I find AI interviews dehumanizing and treat them same way as homework assignments in the introductory email - a massive red flag. If you value me as a human being, make up the time to meet me tet a tet. I will not work for AI, but for a human company if I pass all interview rounds, right? I've had a recruiter add me on linkedin, send me an email and then ask me to do an AI interview. None of that makes any sense.
Readit Newsartiscode commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
Location: Riga, Latvia, the EU
Time zone: UTC+2/3
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python (fastapi, django, drf, flask), Postgres/MySQL, Linux, Docker, OpenAI APIs, DSPy, elasticsearch, GraphQL, React, tailwind/shadcn
I'm a generalist hacker and builder with 20+ years of experience. I excel in making MVPs work, and using simple technology to solve complex business problems. I'm not a DevOps engineer, but I can comfortably set up a Linux box from scratch, or use any cloud provider. Frontend work doesn't scare me, and I love obsessing over UI/UX, or tasteful animations.
I'm interested in both B2B contract work and full-time employment. EU legal entity for billing.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artis-avotins-a97915192/
Email: artis@artiscode.dev
FPGAs are an amazing product that almost shouldn't exist if you think about the business and marketing concerns. They are a product that is too expensive at scale. If an application takes off, it is eventually cheaper and more performant to switch to ASICs, which is obvious when you see the 4-digit prices of the most sophisticated FPGAs.
Given how ruinously expensive silicon products are to bring to market, it's amazing that there are multiple companies competing (albeit in distinct segments).
FPGAs also seem like a largely untapped domain in general purpose computing, a bit like GPUs used to be. The ability to reprogram an FPGA to implement a new digital circuit in milliseconds would be a game changer for many workloads, except that current CPUs and GPUs are already very capable.
The military loves FPGAs. They can do what ASICs can, but without involving extra people.
artiscode commented on Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock oddlama.org/blog/bypassin... · Posted by u/arjvik
> I don't understand why anyone would use passwordless disk encryption
You want to install and operate a device at a remote site with restricted (or no) VPN access and where you don't trust the local staff?
A remote KVM, i.e TinyPilot will help avoid dealing with lack of trust in local staff. Additionally connection to the KVM can be done over LTE/Cellular if you don't trust the local connection too.
artiscode commented on Show HN: OCaml – Dune Developer Preview dune.ci.dev... · Posted by u/leostera
So what is this about?
I suggest you try this if you're new to ocaml or interesting in trying out OCaml.
I have grown accustomed to things just working. Run a copy-pasted command from a website "just works" level. Opam is what sent me into half-day of reading about OCaml ecosystem and how things work.
The developer preview successfully abstracts a lot of things into a command you run, refresh your shell environment, and have a working dune project. Just works, like I expect.
TL;DR Wanna try OCaml because it's Rust of functional programming? Check this out.
I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.
Well in a way yes. In most countries in Europe you're entitled to a significant lump sum when let go unless it's your fault e.g. negligence. Based on years worked.
The significant lump sump is often expressed in months of salary per years worked, which is not that much, compared to how much a house costs.
I gotta say, given the choice between a potential promotion and continuing to live a significantly happier life as a remote worker, I’d easily choose the latter.
My thoughts exactly. I'm done with the rat race. It's not a fair game where the rules change as you go along. I'm downsizing and getting rid of lifestyle inflation. I'd rather be free and remote with less pay.
artiscode commented on How to defend your website with ZIP bombs (2017) blog.haschek.at/2017/how-... · Posted by u/BonoboIO
Is it legal to purposefully distribute a malicious payload as a booby trap?
Is it really malicious though? 10 gigs of zeros doesn’t seem that malicious to me. Microcontrollers often have a few megabytes of RAM if not less, does that make a few megabyte photo malicious?
Edit: spelling. I’m old school and used to typing on my computer. It’s getting repaired and all I’ve got is my phone. /rant
Probably working elsewhere in the Netherlands (e.g., Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, etc.) but landing in Amsterdam because that’s the only city in the Netherlands that rings a bell to most.
Helaas pindakaas, the other way around. I lived in unbeknownst Almere and commuted to Amsterdam and back.