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Flenser

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contact me at my gmail address: flenser DOT tyrathect

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Flenser··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
I thought you were wrong so I went googling and someone did the experiment and you are correct. Option 2, adding the milk later, cools fastest: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/whe...

The graph on that page explains it much better than any of the text explanations can.

Flenser··on Ask HN: Should I remove work experience from resume?
This site: https://www.topresume.com/

Will show you how an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) will view your resume, including how much management experience it thinks you have. It can take a few hours to get a response, but it's the only site I've found with a free ATS evaluation.

I've also been using these sites to find issues with my resume and they provide instant responses:

https://app.tealhq.com/home - 15 free AI generated achievements and a lot of the feedback is only available if you pay, but it still highlights where the issues are.

https://resumeworded.com/ - limit of 6 free uploads, and 2 credits with their Magic Write AI

Flenser··on [dead]
Meta have emailed saying they have a "legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI"

They provide a link to a form to object to this processing where you can provide answers to the following two questions:

Please tell us how this processing impacts you. (Required)

Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection. (Optional)

On what grounds can I object?

Flenser··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
and even if we have government 1 now, we could always have government 2 after the next election
Flenser··on Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world
It depends on the quality of the meetings. My last job I hated them for all the reasons you said. My current job they are enjoyable and productive. That's because the agenda is a "living" document that anyone can edit during the week, and the meetings stop when we've nothing left to discuss or need to get back to work
Flenser··on Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
A way to make a few bucks for your side projects might be to do polls/surveys and get paid via Paypal or Amazon vouchers:

https://www.householdmoneysaving.com/free-paypal-money/

Flenser··on How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
There's a Chrome Extension for Gmail and Outlook for web that helps you send more confident emails by warning you when you use words which undermine your message.

https://justnotsorry.com

Flenser··on No_color
I just use a bash alias for striping colors:

     alias stripcolors=' sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[mGK]//g"'
Flenser··on Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
Thank you for introducing me to babushka style "Check - Set - Check" methodology. I assume you meant this:

https://github.com/benhoskings/babushka

Flenser··on Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's
Sounds like what I see when I press my fingers (gently) onto my closed eyelids. I think it's the different layers of the visual cortex trying to find edges/patterns in something that doesn't have any.
Flenser··on Rethinking Search: Making Experts out of Dilettantes
Try:

coronavirus (site:wikipedia.com OR site:cdc.gov)

Flenser··on HN was down
Does that mean it might get more performant? On my mobile the time it takes seems to scale with the number of posts on the page, not the number of posts it actually collapses
Flenser··on Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
This is a poisoned pill for Biden. If he goes along with it, it will sevearly harm relations with China; if he walks it back he looks weak on China.
Flenser··on How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
> but they have bigger problems to worry about

The undeveloped world or the pigs?

Flenser··on YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
Sounds like they took the wrong message from seeing that it wasn't being used as much as they were hoping. Are there any other video hosting sites with a better subtitling experience? This might be an opportunity for them.
Flenser··on Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
wow, it looks like the answer rate is going down significantly. It looks like it slipped a bit in 2014/2015 but there's a big decrease in 2019 around the time of the Monica Cellio incident.
Flenser··on An update on our security incident
What if the 8 accounts were people who might plausibly know who Satoshi is.
Flenser··on Web Monetization
There's a "Use <MY_MOBILE_NETWORK> billing" option in the Google Play App's Payment Method settings on my Android phone. I'm in the UK. (I haven't used it so I don't know how it works)
Flenser··on Beware the Google Password Manager
That makes sense and is a valid reason to allow removing 2FA without having your (lost) 2FA. However there's still the fact that there was no notification that it was removed.
Flenser··on An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
I'm surprised that page makes no reference to Overton Window which is also relevant:

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

Flenser··on The Coming Chip Wars
Smoke bombs or similar in the clean rooms would probably be a good start
Flenser··on A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997)
You might still be correct. How did it get to the front page of the other news site?
Flenser··on How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
We had to rename our cookie police modal so unlock users could get into our app.
Flenser··on Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Or perhaps shareholders will be more interested in long term profits and start a lawsuit when the short term profits dry up as their paying customers leave them due to censorship and security concerns.
Flenser··on Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions
This entry on workplace distancing is apropos:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=3253

Flenser··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
You are probably right but I wouldn't discount the keybase server/client IP and user base completely. If Zoom could use keybase for identity verification and adding participants to a call via social graph connections of everyone on the call that could radically improve the UX of onboarding and securing a meeting to only approved participants.
Flenser··on Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
There's 3 tweets in that thread:

> It is disappointing, but not really unexpected, to see this take on the epidemic simulation code release: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ If we accept it at face value, we have a retired software engineer making the case that non-determinism in a simulation shows incompetence. I am all \

> for deterministic-everything, but issues with random seeds and parallel floating point reductions are extremely widespread, and a great deal of science gets done with non-deterministic simulations. Heck, professional software engineering struggles mightily with just making \

> completely reproducable builds. I take no position on the mechanics of the simulation or the conclusions drawn from the runs, but implicitly encouraging scientists to keep their code secret if it isn't "perfect" is damaging.

Flenser··on Zoom’s security woes were no secret to business partners like Dropbox
What are the odds there'll be a project zero blog post on Zoom in 90 days?
Flenser··on Full third-party cookie blocking and more
I think om2 means this from the article:

"seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site"

It's not immediately obvious the way it's phrased but they couldn't be calendar days if there are days you don't use Safari; it's only counting a day as one where Safari is used and you don't visit the site.

Flenser··on A Typology of Organisational Cultures
This reminds me of the organizational paradigms[1] from Reinventing Organisations [2]

I think they map quite easily as:

Power oriented → Amber "command and control"

Rule oriented → Orange "predict-and-control" (management by objectives)

Performance oriented → Green "culture and empowerment"

[1] See "Exhibit 1" table: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344?gko=10921 [2] https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

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