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awithrow

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Co-Founder @ Itera, Inc.
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awithrow··on Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)
its a reference to the movie Office Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-1wcJYrWA
awithrow··on I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it
Agreed, it's a bit sparse but setting it up was a lot of fun. Made me realize just how much work goes on behind the scenes for something like gnome to tie everything together.

On the plus side, I've gotten a much better understanding of all the moving pieces under the hood. It's also been a good excuse to migrate to some new tools which spark more joy than the old ones

awithrow··on Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames
It'd be great to have some preset box sizes for some common games and maybe some pre-done layouts. Now that I'm thinking about it, some game elements would be handy to build around, ie a deck of cards or similar.
awithrow··on Go Proposal: Secret Mode
Why not just panic and make it obvious?
awithrow··on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
Playstation/Sony always a contender? They were the clear leader. The PS2 is still the best selling console of all time. 160M units to Xbox's 24M. Xbox360 caught up but the PS3 still sold more units. PS4 sold twice as many as Xbox One. The console wars has been mostly Sony vs Nintendo for a long time.
awithrow··on Trying two dozen different psychedelics
I'm less familiar with it. All I really know is that it was on the list of natural medicines that was decriminalized in Colorado. What is the experience like?
awithrow··on Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
I think a lot of this stems from the code review tools themselves. Especially the "Don't just review the diff" mistake. Especially with GitHub defaulting to just showing a list of diffs and changed files. I'd find it much more useful if a review tool started with a class hierarchy or similar high level view to get a sense of: 1. What/how many classes changed? 2. What/how many methods have been added/removed/modified 3. What method signatures have changed 4. What changes are covered by new tests

"Don't leave too many comments" i think can really be rethought of, don't review style and syntax. Leave that to the robots. If you're relying on other engineers to flag style problems and linting, you're just wasting everybody's time. Set up linting and style checkers and be done with it.

awithrow··on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
Is there a demo I'm missing or is this just a link to buy the game site unseen?
awithrow··on The Company Man
What didn't you like about it?
awithrow··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
How do you tell someone earnestly asking vs "cosplaying the confused person"?
awithrow··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
The 'Subscribe', 'Privacy' and 'Do Not Sell My Data' buttons are still part of the Disqus wodget
awithrow··on Phrack 72
I think like most things there is a power law distribution when it comes to these sort of roles. I've worked with a few really good security teams in my career. The good ones work with the teams, possibly embedded on improving security. The better ones also write tools and libraries for service teams to consume. The best ones act like internal white hats, constantly probe and assess, and submit patches as well.

Sadly the vast majority of sec teams are not this and exist solely to run some tool that spits out a list of dubious vulns and then dump said list as a pile of tickets into the dev backlog.

One place i worked, the CISO even came up with some slogan for the info-sec along the lines of "observe and report" after I kept trying to show the info-sec how to run, build, test, and patch our various packages and tools their scanners would complain about.

awithrow··on Angle brackets in a Nix flake world
As someone who runs NixOS on my home machine, I feel this. I have an okay handle on day-to-day operations on my machine but a lot of it still feels like magic to me in both a good a scary sense. I'm still looking for great resources to go deep on Nix and really grok it.
awithrow··on What went wrong for Yahoo
They never said he was there in those years or was involved in the failed acquisitions. Had Google been acquired then, yes, eventually Raghavan would have been calling the shots.
awithrow··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
A good ballpark for dried shrooms is roughly 1% psilocybin by weight of dried shroom, so about 3g. That said, it's going to vary a lot shroom to shroom, genetic to genetics, and species to species. Could be as high as 6g for more mild strains and as low a 1g for something like pan cyans.
awithrow··on Denver's Deepest Dinosaur
There are a lot in the area. There is dinosaur ridge out on i-70 that features all sorts of dino tracks and fossils. There was also another fossil discovery during while building a shopping center not too long ago: https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2017/10/10/dinosaur-found...
awithrow··on QSBS Limits Raised
A company doesn't need to be large to issue stock. Stock was issued to all the founders as part of incorporating our company. More stock was issued when we raised money.
awithrow··on The Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
Come to Denver, while there are plenty of folks that fall into both of the categories you lament, there are plenty of occasional adult users too. I suspect its a combination of both the legal status of both weed and natural medicines as well as the music scene. I have many friends who enjoy the occasional trip and you would never know from a casual conversation.
awithrow··on The Essential Reading List for TTRPGs
I love that Burning Wheel made the list. It is challenging to play and needs all the players to be bought into the system as well but man is it worth it. While the rules are complex, I love how easy it is to tune the complexity to the table. Ie you can leave out a lot of the subsystems and use the core mechanic until the table has more experience. From there you can scale up as needed. It's a system I've only ever run as the dm but never as a player. Hopefully someday.
awithrow··on When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
It could be that Lem was influenced by Borges? The original poster is referencing a specific Borges short story called "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" which he published in 1939. It influenced a number of other notable authors
awithrow··on Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
I'm in the US and learned it in school. I just never really needed to use it consistently. Assignments and papers that were still handwritten could be done either way. Cursive never felt noticeably faster for me to write. I'm sure it would have had I been forced to do it. By the time I was in high school (1999), i remember typing most long form assignments. Now the only time I ever read cursive is on letters from my mom and her cursive is not particularly neat or clean.
awithrow··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
Any specific books you'd recommend?
awithrow··on Murderbot, she wrote
What resonated so much for you to like it so much? I remember reading it and thought it was fine but I don't think any of it was particularly memorable.
awithrow··on Critical Bug in Docker Engine Allowed Attackers to Bypass Authorization Plugins
Honestly this sounds like a massive outage waiting to happen
awithrow··on After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table
You can get a standalone pizza over for a couple hundred. I've got an Ooni and it gets up to 900 in about 15 minutes. Its obviously not for indoor use but its great nonetheless. It still takes a good bit of technique to get the dough and timing right but its great to be able to cook a pizza in little more than a minute.
awithrow··on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
I've spent many years at large companies including FAANGs. I've had no problems or issues pushing back on unreasonable deadlines or being the bearer of bad news about vulns, bugs, or systemic flaws. I've also seen plenty of engineers do the same.
awithrow··on The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong
Its probably the nostalgia talking but a lot of the early magic was the art as well. It was professional enough to look good but not so polished that it didn't have its own character. I had favorite artists and it was always fun just admiring the art. The new cards just don't capture me the same way. Something about them is too polished or too homogenized. They don't leave any room for imagination. I feel the same way about D&D artwork as well. No surprise that both D&D and MTG are owned by the same parent company.
awithrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Artisan Insight | Senior Electrical Engineer & Senior Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineer | San Francisco, CA| ONSITE| https://www.artisaninsight.com/

Artisan Insight is commercializing a deep tech innovation to fundamentally change the electronics industry. We are a team of experienced co-founders who have worked at companies like Flex, Uber, Verkada, Heptio, and Bridgewater. We have shipped code that runs on Mars, scaled the largest web services, and changed the way people get around cities. We are backed by exceptional investors who are committed to creating the next category defining company. We are hiring the first engineers who will work directly with the co-founders to define how we work and what we build. We are a small team with an ambitious vision and exciting technical challenges.

* https://artisaninsight.notion.site/Senior-Mechanical-Manufac...

* https://artisaninsight.notion.site/Senior-Electrical-Enginee...

DM me or email careers@artisaninsight.com for more info

awithrow··on Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
What I like about it is the ability to bubble up domains that are more useful to me and also downrank or filter out the ever growing domains of seo filler.
awithrow··on Show HN: I built a browser-based tutorial for learning RAG for LLMs
This looks really great, signed up!
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