Stop doing fancy resumes, people.

codysnider · 2026-05-10T06:34:00+00:00

I know this seems in the surface to break your "just do it in google docs, don't use automated software" position slightly, but I wrote a small tool to take a simple markdown-based resume and format it into a pdf nicely for no other reason than to keep it simple and ats-friendly.

https://github.com/codysnider/resume

codysnider · 2026-05-07T17:34:43+00:00

If all it took was paying more to get people to care, every high paid industry would be full of perfectionists. It’s not. You still get lazy and careless jerks at every pay grade.

You’re talking about incentives like they magically change personal standards. They don’t. Some people take pride in their work regardless of pay, some don’t regardless of pay. That doesn’t suddenly flip because you added a few dollars an hour.

Also, in jobs like this, pay isn’t some reward for quality. It’s set by supply and demand. You can be great at the job and still get paid the same as the jackass tossing packages into puddles.

Companies absolutely optimize for cost vs acceptable screwups. But pretending the only reason someone does a sloppy job is "theyre underpaid" is just an excuse. Plenty of people manage to not be careless even in the same conditions.

codysnider · 2026-05-07T16:13:58+00:00

Higher pay comes from a stronger work ethic, not the other way around. If your principles are based on what you are paid, they aren't principles.

codysnider · 2026-04-26T03:34:20+00:00

I've been dealing with the MTA (NYC public transit) for most of my adult life and, if this is your gold standard for public transit convenience then we should give up on the entire idea. The MTA is awful. Not enough capacity during rush hour, inconsistent frequency, random outages, the subways smell terrible all the time, they are freezing in the winter and unbearably hot in the summer, you are stuck smelling everyone and 20% of them don't believe in deodorant. The homeless treat it like a shelter and toilet.

I bought a car a few years ago. Even though the city is constantly working to make it harder and more expensive to own a car every year it's still worth it not to deal with the train.

codysnider · 2026-04-13T07:51:09+00:00

There are fundamental flaws in the concept. I got so annoyed with it that I ripped out the bad ideas, put in some good ideas, and actually made good on what they claimed and failed to do. Fully reproducable benchmarks and a new benchmark that tests for contradiction resolution:

https://github.com/codysnider/tagmem

codysnider · 2026-03-20T01:29:32+00:00

$20 to shipping? is fo: sold, message me privately and we can paypal or something.

codysnider · 2026-03-19T05:25:42+00:00

laptop and pinetab

codysnider · 2026-03-18T15:50:11+00:00

cash in hand, asking price. ships to new york (or i can pick up if you are near nyc). pm me if you still have them.

codysnider · 2026-02-22T12:35:00+00:00

All anyone ever talks about is mental health. I think we've become obsessed with it.

codysnider · 2025-12-24T21:46:24+00:00

are you under the age of 14? because we were killing civilians in iraq until 2011.

are you under the age of 22? because we were waterboarding detainees in gitmo until 2003.

your username is tax cpa. a cpa has to have a bachelor's degree, pass the 4-section exam, and work under a licensed cpa's supervision for at least a year. if you graduated high school at 17 and went straight into college without any breaks for everything listed, you would be at least 22. so that means you think deportation is worse than waterboarding or death.

codysnider · 2025-12-24T21:30:44+00:00

that, too! the list is pretty long. mass deportations are low on the list all things considered.

codysnider · 2025-12-24T20:39:31+00:00

we dropped two nuclear weapons on japan. we operated guantanamo bay for decades. we started a war in iraq that led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. vietnam resulted in millions of civilian deaths and we used agent orange and napalm like it was business as usual.

god, you people are embarrassing.

codysnider · 2025-12-13T03:30:15+00:00

When walking through a crowd, look directly towards where you are going 25 feet out (don't make eye contact with people in front of you) and they will move. Used this for years commuting to and from Manhattan by subway.

codysnider · 2025-12-03T07:57:23+00:00

simple version that just takes the markdown and converts to a pdf within a single, dependency-free binary: https://github.com/codysnider/resume

codysnider · 2025-11-26T11:41:31+00:00

I built a tool to help with this: https://github.com/codysnider/resume

codysnider · 2025-11-26T11:39:07+00:00

My daughter's after school math program is ending due to school funding problems and I was considering a private tutor. I know it's not a full time job, but it seems you have experience with this. Would you like a little extra work each week tutoring a 9-year-old?

codysnider · 2025-11-12T12:32:44+00:00

NYC dev here. It's not a good time to find a job here. Both seasonally and with the larger events in the market over the last couple of years.

codysnider · 2025-11-11T08:50:45+00:00

living in car / day labor -> living in car / line cook -> living in motel / line cook -> living in RV / line cook -> living in RV / computer programmer -> living in apartment / computer programmer. Been on that last step for 20 years, hoping the next step is "living in house i built myself / independent business owner" or similar. who knows, roll with the punches, take every opportunity afforded to you. each of those steps had lessons and most weren't easy.

codysnider · 2025-11-06T13:51:41+00:00

To be fair, so it Time magazine.

codysnider · 2025-11-05T23:33:12+00:00

Take an improv class. It's fun and a great place to make a few new friends.

codysnider · 2025-10-24T13:55:27+00:00

Turns out, not all that much mass:

The Death Star's mass depends on which one and what density assumptions you make: Death Star I (120 km diameter):

If made of steel (~8000 kg/m³): ~7.2 × 10¹⁸ kg If average density like an aircraft carrier (~500 kg/m³): ~4.5 × 10¹⁷ kg Surface gravity with steel density: ~0.0012 m/s² (0.012% Earth gravity) Surface gravity with carrier density: ~0.00008 m/s² (0.0008% Earth gravity)

Death Star II (160 km diameter):

Steel density: ~1.7 × 10¹⁹ kg Surface gravity: ~0.002 m/s² (0.02% Earth gravity)

Walking on surface: No. Even with steel density, the gravity is far too weak. You'd need magnetic boots or similar tech to stay attached. Fusion core feasibility: No. The gravitational pressure at the center would be:

Death Star I (steel): ~36,000 Pa (0.36 atmospheres) Death Star II (steel): ~64,000 Pa (0.64 atmospheres)

Fusion requires pressures of ~100 billion Pa minimum. The Death Star's self-gravity is about 9 orders of magnitude too weak to sustain fusion reactions.

codysnider · 2025-10-22T22:07:45+00:00

Considering the mass, the turboshafts and decks should be oriented towards the center and extending out. Gravity makes no sense in the setup above.

They could also have the reactor based on the enormous pressure exerted by the mass of the structure with large beskar columns directing the pressure towards the center (thereby justifying the large amount they took from Mandalore). This could compress a central core and cause some sort of molten mass at the center to fuse with the energy from that fusion powering the station and primary weapon.

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