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NickHirrason The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

There have been, but most non-technical users don't care or don't go through the hassle of using them.

NickHirrason The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

Sometimes several weeks in my recent submissions.

NickHirrason US military reveals it has weapons in space

https://archive.ph/KnfSn

NickHirrason What will our economic future look like?

One of the sections is:

A profound economic transformation

In the extreme scenario, AI is more productive than humans at the vast majority of knowledge-work tasks. It does nearly all of them autonomously, and it creates essentially no new knowledge tasks for people. This scenario would likely require recursively self-improving AI, adopted quickly for knowledge work.

As AI diffuses, annual GDP growth rates reach 15% a year, leading the economy to double in size every 4.5 years. As a society, we’re far richer than we’ve ever been, but many fewer workers have jobs in knowledge work, and unemployment has risen beyond typical recessionary levels.

NickHirrason IBM Bob

And, still provisioning 10 hours later.

NickHirrason IBM Bob

Still provisioning...

NickHirrason IBM Bob

It takes a while to actually login while it provisions some cloud infrastructure in your name. Let's see if it can build something interesting!

NickHirrason Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

In settings, enable Turbo Mode, and Auto-Approve, it will run without stopping for approvals.

NickHirrason Docker Hub Is Down

I've been using Amazon ECR as an alternative source.

https://gallery.ecr.aws/

NickHirrason Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

This is what's happened at my workplace. We account for time spent working on developing new products differently that development time maintaining legacy applications. Because they are reported for tax purposes differently.

NickHirrason Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

WEX Inc, a global fintech company founded in 1983. We provide tech solutions in corporate payments, fleet management, travel industry, and healthcare. We have hundreds of current openings, both fully-remote as well as on-site. I've been with the company about 3 years. Competitive pay, excellent benefits, and a great work culture. Happy to answer any questions about my experiences.

https://wexinc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WEXInc

https://www.wexinc.com/about/careers/

NickHirrason Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

Section 6.5 discusses non-payment by client, and charge backs.

https://www.upwork.com/legal#clientpayments

I think just to preserve brands goodwill, Upwork should absorb the cost (which they have to this point), pursue legal action against the client, and not punish the freelancer.

I don't know the legality of withholding payments for future work due to the freelancer. I don't believe they have a right under the terms to do that, but I would not do any future work for free. That could be a breach of contract on Upwork's part, although haven't read through these terms enough to know that.

NickHirrason Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Site Reliability Engineer - REMOTE, FULL-TIME

https://wexinc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEXInc/job/Portla...

NickHirrason Google Is Not God of the Web

If you direct their web vitals tool to test itself (https://web.dev/vitals/), the report isn't great:

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...