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sethammons

8,853 karmajoined 14 jaar geleden
I enjoy working on, creating, and learning about highly available, scaled, distributed systems. I have fun mountain biking and doing power and olympic lifting. I have a soft spot for anything that deals with helping people learn, especially mathematics. I can be reached at my first name dot last name at gmail.com.

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sethammons
·gisteren·discuss
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/trump-iran-oil-insider-trad...

Lmgtfy: there are many articles and plenty of analysis available. Trades are happening on prediction markets minutes before Trump announces market altering information, trades that only make sense when you know that Trump is about to make an announcement.
sethammons
·gisteren·discuss
I was experiencing daily crashes of ghostty on mac with no crash report, always during claude sessions, and after the crash, I'd lose my session. Though, now we can cmd+f to search ghostty output as of the most recent version.
sethammons
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
Le sigh. Fine, the punishment was you forfeit your chickens to your neighbor. Should those chickens be inedible by the new legal owner? What if they have to return them later if new evidence comes to light?
sethammons
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
> there shouldn’t be irreversible punishment

I am not convinced. "You can no longer hold office" is a permanent punishment. Why should that not be allowed?

> Also there should be equity which means everyone that does the same crime should face the same consequence

I am also unconvinced. I don't think it is fair to treat a child like an adult and I think those in power should have more stringent standards and larger consequences for violating them.
sethammons
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
I tie knots at the ends of my drawstrings to prevent them (mostly) from retracting
sethammons
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
I don't have a twitter or x account. I clicked the link, a log in modal popped up, I dismissed it, then was able to play the video. Firefox on iPhone if it matters.
sethammons
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
The smart spider is portia, a jumping spider. A quick search uncovers zounds of videos, articles, and scientific publications on them.

They specialize is hunting spiders, changing hunting tactics based on type and number of prey. Yes, they count. They strategize. They make multi-step plans that take them out of sight of prey. And some people keep them as pets.
sethammons
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Amazing specialization. I was wondering the same thing. Cave glow worms cast a "fishing line," and this is similar-ish. I wonder if N million years ago, a couple of fishing-line-like spiders started anchoring their lines, and the ones with a more conic shape anchor may led to more success over time. And the anchor may have only worked on territorial prey. Fun stuff to imagine.
sethammons
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
Speed is part of fluency. Fluency and understanding feel related
sethammons
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
> As described in court filings, from at least December 2022 through December 2024, Mazulina conspired with Russian freight forwarding companies and others to unlawfully ship controlled items, including industrial oil and gas equipment, from the United States to Russia, through intermediary countries. At one point, in June 2023, Mazulina told colleagues that her clients were paying through bank accounts in third party countries because “[m]ost of [her] clients [were] currently sanctioned with USA.” Mazulina attempted to conceal the unlawful scheme by submitting and causing the submission of false export documents to the U.S. government, which omitted the information that the goods were destined for Russia.

That feels materially different than a software program released in the open domestic market.

And while it feels different, the government would apparently disagree: https://exportcontrol.lbl.gov/training/export-control-overvi...

Distribution of software to a foreign national within the US is an explicit proviso of the law. That is a wild law and I am surprised it stands.
sethammons
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
> its about who can track you and why. I'd much rather a list of times I access a site that required age verification being stored by the government, than every single fucking page I looked at tracked by google/meta.

It is about what abuses can happen from that info. Google could sell your data. The government can imprison you. You don't think Trump wouldn't try to collect info on his opponents and weaponize the DOJ against them?
sethammons
·21 dagen geleden·discuss
I left teaching and have, literally, 10x'd my annual income after a few years. While teaching, I couldn't afford to support my family of four.

We don't need people stressing and struggling financially for the privilege of teaching our youth. That leaves those without a better option or have a working spouse.
sethammons
·22 dagen geleden·discuss
The law of supply and demand doesn't go away. If raw population numbers don't support increasing demand, something else does. My first guess would be less people per house, perhaps culturally driven like fewer roommates and families spreading out.
sethammons
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
Diff person here. Your handle is not orange, it is grey. I have not seen an orange handle. Grey or green (green for new accounts).
sethammons
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
My helm adventures (a while back now, so maybe better these days):

> You have an error in your config on line 1. Good luck.
sethammons
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
as a former teacher, a former receiver of social services, and someone who makes great money helping teams move bits efficiently, I can say most assuredly that most teachers or social workers are regular, non-expert people. My former teaching colleague thought the screen of his monitor was watching him. And my last social worker had "personal struggles balancing his faith's view on evolution and what the science says." The classic computer nerd who "can't human," but my job is aligning hundreds of people to work on the same software. Education and social work is divorced from the "real world" in many ways, not unlike how those stuck on a screen are divorced from the "real world."
sethammons
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
This post hand waves away the inflection point(s) of maintaining high growth rates as you grow. He hints at it saying year 4 growth is harder, but it is _vastly_ harder.

Companies focus of the Rule of 40 and struggle to keep above it. And this struggle is where many in management lose their way.

Enshitification begins. The margins get harder. More corners cut. Employees get treated less well, customers get treated less well.

Instead of telling us "it is just exponential growth bro," do case studies on billionaires and their dealings. In the US, you have billionaire business leaders who have full time employees who require government assistance every month.

The couple of billionaires and near-billionaires I have worked with (and helped build their companies) have not been bad people. But working at their companies pre and post IPO is way different. Less perks, more pressure. If the company culture isn't solid, it becomes bad fast.
sethammons
·30 dagen geleden·discuss
whoops, yeah. Likely b17. My brain subbed "bomber" for the more prominent bomber in my head.
sethammons
·vorige maand·discuss
> When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics people didn’t even know where these users were coming from. Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing because of javascript failures.

Yeah, reminds me of the b52 story re holes in wings on the planes that made it back from missions, leading them down the wrong path of strengthening wings. They weren't looking at the planes that never came back with holes in the fuel silages.
sethammons
·vorige maand·discuss
Social media started in the early 1500s if we squint with this logic.

Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses were the OG forum post that went viral, and required a printing press.