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> Zirton misses a few points…

What! Ends with a cliff-hanger!? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT POINTS HE MISSED!!!

(but not badly enough to buy a $100/mo subscription).

Corrected link https://xcancel.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151

Here's the correct link, not sure what happened with that first one https://xcancel.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151

The full conversation https://xcancel.com/haider1/status/2073695124220006575#m

You could use the prompts in the code to create a Claude Code sub-agent[1], which would do the same thing without an API key

1. https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents

Missed Nombas ScriptEase, a 90’s-era commercial runtime most famous for allowing JavaScript to operate the James Webb Telescope. http://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm

Context: Hubris is an OS written in Rust for embedded systems https://hubris.oxide.computer/

Research paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330120342_Keystroke...

Is it a slow news day, or did this really just come to light?

> Byline: today

> when the worker … shut off the circuit breaker Sept. 17, 2020

The "in related news" story in this article is way more interesting, someone who apparently feels pretty strongly about running a pirate radio station.

- FCC is proposing $80,000 fine against a man in Oregon for operating an FM pirate radio station since 2018

- first complaint was in 2018, agents tracked it down, warned the man, and he gave them his transmitter

- second complaint in 2019, agents tracked it to the man's new home, they warned him again, he gave them his transmitter

- 2 stern warnings wasn't enough, because third complaint came in 2022, agents tracked it to the man's home again, the man's wife gave them 2 tranmitters

- the man then posted many videos on Facebook about his pirate radio station, and dared the FCC to lock him up. He then started another pirate radio station

> the nofly csv is almost 80mb in size and contains over 1.56 million rows of data. this HAS to be the real deal (we later get confirmation that it is indeed a copy of the nofly list from 2019).

Yet another "unprecedented" data point - that doesn't even make the Top 10 for world-wide public debt-vs-GDP:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-debt-to-gdp-ratio/

I've used a recruiting company https://www.facet.net/ that also handles contract work, and works with a lot of startups. They can add you to a mailing list to send you opportunities that match your criteria.

Weave Communications | Backend Go Engineer | US remote or Lehi, UT Hybrid | https://grnh.se/76a607ec3us

Job posting is for Sr, but it's flexible - Mid and Jr should also apply https://grnh.se/76a607ec3us

Weave provides the leading SaaS "integrated communications" system (VoIP phones integrated with CRM, Google reviews, payments, scheduling, customer texting, analytics) for small businesses like dentists, vets, optometrists, plumbers, etc.

Backend is all Go running on modern infrastructure supported by a strong Platform Engineering and SRE team (i.e. you will spend more time coding than managing infrastructure). More about that here https://engineering.getweave.com/post/weave-devs-dont-do/

https://www.getweave.com/

TIL about Alt-dragging windows in Linux!

One of the people I managed on a remote team suddenly died one night from an aortic aneurysm. He was in his early 40's, had his teen-aged daughter living with him (who fortunately was away visiting her mom). I'd talked to him only hours before. I'd only met him once in-person, just a few weeks before, when he and I and another person I managed had an informal "on-site". I'd learned recently the two of them had been really good friends for many years.

The company had never had to handle something like this. Thankfully, HR and execs had the right priorities - concern for his family, respect for him and his family in how the news was shared with co-workers (especially with cause-of-death being unclear at first), concern for how it would affect close co-workers and others in the company, awareness that people would need to process and grieve in their own way.

HR talked with the family and got their permission to make an announcement to co-workers, and some guidance on the wording. HR offered to send this, but I felt that would feel too impersonal. I wanted news like that to come across in the most personal way possible, from someone (like me) who knew and cared for him.

The amazing response from the company was a big part of the healing. So many people wanted to do something. The family decided to have a private ceremony, and asked that instead of flowers, donations be made to an animal charity his daughter loved. People really felt for his daughter, and wanted to send cards and letters (which the family was happy to support). One of the teams (that hardly knew him) decided to have a commemoration during their weekly meeting.

The hardest part of all of this was (a) when his daughter called me to arrange for return of his work equipment and (b) when a family member suggested that one way I could help would be to share some of my experiences with his daughter about working with her dad. I have girls of the same age, so pretty close to home. It was hard to write that letter (#b), but it was also healing for me to think about the many positive ways he'd affected me and our team.

