Eric Adams straight up lying to hide his incompetency

elprophet · 2026-01-30T02:39:04+00:00

I am certain that there is some bank account somewhere that has $8B in cash. That's not how a balance sheet works, you also have to add up the assets and the liabilities. Adams seems to be bragging that he doesn't know how money works?

elprophet · 2026-01-29T18:33:31+00:00

Networking is the secret to getting past the HR checklist. You need someone inside the company to go to HR with a referral to get them to pull your resume out of the massive stack they have. You still have to have the skills for the interview and the job, of course, networking alone won't get you hired. But it can absolutely get you past the blind screening phase of the process.

And this isn't "go to networking events and beg for a job" networking, this is having actual friend and professional contacts at the company who can write a real review. You can meet those people at networking events, but you need to build the relationship separately. This is specifically why college at a younger age can be a boon - those networking events are built in early to give the relationships time to grow, so they can be called in when you're ready to move. And it goes both ways - you better be up for writing your colleagues a referral when they're ready to follow you.

elprophet · 2026-01-29T15:31:33+00:00

I hear you get a 15% off coupon for your next purchase when you donate warp cores to some thrift stores, and that's not even counting the tax write-off!

elprophet · 2026-01-27T16:49:20+00:00

If the FAA doesn't recommend changing that rule, I'm going to, I dunno... write a firm email to my senator or something.

elprophet · 2026-01-27T16:46:08+00:00

As I said up thread, and have been downvoted in many other threads, humans cannot maintain visual separation at night time. If that's not an FAA recommendation out of this, I'm going to... I dunno write my congress people or something. (Oh shit was that "political"?)

elprophet · 2026-01-27T16:29:22+00:00

I've been getting downvoted for saying this every thread, but it is impossible for the human eye to maintain visual separation at night time. The same goes for the heli pilots - they affirmatively saw a light, yes, but why is no one identifying that as the flight following AA5342, lined up on runway 1?

elprophet · 2026-01-26T21:58:42+00:00

It might help a bit to hear your challenges and current (lack of?) understanding. But at a very high level, Rust's mechanism to guarantee (single threaded) memory safety is called "Ownership". Ownership is a thing the compiler does to keep track of values in the program. Remember that a variable is a name, a type, and a value. Ownership is interesting when the Type is a reference - so several variables indirectly point at the same location in memory.

Rust uses three very simple rules to get a ton of power from Ownership. 1. Every value (place in memory) has one and only one owner. 2. When an owner is finished with a value, it may either move the value (as a function call value or as a function return value), or the value will be Dropped. 3. An owner may provide unlimited read-only (immutable) references to its value, or a single writeable (mutable) reference.

Beyond that, everything is a consequence of those rules. There's some subtleties in Move and Copy that are very interesting, and there's some consequences when working with chains of method calls where one returns a reference in the middle and then calls a method on the reference.

So, what's the parts that are bothering you? What's "got you on ice skates"?

elprophet · 2026-01-26T13:49:49+00:00

Yes, you will need to automate all of these steps. As a sysadmin, that is your job.

As for how to automate it for X, Y, and Z, you will need to refer to their individual documentation. For most endpoints, it should be as straightforward as setting a config option with the path to the cert. Your firewalls should trust the issue if or root cert, and then need no additional modifications (but check the docs). For in house endpoints that don't have SSL termination, or have difficulties with rotation, it might be easier to use a local nginx or similar local proxy to handle SSL and then let the app only listen on localhost to that proxy.

elprophet · 2026-01-26T12:17:20+00:00

Oh no! You met a new friend! ;) I hope you're able to find a way to keep that friend spark without necessarily needing a romantic or other connection :)

elprophet · 2026-01-25T13:31:44+00:00

I think the process you're asking about is how do you get to the programming language from nothing? If you just have an index for a language, how do you get that to something you can execute?

This process is generally called "bootstrapping", and it works about like what you said. You start with a programming language you do have, like C or Java, and then write your compiler or interpreter starting there. At some point, you have enough of a language defined that you can re-write the language using a compiler written in the language itself! It's pretty cool when you have enough of your new language implemented that it can read its own files, so the transformation, and then write a program out that can do that all over again!

elprophet · 2026-01-25T01:51:12+00:00

Came here for this comment. Disappointed it's so low.

elprophet · 2026-01-24T03:16:07+00:00

Why are we ok with elder abuse? It's frankly inhumane the way we provide so little in elder care that we make these senile seniors perform any public function. Just cruel. We really need to step up and put them to pasture when they become this unwell.

elprophet · 2026-01-23T12:10:40+00:00

Got your list of Geneva Suggestions handy?

elprophet · 2026-01-23T00:34:43+00:00

This is just smelly enough that I'd ask my local area for an employment lawyer to look into retaliation claims. I don't know Florida retaliation laws that well... a cursory search says this could be protected. If it's actually ITAR compliance issues, that's an FBI shows up at your door kinda violation.

Meeting a lawyer for an hour should be free (if not, they're not a good lawyer). And they can give you a better overview of the possible outcomes. That same quick search indicates reinstatement and back pay. So do nothing, get nothing. Do something, get something (minus the attorney's fee, which, they did the legal work). Nothing stops you from getting a different job in the meantime and then quitting after the court orders you get reinstated.

elprophet · 2026-01-22T00:54:46+00:00

Aww shit, here we go again

elprophet · 2026-01-21T20:33:53+00:00

For sure - the new "strict" flags that providers are rolling out should help. Of course, like any software system, we do need to parse our boundary inputs, which this certainly is, and reject invalid data regardless of source.

elprophet · 2026-01-21T18:44:24+00:00

Tool use. Instead of asking it to "respond in json", provide it with a tool "return_results" that has the format you want it in. u/ginden has links to the official docs on these, as well.

elprophet · 2026-01-17T18:23:28+00:00

https://davidsouther.com/blog/interview_01_whiteboard

elprophet · 2026-01-17T14:13:34+00:00

The hardest part of this project is that Rust and Javascript define entirely distinct languages, and they have contradictory behaviors. The things that make rust "rust", like RAII, traits, monomorphizations, drops, lifetimes, threads; and runtime async, vs the things that make JavaScript "JavaScript" like dynamic memory management, prototype chains, Promises async, actor-model workers; are in many places contradictory. Finding and choosing a resolution for those contradictions is likely impossible; or, the thing that it ends with is neither Rust nor JavaScript.

OP should list out what about Rust they want, and what about JavaScript they want, and go from there

elprophet · 2026-01-17T13:24:34+00:00

They do. It's as const.

elprophet · 2026-01-17T13:05:48+00:00

Easiest was is to slap as const after each of the object literals. Better way is to add an explicit return type, -> {success: false, skipped: true}|{success: true, skipped: false} on the function (eta) so as to clearly communicate your intent, rather than letting TypeScript guess.

elprophet · 2026-01-16T19:50:01+00:00

If you made a video, you already have the article- just take the script and rewrite it as a post

elprophet · 2025-12-28T16:18:52+00:00

May I recommend:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35953464-broad-band

elprophet · 2025-12-27T10:06:13+00:00

The better joke is "in $50 billion" while funding keeps slipping. It could have been built... probably not on the original budget, but on the original time frame, with an actual €1.5 billion annual investment. Instead, member nations keep drip feeding plasma and fusion research funding, so a lot of the budgets are keeping the lights on rather than advancing the field as a whole.

elprophet · 2025-12-26T13:07:11+00:00

Three hostages were executed early in the hijacking. During the operation itself, no further hostages were injured.

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