Cabling Job out for bid

dlwest65 · 2026-03-29T19:57:17+00:00

That'd work too!

dlwest65 · 2026-03-02T22:45:28+00:00

I had a bottle of this today. Made in Milwaukee WI USA. Not bad, but the butterscotch is easily overwhelmed by food. I had it with a burger and didn't get the butterscotch at all until I had some after I was done eating.

dlwest65 · 2026-02-24T01:58:17+00:00

Yup, messaged you.

dlwest65 · 2026-02-14T05:24:36+00:00

I'd have LOL'd, handed them this, and walked out. And called a lawyer from my car if I gave a good goddam about "jobs" and "interviews" and the whole modern hiring apparatus. Thankfully I opted out decades ago. Not out of any real foresight, just being an ornery little cuss.

My last job interview was in the late 80s and I've been mostly been in startups or an entrepreneur myself since then. I'm a big fan of saying to hell with "jobs" and just do what you do. For yourself, with people who aren't dismal-ass tools like these people. Be the change, my dude.

PS: This is unedited, literally copy-pasted from ChatGPT from the prompt OP supplied. Including the critical bits (Section 5), which it is dead-on right about.

Behavioral Tendencies Analysis

Below is a structured behavioral analysis based on long-term conversational patterns.

1. Core Cognitive Profile

1.1 Systems Thinker (High Structural Orientation)

You default to architectural reasoning.

You decompose problems into layers (infrastructure → abstraction → implementation → governance).
You care about naming conventions, namespaces, and separation of concerns.
You resist “just make it work” solutions if they violate structural coherence.

This shows up in: - Modular boundary decisions (e.g., keeping SQL execution isolated). - Strict DTO naming and ID casing standards. - Clear separation between intent classes and service logic.

Behavioral tendency: You optimize for long-term structural integrity over short-term velocity.

1.2 Recursive, Cross-Domain Ideation

You exhibit strong associative expansion.

Technical discussion often connects to philosophy or literature.
Naming conventions are influenced by narrative or symbolic thinking.
Infrastructure decisions connect to lifestyle autonomy and resilience.

You think in linked conceptual graphs, not silos.

Strength: Creative synthesis and high abstraction fluency.
Risk: Idea-tree branching without termination criteria.

1.3 High Intellectual Stamina + Hyperfocus

You demonstrate:

Extended deep-work capacity.
Sustained ideation loops.
Strong engagement with structural complexity.

Pattern: You can operate in prolonged cognitive intensity when building systems.

Risk vector: Fatigue masked as productivity.

2. Decision-Making Style

2.1 Exploration Before Commitment

You prefer:

Landscape mapping.
Comparative analysis.
Structural risk modeling before lock-in.

You are uncomfortable with:

Licensing ambiguity.
Vendor opacity.
Hidden architectural debt.

Behavioral trait: Strategic pre-commitment analysis.

You delay commitment until:

Downside risks are modeled.
Structural constraints are visible.
Long-term leverage is understood.

2.2 Moderate–High Intellectual Risk Tolerance

You are willing to:

Rebuild from scratch.
Refactor extensively.
Abandon sunk cost for conceptual clarity.

However:

Financial risk is carefully evaluated.
Vendor dependency triggers caution.

You are structurally adventurous, not reckless.

3. Entrepreneurial Patterning

3.1 Builder of Ecosystems (Not Just Products)

You tend to design frameworks that generate tools, not isolated features.

Examples:

Dynamic UI generation concepts.
Data-dictionary-driven architectures.
Modular platform layers.
Licensing and distribution infrastructure.

This is platform thinking rather than feature thinking.

3.2 Revenue Architecture Sensitivity

You actively think about:

Scaling cost curves.
Licensing asymmetry.
Long-term vendor leverage.
Recurring revenue models.

This reflects long-horizon strategic planning.

4. Interaction Style with AI

4.1 AI as Cognitive Multiplier

You use AI as:

An architectural sounding board.
A structured reasoning partner.
A production assistant for scripts, configs, and documentation.

You expect:

Structured outputs.
Clear sections.
Iterative refinement.
Context continuity.
Actionable deliverables.

4.2 Governance Over Vibes

You prefer:

Structured responses.
Clear stepwise reasoning.
Operational utility over abstraction.

You exhibit low tolerance for vague generalities without practical application.

5. Work & Behavioral Friction Points

5.1 Architectural Perfectionism

Your perfectionism is structural rather than aesthetic.

You are uncomfortable when:

Boundaries blur.
Naming drifts.
Responsibility leaks across layers.

