> If the second amendment advocates cared as much about our protected rights as they claim, they’d be all over this.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Second Amendment, and all intersections with other civil rights are seen through our respective lenses.
There is a lot of attention being paid to this within that community, but it's largely supportive. Everything the left is upset about falls into two categories: it's either something with broad support (deportation of those not legally present) or there's more to the story that significantly changes the situation, at least from their perspective (Renee Good).
To be clear, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind or even state my own views with this comment; I'd just like the various sides to understand each other a bit better.
I'm very much present in "right wing circles", and I've seen exactly zero mention of "militias" being involved in anything whatsoever. They are just as politically radioactive as they've always been.
> the Capitol Police are the ones that let them ("J6ers") in to begin with
This is nonsense. The numerous videos of the insurgents violently assaulting said police not giving its proponents pause indicates the standard of evidence its propoents are using.
Hmm, on further reading I think you're right. That's an interesting problem: how do you ddos protect a distributed relay network without having to know or trust your neighbors?
Not really, not for the air warfare context of drones.
SAM can't be bought for any tax and they come with lifetime in jail if you have them, even just for peaceful purposes.[]
Giving up air military supremacy isn't something the USA is going to yield to its citizens. The tax is reflective of the fact that machineguns and destructive devices can't be banned as they are "arms" that can merely be taxed, but the US doesn't considered air warfare weapons generally to be bearable arms.
As drones become a dominating form of air superiority I would expect they start to become more like SAMs -- not bearable arms but rather arms that merely having in your arms mean you go in a cage forever even if you have an NFA stamp affixed.
I’m a Principal Engineer in my early 40s. My “credentials” consist entirely of a high school diploma from a rural school.
I tinkered with programming as far back as 1994 or so (I was 10 years old at the time), on a 486 dx/2. I installed Mandrake Linux (Now Mandriva? if it’s still around), had to write my own connection scripts for my 56k modem, and I was off to the races in C. I played with VB5 quite a bit in high school.
I had a full scholarship to a state university in 2002, but lost it due to undiagnosed ADHD and depression. In 2012 I enrolled in WGU because I needed a degree to climb at my corporate job… but less than a year later I realized that corporate wasn’t really for me, and decided to pursue startups instead. That was a good decision.
My advice: do whatever it takes to get in the door at the type of company where you want to work. That’s the hard part. Once there, you do the best job you can and constantly look for ways to put your skills to use. This is the boring part - it’ll probably take a couple of years, but in my experience you can slowly mold any position into one that’s either “programming” or “programming-adjacent”. Once you do that, it’s a short leap to get the actual title.
Thank you so much for sharing your story and for forwarding my post to recruiters. That means more than you know.
Your path resonates with me, especially the part about molding positions into programming adjacent roles. I've been trying to get "in the door" for months now, but the ATS filters seem to catch me before anyone human sees my work.
The depression struggle is too real!! I've dealt with similar challenges while doing contract work. Some days the rejection emails pile up, and it's hard to keep going.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help. The "non traditional lead" framing is interesting, though I've honestly never thought about positioning myself that way :). At this point, I'd just be grateful to get in the door anywhere.
Hoping something comes from those recruiter connections. Thank you again for believing in me enough to vouch for me to them.
The DM came from an old gaming friend of mine that actually was a developer. I’d known him for years and had playtested for him before - though it was years prior. Literally nothing about it seemed fishy.
As soon as the game “crashed on load” and Discord took its focus, I realized what had happened. I managed to change my Discord password, revoke all session tokens, and lock them out while they were buying things from the Discord store. Then I went through, changed my critical passwords, froze all the cards that are in my Bitwarden vault except one with a very low limit I kept alive as a canary, and started my post-mortem.
Turns out the malware did in fact attempt to exfil my Bitwarden vault. Thankfully, I have it configured to remain locked always and to require a security token to use, so they didn’t get anything unencrypted.
Between my initial response, analysis, dealing with changing passwords, and wiping my desktop out of an abundance of caution, I lost a total of about 12 hours. The attacker managed to buy about $60 of stuff on Discord before I shut them down there. Oh, and I got extortion messages from various accounts claiming to be them for months.
One thing that did surprise me was that while I was revoking access, they were trying to convince me they had all my credentials. They sent a screenshot logged in to my Autodesk account, of all things. That freaked me out, but I quickly realized that that particular email/password had been leaked and that the attacker was using it to try to convince me they had much more damaging information than they really did.
I'm literally always thinking in that way. If I focus a bit harder on it, it's apparent that there's another, faster cognitive layer beyond my background monologue as well.
Yes for me it's true. Most of my actions are not part of a monologue. However I use it to think through possible conversations or to carry myself through tough problem solving problems or complex processes.
You jest, but I'm trying to decide if I want to convert an exploratory project I'm working on to work in Claude Code rather than Cursor, where I started.
I've been using AI codegen for months now, but on large projects. Turns out, the productivity multiplier that agentic AI can be scales at least partially in proportion to project size. Read that again, because I don't mean "inverse proportion".
When a codebase is small, every change touches a majority of the codebase, making parallel work difficult or impossible. Once it gets large enough to have functional areas, you can have multiple tasks running at once with little or no merge conflicts.
I was giving Cursor a shot because it's the tool that's most popular at my new company. Prior to this, I was using OpenHands. I've used Claude Code quite a bit for my personal stuff, but I wanted some hands-on experience with local tooling and Cursor was the default choice.
Now that I've got this app to the point where frontend and backend concerns are separate and the interfaces are defined I'm realizing that Cursor doesn't seem to have anything approaching Claude Code's parallel subagent support. That's... limiting.
So now I get to decide if the improvement in velocity I'll get from switching to CC will offset the time it'll take me to make the change before I have a deadline to meet.
Yeah - we barely watch TV in our house (relative to my experience growing up, at least), and we have two: a 50" in our bedroom and a 60" in the living room. They're 12 and 8 years old, respectively.
I'm just now starting to feel like I should consider a new one for the living room, but it's far from the top of my list.
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