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AlchemistCamp commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers   reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Aboutplants · 3 months ago
“And more importantly, we can provide a better environment for them to mature socially.”

Take it from someone who was homeschooled from pre-k through high school, you will absolutely not provide a better social environment. I was so unprepared to handle the social dynamics in casual, educational or professional that it took years and years of active work to put myself in a position where it wasn’t an absolute detriment to my success. I have no doubt you can educate your children well, it’s every other aspect of humanity that is typically missed out on and can lead to unintended consequences.

AlchemistCamp · 3 months ago
Of my closest friends when I was in high school, the one with the best social skills had been home schooling since I met him when he was 10. However, he did participate in extracurricular activities at the local public school, like a computer club in middle school and then theater in high school. The only area he was really lagging at age 18 was in math, but that reversed a few years later and now he has a STEM PhD and has been teaching at a large state school for the past decade and a half.

I'd say a lot depends on both the quality of the schooling and maybe even more depends on the person's natural inclinations. He wouldn't have had time for all the reading he did as a teenager if he weren't home schooled, but he'd probably still have been in theater and still have been very open and curious life-long learner as an adult.

AlchemistCamp commented on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B   9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/ap... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
amelius · 4 months ago
Why? If a shoplifter steals from one shop, the judge will not take into consideration all the shops they didn't steal from.
AlchemistCamp · 4 months ago
Charging devs a percentage App Store sales is very different from shoplifting and equating the two is extremely misleading.

Devs voluntarily choose to publish apps on the App Store and doing so gets them both another discovery channel and a low-friction sales channel. Stores being robbed by shoplifters don't voluntarily enter that arrangement and they get no benefit from it.

AlchemistCamp commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update   0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz
fooker · 7 months ago
Great, except firefox is pretty bad nowadays.

Not their fault of course, with people not testing websites on non chrome derived browsers.

AlchemistCamp · 7 months ago
Firefox has been my main browser for almost 10 years and I haven't encountered any challenges other than availability of plugins, but even that has been a very rare issue.
AlchemistCamp commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
AlchemistCamp · 7 months ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Fullstack Engineer / Fractional CTO

Location: Taipei, Taiwan (US citizen, open work permission)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but I can shift my work hours up to four hours in either direction.

Technologies and tools: Elixir, JS, Ruby, Python, Golang, Rust, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Digital Ocean, AI (learning)

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J5FlE_Yj_x3gZmA5IRZcAywz...

Email: (in resume)

Hi there! I'm Mark and I've worked alternately as an engineer and entrepreneur for fifteen years, in Beijing, in the SF Bay Area and remotely. Most of my work has been with smaller startup teams, but I've worked at a large scaleup as well. Experience building tech for education, real estate, automated trading, e-commerce and gig platforms. I also have some experience rescuing outsourced projects

I generally work in spurts 1-4 year spurts (either a single role or a series of contracts) and then take an extended break to learn new skills. Now looking for a contractor role at a 5-20 person startup. I prioritize learning and impact.

Languages: English (native), Mandarin (years of use professionally), Japanese (previously a ~B2 level, now limited)

AlchemistCamp commented on YouTube No Translation   addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/... · Posted by u/doener
bravesoul2 · 7 months ago
Isn't Spanish spoken alot in USA?
AlchemistCamp · 7 months ago
Yes. In America, there are over 60 million fluent Spanish speakers, which is more than the entire population of Spain. In many southern and southwestern parts of the country you can do just about anything you need to in Spanish and being bilingual is a big plus for any kind of public-facing work.
AlchemistCamp commented on Interview with Francine Prose [audio]   laphamsquarterly.org/cont... · Posted by u/keiferski
blindriver · 8 months ago
I can see this just fine.
AlchemistCamp · 8 months ago
That must be nice.

They’re probably blocking based on geolocation or something similar. I’m on an iPhone, using Safari and no VPN.

AlchemistCamp commented on We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Bluestein
whatevertrevor · 8 months ago
Sounds like this was pre search engines, so Tommy's bookmarks might just be a collection of cool sites that was spread peer to peer. I remember getting CDs of curated games and demos in the late 90s (and not just licensed demos from computer magazines, but also cracked versions of games that went around).
AlchemistCamp · 8 months ago
Sounds like Craig’s list.
AlchemistCamp commented on Interview with Francine Prose [audio]   laphamsquarterly.org/cont... · Posted by u/keiferski
AlchemistCamp · 8 months ago
I flagged this because upon following the link, all I get is:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

AlchemistCamp commented on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix   fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-t... · Posted by u/wut42
prophesi · 8 months ago
What packages in Elixir have you found unmaintained/missing in the ecosystem? Genuinely curious.
AlchemistCamp · 8 months ago
Probably the highest profile and most consistent example would be Stripe. The most popular Stripe wrapper for Elixir’s docs point to a 2019 Stripe API version: https://github.com/beam-community/stripity-stripe

Worse still, the quality of Stripe’s own docs have really degraded this decade for anyone not using a language they have an SDK for. Most of their newer docs assume m have a drop-down toggle for on backend language with a few popular languages and no option for “other”. Example: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/quickstart

None of this is a fault of anyone working on Elixir or Phoenix but it definitely has an effect of discouraging some of the fledgling entrepreneur types who Elixir would otherwise be a near perfect fit for, as Rails was in the late aughts.

AlchemistCamp commented on Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
maeil · 8 months ago
"Maintain the purest racial pedigree"? What does this even mean in actual terms? And there is no desire to accept what?
AlchemistCamp · 8 months ago
I don't know what that person meant but, like many in the region, Koreans have family registries (戶籍) that record their family lineage. At least among people I've known who have spoken about theirs, Korean family registry records tend to go back much further than the median east Asian country.

The names of the systems related to this registry are slightly different in Chinese, Japanese and Korean but you can see links to Wikipedia entries for each of them from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B6%E7%B1%8D

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