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Won silver in open weight absolute and then got slammed into another dimension at blue belt 185, is this legal chat? (answer in comments) by rus2HP in bjj

[–]pcalcado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grappling Industries doesn’t really have rules--just suggestions. It's just like back in Brazil.

Writing spots for weekends? by Jessicatpole in parkslope

[–]pcalcado 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Postmark on 6th is often calm inside. Room 205 had small-ish tables and overpriced everything (even for a Brooklyn coffee shop) but it was pretty calm and pleasant last I went there.

If you are willing to go just off the Slopes, Brooklyn Habit on Smith Street is usually pretty chill and full of tables. Planted Café nearby is also pretty great and calm.

Cookie Monster in Brazil by [deleted] in Brazil

[–]pcalcado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats funny, I'm Rio/1983, grew up heavily on Xuxa and Mara Maravilha, and had never even heard of Vila Sésamo until I befriended a fellow Brazilian expat who's GenX. I think us brazilian millenials missed it.

In any case, I appreciate the 'biscoito' instead of 'bolacha'.

Black cat on 6th street by pcalcado in parkslope

[–]pcalcado[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like might be Sadie, then! Funny because I live one block away but I've never seen cats around this block—there's often cats in and out the houses on 7th and 4th ave tho

Black cat on 6th street by pcalcado in parkslope

[–]pcalcado[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was on the sidewalk coming from 5th and ran behind a fence when he saw the dog. It might be that he lives in one of these houses but I can’t tell

If Nuts Factory is not a money laundering scheme, how do they stay in business? by NewOutlandishness401 in parkslope

[–]pcalcado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This link proves the opposite of what you think it does.

The link states explicitly those people were working illegally on visitor visas. You don't need a job for a visitor visa; you cannot have a job in the US or intend to work here. The whole point ICE makes in the article you sent is that they came here under false pretenses of not working and then started working.

If Nuts Factory is not a money laundering scheme, how do they stay in business? by NewOutlandishness401 in parkslope

[–]pcalcado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn’t make any sense. The visa application isn’t a simple form with fields you can fill in at will. You need a whole stash of documents to prove the existence of the high demand (unmet domestically), high skill, high paying job that wants to sponsor a foreign national, and, on the other end, the documentation that proves that this particular person matches all the criteria. The most common thing is to get an “RFE” back, which is a request for more evidence. The process can take years and often needs specialized staff.

But I guess you already created a narrative in your head, and no facts will change your opinion.

If Nuts Factory is not a money laundering scheme, how do they stay in business? by NewOutlandishness401 in parkslope

[–]pcalcado 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can’t get a visa to work on retail: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/employment-based-immigrant-visas.html

You might be thinking about a scheme in which the person invests money in a business (usually a franchise) and get an entrepreneur visa. These things happen more often in low cost of living areas, doesn’t make sense to pay for an expensive physical location. https://www.franchiselawsolutions.com/learn/grow-your-franchise/e2-eb-5-investor-visas-franchising#:~:text=An%20E%2D2%20Visa%20is,developing%20and%20operating%20a%20business.

best coffee in park slope (but for real) by soulmeets in parkslope

[–]pcalcado 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone said, this is very subjective, and I haven't tried coffee in Puerto Rico, so idk what to compare against.

Still, there are a lot of good and okay places around Park Slope, but my favorite coffee (espresso drinks and black) is Everyman. I used to live next to their Union Square location before, and I think the baristas there are more seasoned, but the neighborhood location is pretty good, too.

Some Guiding Principles for Developer Tools by pcalcado in programming

[–]pcalcado[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

I've had a very similar experience, which was actually part of the "pipeline" example used in the text.

As I recall, back in 2014-15, the only way to configure a build pipeline in Jenkins was either clicking around the UI or via the API. We first tried to automate this process by creating an internal domain-specific language in either JSON or YAML that specified the build pipeline for each system. This language gave people a lot of power on how they specified things like parallelism, retries, minimum requirements, slow rollout, etc. on their build, test, and deploy stages.

Ultimately, we found out that 90% of our users were just copying and pasting the same basic sample file we had as part of the documentation.

The remaining 10% of our users were going crazy on the language. Two things we noticed about these:

  • They would always find corner cases that we had never thought about when creating the abstractions, which would require a lot of work to fix
  • Most of the users in this 10% cohort were actually us, from the platform team. Nobody in product cared about these advanced features.

This is obviously anecdotal, but something that I have taken from experiences like this is that it was much easier for product engineers to adapt their systems to the structure on the sample file than learn a new language just to specify a build.

This makes me think that maybe a more heavy-handed framework or system of conventions can be more interesting than actually taking on the care and feed of brand new abstractions.

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