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burnJS··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
I lose disputes all the time, no matter the evidence. I'm not happy with Stripe. The only thing keeping me from looking at alternatives is the low volume of fraud committed against my SaaS.

Do better Stripe. Be better Stripe. Or eventually we will find someone better. Think. Don't enshittify. Your support has already become covered in it by doing the needful.

burnJS··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Brazil can do this. Why can't we?
burnJS··on Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally
This feature exists already. It's called git.
burnJS··on I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
My experience is Claude and others are good at writing methods and smaller because you can dictate what it should do in less tokens and easily read the code. This closes the feadback loop for me.

I occasionally ask AI to write lots of code such as a whole feature (>= medium shirt size) or sometimes even bigger components of said feature and I often just revert what it generated. It's not good for all the reasons mentioned.

Other times I accept its output as a rough draft and then tell it how to refactor its code from mid to senior level.

I'm sure it will get better but this is my trust level with it. It saves me time within these confines.

Edit: it is a valuable code reviewer for me, especially as a solo stealth startup.

burnJS··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
Cool
burnJS··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
As a stealth ceo of a profitable SaaS. This is a nice reminder for my company to wind down its relationship with OpenAI. I have no doubt Anthropic will eventually become evil but at least they have a backbone today.

Goodbye Sam.

Edit: Also, referring to the DOD as the Department of War is cringe.

burnJS··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Killing engineer teams? Hyperbole thread titles need to be killed. I find github actions to be just fine. I prefer it to bitbucket and gitlab.
burnJS··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I send an email to myself. Monday todo, Tuesday todo etc..
burnJS··on Working with Systemd Timers
I pair crons with healthchecks.io
burnJS··on Working with Systemd Timers
This is cool and after learning of this I'm tempted to convert my crons. I currently use systemd for running a redis queue and it's worked great for years.
burnJS··on Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting
How does this compare with railway?
burnJS··on Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
And we don't get to wine why?
burnJS··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
The solution is to have a cheap phone that you sync with your authy. I had the trifecta with my desktop, now I just have one backup device because of this change.
burnJS··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
Yeah its not sexy, but it does work and on Linux too!
burnJS··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
Yeah its super convenient. I do keep an old backup phone around just in case and occasionally turn it on to sync, but also have the desktop app.
burnJS··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
I sent them a support request venting. Will this work? Unlikely, but it takes less than a minute once you move through their automated help flow clicking "no not helpful"

https://support.authy.com/hc/en-us

burnJS··on Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history
So the plea in abeyance will show up. I was fed the same line of shit by courts. My misdemeanor, from 2016 was a plea in abeyance. I was told no crimes for a year and it's like it didn't happen. Easy, done. And guess what? Mine was also in Utah. Hello South Salt Lake City.

Fast forward to a few months ago, it came up on the background check. You have to understand the charge shows up and its possible that the plea shows up. Mine did.

The big difference is mine came up for a Public Trust background check with the federal government. So maybe they can go a bit deeper than a FAANG? I am sitting in limbo 5 months into this job still not knowing if I'll be canned at any second. I had to do a full interview with an agent with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). They even brought up stuff that was from beyond the 7 year window I had to declare.

If anyone knows what my chances are with that I'd love to hear. As a Public Trustee and not touching any sensitive data I'd hope they are lien-ant for a non-violent, non-drug offender like myself.

For you. If it comes up. I'd have the media report present to prove it was an illegal act of activism and not showing TRUE criminal intent. But I wouldn't try to sweep what you did under the rug either.

burnJS··on Free software tools for staying in touch
Ditto.
burnJS··on Free software tools for staying in touch
Not for Linux users. The client repeatedly crashes.
burnJS··on Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in
AA is great. It saved my Dad's life. For a while, I was going too. Ultimately I began drinking again and things are much better now. I also know that if things ever get rough for me I can rely on AA. Really great group of non-judgmental people in there. As an agnostic, the "God" stuff wasn't a problem for me, it's pretty light and on your own terms.
burnJS··on Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
Thank you!
burnJS··on CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near
Its like nip alert, but somehow worse.
burnJS··on More bosses give four-day workweek a try
Even if your commute is only 30 minutes, that is 5 hours lost a week roundtrip. An hour commute? Say goodbye to 10 hours a week. Yuck. Thankfully I have never had a long commute, my current commute is a 10-minute bike ride.

Additionally, every company should provide at least one work from home day. Having a day at home where you can do laundry while working and other minor chores are such a huge win. Not to mention sleep-in to 830 if I want. Even while doing these mini chores I am WAY more productive at home. It also breaks up your week. My WFH day is Tuesday. So I deal with Monday, then have that cushy WFH day, then when I come back on Wednesday it feels like just a 3 day work week. Friday is casual and most employees take Friday to WFH. Its a ghost town and I love it.

I need to begin looking for one of these dank jobs that are truly a four-day work week though.

burnJS··on Guide to Equity Compensation
This couldn't have been posted at a better time for me. I've been talking with some people more in the know on this and was advised by someone to ask for a revenue share in addition to my equity. This person felt the equity offering was low and I should protect myself with a revenue share. Does anyone have resources or additional insight on rev share agreements?
burnJS··on Larry Tesler Has Died
Don't mode me bro.
burnJS··on Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
Does that lead image tell you something? They are in full gear treating this guy. Would Doctors be geared up like that treating someone for the flu?
burnJS··on Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good
I always liked tripod way more than geocities.
burnJS··on China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
Do you think we know the truth about anything? The cause? The response? The scale?
burnJS··on Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
We're using an Alpine based image while prototyping an application at work right now. I really dislike the APK, it is so limited compared to what comes with APT. I guess its a little smaller than the limited Ubuntu image available, but APK is just not any fun to work with.

Just my two cents.

burnJS··on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
I guess I'm old, but I can't believe that many people shop on their phones. You have limited screen space and your ability to input data efficiently is limited. It just seems like a really poor medium for researching a purchase. Guess I'm a dinosaur.
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