666lumberjack (u/666lumberjack)

666lumberjack commented on Pokémon Team Optimization nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/p... · Posted by u/nchagnet

oceansky · 2 months ago

In competitive Pokémon there are usually different tiers of which Pokémon are accepted. In most legendaries are limited or fully banned.

For the mainline games it usually does not matter. You can beat it with any single Pokémon pretty much.

666lumberjack · 2 months ago

The median legendary pokemon in any given generation is typically quite mediocre in terms of viability/power, so I'm not sure it's quite correct to say that most tiers are free of legendaries. Even in ZU, the lowest possible tier, you have Pokemon like Mesprit, Regirock and Articuno kicking around in spite of their relatively high stats.

It is completely true to say that the so-called 'box legendaries' specifically - with base stat totals in the 670-700 range - tend to be excellent Pokemon and with rare exceptions are banned from 'standard' formats for being overcentralizing.

666lumberjack commented on We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters danluu.com/datacenter-pow... · Posted by u/0x000042

perihelions · 2 years ago

There was a uranium enrichment plant in the south of France that was colocated with a nuclear power plant. It consumed 3/4th of its power output—2.7 gigawatts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Plant

- "Three out of four reactors were used for powering the Eurodif Uranium enrichment factory until 2012, the year that Eurodif was closed."

666lumberjack · 2 years ago

That is a seriously impressive amount of power. In case anyone else is curious, it apparently provided fuel for about one hundred nuclear reactors, from that power. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-to-start-d...

666lumberjack commented on Court rules in Pornhub’s favor: Age-verification law violates First Amendment variety.com/2023/digital/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

woodruffw · 3 years ago

Pornhub is a pretty disgusting company[1].

At the same time, this law was manifestly meant to serve as a foot in the door towards increased online surveillance (there is no such thing as "online age verification" for just minors) with the obvious aim of stifling constitutionally protected speech. Seems like a reasonable (and very straightforward) ruling.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub#Non-consensual_pornogr...

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

This seems to amount to:

1. They purportedly did a really shitty job of handling a report of CSAM 14 years ago.

2. They have the same problem with occasional abhorrent content every platform for user-submitted content has, except that they've taken stronger steps to reduce it by attempting to verify that everyone in uploaded content has consented to being in it.

Would we really call that 'pretty disgusting', if not for the consistent effort of conservative activists and thinkpiece journalists to frame the site in the most unfavourable terms possible?

666lumberjack commented on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08... · Posted by u/mantiq

me_again · 3 years ago

But why not take the extra 30 seconds to link (what you consider to be) an unbiased source?

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

Not the person you responded to, but this[1] is a very thorough and well-sourced criticism of the person behind the campaign to get Kiwifarms removed from Cloudflare. Sections two and three specifically go into the lies, misrepresentation and bad journalism surrounding Kiwifarms itself if you'd prefer not to read the whole thing.

[1]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

666lumberjack commented on Can a worker-owned restaurant work? southseattleemerald.com/2... · Posted by u/georgeoliver

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

This reads to me like it's written to evangelize the concept of worker co-ops more than to earnestly investigate the question posed in the title - which is fine, but this doesn't seem like a very good example to choose to make that point.

They say they have ten employees, and the buy-in for ownership is a thousand dollars. But there's no way the start up capital for a quality restaurant in Seattle was only $10k, so either the original founders absorbed those costs or some later employees paid in extra to cover them - either way with no expectation of increased control or return. That's more charity than alternative economic organization.

They also mention that the business has been around for ten years, but isn't profitable - and it's implied probably never has been on any consistent basis, or they would certainly have called that out. Somebody is covering that shortfall, and they're not getting anything in exchange for doing so - very noble, but again that's a reliance on charity for the business to continue existing.

Can a worker-owned restaurant work? Sure, I think there are plenty of examples that prove it. Does this one work? Not as a business, by any reasonable standard.

666lumberjack commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for ~13 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve used professionally.

I previously worked as a backend developer for two and a half years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about six months as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I'm looking for an IC position working broadly on the backend, somewhere with interesting problems to solve and a culture that values potential and growth. Prefer working remotely and have experience collaborating across timezones from California to Canberra, but am open to hybrid with an office in London as well for the right opportunity.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

666lumberjack commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for 12 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve used professionally.

I previously worked as a backend developer for two and a half years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about six months as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I'm looking for an IC position working broadly on the backend, somewhere with interesting problems to solve and a culture that values potential and growth. Prefer working remotely and have experience collaborating across timezones from California to Canberra, but am open to hybrid with an office in London as well for the right opportunity.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

666lumberjack commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript, Typescript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for 12 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve worked with in the past.

Previously worked as a backend developer for two years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about one year as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I like having interesting problems to work on, whether that be some technical optimization or translating a thorny business context into software. Looking for an IC position where I get to do that, ideally surrounded by other competent and curious people and a culture that values learning and growth.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

666lumberjack commented on The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance quillette.com/2023/02/09/... · Posted by u/warrenm

arghandugh · 3 years ago

This is a preposterous, obnoxious hit piece on behalf of a struggling industry from a reactionary website. Why was it posted?

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

I suggest you reread the HN Guidelines[1]. This kind of dogmatic dismissal-without-argument is not the kind of engagement that people expect here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

666lumberjack commented on The silent struggles of workers with ADHD bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/rntn

666lumberjack · 3 years ago

Welp, this is very relevant to me. Diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type ~4 months ago at 26, unfortunately too late to save myself from an inescapable spiral at work and a firing.

Definitely would recommend anyone who has serious suspicions about themselves to get checked out, especially if you found academics intuitively trivial through the 'typical' diagnosis years of ~8-14.