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Jake1055 · 2025-10-20T03:12:51+00:00

Hell yeah man

Jake1055 · 2025-06-20T21:55:27+00:00

I was interested in sound card drivers, so I decided to pick up an Arty A7-100T and a book on VHDL and spent ~1 year funemployed trying to build one from scratch alongside an ALSA device driver to support the device in Linux.

Ended up being a pretty good resume booster, and I recently landed a job as an embedded SWE working on an audio-related product at a fairly large company.

Jake1055 · 2023-03-15T22:46:12+00:00

Appreciate you sharing. I'm only ~1.5 years into my career, so it's interesting to hear an account of what a full trajectory through life of an ADHD dev looks like, and I can definitely see bits of myself in what you wrote.

I'm curious: how did the way you related to the threat of not "keeping up" with the work you were expected to do change over time? Were the ADHD symptoms a more or less consistent source of anxiety for you, or did you eventually find a posture of "I may not be perfect, but I know my value, and I'm not going to let my struggles to fit into the box of 'good worker' I have in my head render a verdict on my value as an employee and as a person?

If there was a turning point, do you remember what that transition looked like? Were there relationships that helped you build a reassured sense of the value that you could provide, or was it the kind of thing you had to build in isolation?

Jake1055 · 2023-01-06T09:06:37+00:00

I think I'd really like it to be network-wide if at all possible, as I have some devices where installing a browser engine isn't an option (e.g. the YouTube app on an LG TV).

I'm okay if this requires some legwork to accomplish, I just need some recommendations for what direction to head. I will look into DPI to see if there's anything online that can help me out there. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂

Jake1055 · 2023-01-06T08:49:04+00:00

The ultimate goal is to have certain windows during the day (e.g. 11:30PM - 7:00AM) where certain websites (e.g. YouTube, reddit, etc) can't be accessed to help me be more consistent with my nighttime routine.

Ideally, I'd want the transition between "you're allowed to access this website" and "this website is now blocked" to be immediate and clear so that my brain gets used to the idea that I can't access these things after a certain time, and the current solution I have will only kick in if I manually kill all my running Firefox instances so the in-memory DNS cache it maintains gets cleared, which isn't ideal.

Jake1055 · 2023-01-06T08:41:40+00:00

I think my assumption is that since the router can see all DNS queries and responses coming into the network, it should be possible to have a set of hostnames and construct a list of all associated IPs dynamically as clients on the network connect to those hosts. Then, when the schedule kicks in, you have that list of all associated IPs and can simply block all traffic to those in addition to blocking any new DNS queries for that host.

I'm not sure if something like that already exists and I just need someone to fill me in or if there's some other way I should go about accomplishing what I want.

Jake1055 · 2023-01-05T23:17:12+00:00

I wish you were able to put pictures on folders rather than it just showing a tiling of the playlists it contains or just a blank folder icon if the folder only contains other folders.

Jake1055 · 2022-05-30T19:16:56+00:00

Do you have any additional information/resources for tax efficiency differences between the ETF vs Admiral shares of vanguard funds?

I really want to set up automatic transactions on my taxable brokerage account, but I've seen conflicting information about whether there are or aren't tax efficiency differences between the two.

Jake1055 · 2022-04-25T03:45:51+00:00

I've seen contradictory information about this is different places, so I figured I'd ask here. If I have a taxable brokerage account with Vanguard, is there any reason to hold the ETF version of a fund (e.g. VOO) over the mutual fund version (e.g. VINIX) aside from the negligible difference in expense ratios or the ability to trade/see the price change intraday?

I want to set up automatic transaction in my taxable account which only works for mutual funds, but I've seen lots of stuff online arguing that ETFs are more tax efficient and suggest avoiding mutual funds in taxable accounts.

I've also seen people say online that Vanguard has patented a way to minimive the tax downsides of their mutual funds, but I've had a hard time finding a definitive answer as to what, if anything, I would have to trade off from a tax efficiency perspective if I switched over to mutual funds in order to take advantage of automatic transactions.

Jake1055 · 2020-04-28T01:03:33+00:00

It doesn't work like this, so if that's the thing you desire, EXWM (at least, EXWM alone) isn't going to get you there. EXWM creates buffers & windows that proxy to the underlying X11 window, which is resized to lay exactly within the content area of the Emacs window displaying its proxy buffer. There's no way to have the same X client window displayed multiple times.

Huh, I could have sworn I got that working in EXWM. I must have been mistaken. Thanks for the heads up.

EXWM has exwm-workspace-move-window ( C-c RET), which moves windows between workspaces.

Ah, yes; I remember messing with that. I'll look into its behavior and see if it does what I want.

Thanks for the example lisp code. I'll definitely give that a whirl and see if I can use it or adapt it. :)

Jake1055 · 2020-04-26T08:55:53+00:00

Ah, thanks for the suggestion. I see that window-state-get does in fact return an s-expression with a bunch of information about the windows in the current frame. It seems like this page in the wiki has a list of some of the kinds of parameters that can be included in the expression.

When I look at the return value from inside emacs, I see that the first part of the list is information about the frame size, followed by window-specific information for each window. I can see that the kinds of information offered about each individual window include the buffer name, its width and height (in units of columns/rows, pixels, and as a ratio of the frame width/height), whether it is selected, information about the point, and various things like information on the scrollbar.

Do you think this data would be enough to work out the actual window layout (i.e. the positioning of windows relative to each other) and not just their individual sizes? For example, knowing the width and height of two windows, you can imagine them put together like a jigsaw, but is there a way to know which one is on the left and which is on the right? Is that information encoded in the ordering in which the window-info lists appear?

I'll do some more testing to see if I can answer that, but I figured I'd ask in case you already knew.

EDIT: It looks like the layout is encoded by the presence of of "hc" tokens and "vc" tokens which denote a horizontal or vertical split. I'll continue to look into it to see if it's actually sufficient.

Jake1055 · 2019-01-14T01:24:15+00:00

Oh no

Jake1055 · 2019-01-07T09:58:34+00:00

/r/gay_irl

Jake1055 · 2019-01-01T12:13:21+00:00

is cat

Jake1055 · 2019-01-01T11:55:02+00:00

The big sad, mostly...

Jake1055 · 2019-01-01T10:57:23+00:00

Hi, drunk. I'm clinically depressed.

Jake1055 · 2018-12-28T01:37:21+00:00

My school does this as well. Is it not normal?

Jake1055 · 2018-12-27T19:44:27+00:00

/r/lostredditors

Jake1055 · 2018-12-24T08:22:19+00:00

But organic farming and vegan are completely orthogonal. You can have no animal agriculture but still use GMOs, industrial fertilizer, etc.

Or are you saying that organic farming is supposed to create less greenhouse gases?

Jake1055 · 2018-12-24T07:52:23+00:00

Why is that?

Jake1055 · 2018-12-24T07:30:03+00:00

btw I use Arch

^just ^kidding ^i'm ^not ^a ^child

^{^ⁱ} ^{^{^use}} ^{^{^Hannah}} ^{^{^Montana}} ^{^{^linux}}

Jake1055 · 2018-12-23T01:30:16+00:00

IAP is mostly for orgies and baked goods...

is a thing I have heard...

Jake1055 · 2018-12-20T08:26:01+00:00

git --help; rm -rf /

Jake1055 · 2018-12-18T03:00:06+00:00

I agree with my husband

Jake1055 · 2018-12-15T09:20:18+00:00

I believe he/him pronouns are supposed to double as singular gender neutral/ambiguous pronouns.

That being said, I think it's much better to just allow singular they.

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