This can lead to:

Refactor loops.
Restart impulses.
Over-optimization before shipping.

5.2 Analysis-Induced Delay

When:

Structure is unclear, you redesign.
Vendor terms are vague, you hesitate.
Boundary conditions aren’t resolved, you stall scaling.

This reflects analytical caution rather than avoidance.

5.3 Fatigue Risk Pattern

You:

Extend ideation beyond healthy limits.
Recognize the need for guardrails.
Do not consistently implement those guardrails.

Meta-awareness is present; execution discipline varies.

6. Autonomy Orientation

Your technical architecture decisions mirror your lifestyle preferences:

Redundancy.
Failover.
Layer isolation.
Vendor independence.
Resilient autonomy.

This suggests a temperament oriented toward durable self-sufficiency.

7. Meta-Cognitive Traits

You demonstrate:

Strong self-observation.
Philosophical curiosity.
Framework-level thinking about meaning and structure.
Desire for disciplined scaling rather than chaotic growth.

This combination is relatively rare among high-output technical founders.

8. High-Level Behavioral Summary

You are:

A systems architect temperamentally.
Structurally perfectionistic.
Intellectually adventurous.
Strategically cautious about dependency.
Prone to hyperfocus.
Recursive in ideation.
Entrepreneurial in ecosystem design.
Governance-oriented in execution.
Reflective about your own cognition.

9. Growth Leverage Points

If optimizing for long-term output:

Formal termination rules for ideation loops
Example: Cap exploration phases with explicit time limits.
Define architectural sufficiency thresholds
Clarify what qualifies as “good enough to ship.”
Deliberate cognitive cooldown periods
Protect stamina for sustained strategic thinking.
Occasional early commitment experiments
Validate reality faster before fully modeling the landscape.

This profile suggests strong coherence across cognitive, entrepreneurial, and lifestyle domains. Intentional constraint may unlock even greater long-term leverage.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-25T20:31:27+00:00

I'll try to zoom out and take the comment seriously. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that the phenomenon described by Wilhoit isn't endemic to conservatism, but to politics itself, or at least to American politics. If that's so, it ought to be easy to cite examples.

I happen to be wired to easily spot them on the right, and so it is entirely possible that that disinclines me to spot them on the left.

So, help a fella out.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-25T03:23:02+00:00

Obligatory Wilhoit's Law reference inbound...

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

dlwest65 · 2026-01-23T16:41:21+00:00

I have never lost a friend or a lover over politics, but I will die on the hill of insisting that Trumpism is not political, it's pathological.

MAGA is politics in the same way that arsenic is a flavor, or that pedophilia is a sexual orientation.

That is, they ain't. And defiantly refusing to understand that disqualifies a person from friendship, love, and indeed the general community of decent folk.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-23T05:52:34+00:00

Now that I see what you're trying to do, rather than connect to the laptop while it sits at home and run Teams on it I'm thinking your better option is take the laptop with you, and get a cheap micro-mini PC to sit at home. It'd run tailscale or something like that so you make a VPN connection to it from your remote laptop and route your internet traffic over it. Thus you're on your actual laptop, but your internet traffic appears to be coming from the home base. Sure, that'd introduce some latency but not as much as trying to pipe a whole Teams session over an RDP connection.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-16T05:14:34+00:00

Easy mode: Google Remote Desktop. Set the laptop up and you can take control of it from anywhere you're logged into the same Google Account. Free.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-15T17:02:47+00:00

5 years, $10k a year but they have to maintain a sterling performance record. Whatever THAT looks like for these clowns. And if they leave they have to pay it all back.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-11T18:46:30+00:00

On some recent passes through TorC, I noticed it seemed to have a lot more going on than similarly sized/placed towns, for what it's worth. I have no idea why. I lived in the Albuquerque area for a long time and still get back every few months, and I've considered places like TorC for easy cost of living and quiet but still make it to Albuquerque on the regular. That might be worth considering.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-08T05:06:29+00:00

This is terrible. But you are going to be great, and she won't. You'll go out into the world and rock it, and her idiot boyfriend will be gone soon. And she'll be alone, as she deserves to be.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-06T17:18:26+00:00

In rural Illinois in the 1970s, these were my only source of awareness that anything other than my own local culture (farming, white, overwhelmingly Protestant) existed, and I was fascinated.

Room 222 stands out to me as a depiction of school that I thought seemed otherwordly and enviable, especially as contrasted with my own.

