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bolasanibk commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

bolasanibk · 3 months ago

It was not one continuous hike. He takes frequent breaks. But travels back to where he last stopped and continues.

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

Still very impressive, but a little less impressive than I first thought.

bolasanibk commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy

nimih · 6 months ago

You may want to read the section on enforcement:

> Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025.

bolasanibk · 6 months ago

Any idea what is considered a petition? New h1b? Transfer? Extension?

bolasanibk commented on What does this company do? q.ai/... · Posted by u/bolasanibk

bolasanibk · a year ago

The only link on their website is to the career page where they are looking for everybody from dashboarding intern to experimental physicists?

bolasanibk commented on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/pabs3

furyofantares · a year ago

> but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously

I expect it is very hard to overestimate how incorrect our mental model memory and learning is. If literally everything was forgotten, then you could set up a reverse groundhog day or groundhog hour for someone, just optimize for them having a wonderful day every day. (Would still be horrible for the loved ones to be effectively disconnected from their still-living relative.) Probably there have been movies made about this.

I have no experience with this but I am sure it is nothing, nothing, nothing like that. The article says you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.

> Because she cannot remember things, she goes through each day in a state of low-grade anxiety about where her grown children are and whether they are all right. She feels she hasn’t heard from any of us in a long time.

To me this is not a description of someone frozen in time. To me this is a description of some horrific combination of some amount of learning or "remembering" happening, some sense of passage of time, and no episodic memories to draw on to explain any of it.

bolasanibk · a year ago

> If literally everything was forgotten, then you could set up a reverse groundhog day or groundhog hour for someone, just optimize for them having a wonderful day every day. (Would still be horrible for the loved ones to be effectively disconnected from their still-living relative.) Probably there have been movies made about this.

There is a Drew Barrymore movie Fifty first dates. And yes, it is horrible for the relatives.

bolasanibk commented on A change of heart regarding employee metrics rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/zdw

csa · a year ago

> If you have an organization with forced bucketing where X% of your team need to be given a subpar rating, how do you decide which one? If you don't have an obvious low performer you'd better have metrics.

If you’re a manager in this type of system, your job is to reach out constantly and find folks who are low performers and get them into your department. They will fill the bottom of your team rating chart. At that point, they can be managed out (ideally in a humane way) or just held onto to fill that cellar dweller role while not slowing others down (some people are ok with this as long as they get paid).

I would never choose to work in an environment like that, but some people find themselves there without better options (e.g., being location-bound due to family, etc.).

bolasanibk · a year ago

“Hire to fire”. Not a new idea. I have been hearing it for at least 5 years now.

bolasanibk commented on Some Florida cities are living off red light cameras wlrn.org/wlrn-investigati... · Posted by u/geox

jmholla · 2 years ago

There are also many instances of yellow light times being reduced to make people more likely to run red lights, making what should've been legal, illegal and fining people for it. Further, they made the roads less safe since the safest thing to be on the road is predictable.

bolasanibk · 2 years ago

Florida shortened yellow lights to increase red light camera revenue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707465

bolasanibk commented on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service tinyprojects.dev/projects... · Posted by u/montyanderson

m3047 · 2 years ago

Kazakhstan and DNS. Always always my personal reminder that OWASP applies to all applications, and to always sanitize inputs. DAMHIK!

bolasanibk · 2 years ago

Don’t ask me how I know.

bolasanibk commented on Vernor Vinge has died file770.com/vernor-vinge-... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

TimSchumann · 2 years ago

I'm stuck halfway through Deepness in the Sky, I should pick it up again.

Also stuck on book 8 of the Wheel of Time series, I was like 5 chapters in and didn't pick up a single thread I cared about from the previous book.

Agree about the expert omission part.

bolasanibk · 2 years ago

Aah! The infamous ‘slog’ for the WOT series. Book 10 is where things pick up again my opinion.