boustrophedon (u/boustrophedon)

boustrophedon commented on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says reuters.com/world/us/us-s... · Posted by u/barishnamazov

jmyeet · a month ago

That's not contradictory at all.

The comment you are replying to quite intentionally said "legal immigration". Republicans love illegal immigration. Why? because it suppresses wages of both documented and undocumented workers.

Undocumented workers can be employed below minimum wage. If they get an attitude and start demanding a fairer wage or better working conditions, their employer just calls in an ICE raid to clear them out and then they start with a fresh batch. They pay a token fine and that's that.

Several sectors are completely dependent on this arrangement, most notably agriculture and food processing (eg chicken farms)

If they actually cared about this, they would seriously punish the employers for employing undocumented workers. they do not. In fact, when that's been tried it's been a disaster (eg [1])

And because the system allows this to happen, it suppresses the wages of documented workers as well. That's the point. The entire system of restricting immigration is designed to increase profits. Nothing more.

What's the alternative? Easy. Document them. We've done this before. When there was a shortage of male workers in WW2 (because a lot of men were in the Army), we had the Bracero program [2] for temporary workers.

Historically, many such workers came to work then went back to (primarily) Mexico. They only ended up staying permanently when it became too hard to cross the border.

As for these latest bans, well we had 3 Muslim bans in Trump 1. The 19 then 39 (and now apparently 75) countries are pretty much jus tprimarily Muslim and "shithole" [3] countries.

All of this stems from the desire to turn the United States into a Christian theocracy but only for white people.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigr...

[2]: https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/bracero-program

[3]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-...

boustrophedon · a month ago

The contradiction he's pointing out is that they often speak out against so-called "illegals", but as you've documented they enjoy it when business reap the benefits of undocumented labor (i.e. wage suppression).

boustrophedon commented on Type checking is a symptom, not a solution programmingsimplicity.sub... · Posted by u/mpweiher

kibwen · 5 months ago

This article is so consistently wrong that I can only assume that it's some sort of deliberate ragebait. It's not worth the time to read, let alone refute.

boustrophedon · 5 months ago

The excessive amount of emdashes does seem to imply it's LLM slop ragebait. The prompt probably included "make intentional mistakes in your arguments to drive engagement" or something like that.

boustrophedon commented on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock arslan.io/2024/09/23/diet... · Posted by u/farslan

farslan · a year ago

Thanks a lot for your support. A friend and I looked into the economics, but the lowest company willing to print was around $63. If you know of any services that provide 3D printing, I am happy to look into it.

boustrophedon · a year ago

I haven't downloaded your model but https://www.i-solids.com/ (US-based, FDM and MJF) and https://www.weerg.com/ (Italy, mostly MJF ) will both do instant quotes and you might get reasonable prices from them at scale. PCBWay and JLCPCB in China will also do 3d printing at reasonable volume, if you want to get an idea of a baseline price.

boustrophedon commented on Using short lived Postgres servers for testing kaveland.no/posts/2024-05... · Posted by u/thunderbong

rkaveland · 2 years ago

Author of the blog post here -- that looks like exactly what I needed, so I'm probably going to add a dependency to it to https://github.com/kaaveland/eugene/ so I can delete a ton of code. :-)

That looks fantastic, so I'm actually just going to put a link to it in the post so that more people see it.

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

Thanks! Feel free to file an issue if there's something missing from the library or the daemon.

boustrophedon commented on Using short lived Postgres servers for testing kaveland.no/posts/2024-05... · Posted by u/thunderbong

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

Related self-promotion: I built pgtemp (https://github.com/boustrophedon/pgtemp) to automate doing exactly these mkdir/initdb/load/destroy steps.

boustrophedon commented on How to test without mocking amazingcto.com/mocking-is... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

_hl_ · 2 years ago

Re. postgres, this is actually something I have always struggled with, so would love to learn how others do it.

I’ve only ever worked in very small teams, where we didn’t really have the resources to maintain nice developer experiences and testing infrastructure. Even just maintaining representative testing data to seed a test DB as schemas (rapidly) evolve has been hard.

So how do you

- operate this? Do you spin up a new postgres DB for each unit test?

