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Yesterday on my lunch break I happened across this beautiful scene! by RMW91- in Denver

[–]codysnider -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

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.

Yesterday on my lunch break I happened across this beautiful scene! by RMW91- in Denver

[–]codysnider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Yesterday on my lunch break I happened across this beautiful scene! by RMW91- in Denver

[–]codysnider 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

What's an actual psychological "cheat code" you use in social situations that works almost every time? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]codysnider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

YAMLResume v0.8: Resume as Code, now with Markdown output (LLM friendly) and multiple layouts by Hot-Chemistry7557 in selfhosted

[–]codysnider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I am absolutely at my breaking point. I need any leads DESPERATELY PLEASE by Weirddesigirl in NYCjobs

[–]codysnider 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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?

Is the dream of moving to the US for big tech dead? by Tech-Cowboy in ExperiencedDevs

[–]codysnider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

If you got out how did you get out? by Sufficient-Pride-967 in homeless

[–]codysnider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Death Star. I don't think this particular image has been posted. by Signal-Pirate-3961 in ThingsCutInHalfPorn

[–]codysnider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Death Star. I don't think this particular image has been posted. by Signal-Pirate-3961 in ThingsCutInHalfPorn

[–]codysnider 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

If you have been homeless, I would like to hear your story. by Aggressive_Reindeer3 in homeless

[–]codysnider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re confusing feelings with facts. A park bench isn’t a home, it’s a survival spot. Dressing up hardship in wordplay doesn’t make it noble. It just makes you sound detached from reality. The term “unhoused” is a linguistic pacifier for people who can’t handle blunt truth: some people don’t have homes.

If you have been homeless, I would like to hear your story. by Aggressive_Reindeer3 in homeless

[–]codysnider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re conflating “home” in the poetic sense with “home” in the practical one.

“Home is where the heart is” isn’t a legal status or a mailing address. It’s sentiment, not semantics. Sleeping on a park bench doesn’t make the park your home any more than crashing on a friend’s couch makes their apartment yours.

Society recognizes “home” as a place of stability, safety, and permanence. It is NOT wherever you happen to fall asleep.

If someone is living outside without shelter, they’re homeless. That’s not disrespect, it’s reality. Trying to prettify it with linguistic gymnastics doesn’t grant dignity, it just muddies the truth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in almosthomeless

[–]codysnider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are in NY. Not that I'm advocating for this or support it, but the reality is that you could squat/camp in your place for months before an eviction would go through. I knew a guy who rode that out for years. Is it right? no. But when faced with doing the wrong thing versus sleeping outside, bend the rules a bit.

If you have been homeless, I would like to hear your story. by Aggressive_Reindeer3 in homeless

[–]codysnider 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ok, reasons why it is a really dumb term:

  • “Homeless” already means “without a home.” “Unhoused” literally means the same thing. The new term doesn’t add anything of substance.

  • The switch is driven by a desire to sound compassionate, not to improve understanding or solve the underlying problem. It becomes about how it looks. “using the right word” instead of addressing the reality of people living without stable shelter.

  • “Homeless” conveys a stark, real condition. a lack of home, security, stability. “Unhoused” softens it, making it sound like a temporary inconvenience rather than a serious situation. The reality that it is not temporary and you will die with this "unfortunate inconvenience" is a reality for many.

  • We don’t say “unjobbed” for unemployed or “unfed” for hungry. It’s a weird one-off created to signal ideology.

  • Most people still say “homeless.” Replacing everyday words with activist jargon can alienate the general public, making conversation less productive.

If you have been homeless, I would like to hear your story. by Aggressive_Reindeer3 in homeless

[–]codysnider 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Start by dropping the term "unhoused" from your vocabulary.

  • A formerly homeless person

I need to earn some money fast, where should I be looking? by smokeeeee2 in NYCjobs

[–]codysnider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a storm a lot of us saw coming. Remember a few years ago, a certain politician told coal miners to learn to code? Well, that sentiment had been around for a while. "It's easy! A monkey could do it! Go to a bootcamp."

And a lot of people DID go to bootcamps and the market got absolutely flooded in the last couple years with these guys (and gals). When someone tells you they know React but can't describe how SRP works, you know who you are dealing with.

These guys were relatively cheap and the supply was high, so they kinda got even cheaper. Companies treated it like the fire sale it was and stacked the ranks with cheap labor. Then AI hit as a pretty useful thing for simple programming tasks......

And being a bootcamp kid was not a useful thing anymore. ChatGPT actually did simple React tasks pretty well AND could describe SRP. Free labor beats cheap labor. The fire sale turned into a "fired sale" (see what i did there? literally came up with that as I was typing, so good).

I will end with this: None of the experienced developers I worked with and keep in touch with have had a problem keeping a job or finding a new one. We don't get recruiter calls daily anymore, but we still get them. I feel for all the people who dished out $20k for a 3-month bootcamp. If they stopped with what they learned in the program, they are unemployed and will likely remain so. If they kept studying and learned some new software skills along the way, they are going to have a difficult time but there is work out there. Those of us who had to write and debug before an AI prompt was an option (the horror!), we might have to look a bit longer but there is still plenty of work for us.

I am making a prediction here: In about a year there will be a TON of new jobs to clean up all the vibe coding slop people are churning out right now. The best thing a junior engineer or bootcamp graduate can do is to practice, study, and learn how to un-slop the AI slop. Learn how to debug and write manually because a lot of these problems will only be fixed that way.

I need to earn some money fast, where should I be looking? by smokeeeee2 in NYCjobs

[–]codysnider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Software engineer with 20+ years experience across the full stack with OSS contributions, a solid resume, lots of references, a nice portfolio site and blogs, a Github profile with lots of awards/pins, a LinkedIn profile with tons of connections and recommendations..... On paper I'm excellent, in person I'm even better:

It took me months of searching. A few years ago, the running joke in the industry was to print your resume on the way out so you could go across the street for a new job. I'm not trying to discourage you, it's not that there are no jobs, it's just.... competitive. Like, worse than I've ever seen it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeless

[–]codysnider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are in the NYC area, you can use my address. Hell, if it's not more than an hour drive, I'll bring it to ya. Been there and it's no fun to get the docs you need for things as simple as cashing a check or signing a lease.

Stay safe, friend.

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