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New comment by fapjacks in "CT Scans of Health Wearables"

fapjacks — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:18:36 +0000

I have worked in tech in many different cities and when I worked for a startup in San Diego, we were surrounded by health tech companies of all sizes. I've never worked in Boston, but I would say San Diego is definitely a health tech hub.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

fapjacks — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:05:56 +0000

That's fair. It would have been a weird reunion anyway.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

fapjacks — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:47:51 +0000

Weird side question, but any chance you use(d) the same name on Playstation Network?

New comment by fapjacks in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"

fapjacks — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:39:31 +0000

100% this. Hetzner has no problems completely blowing away whatever you've got running for arbitrary reasons. And their support is incresibly bad.

New comment by fapjacks in "Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:44:16 +0000

Sure, the kinda go-to for this is rtl-sdr.com's device (just search amazon). They have a great and comprehensive site, too: https://www.rtl-sdr.com

New comment by fapjacks in "Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:21:42 +0000

Do not post affliliate links.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGQXC7C

New comment by fapjacks in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:59:52 +0000

Yeah, the ancient stoics made a whole philosophy about it.

New comment by fapjacks in "Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]"

fapjacks — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:11:44 +0000

make me a truly flat surface

New comment by fapjacks in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

fapjacks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:29:20 +0000

I noticed this also, and ever since, I've made it a point to always have memorized my SO's number and my best friend's number.

New comment by fapjacks in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

fapjacks — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:16:16 +0000

No, it is not feasible to run modem signals over VOIP, as the various codecs all compress signals and cut frequencies and all manner of things to reduce bandwidth consumption, which are incompatible with modem signaling. You could get away with it in a homelab for fun, but you have absolutely no control over what VOIP codecs e.g. Comcast is running, so it is effectively impossible. Even if the phone company says they can offer you a copper line, your copper line will eventually get converted to VOIP at the end of the street or wherever, and then it's up to whatever commercial provider you're paying to choose the codecs for VOIP, which are never modem-friendly. I worked on this stuff about ten years ago. There are fax codecs but they are very hard to get working reliably.

New comment by fapjacks in "Helm local code execution via a malicious chart"

fapjacks — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:19:40 +0000

I have no horse in that race but just to see people talking about XML like this a quarter of a century after the first time I saw similar comments is just funny, I don't care who you are.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

fapjacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:02:54 +0000

I think this is normal for most people, but I've found that one-on-one's are a way more effective tool for revealing these sorts of situations. A good manager, though, is very rare. Maybe there's some surface area here for AI, to identify landmines workers are stepping on. Who knows, maybe AI should just be the ones attending meetings.

New comment by fapjacks in "Why DoorDash fees are so high [pdf]"

fapjacks — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:52:57 +0000

I interviewed at DoorDash way back when, could've been about employee #12 or something. But when I sat down to interview with a couple of the cofounders, it seemed to me they were some kind of sociopaths. I have no regrets whatsoever not calling them back. All of my friends that work in the service industry (at the actual restaurants, not delivery drivers) absolutely despise DoorDash. I refuse to use it.

New comment by fapjacks in "The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior"

fapjacks — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:52:21 +0000

It's interesting to note that stoicism -- in my experience perhaps the most difficult thing I've ever done and still fight hard every day to follow -- could be said at its core to work against these baser motivations.

New comment by fapjacks in "Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one"

fapjacks — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:16:35 +0000

That's what I've been using for some years and it's never been a problem for me. You are right that you have to have at least a basic understanding of how a mail server works, and there is some configuration to know about. But I think of all the things I host myself, docker-mailserver is the least cumbersome and among the most reliable.

New comment by fapjacks in "Shiichan Anonymous BBS (2004)"

fapjacks — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:14:45 +0000

But that is exactly what happens: Human civilization is a generational loop of genocide and treachery. All of these wonderful things we enjoy exist in spite of everything we are.

New comment by fapjacks in "Image unshredding using a TSP solver"

fapjacks — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:03:33 +0000

Once upon a time in Germany, I was put on several special duty assignments to guard documents overnight (with a machine gun!) prior to their destruction by companies like this.

New comment by fapjacks in "Image unshredding using a TSP solver"

fapjacks — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:58:24 +0000

Yeah, and even "good engineers" can take jobs that they don't do well at. It's weird how this works and seems in many cases not related only to the job or type of work, but many factors both on and off the job. I think this is the reason hiring is so hard, because there are factors not taken into account that have a real effect on how well a person does at some particular job.

New comment by fapjacks in "Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’"

fapjacks — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 04:22:58 +0000

And where do you imagine Microsoft stores all of this telemetry they steal from the user?

New comment by fapjacks in "“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”"

fapjacks — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:26:37 +0000

Hello! Data hoarders [0] like myself use tons of automation for this task. For online videos specifically, I watch them locally so as to avoid as much telemetry as possible, and when I see a video I want to watch, I save it to a playlist. Then I have youtube-dl set up so that it will sync with the playlist and download any new videos that it doesn't already have. Your question about finding the time is on the money: The "choice" we are given is a complete farce, and time is the main way the monopolies turn the screws on getting you to behave the way they want. They make it exceptionally time-consuming to NOT give them everything they want. I spend an infurating amount of time not trusting my phone or my computer, and refusing to allow telemetry of any kind. I'm not married and have no children, and those things certainly make the problem that much more difficult. People seem to not give a shit about this nightmare dystopia we've built, they just want to connect their iPhone to your wifi network to they can shovel more data into tiktok or whatever. The more people you have in your life, the harder it becomes to "choose" not to give up (an inevitably insane amount of) your telemetry. It fucking sucks!! I am slowly feeling more and more helpless and now I even feel like I might have some understanding about that guy who flew a Cessna into that IRS building "lol".

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/