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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Agreed. I'm reading some complaints in the thread about being told to "just read the source code" for internal tools at Meta. When I worked at Apple we didn't even get the source code!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Actually you raise a great point. My answer might have focused too much on the monetary side. I agree 100% that if it's a chance to work on something you'll be proud of with people you enjoy working with then it can be worth it!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Depends on equity. Standard equity for founding engineers is definitely way too low; the chance of the company failing is still 100x higher than if you join as engineer #10, but you don't get 100x the equity (unlike the founders!).
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I'd never heard of this before. The name didn't make sense until I read this: > Metallic means are generalizations of the golden ratio (n=1) and silver ratio (n=2)... Are there any applications?
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I was curious whether this used a locally-hosted LLM because I knew of Mozilla's sponsorship of Llamafile. Was funny to see that they use the term "locally hosted" in a novel way: > Orbit currently uses a version of Mistra
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I only want one feature from Swift: faster type-checking. If you write a few lines of math, or a moderately complex SwiftUI expression, suddenly the typechecker starts timing out. Swift is the only language I've ever used with this pro
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I didn’t learn this until recently but in psql you can use \e or \editor to open the current line in $EDITOR. It helps a lot.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
It’s a good idea! For some reason Postico’s built-in query viewer doesn’t seem to follow them, unfortunately.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> In looking at roost networks of bank swallows in Ontario you can identify that, “Oh, some bank swallows at night are actually going to different roosts from where their babies are,” and the adults will often trade off. We don’t know wh
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Your comment history tells me you don’t use HN to have interesting conversations. Have a good day!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources. The downside may be
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Not OP, but I personally put off using a UI for years before finally trying a few and eventually settling on Postico for Mac. I still jump to psql often, but for me it's an accumulation of small quality-of-life improvements: - results
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I mostly like the reMarkable as a note-taking device because if I want to send someone a diagram from my notes I can send a clean image instead of having to scan. I got the Kindle Scribe when it came out and the latency with turning pages a
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I think the link is broken; it doesn't send me to an article with the title of the post, just to the blog itself.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The article mentions that "many people seek ways to bypass probate, and the law offers several avenues for doing so" but doesn't mention that in California a holographic will is sufficient to avoid probate. You just need to h
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
No offense, but I feel kind of silly only realizing now that you’ve been responding without having read my original post. I already paid the $300, I already talked to a tax lawyer, and the letters after the first one were not automated. If
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Ironically, the last time I checked, the built in screencapture command-line program hadn’t been updated to use ScreenCaptureKit yet. The company I was contracting for ended up shelling out to it because its window picking UX was a lot bett
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
A friend told that at the trading company he worked at, traders set up distinct sounds for alerts. I was hoping someone with a more direct source would comment in the thread but a quick Cmd-F doesn’t turn up anything!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I was sympathetic to the argument that the IRS is overburdened with work before. But the IRS spent a year harassing me about $300. If that’s the scale of supposed tax fraud that they’re spending staffing resources on I think their prioritiz
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I appreciate that Congress is not trying to make the IRS’s job easier. But I found it hard to square their third letter with the idea that they’re not trying to be malicious. I actually had to contact the DMV the same number of times to get
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I’d like to invite you to consider what the differences between dogs and human IRS employees might be. When you equate them, you are not being very charitable regarding their intelligence or moral agency.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> I want you to look them in the eyes and tell them they are the bottleneck and take it a step further and explain why they are the bottleneck so you both are on the same page. “Tyler, you are my bottleneck. I have 45 days to make this v
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> They didn’t even bother to think about anything less than $100M. I got a letter from the IRS for ~$300. I’m pretty sure the first letter was sent by some automated system of theirs with a bug, and the subsequent letters were some IRS e
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The story about the scrolls is a hilarious rollercoaster; I recommend reading the whole article.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Great article, especially loved the focus on history! I’ve subscribed. > Lastly, as much as we like to bash Windows for security problems, NT started with an advanced security design for early Internet standards given that the system wor
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> and a graphics driver interface that disables itself if it crashes too many times (yes really) I actually ran into this while upgrading an AMD driver and was very impressed! On Linux and macOS I was used to just getting kernel panics.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
No rush! The crazy thing is it looks like I already had an account (!) but hadn’t signed up for anything. So I actually must have found your site in my search somehow, then maybe I hit the same payment issue? My username on your site is jyc
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> To be honest though, I think that Mastodon is an evolutionary dead-end. It had a huge head start in the space, but I am reasonably sure that it is not the future of the open social web. Interesting, this was my layman's read too a
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I was actually searching for a commercial Mastodon host around a year ago. I would have been interested in your service but it did not come up in any search results. I remember checking out Librem One, but the signup process for that was ve
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> It was not trying to make money, or whatever If Google Code succeeded, it’s hard to imagine that Google would not have tried to monetize it someday. This also reminds me of Google’s (also initial) position on Chrome vis-a-vis Firefox:

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