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New comment by hellisothers in "A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards"

hellisothers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:15:27 +0000

Love the logos, colors, and at the same time simplicity. These are so much more memorable than what you see today which I find to be bland or over the top “grafix”.

New comment by hellisothers in "A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been"

hellisothers — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:11:24 +0000

I think your interviewing experience is valid because tech interviews have been designed to filter out people without DS&A experience which a CS degree will give you a big advantage at. Day to day job performance (for the most part, in most roles) will have nothing to do with DS&A though. If you know when to use an array vs a dictionary then you’re good for 99.99% of actual software development day to day tasks.

New comment by hellisothers in "A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been"

hellisothers — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:59:46 +0000

Classic gatekeeping argument insisting a CS degree is necessary to write good software. I don’t have one and have 20+ year successful career with accolades, know many others in the same boat. Obviously there are CS degree people who were also successful, and the flip side comes for both camps, I’ve worked with absolutely awful engineers with or without a CS degree.

It is a signal, not the signal.

New comment by hellisothers in "Japan's Gen X workers are struggling"

hellisothers — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:09:37 +0000

Can you explain?

New comment by hellisothers in "An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet"

hellisothers — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:31:49 +0000

I messed up a recent DIY construction project because I didn’t read it all the way to the end first. My chef wife comes in with “you always read the recipe to the end before starting”…

New comment by hellisothers in "People are worried about America's solvency"

hellisothers — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:36:46 +0000

Just finished “Super Sad Love-story” and worrying about this hits hard :grimace:

New comment by hellisothers in "[dead]"

hellisothers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:06:16 +0000

Is the Taliban a recognized government trying to maintain legitimacy on the international stage that the US pays billions to?

New comment by hellisothers in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"

hellisothers — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:34:04 +0000

Can’t you just paste the copy into an editor that doesn’t support weird characters like EMacs or BBEdit?

New comment by hellisothers in "I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video]"

hellisothers — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:30:03 +0000

Lots of Children of Ruin (Tchaikovsky) vibes here.

New comment by hellisothers in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

hellisothers — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:44:26 +0000

Let’s assume we both have nice ranges.

- I can temper on my 7k BTU burner

- I can boil water quick AF on my 18k BTU burner

- setting pan temp isn’t a thing, there are no recipes that call for a pan temp. Oil temp? Sure and that is why you have a thermometer, very solved problem. For browning etc you do it by time and feel, even if you could set a pan temp you wouldn’t just leave your meat on it for some temp x time amount.

New comment by hellisothers in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

hellisothers — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:34:30 +0000

Maybe it’s because my wife is literally a chef but you’ll have to pull her gas range/oven out of her dead hands. She’s worked with induction before for years, it is not the same league. For instance, you can’t tilt the pan.

New comment by hellisothers in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

hellisothers — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:33:12 +0000

If you do the deep research on this there are many qualifiers to get the result they’re purporting. The main issue is you have to have little to no ventilation to make their numbers work. If you have a hood and or good indoor airflow to a window then this is all propaganda.

New comment by hellisothers in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

hellisothers — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:25 +0000

Or put differently: code as a means to an end vs code as the end. You need both types, the ratio changes as things change, neither is The Way.

New comment by hellisothers in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

hellisothers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:05:43 +0000

But are either of these Capitalism? Sure they’re capitalist in the way the world works but the OP is touching on ideals and theory.

New comment by hellisothers in "EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?"

hellisothers — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:47:25 +0000

Maybe but it feels like 1 step forward and 2 steps back. It feels like in the end they’re (companies) still getting 99% of what they had before and the user experience of everything is much worse.

New comment by hellisothers in "For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings"

hellisothers — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:36:30 +0000

This definitely happened, all my yard/lawn items (mower, chainsaws, hedgers, etc) are all battery. So much better.

New comment by hellisothers in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

hellisothers — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:48:02 +0000

Looks and feels like an Android app from 10 years ago and all this hides whatever setup and management went into getting this going. Plex Just Works, and is very easy on the eyes.

New comment by hellisothers in "Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting"

hellisothers — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:01:15 +0000

Why do you think universal healthcare will make it easier to get the drugs you need? I’d imagine the opposite with additional bureaucracy.

New comment by hellisothers in "Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid"

hellisothers — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:25:40 +0000

In the short term, in the long term everyone else loses confidence in the country to be a good actor.

New comment by hellisothers in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

hellisothers — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:09 +0000

Focusing just on AI wrt our work (let’s say software engineering for now) and letting go the other items. I see a like when this comes up the story is if the AI is doing the arch/impl then what are you even doing anymore? That is honestly not where my value add is, many people can do those two things plenty well, it’s basically commoditized at this point (at a certain experience level). What I bring is all the soft skills and intuition to glue it together and ship and maintain it.

Let the impl go.