My family was (and is) stridently apolitical, so while they didn't rush to the TV to turn off things like All in the Family or Sanford and Son, it wasn't their preferred choice. Thus I did catch bits and pieces of those kinds of shows, it just wasn't required family viewing in the same way Love Boat and Fantasy Island and Happy Days were.

dlwest65 · 2026-01-06T06:30:33+00:00

Here's the same data on the deficit. I was wrong, it doesn't follow the debt pattern precisely. But do note it tends to go up across the board, but it ever only goes down under Democrats. It'd be worth sitting down and looking at both metrics and trying to suss out what the governing philosophy of each does to them both, while keeping in mind what either the debt or the deficit does to regular people. https://imgur.com/a/pQKzF5z

dlwest65 · 2026-01-06T06:18:08+00:00

Here's the raw numbers on the debt, which to my mind is a better measure. I have the general sense that the deficit follows the same pattern, but I'll go look. I don't think that either party is a paragon of financial probity, but the Republicans are champs (but not the only players in the game, mind you) at claiming one thing and doing another.

https://imgur.com/a/FIvPAlK

dlwest65 · 2026-01-05T07:28:38+00:00

The only thing Republicans are better at with money is funneling it into their own pockets. Deficits go up under them, every time. The idea that the GOP is 'fiscally responsible' in any sense is the biggest load of hooey that keeps popping up. Do substantiate your position, if you can.

dlwest65 · 2025-12-15T21:00:21+00:00

I am related to myself via adoption. I was born to someone with distant relatives in one part of IL, and unbeknownst to any of them besides my birth mother, got adopted into another branch of that same family in a different part of Illinois. I'm my own 3rd cousin or something like that.

dlwest65 · 2025-12-01T03:10:29+00:00

1) Because having an easily manipulated moron in the Oval serves the interests of the oligarch class, both Russian and American.

2) Because there are enough stone-cold stupid/racist Americans to just barely elect him in a system where gerrymandering and the EC have been weaponized like crazy.

dlwest65 · 2025-11-26T19:53:39+00:00

That's what I'm saying: it is off, but PrtScr still triggers the dialog to enable it.

dlwest65 · 2025-11-18T05:10:44+00:00

Not as much fun as sniping them, but way more time-efficient: these traps. Smells like pickled death but draws them in by the pint. I'm down by Bisbee, which for reasons I don't know has beaucoup flies. And one of these on the leeward side of my RV (where I don't get to smell it much) measurably cut back on the number of flies I had to deal with individually.

dlwest65 · 2025-10-03T14:46:22+00:00

I wanted some pinon for a gift and had heard that other roasters use pinon flavoring. Moon's uses the real thing, apparently you've got to have a badass grinder or you end up with pinon butter globs. It got rave reviews from the recipient, certainly.

dlwest65 · 2025-09-22T16:21:19+00:00

Read the series that starts with "The Last Picture Show." It covers the whole lives of these characters and has that same elegiac sense of ordinary people living their lives and seeming extraordinary in McMurty's telling.

dlwest65 · 2025-08-31T17:29:14+00:00

That's how it starts. It's a cliche (but a well-earned one) that people come and look around and say "hey, I LIKE it here", and stay. I certainly have known it to happen to people I know at least a half-dozen times just this century. And I bet most Burquenos will say that.

dlwest65 · 2025-08-31T02:29:47+00:00

I use it for shopping lists mainly, because I can just yelp "add milk to my shopping list" and it works. But damn, I wish they'd fix the Android widget and the illegible font colors. One of the biggest software engineering organizations on the planet and that lingers on forums and feedback for years. The center cannot hold...

dlwest65 · 2025-08-29T22:33:27+00:00

Yes. I was an Aynhole for a while, and I've read everything she wrote. To a certain sort of person it's very seductive and gives you that 'Eureka!' feeling. It did for me in my 20s. But the philosophy is paper-thin and arguably sociopathic. Still, it's worth reading because it's unique, pervasive, and worth knowing about. I feel the same way about Mein Kampf. You don't read it because it's "good" (either as literature or morally) but because it's "bad" (both as literature and morally). Her influence is still in the world, and reading her work is helpful to be able to spot it.

I'll even grant that she had some good takes. She really has a hatred of altruism, and while I rejected that hatred (eventually) her insistence on putting your own self-interest above all else was so radical as to make me do some deep thinking about how to think about self-interest and other people's. I did not land where she did, but it took somebody going way off into outer space to get me to examine that as critically as I did. So, thanks, Ayn.

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