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leetrout

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leetrout··on How Kubernetes Probes Work
many times i have said a company could be built to just make better google documentation.
leetrout··on Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
Sure, $62.5k for a 10 month contract is $75k over 12 (62.5/10 == 75/12) but my point about purchasing power remains.

As the other commenter called out it's low considering to get to this salary at 15 years of experience you also have to have a master's degree. Master degree holders have a median salary $95k in the US so this is off the mark by a considerable amount.

leetrout··on Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things
https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

> When I'm reluctant to start work in the morning, I often trick myself by saying "I'll just read over what I've got so far." Five minutes later I've found something that seems mistaken or incomplete, and I'm off.

leetrout··on Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
NC teacher salaries are terrible on their own but they are also outpaced by inflation.

The new budget just got approved. Last year a teacher with 15 years of experience made $58,270 and this year they will make $62,500 so right around an 8% bump but the prior two years was only a ~$1000 bump each.

So 2023 -> 2026 $56,250 -> $62,500 was roughly 12% increase in pay but adjusted for inflation $62500 in 2026 is ~$57,220 in 2023 so not even an actual raise of $1000 in buying power.

leetrout··on Seven books I keep close because I love them
I use the New Living Translation (NLT) for casual reading and was unaware of the LSB. I'll have to get a copy, thanks.

Here's a brief comparison (Titus 1)

LSB: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus%201&versi...

NLT: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=titus%201&versi...

leetrout··on Dear people who work at the airport
One of the best investments I ever made was the original Patagonia MLC wheelie. It stands for Maximum Legal Carry-on. They have a black hole version now which I am not familiar with but I assume is the same quality / usefulness. I had a few jobs where I commuted regularly on CRJ 200's and this bag fits in the overhead with no issue. The ability to pop out the straps and wear it like a backpack makes the gate agents much less concerned about the size.
leetrout··on Crown 0.64 – Native and cross-platform game engine
There's a neat list of custom game engines on GitHub that I enjoy checking in on every now and then:

https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

leetrout··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
Over 12 years of popular usage at this point. I still think it's inappropriate for ~90% of the companies using it.
leetrout··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
The core of the idea is great. Sketch out an idea with someone else.

Interviewing with average interviewers ruined it.

leetrout··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Of the controllers I have chatted with while they stream on twitch this is the answer. Many people don't realize the controllers have medical tests as well.
leetrout··on Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout
It was always about the money we were just a (highly paid) means to an end. Now it's just out in the open and the greed isn't being hidden.
leetrout··on Why Kids Can't Quit Roblox
Between this and instagram I feel bad for today's youth. My kid is already struggling with attention thanks to youtube kids and the ability to scroll through video after video and jump around to the parts she finds most interesting.

She (rightfully?) calls me out for watching videos and listening to audiobooks or podcasts at 2x

leetrout··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
It was copy/paste from my phone and when I posted there was no context / other comments and the github link was buried in the footer of the PDF of the paper.
leetrout··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
HANDBOOK.md is a benchmark for long-context agentic instruction following, modeled on how enterprise employees follow company handbooks in their day-to-day work. Each task is a unique RL environment with internal tools and external MCP servers, spanning five enterprise domains: Finance, Medical Billing, Insurance, Logistics, and HR.

The prompts reflect the actual jobs enterprise workers perform every day. Each task drops an AI agent into a live company environment, requiring them to cross-reference an extensive, multi-section handbook against a cluttered inbox, a multi-channel Slack workspace, Jira queues, and a stack of files (spreadsheets, PDFs), and working out both what to do and what the handbook forbids.

https://github.com/surge-ai/handbook/tree/main

leetrout··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
Yea, I was unclear. That's what I meant by "you can't mix them"... just meant using jinja2 is drop it for the backend.

I believe you just set the dirs property in the backend config to look in whatever directory / directories you want it just defaults to jinja2 as you discovered.

leetrout··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
> I still use Django for models and migration

There are dozens of us! It's a great db management toolkit. I've used it to much success many times for things like managing migrations from mysql to postgres and php to python.

