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seneca··on Leaving Intel
I'm guessing he'll land at one of the big frontier model companies. I'm surprised he stayed at Intel as long as he did, they are dying fast.
seneca··on UniFi 5G
The DreamRouter 5G Max is the stand alone device.
seneca··on Fighting the age-gated internet
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Heinlein

If you hand power to the state every time people fail to properly handle their responsibilities, you end up in a dictatorship. It is a parent's responsibility to keep their kids away from the dark corners of the internet. Thoughtful regulation would create tools to allow them to do that easily, not hand parenting over to governments.

seneca··on Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows
I'm reminded of a girlfriend who patiently explained to me that your hair grows more if you brush it regularly because the brush "pulls it and encouraged it to grow". She said her mother had taught her that.

I thought it was nonsense. Shows what I know. I suppose folk wisdom is vindicated again.

seneca··on Fighting the age-gated internet
Well said. This is a social failure being exploited by shrude politicians to usurp more authority. Replacing parents with the state keeps playing out, and keeps being a horrible idea.
seneca··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Most job openings are receiving several hundred, if not thousands, of resumes as soon as they're posted thanks to AI powered resume mills. Most resumes don't even get reviewed, let alone acknowledged. It's basically impossible to keep up with. Recruiters aren't ignoring people because they're cruel, they are being drowned by AI slop and resume mills.
seneca··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
> Americans attend college as a (1) rite of passage and to some extent (2) to have access to an influence network of peers and alumni. For elite universities, it's conceivable that #2 provides some real opportunity.

I believe the primary reason is to attain credentials in pursuit of access to more lucrative employment prospects. I think your 1 and 2 are both significant factors, but they are quite far behind the pursuit of credentials.

seneca··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
> Somehow we were better at using remote tools while literally in the same office than some teams are at using them now while fully remote.

This is sort of the point. Remote tools work great when you have spent a lot of time building relationships and rapport with the people involved. That's hard to do in professional settings, and extremely hard to do in remote professional settings.

Letting teams that know each other well work remotely works great. Building teams remotely is very hard.

I'm a diehard for remote work, but we have to be realistic abouts limitations.

seneca··on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
Me? I'm not opposed to it. I think tax-payer funded attempts to increase birthrates in our own population are a good idea. We should be doing more to encourage people to have and raise children.

I'm opposed to weasel words and intentionally misleading people about how economies and governments work. I'm also not particularly confident encouraging people to have their children raised by strangers is a good idea.

seneca··on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
We would be even better off subsidizing parents staying home with their own children. Unfortunately most subsidies have proven ineffective at nudging up birth rates.
seneca··on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
A tavern isn't funded by taxes. They're giving away their own money. A government doesn't have its own money, it is giving away tax payer money.
seneca··on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
Sure, but that hides most of the facts about how it works. There are a lot of parties involved in this, including people paying for it and being paid for it, and those paying probably out number those getting it for free at point of use. Sweeping that under the rug is just a sales ploy, which shows what the outlet wants you to believe about this program.
seneca··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
Well, they tend to be right. Outcomes for homeschooled children are broadly significantly better than government schooled children.

Also, just FYI, to quote someone you prefix the text with ">".

seneca··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
> In functional workplaces, yes. In dysfunctional ones, sometimes you have to leave.

Agreed! And that is exactly what home-schooling families are doing. Choosing to leave a dysfunctional environment.

> In the military, say, you don't get that option.

Yep, and other government institutions, like prison. I don't think those are what anyone would call a typical life environment though.

> In your neighborhood, you can move, but that's a fairly difficult and expensive step. When someone moves in whose kids want to be gang members, or who wants to verbally abuse people out jogging, or whatever other antisocial behavior, you have to deal with it, at least for a while.

That's another dysfunctional environment, and also what the police are for.

> So you can't completely avoid the brokenness of the real world. (Note well: I am not saying that throwing a six year old into the deep end is the best way to prepare kids for this.)

You're right, you can't. The world has a lot of dysfunctional environments, and I agree that people need to learn how to deal with them. Knowingly forcing your child to be in one of those environments full-time for many years seems like a pretty horrible way to teach them that though, bordering on abusive.

seneca··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
> My job isn’t the totality of my life and you have very strange ideas about how quickly disruptive people actually get fired. You get plenty of unfiltered interaction in life.

In what environment are you, as an adult, forced to interact with everyone who happens to show up? The only instances I can think of are other government-run institutions like the military or prison, and I don't think anyone would argue those are standard modes of "real life".

