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New comment by fjjjrjj in "Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office"

fjjjrjj — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:35:49 +0000

> Something HR is more than willing to exploit to get them to work ridiculous hours.

HR works for management and the board.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:26:17 +0000

As an American I will have a hard time forgiving anyone that voted for Trump. He telegraphed his sick obsession with Putin and still was voted in. I am sorry.

I hope we still have a country 4 years from now. He is a saboteur as is Musk and both should be considered foreign agents IMO. Yet they are running the country. Makes me want to vomit.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:15:45 +0000

That's been my career mindset. I've been in roles where my management has referred to me as a "rockstar" and it was a burden not a compliment. I'd rather be in a supportive team environment where everyone carries their own weight.

Compensation has been decent with this approach over the years. I could have made more staying longer in a darwinian bigco but the work was not fulfilling.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:17:43 +0000

I feel this way about documentation. I do it, a lot. I get compliments and positive feedback on it. It helps me remember things I would otherwise forget. I hope that others would be inspired by my example but it hasn't happened. I could be selfish and horde my own documentation and let others sink or swim. But that hurts me too as I'd have to pick up their slack.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:58:19 +0000

Generational trauma is really hard to resolve. A therapist once told me "family systems don't like change." The really old family dynamics have a way of being passed down and reinforced. We settle into roles that perpetuate them.

Interesting that there is not just social pressure but also genetic pressure that may be perpetuating the trauma.

My grandfather drove a tank through Europe for the allies during WW2 and I know that is still impacting me and my kids. He self medicated his presumed PTSD with alcohol and died young before I was born. That impacted my father and the way he related to me. And I am sure it impacts how I relate to my kids too. I don't drink anymore because that history scares me. The rise in fascist and nationalist ideologies scares me too.

If we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. Both at an individual and societal level.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "iMac G4(K)"

fjjjrjj — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 04:09:38 +0000

It can teach him game development better than I can. I have zero experience with it but I can teach him about the software development lifecycle, version control, and whatnot.

If it sparks his interest he has a lot of life ahead of him to go deeper with it.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "iMac G4(K)"

fjjjrjj — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:43:17 +0000

I have a teenager and a elementary schooler and both enjoy PC gaming.

The elder is interested in game development through his love of Roblox. I hope to help him get started with an IDE for lua, git, and a LLM and turn him loose on it.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Put a data center on the moon?"

fjjjrjj — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:25:02 +0000

Why not Prudhoe Bay, AK? Cheap access to natural gas for fuel that is flared off anyways, and sub-40F high temps for 9 months a year.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI"

fjjjrjj — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:49:19 +0000

> Anything in their possession that is private can be exposed by subpoena or other court order.

As is anything in possession by a corporation

New comment by fjjjrjj in "State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness"

fjjjrjj — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:14:53 +0000

It's s deterrent. Very common in Latin America. Most crime is opportunistic and thieves can be in and out well before police or private security arrive. Justice can be hard to come by and police could even look the other way if they are in in it with bribes or in bed with organized crime.

It is shocking at first to see razor wire, electric fences, perimeter sensors, shards of glass embedded at the top of concrete block walls.

In the US you don't know if that house you are targeting has someone inside waiting with a gun. That is shocking to many outside cultures too.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1"

fjjjrjj — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:48:56 +0000

I'd take that income for side gigs in a heartbeat. Pluse OP said hourly work is not their go-to anyway. Not sure why this deserves such harsh criticism.

The body shops that spam me for data software contract work quote well below that.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1"

fjjjrjj — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:28:47 +0000

I never thought of crontabs as revenue drivers until I read this.

How do you manage the crons and monitor for uptime?

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

fjjjrjj — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:43:39 +0000

Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon, and daydreaming about learning some new skills.

I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started with SDLC concepts and an IDE.

TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will go.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:48:47 +0000

Company trade secrets probably shouldn't be on the device? Edit - or the device's cloud backups?

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:01:50 +0000

More like byebit.

Unregulated asset exchanges. Haven't we been there before a loong time ago?

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:59 +0000

Does this mean I should treat travel to the UK the same way as China and only bring a burner device with no information on it or on cloud backup accounts?

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:59:03 +0000

Trump has blood on his hands. Full stop. He made Putin's war his own and embraced the idea of the US annexing other countries.

Things will get better once more brown people are at Guantanamo. /s

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:51:13 +0000

Are SAAS and frameworks getting that good that we need software plumbers and fewer software engineers?

New comment by fjjjrjj in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:29:37 +0000

What I really mean is that each party takes the opposite position of the other. Over a long time horizon the party platforms have completely flipped.

The two major parties stand for nothing and have no morals to guide them.

For example, Lincoln was a Republican and ended slavery. The new Republicans are now embracing racism and xenophobia. 180 flip.

New comment by fjjjrjj in "Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS"

fjjjrjj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:19:00 +0000

> I'm not into fear porn that this is the end of the world, H*tler, or whatever.

Are you are okay with Trump splitting Ukraine with Russia and blessing Russia's war on Ukraine?

There are historical parallels with Hitler annexing other countries. You not being into that reality is a choice.