbors had starlink and a generator. Took a week for them to get power and cell phone service back and there is no way to get to them without a helicopter so if it wasn't for the product we would have just learned that they were alright.
jagtstronaut··on Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)
This is cool! You should add selfishly Raleigh NC
jagtstronaut··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I just switched to Bruno because apparently if you have a secret in the “initial values” column it uploads it to their cloud automatically.

It is cool so far. I like that it is more git friendly. I have noticed an increase in request time which is interesting. I assume because postman caches more stuff.

jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: Explain to me why functional programming is better like I'm stupid
That makes sense. I'm thinking for awhile I am just gonna assume my coworker is right and learn how to do it right. Then make another judgement call on whether I like it.
jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: Explain to me why functional programming is better like I'm stupid
Thanks for all the sources. It will take me awhile to digest them all.
jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: Explain to me why functional programming is better like I'm stupid
This is really helpful and makes a lot of sense. My coworker who harps on it does have a hardcore math background so your generalization definitely holds true in my experience.
jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: Explain to me why functional programming is better like I'm stupid
The example you gave is obviously superior for the reason you mention, but what about just one where you are mutating the objects in the given list? Isn't the for loop and an if a lot clearer than names.toStream().if(something).then().mutate(thing)?
jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: What companies offer maternity/paternity leave immediately?
I know Bandwidth offers a reduced leave if you have under a year of tenure and Celonis offers full leave day 1, but I wondered if there were others.
jagtstronaut··on Ask HN: What companies offer maternity/paternity leave immediately?
I mean, if someone is trying to get pregnant, they don’t know if it will be tomorrow or in several years. Losing your leave because you moved companies and got pregnant at the same time would be a huge bummer.
jagtstronaut··on Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine
Yeah I assumed this was a camunda competitor (a bpmn workflow product), but it seems like it is not that.
jagtstronaut··on Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
If you can agree that it is objectively true that it is state funded, why are you uncomfortable with labeling it as such?
jagtstronaut··on Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
Agreed with both of you actually. I enjoy NPR and I certainly agree that it allows for both sides at times. However, it is a fact it is state funded (it is in the name) and I think it objectively leans one way (which you can verify by looking it up on one of those companies that evaluates media bias) and it just so happens that the way it leans is where the votes for its funding comes from?
jagtstronaut··on Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
So your argument is that it’s okay not to label it as state funded (which it most certainly is) because other media companies are? And you feel the best course of action is to continue hiding all that?
jagtstronaut··on Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
If I recall the label was “state funded media” not state media
jagtstronaut··on Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
Maybe it’s a hot take (I didn’t think so until the violent reaction) but I felt the label was accurate. I like NPR a lot , but certainly the fact that liberal policymakers vote in favor of its funding affects their content. Do we really consider ourselves that much better than other nations that their state media is labeled as such but ours has a high moral calling that is unaffected by dollars?
jagtstronaut··on SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network
You can look at it this way if you want. Or you can look at it as people in rural areas and undeveloped countries are no longer slaves to the single telecom company that is out there charging them an atrocious amount of money for horrible service.
jagtstronaut··on A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
If a project is going to reject a “pointless improvement” then it is gonna be tough for any new contributors to get traction in the code base.
jagtstronaut··on Intimacy does not scale (2021)
The ads on this page make it unreadable on a mobile device.
jagtstronaut··on Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta
No one is arguing that they don’t have some right to recourse. Just that booting and charging a ton of money to remove is excessive and an invasion of that person property.
jagtstronaut··on Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta
This happened to a friend in Houston Tried to pay for parking and it didn’t work and when we got back it was booted

An hour of illegal parking should never warrant a 160 dollar fine to remove a boot.

jagtstronaut··on Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
2 things: 1. Modern agriculture is generally better for the soil than traditional. Look up the difference between till and no till. You just can’t do no till at the scale needed to feed the world unless we all start picking weeds full time.

2. The point that they are making is that there are ways to create biodiversity within modern ag that are actually required by law. You are not supposed to plant gmo or spray your whole field to keep a remnant of the original population, riparian buffers, cover crops (voluntary), and other voluntary buffer zones (pollinator fields etc). These can all preserve biodiversity and prevent resistance while still outputting the food needed at the price we all want to pay.

jagtstronaut··on Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
On top of that, pesticide application and environmental effects are the dangers of pesticide application, not human consumption. Most pesticides are just CO2 by the time they get to the shelf and ALL pesticide residues that don’t become co2 must be verifiably 100% safe for people to eat.
jagtstronaut··on Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform
This question is for my education alone, but since you seem quite passionate I am curious.

I just read a super long article about licensing to understand your comment as well as the article you wrote. Under these "source available" licenses, I can still sell the software within some kind of package correct? Like if I create my own PR linter I can use Grai and still sell it? I just can't host grai with some observability and sell it? Or am I misunderstanding?

jagtstronaut··on Show HN: Danswer – Open-source question answering across all your docs
Completely unusable for internal docs* should be the caveat. For external doc OpenAI is fine unless you have stuff behind a password.
jagtstronaut··on Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones
Although I understand it is quite contentious, I disagree with this sentiment. I think we have proven even before motor vehicles that humans are pretty poor at operating a moving vehicle and when it is capable of easily killing another human being it doesnt bode well.

I am not advocating for blind trust in corporations, but I certainly do advocate for pushing the boundaries a bit. Either that or invest heavily in public transport but I dont think that is going to happen in most of the US.

jagtstronaut··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
Same thing happened to me except it was with air Portugal. They would never reject me but they would always say something like, “call this number and they will help you” and no one would ever answer.

The day I submitted a claim to the right governing body they sent me my money haha. 900 bucks so I was pretty hype.

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