> If anything I’d say the sort of thing you describe sounds more like an insular cult.

Name calling isn't an argument.

seneca··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
> The one that exists with problem children and opinions you don’t like.

That's just not true though. Your job isn't going to force you to interact with people who disrupt the environment constantly. Those people are fired and removed from the group.

seneca··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
> ...a healthy community hand-picked by parents is not "the real world" though, is it?

It very much is. No where else in life are people forced to mixed with the general unfiltered public. "The real world" is highly filtered social circles and freedom of association. The idea that it's somehow an automatic good to force healthy kids to mix with everyone who happens to show up, regardless of whether they have severe behavioral or social issues, is pretty questionable.

> My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in there.

You can expose your kids to different cultures without leaving them wide open to everything else. It's not a binary. The point is that home schooling lets you pick and choose.

seneca··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
There are no maintainers. It was maintained by one engineer for years, he stepped down, and F5 (who bought nginx) don't want to contribute since they have a competitor.
seneca··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
Ingress nginx was the default ingress for pretty much the entire life of k8s. F5 bought nginx and made nginx ingress, which I've never met a user of.

Sad to see such a core component die, but I guess now everyone has to migrate to gateways.

seneca··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
> on the books immigration law has been broken for decades. do you expect people across the border wait a decade to get their turn for an immigration interview only to be turned down, when they can just cross the border?

No, I don't expect that at all. However the problem with your scenario isn't that they need to wait their turn, it's that they can "just cross the border". That fact that that has been allowed was an intentional policy decision.

seneca··on Layoffs hit highest level for the month since 2003
Junior jobs are very hard to find right now. They are much rarer than they used to be. However, if you are even somewhat capable you could probably find a role if you're willing to accept $50k total comp (which is very low in most areas) just by being willing to work for less than others.
seneca··on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
Here's the actual text of the law: https://legiscan.com/MT/text/SB212/id/3078731
seneca··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
Advertising or not advertising jobs to people is not "tricking" them. This is a childish argument.
seneca··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
The most efficient advertisement for a job would be to only advertise it to the single candidate who is the best fit for your profile, is looking for a job, and would accept the salary you're offering. Unfortunately intimately detailed profiles like that aren't available, so we target cohorts with the coarse details we do have such as age and gender.
seneca··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
> Discrimination is not rooted in economic efficiency so I don’t follow the argument that market forces would correct it.

It absolutely is in this case. The whole reason to target ads is to make the people who receive them more likely to engage with them. For instance, including men, elderly people, and children in the target demographic for a preschool teacher job advertisement would make that advertisement significantly less efficient, which is why it's not done.

Forcing companies to disallow targeting of ads because some people are offended by the population's job preferences is absurd.

seneca··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
> If you show me a lower paying girl job instead of a higher paying boy job, and I apply for and get the girl job, how is the company tricking me into applying for the lower paying job based on my gender not a problem to you? How as I not harmed by having a better opportunity hidden from me based on my presumed gender?

Not highlighting something to you is not the same as hiding it from you. If you want a job atypical of your demographic, you have the ability to look it up and apply for it. The fact that you might not do that does not justify forcing people to do dramatically less efficient advertising by knowingly including cohorts unlikely to engage with what they're offering.

seneca··on An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic
XDP is intended only for inbound traffic. They are exploiting veth pairs to make outbound traffic "look like" inbound traffic. That's the "loophole".
seneca··on [dead]
No surprise. Like the article says, the tax credit ended for them. Anyone considering buying an electric car already rushed to get one before the credit ended. That overhang will be there for a while.

Sales will probably modestly recover, but not to the point they were at with the credit in place for quite a while. Electric cars are expensive, and still have some unique limitations. Eventually they'll overtake ICE vehicles as those limitations are mitigated.

seneca··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
> Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware.

Absolutely laughable motivated reasoning. Hate the guy if you must, but claiming one of the most impactful business leaders in American history is "99% vaporware" makes you look silly.

seneca··on Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages
> I do think it's an easier trap to fall into with some languages, but I still don't think the language really drives it.

Yeah, in the end poor hiring practices drive it. The language you choose just makes the probability of that failure possibility higher or lower.

> I worked on a large-scale Rust project that could probably have been a Go project a while ago and while Language Technicians were a big hiring hazard, after we got one or two we both learned how to manage them and stopped hiring that type of employee (since they weren't what our project needed) and things evened out and were successful in Rust.

That tracks with my experience, for sure. Once you learn to spot it, you can mitigate it.

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