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yardie commented on Millau Viaduct fosterandpartners.com/pro... · Posted by u/oliverulerich

yardie · 13 days ago

I drove over this bridge over a decade ago and stopped at the visitor center just below it. As an engineering and architect geek it was the highlight of the trip for me (and the family too!).

As Bad Bunny said, "debi tirar mas photos!", because I didn't take nearly enough.

yardie commented on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment probablydance.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/ibobev

yardie · 15 days ago

> Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts. This also lines up with my inability to run a humidifier in the winter. I got the biggest, baddest humidifier I could find, and it barely makes a difference.

I would have started figuring this out before spending any money on a mini-split. OP, your climate envelope has failed somewhere. Spend some more money on a IR camera and try and identify where that leak is. Your basically just air-conditioning some of your apartment and some of the outdoors.

yardie commented on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning seuros.com/blog/aws-delet... · Posted by u/seuros

yardie · 21 days ago

Cloud user here. If you would read your contracts, and it doesn't matter which cloud service you use, they all have the same section on Share Responsibility.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-mode...

You, the customer, are responsible for your data. AWS is only responsible for the infrastructure that it resides on.

yardie commented on American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms fortune.com/2025/07/24/no... · Posted by u/fortran77

yardie · a month ago

When you hire a 10x developer who is literally 10x developers :-D

yardie commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016) magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz

yardie · a month ago

I did a 1100m passage from Puerto Rico to Miami. Anchored in the Bahamas bank but didn't step on land. And when we arrived in the US we weren't required to clear in since our last port of departure was PR. Pretty sure they were tracking us by drone, blimp, AIS, and radar the entire way because they weren't suspicious enough compared to my previous experiences.

Curious why Apollo 11 would have to clear customs since the moon isn't a foreign country and they just did a there and back.

yardie commented on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/bdev12345

tuesdaynight · a month ago

If you don't mind sharing, what would be the things that a person should think about it before doing the same action that you did? I'm always torn between doing that or saving more and trying to make changes later in life.

yardie · a month ago

Just go in with the realization that you're setting your career on fire. I was lucky, I moved to another country and was able to find work in my field after 10-12 month of searching.

> I'm always torn between doing that or saving more and trying to make changes later in life.

If you can always try and save more. Compounding interest means you'll be further ahead later in life. I'm still catching up on my retirement savings, I'm luckier than most healthwise and financially. In hindsight, if I could have stayed around a few more months I probably would have found a job in my expertise and built on it careerwise. But, mentally I was finished. The constant rejections, multiple interview rounds with indeterminate responses, the gaslighting really beat me up inside.

yardie commented on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/bdev12345

yardie · a month ago

My experience graduating right into the dot-bomb was it absolutely sucked. I, a fresh-faced grad, was competing against experienced engineers who were laid off after Y2K, Cosmo, Yahoo, and other dotcoms for entry-level jobs. I wasn't very bitter then, but now when I meet mid-20s developer with "senior" or "director" titles, it hurts knowing that 3-5 years of my career was wasted trying to string together credible work history portfolio.

The best thing I did was tap out, sell my car, turn in my apartment keys, bought a one way ticket, and stuff my life into large backpack. I saw lots of things, made lots of friends, and met a life partner. Simply because life decided to unplug the career treadmill and there was no point in me trying to run on it.

yardie commented on The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation thehustle.co/originals/th... · Posted by u/Anon84

yardie · a month ago

In the early 2000s when I was interning the office had black men of a certain age who still wore the jheri curl. Even though we made jheri curl jokes in middle/high school, after it had become unfashionable, you weren't going to make the same jokes in front of these guys. The typical profile at the time: late 30s/40s, veteran, logistics or CDL holder, motorcyclist (typically Harley or Goldwing), and devoutly religious. Sometimes people find the style, trend, or community they like and just go all in on it.

yardie commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/macawfish

yardie · a month ago

An ADA compliant bathroom is almost 200sqft. And they will need at least 2 of them. So now that 1000sqft is now 600sqft. And they still need a place to store and process books, reading rooms, etc.

yardie commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/macawfish

ttul · a month ago

The GOP under Trump has considerably changed from the GOP under Bush. There is no longer a political home for Reagan/Bush-style conservatives. Perhaps a shift might be coming with the next economic downturn, which seems inevitable given the risk-off investment climate across most industries stemming from Trump’s erratic, unpredictable trade and economic policy. Things don’t look bad just yet, but it takes a while for the full impact of such enormous changes in sentiment to ripple down through the entire economy.

yardie · a month ago

Reagan and Bush were constrained by much more liberal supreme court justices of the previous era. The current Supreme Court justices were clerks and lawyers during Reagan and Bush presidency. If Reagan and Bush had the current justices in their bench I can almost guarantee they’d be pulling the same stunts.