Saw quake on mastodon 1/2 an hour ago. Felt like I should report it so I don't feel left out.
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How to get me to stop talking
Give me something to eat. All my over talking is just a cry for something to eat.
Stuff I'm buying/bought for tarrifamagadon
- instant coffee
- Chinese bullet journals
- running shoes
- rice
- toilet paper (1/2 of it comes from Canada & that is what people stock up on when the see empty shelves)
What else should I get?
Don't forget to follow me on LinkedIn for career adjacent content
Slactivism is for bsky.
FB - ghost town
LinkedIn - can't alienate possible employers
Twitter - it's all social conservatives now, Gab, but with more normies
Bsky - Trending algo is good and seems to be mostly the digerati & mostly US
Mastodon - So overwhelmingly European & the privacy design makes it impossible to find followers in your region. (I have a wash DC tilt to my account because I found DC peeps on twitter and did account import back when it was possible)
I don't think I'm cut out for hackathons. I suspect being productive in hackathons calls for doing a lot of hackathons. It is a really specific style of software development.
401k websites are getting crushed under the load (for 2 of my 401k accounts)
Java hates me. I compile a jar and it includes all dependencies except the code in /src/. I'll post the pom sometime today.
Sorry, too late. Already started swapping my money into bonds. I was way over exposed to US Stocks anyhow. I guess I have 90 days now to pick where I want to move my money to instead of doing it while knives are falling.
Aha
- Use Relational DB when data is indexed & you won't be doing table scans
- Use Apache Spark (Glue/etc) when you will always be doing a table scan
Use phone market prices think tariffs will have 0 impact
This doesn't reassure me, just makes me think that the market for used phones is inefficient, probably because no one can costly stock up on used phones.
Status: reversing a string in languages nothing like c, but as if it were c, just to feel employable.
`strrev("hello world")`
But that is not what interviewer want to see.
Here is how to do it with loops (in terraform)
```hcl
locals {
indexed = { for idx, val in var.input : idx => val }
reversed = [for i in range(length(var.input)) : local.indexed[length(var.input) - 1 - i]]
}
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To my European friends...
Please put travel to the US on hold for ~4 years.
The market is pricing stocks as if Donald Trump will become a Democrat this week.
If we all tweet hard enough, we can make the stock market go any direction we want
After today, the country will be run by 1/2 billionaires.
New buried by the other news: Tech Layoffs continue at high absolute values, 100k layoffs in March
Market Crash hasn't happened yet and it already has a name, #UglyMonday
Did he just reinvent barter? For Madagascar to ensure the vanilla they sell doesn't create a trade imbalance, the vanilla exporters would need to take US merchandise in return. As soon as they take dollars, Madagascar would risk punitive tariffs again
Sheet, we're going to have 20% unemployment. When global trade shuts down, it will be like the pandemic all over again.
Total volume of trade is going to crater.
Dollar is going to weaken like crazy
Interest rates are going to skyrocket with inflation
Government spending is going to contract like crazy as the admin overshoots and cuts 4-6 Trillion via operational shut down (fire so many people, prevent gov't from having ability to spend money, regardless to budget)♡ 2 ↻ 0
Month of no-productivity/degraded productivity when switching languages? Assume they're similar, e.g. python/ruby/js or c#/java/go or such similar pair.
Archived poll
- 0 month2 votes
- 1-2 months10 votes
- 3-4 months2 votes
- I don't know1 votes
15 voters
I had the misfortune of needing to listen to a stockbroker who decided he needed to tell me how great the economy was going to be under Trump/because of Trump.
Very surreal, like talking to a person from a different planet.
@AlSweigart Last time I had a bunch of one offs, they all shared one great big venv. I wasn't running each every day, so there wasn't like a lot of chance of dependencies breaking each other & I lucked out with transitive dependencies.
@neurobashing Their product is fine, their billing UX is not. They said "your credit card has expired, update it" So I updated my credit card and they charged me and got me going for 2 parallel subscriptions. The help desk said I could only stop future payments.
I'm sure they will make it clear to me how I'm wrong. Fortunately I can delete my account and stop ever giving them money every again.
Fucking #gitkraken - if you end up with two subs you can't your money back. But you can delete your account and switch to anything else.
The internet has turned into a misinformation and exploitation machine.
Sometimes, motivated misinformation, sometimes, it is just "flood the zone with crap until no one knows what is true anymore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSOgBhvzXw&ab_channel=VivaLongevity%21
Fwiw, I think the real evidence is*
- high meat diets will shorten your health span and life spanYoutube's health influencers will be responsible for erasing all the gains in health and lifespan over the coming decades
* That I have call this out explicitly shows how hard it is for anyone to say anything and know what is "common knowledge" anymore and what is the heterodox minority opinion.
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Your periodic reminder that old #COBOL isn't only old COBOL. It is IBM assembler with some COBOL for the easier parts. Business apps written in assembler because the COBOL wasn't fast enough.
I can get the gist of code in most languages, but when I look at edin (assembler!) I can't figure out what is going on despite profuse comments.
Mmm, 5 year old RTO coffee, vintage March 2020. I'm picking up notes of stale, rancid and Folgers.
Forest fire warnings for everything around DC. I was expecting this. Increasingly my neighborhood looks like Colorado when I was growing up. Dry, dry, dry.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Roll for initiative.
IDEA: ask someone on fiverr to create an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.
How many tries until you get a person to do it by hand?
How many people will have AI do it and pass it off as their own?
@ebooksyearn Keep tweeting. This thread is now a dead man's switch.
#blind Library of Congress wants to hire a software developer for their Blind and Print Disabled apps
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7308847326398144513/
Behavioral addiction wrecking my personal productivity & mood... and preventing so many people from getting married it is causing demographic collapse in ALL countries worldwide that have access to mobile phones & internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispyUPqqL1c&ab_channel=PatrickBoyle
How are we preparing for (waves arms around) this?
Archived poll
- food stamp diet0 votes
- minimalist cooking1 votes
- WW2 Rations cooking0 votes
- week-at-a-time meal prep1 votes
2 voters
How to use a pocket Field Notes notebook to replace your phone:
1) Write your message in it.
2) Walk about 10-15 feet away from the other person, depending on arm strength
3) Throw the notebook, trying to ring them up with a strike to the head.
4) Wait for them to reply and catch the notebook.
5) Repeat.
Youtube productivity gurus are a wealth of information on how to be a productive youtube video maker.
I'm a productivity guru. I think you should get up every morning 8 hours after you went to sleep and take a hot shower.
I'm going to win over all the adherents of productivity gurus telling you to wake up tired take a cold shower.
I'm writing in a notebook and handwriting fonts have not kept up. How do I hand write all the emoji's necessary for human communication?
I'm not the 1st to notice this problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/eky8l3/writing_with_emojis/
This person knows what I'm talking about
https://masterbundles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/emoji-emotions-font-9--478.jpg
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