My opinions:

- Django apps are an anitipattern for large internal / single purpose products due to migration overhead as FKs cross application boundaries. I will die on this hill. No team is ever disciplined enough to keep apps as boundaries for relationships and constraints. Strong contrast to the rails crowd that doesn't rely on referential integrity in the db by default where this isn't "a thing".

- Goose[0] migrations in Go are really great but you have to let go of the dsl and the idea that your ORM drives your migrations, as you explicitly called out. Laravel[1] is on par with django IMO and a delight to use when in php-land. I've not tried to repurpose it like I have with Django and sqlalchemy.

- sqlalchemy and alembic is a great toolchain outside of django that get's a bit of a bad wrap / confusion from django devs. it gives you that same ability to drive the changes from the classes / structs without having to drag around all of django. It having more verbose

[0] https://github.com/pressly/goose

[1] https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/migrations

leetrout··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
> Is Jinja2 a practical alternative or there's friction to using it?

jinja2 is drop in by changing the template backend. You can actually run both at the same time (just can't mix them, ofc).

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/topics/templates/

leetrout··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
ICAO slugs for quick lookup would be awesome. e.g. brolly.sh/kjfk
leetrout··on It's getting harder to focus every day
I was prescribed modafinil earlier this year and it worked well when I took it but it was intense at the useful dose so the doctor put in for a sleep study. It was a 3 month wait but I am finally getting it done next week an I'm hopeful it leads to a conclusive diagnosis.

I also noticed my issues were worse after my 3rd bout of covid :-/ I had very high sensitivity to alcohol and caffeine after the 2nd bout and have largely cut both out of my life (I never drank more than 20 drinks / year in my life anyway).

leetrout··on The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture
> The situation is so dire that even Netflix’s biggest new series of the second quarter failed to get renewed.

And all the other numbers tie back to this. No one wants to invest in a story that ends on a cliffhanger to not be renewed or even worse to get season 2 that is >50% filler because the writers save up for 5 seasons and then season 2 ends on a cliffhanger to never be renewed.

It's all got too much sprawl and poorer production value now. Good riddance

leetrout··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
I am alone in my peer group for doing something like this.

Cars, student debt, credit card debt all gone. (And I dread needing a new car). Covered downpayment on my house and cash for a nice shed that matches the house and a fence so my kid can play in the back yard with no issue.

Invested low 5 figures into myself taking a year off and now I am getting serious about the 401k at 41. And I am ok with that.

I never worked at a big tech company and I covered my mom's down payment and appliances and new carpet and part of her move for her to move close to me. Dad died when I was 11 so I am all she has and she was a public school teacher so she's on a small pension.

We all walk a different life and I know people that make my entire life savings in a year but I will eventually grow a retirement to get me through 10-15 years and then it will be what it will be. (Maybe a tank of helium and bag)

leetrout··on Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids
you piqued my curiosity so I submitted it for indexing on deep wiki (https://deepwiki.com/azpeeen/NEO-Radar) ... surprised to see it was 1.5gb on disk... 700mb on disk of texture images and doesn't look like they've been quantized / compressed so there's some low hanging fruit there.

I know folks on here have a love / hate relationship but I think this would benefit from moving to cloudflare's stack. Current server is completely dead (has a Hostinger IP so they probably took it down from the traffic spike)

leetrout··on Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids
This is the answer. Sometimes you don't even know the word to use to find information.
leetrout··on Airport Simulator
Ah I wanted to play it. I am vibing a helicopter side scroller.
leetrout··on Airport Simulator
How do you plan to release them? Free? Mobile? And are you using AI to help deliver?
leetrout··on Airport Simulator
OptiFlight is similar to mini metro for planes

https://www.krishsuchdev.com/OptiFlight

leetrout··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
It's hard to tell if it's making a comeback but it's getting attention.

Ben stiller produced a documentary for HBO "Born to Bowl" and it was very engaging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Bowl

leetrout··on Camera Chase Vehicle
Right? Major let down! It's a combination of click bait and rage bait at the same time.
leetrout··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Well very apropos :)
leetrout··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Serious question: is the em dash misuse a joke?
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