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New comment by blktiger in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

blktiger — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:14:18 +0000

I should be unanimous, it's what the constitution says. If you don't like it you need to go through the amendment process.

New comment by blktiger in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

blktiger — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:55:52 +0000

At my current job I get 25 days of PTO a year, with a cap of 30 days, plus company holidays (12 or so?), plus 5 days the entire company shuts down. I have to be careful not to hit my cap even taking 4 weeks of vacation because it’s still less than I earn. You have “unlimited” pto and take half of the vacation I do. If you ever change jobs you’ll get $0, while I’ll get a bonus.

New comment by blktiger in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

blktiger — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:26:21 +0000

I think that's true, but I like that this site includes a "ESTIMATED MUNITIONS & EQUIPMENT COSTS" section that shows the value of actual, expended munitions which are all one-time costs directly resulting from the war.

New comment by blktiger in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

blktiger — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:25:05 +0000

https://youtube.com/shorts/jFRTZGgmGo4?si=0gYc8JPCzVD_TD__

New comment by blktiger in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

blktiger — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:08:04 +0000

It depends a lot on the type of industry I would think.

New comment by blktiger in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

blktiger — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:26:19 +0000

I'd say it's about doing things at the next level to show you're ready for that level. So for moving from a Sr to a Staff position might involve doing more mentoring of the team, showing that you are using your knowledge to improve the efficiency of both your team and other teams, etc.

New comment by blktiger in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

blktiger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:50:20 +0000

Both NPM and Yarn have a way to disable install scripts which everyone should do if at all possible.

New comment by blktiger in "Google Antigravity"

blktiger — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:09:54 +0000

You can also have an index file that describes when to use each file (nest with additional folders and index files as needed) and tell the agent to check the index for any relevant documentation they should read before they start. Sometimes it will forget and not consult the docs but often it will consult the relevant docs first to load just the things it needs for the task at hand.

New comment by blktiger in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

blktiger — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:21:07 +0000

A one time cost is fine if you don’t mind the app breaking next time Apple updates iOS. There is an ongoing cost to ensuring the app continues to work.

New comment by blktiger in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

blktiger — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:14:13 +0000

Sure but robots don’t join unions or ask for a pay raise or benefits.

New comment by blktiger in "Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat"

blktiger — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:41:39 +0000

Just tell them you’ll pay half now and half after landing.

New comment by blktiger in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

blktiger — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:56:56 +0000

For me I mostly use Duolingo as a mechanism to encourage myself to spend time learning each day. I find that it's helpful for reviewing a lot of basic vocabulary, but I typically supplement it with other stuff (listening to music, watching shows, youtube language channels, AI conversations, etc). I find I make the most progress when I choose to do things that are challenging which Duolingo really is not.

New comment by blktiger in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

blktiger — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:07:46 +0000

I think he meant export taxes or export duties.

New comment by blktiger in "I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One"

blktiger — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:25:04 +0000

I enjoy Foil _because_ of right of way, it encourages blade work, movement and technique. Without right of way Epee is quite boring to watch because the fencers spend so much time trying to figure out how to hit their opponent without being hit themselves, but the lack of rules makes it easy to learn. Saber kind of has the opposite problem in that it's so fast it's hard to watch and there is very little extended blade work. To each their own though.

New comment by blktiger in "The Frontend Treadmill"

blktiger — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:57:28 +0000

Ember is one of those frameworks that isn't as "flashy" as the latest and greatest javascript frameworks, but it just keeps quietly working and adopting new techniques from the more popular frameworks on a consistent and easy to follow schedule. They even make upgrading to the latest way of doing things relatively painless by providing scripts to automate many upgrades for you.

> 1. Before removing a feature in a major version, it lands as a deprecation in the previous major. A deprecation is only enabled by default once we have a clearly documented migration strategy that covers the use-cases of the old feature.

> 2. When we ship a new major, the only thing it does it flip deprecations targeting that new major into errors.

https://bsky.app/profile/wycats.bsky.social/post/3lg2p5dwuzk...

New comment by blktiger in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

blktiger — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:07:55 +0000

I think you are confusing Boom with NASA’s QUESST project. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/quesst/

New comment by blktiger in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

blktiger — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:29:50 +0000

At least some of the difference is that building codes can be a lot more lax in Texas as compared to Canada. It rarely gets as cold, and certainly not for as long.

New comment by blktiger in "Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?"

blktiger — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:42:30 +0000

As I understand it, full sequencing is a _lot_ more expensive. 23 and me currently shows the genotyping is like $100 while sequencing is $1000. It’s probably too expensive and time consuming for them to sequence everybody’s samples unless they pay for it.

New comment by blktiger in "Why GitHub won"

blktiger — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:50:56 +0000

It’s short for Source Forge which is still around technically but a shadow of its former self.

New comment by blktiger in "iPhones will soon be able to stream live video on 911 calls"

blktiger — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:57:38 +0000

Did they call the police or 911? There is a big difference between the two.