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by steelframe 2y ago
The article makes a point that 23andMe isn't bound by HIPAA, but even if it were, I wouldn't consider that adequate. The bar for collecting and holding PII, particularly medical, needs to be much, much higher than it is today. A d
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by steelframe 2y ago
> Free markets depend on transparent pricing. I mean, there are no surprise post-ride fees or anything. They're quoting you what the actual price is, and they're free to quote whatever they want for whatever reasons they want.
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by steelframe 2y ago
For the only significant upstream OSS contributions I've made I was being paid a pretty good tech salary to make them. The first major contribution happened because the organization I worked for was still in an incubation mode and wasn
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by steelframe 2y ago
Given the growing health concerns we've been reading [0] relating to food contact chemicals we've thrown away all plastic food containers in our house and replaced them with either glass or stainless steel. I get the feeling we&#x
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by steelframe 2y ago
> What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days? If you're entry-level and will put up with anything just to get Amazon on your resume.
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by steelframe 2y ago
If by "very small" you mean two 12-story office towers in South Lake Union, then yeah. But note that Apple is on a similar glide path as Amazon with respect to return-to-office.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I am running my own custom-built Debian-based router in a VM and architected an encapsulated networking infrastructure at a FAANG once, so I know perfectly well how to get the device securely connected to the Internet while isolating it fro
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by steelframe 2y ago
Some of my hard requirements for a media device are that it must not share any of my personal information with any third party and it must fully cache the full-resolution and complete media content prior to beginning playback. If it's
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by steelframe 2y ago
I knew someone who ran a Tor exit node from his research lab workstation at Brigham Young University (BYU), a conservative religious school with an extreme institutional phobia of porn. He ended up in a "special interview" with hi
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by steelframe 2y ago
I used to care about my photos a lot. After accumulating a few decades worth of photos I've gotten to the point where I don't care about my photos at all. I used to obsess over megapixel count, portrait mode, FPS, lighting, and so
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by steelframe 2y ago
You should try leaving a company for money sometime. Financial independence really is life-changing, and you can get there surprisingly quickly in the tech industry by putting yourself on the market more often. Anecdotally, at my current co
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by steelframe 2y ago
My car doesn't spy on me. I've pulled the Data Communications Module fuse.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> not only notify insurance companies I can immediately think of half a dozen ways this would be abused. The clique of brats in their daddies' Teslas at Sammamish High School bully the unpopular kid. Black guy who drives through pre
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by steelframe 2y ago
Cool. Then I suppose I'll buy my dumb DisplayPort screens from rando Chinese knockoff companies that siphon off R&D that suckers like Sony and Samsung fund.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I wonder how much of a thing "long-term culture" really is in the tech industry. The culture at Google in the year 2024 looks very different from the culture at Google in 2010. In many ways the culture at Microsoft in 2024 is radi
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by steelframe 2y ago
Not annoying at all. I'm more annoyed by people just letting me keep making the same mistake without saying anything. In fact when I first wrote that something in my brain said maybe it wasn't right, so I looked up the word "
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by steelframe 2y ago
I've dabbled in management a few times in my career. This meant attending manager-only meetings and trainings. I'll never forget one time when a manager in a focus group said something along the lines of, "The tech sector is
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by steelframe 2y ago
For me nothing. I can already torrent a full 4k movie in under 10 minutes with my current connection, which is plenty fast. If everyone else had 1Tb and I could get a movie in 20 seconds or something, okay, fine. That would be kind of neat,
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by steelframe 2y ago
The part I left out was that I also went to a thrift store and found a couple of used 1080p Blu-rays for older films for around $5 each. There were almost no 4k Blu-rays though, and no new releases.
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by steelframe 2y ago
Having grown up in the generation of DVDs and Blu-rays I'm cursed with the inability to ignore streaming video compression artifacts such as blocking, banding, and ringing. They alone can get me annoyed enough that it breaks my engagem
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by steelframe 2y ago
Wait until a manager who's evaluating a technical decision you're making copies and pastes ChatGPT's "analysis" of your proposal and asks you to respond to it.
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by steelframe 2y ago
Thanks for the heads-up about that. If I go this route then it looks like I'll want to measure battery drain both before and after installing the silencing antenna.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I simply yanked the Data Communications Module (DCM) fuse on my GR Corolla, but that has the unfortunate side-effect of also disabling the microphone. That means the only way for me to take hands-free phone calls is with the speaker phone o
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by steelframe 2y ago
> This is a ridiculous statement Ten lines per day?? Over my 20-year career in Big Tech I figure I've averaged about 10 lines of shipping code per week . I've been working in a domain-specific field and have shipped several ke
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by steelframe 2y ago
Yeah, I just pacman-installed mpv and tried running it on a 4k video. My CPU fan immediately kicked on, and top showed multiple cores getting involved. Kept scrolling this HN post to learn about hwdec=auto. Coming from mplayer and vlc my im
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'm so fed up with Internet of Shit stuff that these days if I need some random thing like a cradle rocker I'll first check to see if there's a DIY Arduino-based solution out there. In this case, sure enough, there is: https
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by steelframe 2y ago
When I worked at Google I immediately sold my stock and diversified. In hindsight that "cost" me at least $2MM. At a subsequent employer I held the stock, determined not to make the same mistake again. That "cost" me nea
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by steelframe 2y ago
Despite the fact that I have free oil changes with the dealership I still do my own oil changes for exactly this reason. Thanks for the reminder about the factory reset though, in case I need a warranty repair in the future.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I generally treat anything on Reddit as first and foremost motivated by a desire for fake Internet points rather than by a desire to share a real story or have a real conversation. I'd at least expect a reputable journalist to pick up
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by steelframe 2y ago
I guess I was just trying to keep my comment short and on-topic rather than blab on about my car. Anyway I also wanted the ability to use gasoline for road trips, a manual transmission, emergency brake activated with a cable, knobs and butt

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