"Seasoned" software engineer

‘The best poles anywhere in the country’: Trump installs gigantic US flags at the White House | CNN Politics While President Donald Trump weighs the single most consequential decision of his time in office so far — the possibility of US military intervention in Iran — he’s also completing a personal project ...

Is it infrastructure week already?
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#TACO

Spinal Tap, Star Wars... At a drive in!

I was fortunate enough to be in BC last week (as a tourist, but also on a bit of an apology tour on behalf of the sane people of the US), and I am thrilled that Canada pushed back on our toxic garbage. Thanks for welcoming us - - keep up the good work Canada! PFA: #CanadianElection

RFK Jr. Says People with Autism 'Will Never Pay Taxes, Hold a Job, Go on a Date,' Sparking Fierce Backlash Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came under fire for his claims about autism in his first press conference as Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services on April 16. He claimed that children with autism will...

On the contrary to this ridiculous and ignorant clown, I know many on spectrum folks that are high earner/high taxpayers , as they are software engineers. FElon probably is on spectrum too, but he doesn't seem to pay much in taxes tho, hmmm. #AutismIsReal #RFKJrIsAMoron people.com/rfk-jr-claim...

oh cmon, what's an order of magnitude? Don't forget Musk is GENIUS!!! Just like 47!!

I am old enough to remember the back half of the Reagan presidency, when there was concern about his mental state and access to the "red button" for nukes. Seems like the current situation with "Captain Chaos" 47 is very similar. #TrumpIsTrash #SaveTheUSA #ForgiveTheUSAPlease

If i was retired or retiring soon (I have a few years to go), I would be shitting myself right now If you are subject to RMDs, I truly feel for u. #TrumpIsCaptainChaos #TrumpOnlyServesHimself #TrumpIsTrash

When is the US Congress going to stop the cuck routine and perform their constitutionally mandated duty related to tariffs? I'm looking at you too mainstream democrats, do SOMETHING. They have the power. Use it. The people are watching.

Are all fascists incompetent, or do we (USA) have special fascists? asking for a friend.

Notes on coreutils in #rustlang alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/22/...

I recently upgraded a few of my machines to NVMe, (2 and 4TB), and still cannot get over the size (small) capacity (larger than I could even conceive even 20 years ago) and cost (low per TB).

Roast at home for the win - cut out most of the middlemen, and better coffee too.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with this 100% (I'm from Northern California). The "low information" folks are addicted to confirmation bias like crack, and the right wing of the US is laying the groudwork to get them to believe all this nonsense so they can get their pipe hit...

This is a screenshot my college age (22) son just sent me. He attends a California State University, and this was posted for his Childhood Development class. This is fascism, and gives me definite 1984 vibes. Culture war bullshit. #fuckfascism #TrumpIsTrash

I salute your parenting skills!

I am in Northern California (Bay Area media market) and we just saw a Department Of Homeland Security sponsored "commercial" starring Kristi Noem , who was basically telling people who are "here illegally" to get out, so that they might have a chance to come back legally. WTF?
#TrumpIsTrash

I don’t know if it’s possible to quantify how much global influence and power this administration has willfully squandered in the past four weeks. It is a national security disaster.

I’m so embarrassed to be an American right now. I never thought I’d ever see any President of my country behave in such a way. I have fewer years in front of me than behind me. I don’t know if I’ll live to see the U.S. be what it once was. I’m beyond heartsick at what has become of us.

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Welcome (from my good old 43" 4K). I was a multi monitor guy for about 20 years, but I started to get tired looking around on multiple displays, and no regrets so far.

I am a rust dev on a yocto (mainly) C/C++ project, and constantly have to deal with this particular pushback, which is.. annoying. It's not exactly apples->apples IMHO, you "get stuff" for the "overhead" - async runtime baked in for instance.

Math is hard

I also question whether the software expertise that is specific to spacecraft control is really that applicable to aircraft traffic management - they seem like different problem domains to me. The SpaceX team is brilliant, but it's not the same problem IMHO.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Thanks , we are flying into YVR (if only it was YYZ, one of these days - I'm a lifelong Rush fan!) and hen taking local rail to the ferry terminal, and the ferry -looking forward to ALL of this.

Yes, he does - sorry, kind of ironic I got the name wrong after expressing my respect for Canada :) Vancouver Island, yes.

We have a trip to Victoria Island (we are from Northern California) in April, and are really looking forward to it. Any tips for signaling things like "no, we didn't vote for that asshole" , "I respect that Canada is and always will be a sovereign nation", "tariffs are dumb", etc. TIA :)

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.

The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.

This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

Mitch McConnell: Kentuckians can't afford the high cost of Trump's tariffs Trump administration tariffs could have long-term consequences for Kentucky farmers, bourbon companies, the auto industry and consumer prices.

Even the turtle agrees: www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...

Something similar happened long ago at a 1st wave tech company I once worked at. The people they let go had highly specialized skills that were critical to the business, and the cost to bring them back was 2x or 3x, because "seller's market"