Notices by Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems), page 2
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 00:29:18 JST Pete Wright
On guy living off his publicly funded pension and healthcare for life: ““I didn’t get subsidized housing, I didn’t get lower utility bills” that the government offered lower income people. “Nobody looked out for me,” Grajeda said.”
Toadie is also sad his racket for free coffee and doughnuts ended:
““We used to go places and people would wave to us,” or pay for our coffee, but in the last 10 years, “pretty much all of that went away,” Grajeda said. Now, he said, “it’s all about race.””
Anyway - this ahole went to Idaho with his public pension and bought a bunch of houses and flipped them to other racist cops, causing the cost of living to spike 😅 it’s freaking insane how dumb cops are -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 00:29:18 JST Pete Wright
Holy crap - should read “when Orange County isn’t racist enough for you, there is Idaho”. Freaking article is hilarious - apparently these cops take their massive pensions to Idaho bitching about how no one loves cops in California then are shocked when long time racists in Idaho accuse them on of not being racist enough 😅
But christ - the entitlement of these fuckers. Can’t imagine getting to retire at 50 with %90 of my pay and healthcare….then having the balls to bitch about the state funding your lifestyle being a socialist hellscape? -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:31:52 JST Pete Wright
@feld @kaia @SuperDicq @hj
the front-end is all tesla...everything else is Pontiac Aztec that stung by a bee. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 01:09:27 JST Pete Wright
Thinking about a recent job interview process I went through with a bunch of “very smart people” with Ivy League backgrounds. It was a small quantitative trading firm, they were all very smart(tm).
Anyway I thought I could help them mature their tech stack which was based on python 2.7?!? The crazy part is 2.7 was probably already EOL before these kids had even left university.
Several interviews later they make me do a coding challenge with their lead Ops guy who didn’t really know Unix…and I’m pretty sure it was a scam to get me to fix a problem they were having and couldn’t figure out. Whatever, unfortunately that’s pretty common I reckon.
Then they passed on me a few days later. No context, nothing just a form letter.
The hiring process right now is so broken, and I’m not even sure there is a way to fix this without a massive unionization and apprenticeship movement. This throwing darts at a board thing we currently do isn’t helping anyone. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 00:58:38 JST Pete Wright
@twizzay @jon @feld I’m just gonna start tarpitting any bots or crawlers I can lay my hands on -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 00:55:50 JST Pete Wright
@feld @gamingonlinux right? Like this totally is the logical conclusion of the whole SEO industry goog built. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 08:39:47 JST Pete Wright
@vixn @feld
i may have to give these a spin, i've been taking Yakult which works pretty good for me, but i don't think its something i should take every day. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 03:17:15 JST Pete Wright
psst...little secret for you all. OpenAI/ChatGPT is actually kinda crappy compared to Anthropic and other competitors. They are too expensive, and the results they return on v3/3.5 aren't better compared to their cheaper competitors, and the whole thing just feels like barely a beta product from an admin perspective.
not sure if thats why the guy got let go, but i personally know of one product already shipping generative automation had to get off openai due to cost almost immediately. people that are doing this stuff seriously are already moving their models in house as it'll be much cheaper and more secure than outsourcing this stuff. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 06:32:52 JST Pete Wright
I saw a crow knock over a cup of coffee someone left as litter this morning. There was coffee in it, which the crow happily drank.
I'm not sure humanity is ready for the chaos overly caffeinated crows will cause, but I bet it'll be fun to watch. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:26:42 JST Pete Wright
@stefano
First tech job in 2000/2001 was local isp. We had a FreeBSD shell server for IRC bots. I’d already been exposed to IRIX and was hacking on Slackware and redhat, but the ports tree really was an eye opener.
Was the beginning of a long relationship where I daily drive it on my main workstations and laptops, not to mention my personal servers and on AWS for work. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 06:32:53 JST Pete Wright
@encthenet my 12yo was ranting last night that YouTube made him disable ublock origin, only to show him ads about how to disable ads in YouTube 😅
I was like - and now you know why I’m “backing up the internet” on our own server. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 11:26:11 JST Pete Wright
@thedarktangent
I had some success with Arista, but that was quite a while ago.
I hear ya on HPE and Aruba tho - I remember that being painful and we were a large customer even… -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 10:07:15 JST Pete Wright
@encthenet
that is a great point and had forgotten about that. its another "unfortunate, but understandable" thing.
the last time i remember reading about that was in like 2016 or 2017 and it seemed to be mostly CI related...which again goes back to tooling that is awkward to be cross platform. wonder if thats still the case... -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 09:02:16 JST Pete Wright
@penryu
this tracks, and to be fair i've had some interactions with rust projects where they were definitely on the PR's welcome side.
i've also had a few experiences where it was straight up "nope" - which again is *totally* fine, it is their project and they do things as they see fit. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:35:18 JST Pete Wright
@ianthetechie
Yea don't get me started on docker 😂
I've probably lost more jobs than I care to admit because I looked at the hoops companies were jumping through just to tick the docker (and k8s frankly) box and asking what benefit that complexity is giving them. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:34:35 JST Pete Wright
Honest question for the #rust developers out there. I've observed several pretty high profile OSS projects recently, which are written in rust but are *not* cross platform. Well at least as far as Unix is concerned, it's Linux or nothing.
This is super unfortunate, not only as a #BSD user it locks me out from using these tools...but it also introduces a pretty big blind spot in terms of development which can lead to fragile and/or insecure systems. The whole "monoculture is bad" thing.
So folks hacking on #rust - what do you feel is lacking that makes it easier to write portable code? -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 03:31:36 JST Pete Wright
@miah @mcc i had one of the last (only?) nokia devices that ran this OS (N9). it was pretty bad...but i had such high hopes for it. like the hardware was sweet, and the OS certainly felt more open and hackable than android but it had a lot of work to do to overcome the marketing forces google and apple were able to leverage. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 06:37:21 JST Pete Wright
@feld lol nice - just let the weather underground be an independent company again. i don't care wtf they due with the rest of the assets! -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 01:32:55 JST Pete Wright
@feld
oh i agree - they don't. but like boomers aren't just gonna walk away from power without some incentive. it's wild to think how little relative power Gen X has due to prior generations not getting out of the way. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 05:08:00 JST Pete Wright
#uspol warning
We should create like an "old timers" league in the Senate and Congress. Like after you hit some age (say 70) you are allowed to stay in office, but with diminished authority. say you can't vote, but you get to be an advisor for the reps who came after you or something.
After you realize that most of the geriatric people in our congress spent literally their *lives* trying to get where they are, no wonder they have a hard time stepping down. So why not give them an "off ramp" from power in a way where we can save their precious ego from being hurt.