- maintain this, eg have good, representative testing data lying around?

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

I made https://github.com/boustrophedon/pgtemp to solve this for myself

boustrophedon commented on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive blog.archive.org/2024/06/... · Posted by u/passing

textfiles · 2 years ago

Anyway, I'm sorry if some people are reading this hastily written blog entry to seem like the archive is taking credit for the process of discovery being done by people. The phrase likely does not mean definitely and perhaps I should have used a different word when I wrote the entry. But the fact remains that the wayback machine is the only place you can see the image in the context of its original website, and that is only happening because the archive is doing such a general crawl. That's all I wanted to get across, all hail the wayback machine, have a great day.

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

Thanks for writing the blogpost! I think it's perfectly valid as a fun demonstration of the utility of the wayback machine.

boustrophedon commented on Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator github.com/rustcoreutils/... · Posted by u/jgarzik

downvotetruth · 2 years ago

Lost as to why there is a tests folder yet the test function marked with the #[test] attribute is being added to /src: https://github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs/pull/132/comm... edit: Since the change was to the grammar saved in a separate .pest file, which is separated from the procedural code, then would that make the test an integration rather than a unit test as the "parse_program" function is public?

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

The `parse_program` function is public inside the `bc_util::parser` module, and the parser module is marked public inside `bc_util`, but in the `calc/src/bc.rs` file the `bc_util` mod isn't public, and can't be accessed from a test inside the `tests/` folder, which only has access to the public API exported by the library.

boustrophedon commented on The beauty of concrete worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/jger15

simonsarris · 2 years ago

I have a budding rose garden that I would like to adorn with statuary. One problem is that I have a tight budget. A second problem is that if you look at garden centers you will see its easy to find 9000 different cast stone frogs: frogs meditating, frogs reading books, frogs thinking, frogs with a purse and shopping bags, frogs in an Adirondack chair, frogs hugging, reclining frog, etc. It is surprisingly difficult, however, to find cast stone classical or ancient sculptures outside of a few pastiche renditions.

I find this extremely odd! I would think there would be a large market for beautiful cast stone things. Instead, there is (apparently) an extraordinary market for concrete frogs.

I figured that in the era of 3D printing and widespread 3D models[1], it might be fairly inexpensive to make my own mold and pour my own casts, even if I do destructive casting techniques. Here again I was disappointed: To order a 3D plastic print from a site like ShapeWays came out to over $1300 for something fairly small. So that's off the table, too.

I expected more democratization of ornament than there really has been, given the tech today. It's surprising to me that no one is trying to make silicone molds available of famous statues, generally, but I guess there's just no interest or no perceived demand. Or maybe there is a big market, and I've missed it, because I was not searching for silicone molds of frogs.

[1] For instance, The British Museum has a sketchfab with free models: https://sketchfab.com/britishmuseum

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

There are several sites with instant quotes that are cheaper than Shapeways.

PCBWay and JLCPCB both offer similarly-priced very cheap 3d printing and CNC services out of China. Weerg in Italy also offers 3d printing and CNC services and I'm probably going to try them out for the next thing I need printed. The only non-marketplace service I've seen in the US that offers instant quotes is i-solids in Texas, but they have quite high startup costs and seem to be more geared towards small-medium production runs.

boustrophedon commented on Did we lose our way in making efficient software? rufatmammadli.medium.com/... · Posted by u/rumad

Animats · 2 years ago

The article is an ad: "*** provides uptime monitoring and flow-based monitoring for APIs."

This is an important subject, thus it's one for which clickbait is generated.

Size is a problem. I look at my Rust compiles scroll by, and wonder "why is that in there?". I managed to get tokio out, which took some effort. The whole "zbus" system was pulled in because the program asks if the user is in "dark mode". That brought in the "event-listener" system.

Lately, "bash" in a Linux console has become much slower about echoing characters. Did someone stick in spell check, or a LLM for autocomplete, or something?

boustrophedon · 2 years ago

I'm not sure if it's related, but I have the git branch in my PS1 and I've noticed that it's much slower to show a new prompt when inside very large repositories now, and I don't think that was the case previously.