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New comment by jimmygrapes in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:02:29 +0000

https://www.acquisition.gov/gsam/552.216-75

I get where you're coming from but this is a rough transition for some. Ideally we would hope that more frequent reporting would necessitate development of more seamless systems... but we ain't there yet. There's a lot of flexibility in some systems but they allow that flexibility so that it can be tightened as needed. Be careful.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

jimmygrapes — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:19:49 +0000

I've been a fan of Design-Assisted Developer or DAD

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

jimmygrapes — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:11:25 +0000

I expected this comment coming into the thread. I would just like to point out that there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

If is entirely possible to teach up a child to be curious AND well rounded in the basics (see also concepts of Trivarium and Quadrivium, sorry can't link the references atm).

New comment by jimmygrapes in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

jimmygrapes — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:42:15 +0000

Age reckoning in South Korea (and other east Asian countries) is quite different than what you might expect. Age 1 in this context could be up to 3; if year 1 is your birth date and you age up at the new year, you could be "2 years old" while being alive for only 3 days. It could also work the other way around if they follow one of the other methods. Pretty interesting and not yet fully standardized!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

New comment by jimmygrapes in "The Company Man"

jimmygrapes — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:28:41 +0000

I may be imagining it but it's very reminiscent of "Scott Alexander" / Slate Star Codex / whatever he rebranded to

New comment by jimmygrapes in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:11:09 +0000

I suppose the argument there is that it's not necessarily a megaphone for the fella with 24 followers. The concern comes from when someone amasses a following through "acceptable" means and then pivots. Not sure how to balance that.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Job mismatch and early career success"

jimmygrapes — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:10:38 +0000

My interpretation based on experience is that the underqualified individuals will often be more prone to volunteering, participation in clubs and committees, and politicking. The overqualified individuals also do this, but will likely be required to do "the real job" more often, leaving a less qualified individual more free to do those things.

Community involvement is a significant factor on both enlisted and officer performance reports. Gotta fill that section in no matter what, and if your section is poor it drags your overall score down.

However, promotion testing is purely knowledge and skill based. A good test taker can overcome the weight of lower performance report scores.

Just my opinion, though.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis"

jimmygrapes — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:27:48 +0000

Manually syncing several of the MEP012 generators was always far more stressful to me than any physical dangers!

New comment by jimmygrapes in "How the brain increases blood flow on demand"

jimmygrapes — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:18:21 +0000

> Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

-Bill Hicks Don't take this as downplaying at all, because it's a fantastic and uplifting revelation, so long as one doesn't presume they're the first to consider it (it is even better this way imo)

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Onlycats"

jimmygrapes — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:29:28 +0000

I saw your upload (or the one you're referencing), thanks for the rapid ruin if you did that

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Is Down"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:21:54 +0000

the internet's down! it is always DNS let us go touch grass

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data"

jimmygrapes — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:14:16 +0000

This is an amazing summary of talking points, kudos regardless of your intentions

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs"

jimmygrapes — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 06:11:06 +0000

I thought we hated placing profit over ideals, did that change?

New comment by jimmygrapes in "The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI"

jimmygrapes — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:17:17 +0000

anybody who's ever tried to play bar trivia with a team should recognize this

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Vets Who Code"

jimmygrapes — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:51:35 +0000

perhaps most importantly, the ability to grin and bear it

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:43:00 +0000

I'm not convinced any humans have worked there for most of my lifetime.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern"

jimmygrapes — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:27:53 +0000

I think it's the thing the powers that be said was inconclusive and/or ineffective (monoclonal antibodies) and in the same realm of conspiracy theorist homeopathic solutions. Just takes awhile for things to work out, it's OK.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:28:17 +0000

Honestly it isn't much better here.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

jimmygrapes — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:23:49 +0000

It took bipartisan pardons/commutations across 2 disparately ideological faction leaders to even the outcomes for both groups of people who purportedly aimed to overthrow the government that let them all be free.

New comment by jimmygrapes in "Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet"

jimmygrapes — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:29:42 +0000

Yeah well I started smoking weed when I was 16 and I'm a poor man approaching retirement with no family or friends or assets and a tenuous job predicated in my ability to perform manual labor. Now what.