A few days later, it felt right to me to have some "closure". I sent a note to the company thanking everyone for the different ways they had respectfully honored our co-worker and supported his family. I also shared some of my memories working with him, and how much I missed his contagious happiness. As sad as it was that he wasn't with us anymore, I wanted to remember how much fun it was to work with him, and that's what I was going to focus on.

I hope I won't have to go through that again any time soon, but when I do, I hope it goes this well.

Will this detect depression caused by too much time on your iPhone? </snark>

Since Java 10:

  var mutableVar = "Foo"
  final var immutableVar = "Bar"

I also found this 'Open Letter to the Diplomats With "Havana Syndrome"' provided helpful context.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/its-catching/201911/...

Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (USA), Full time | Java/Linux engineer, Medical Image Processing and Storage

At Ambra Health we help the health care system solve complex problems with storing and sharing medical imaging data (X-rays, CT's, etc), at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are looking for a Java developer with Linux experience to join our remote-only image storage engineering team. This team works on the storage and image-processing services of our platform, which manage over 10 billion images (4PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/coding/architecture decisions.

Requirements:

- Java development for back-end REST services

- Basic Linux system administration skills

Big plus if you've got these skills:

- Building server software with multi-threading and concurrency, in a distributed network environment

- Experience with DICOM medical file format, other medical standards, or image processing

- Diagnosing application problems in a Linux environment

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: [email protected]

Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (US), Full time | Performance/Reliability Engineer (SRE-like), Medical Image Processing and Storage

At Ambra Health we help the health care system solve complex problems with storing and sharing medical imaging data (X-rays, CT's, etc), at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are looking for a US-based remote-only DevOps-oriented engineer to work closely with our storage and image-processing services development team. You would find ways (in hardware and software) to improve performance and reliability of those services, which manage over 10 billion images (5PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world.

The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/planning decisions - but please reach out if you think you're the right less-experienced person.

Requirements:

- Strong Linux system administration and diagnostic skills

- Experience operating a distributed application and diagnosing problems at the application, network and hardware level

- JVM tuning experience

- Full-stack tuning, at the hardware, OS, network and software levels

Big plus if you've got these skills:

- Familiarity with programming, profiling, or debugging a JVM or system language

- Experience with application instrumentation (specifying, collecting and analysing performance metrics)

- Experience with automating testing or deployment

- Experience managing cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: [email protected]

Tweet seems pretty click-baity. Reality seems much more boring -- Google probably isn't going to be our evil overlords just yet.

Summary of [1] (detail from the "redacted" site) and [2] (linked from [1]):

Google was the first to implement a W3C spec (not a standard, nor on a standards track [2]), and I guess this Web site is one of the first to use the spec.

Other actively-maintained browsers are in various stages of implementation or haven't announced plans.

1. https://webcaptioner.com/help/getting-started/web-speech-api

2. https://wicg.github.io/speech-api/

Didn't Uber disrupt an industry that was already very well protected by government regulation, and seems much more exploitative?

It costs around $100,000[1] to be allowed (by the city) to drive a taxi in New York ($1.3MM in 2014), for a job that pays on average $43,000[2] per year - which involves driving an average of 70,000 miles per year - which at an average speed of 4.7mph[3] works out to $3/hr (not counting waiting time).

It's still not a living wage, but making $9/hr[4] just by owning a decent car seems like progress.

[1] https://citylimits.org/2019/11/30/need-to-know-taxi-medallio...

[2] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/taxi-driver...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-york-traffic-manhat...

[4] https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/education/how-muc...

A second position:

Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (US), Full time | Performance/Reliability Engineer (SRE-like), Medical Image Processing and Storage

We are looking for a US-based remote-only DevOps-oriented engineer to work closely with the team developing the storage and image-processing services of our platform. You would find ways to improve performance and reliability of the services, which manage over 8 billion images (4PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/planning decisions.

Requirements:

- Strong Linux system administration and diagnostic skills

- Experience operating a distributed application and diagnosing problems at the application, network and hardware level

- JVM tuning experience

Big plus if you've got these skills:

- Familiarity with programming, profiling, or debugging a JVM or system language

- Experience with application instrumentation (specifying, collecting and analysing performance metrics)

- Experience with automating testing or deployment

- Experience managing cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: [email protected]