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corprewon A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

Based on context on their site, this looks like it was generated in ~2019 from data gathered before that, and some stuff in it is out of date as other comments mention.

corprewon Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything

Yeah, Code39 would be really festive.

corprewon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

DataJoint | Senior Engineer | Remote (US), Houston/Austin, TX | https://datajoint.com

DataJoint is seeking a Senior Engineer skilled in building computational platforms in modern cloud environments. This is a unique opportunity to join our team to scale up our existing solutions and invent new capabilities to support life sciences research in biotech and drug discovery. Technologies: Python, k8s, SciPy | NumPy, Typescript.

Apply Online at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4084617843/

corprewon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

Record360 | 3 Engineering Roles | Remote | FTE | CONUS

Record360 is an asset inspection and workflow company that works in heavy equipment and other logistics spaces. We make simple tools that just work, with people in the field using mobile devices to inspect and perform other operations on assets. The engineering team is ~10 people. We are a profitable, growing company with a good work-life balance. Our core hours are 10a - 2p to allow for overlap in CONUS. People must have existing US work authorization, cannot sponsor.

Our Platform is React / Ruby on Rails / GraphQL / Postgres / Kubernetes / Redis / AWS.

We are hiring for three positions, details including comp at the links:

* Senior Software Engineer focused on Integrations

* Mobile Engineer -- iOS

* Software Engineer -- Platform.

https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/e0f0f5b...

corprewon Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)

I was really disappointed when I saw this, but not because of the content, which is great, but because I saw Cats (Year) and assumed that the link was going to be explaining git using the _movie_ Cats. Sadly, the movie was Cats (2019).

corprewon Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths

In addition to what the peer comments say, Africa has learned a lot of lessons in fighting infection disease outbreaks from fighting Ebola: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7404531/

corprewon Scandinavian Monitoring Stations Detect Unexplained Radiation Spike over Europe

Russia, in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/world/europe/russia-nucle...

corprewon Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Saudi Arabia of wind'

If you care about not killing birds, ban outdoor cats and contribute to your local feral cat spaying charity.

corprewon Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

CVE-2017-15908

corprewon Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf]

> Would have been nice to have an executive summary

That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. Sorry.

More seriously: The poster must have had some context in mind when they posted this to HN and it would be interesting to learn what that was; even if it was just "TIL libraries don't keep books forever."

corprewon Bad JSON Parsers

This works out well in practice -- the ruby parser that ships with the language (the 100 levels one) works for most purposes and will even go back to an all-ruby implementation if it can't load its C extension. It's a reasonable default parser for almost all cases.

However, if you need the all-singing, all-dancing, handles the most complex use cases super fast parser, which is Oj at the bottom (which handles infinite levels), then you have the option to install it and use it.

corprewon Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

Personally, I'm on a tight Things.app <-> Bear.app loop; professionally, it varies. For keeping professional stuff up to speed I'm on a Things.app ingestion -> Asana loop that throws off artifacts to a google drive and various git repository markdown files, which might be writing new documents or keeping existing documents up to date.

corprewon We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)

it's removed from "natural gas" when they make LNG. the amount generated by nuclear reaction byproducts is trivial by comparison. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022311570...

corprewon We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)

Helium has a lower condensation temperature than Natural Gas, so when they make liquid natural gas for shipping, they can take out some percentage of the helium relatively easily and more with difficulty.

corprewon Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer

Although it should be noted in that article:

"Over the follow-up period, there were 341 deaths from cancer: 154 among participants who took vitamin D (1.1%) and 187 among those who took the placebo (1.4%). Although this difference was not statistically significant, the difference in cancer deaths between the groups started to widen over time, the researchers reported.

The researchers plan to follow the participants for another 2 to 5 years, to see if a statistically significant difference in cancer deaths emerges. Laboratory studies have suggested that high blood levels of vitamin D may decrease the aggressiveness of cancer cells and the likelihood of metastasis, explained Dr. Manson. If so, longer follow-up will be needed to assess its effects on the risk of death from cancer, she added. Other studies have suggested that regular use of vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of dying from cancer, she said."

So they're still continuing to follow that up long term to see if it has a longer term effect.

corprewon Ask HN: What are you working on?

I have a side project that I've been working on which is re-implementing a couple of old rails4 projects that old customers still use in Phoenix/Elixir. It's been going pretty well.

I'm also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.

corprewon Farewell from Waffle

Farewell and good luck on your new adventure, loved your product and used it to our great advantage a few years ago.

corprewon Farewell from Waffle

waffle.io was github projects, built on top of the github api, a few years before github projects. basically a github-based kanban board. It was pretty great if you were a smallish startup.

corprewon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

  Location: Seattle, WA, US
  Remote: Yes (Experienced Remote SDM)
  Willing to relocate:  Yes (within the PNW)
  Technologies: Last several projects have been cloud-based Rails projects, I've mostly been a technical co-founder or player/coach SDM
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corprew/
  Email: temporary-2019-03@corprew.org

corprewon How transportation can transform a city – Seattle's double decker tunnel

the tunnel was always sort of dumb, but seattle had a really reasonable traffic growth plan for its expected growth. the actual growth has been way higher than the plan.

corprewon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

'guys' may not be the word you're looking for here.

corprewon Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing

check out this paper by danah boyd from 2000, for discussion of more or less this issue in virtual reality. https://www.danah.org/papers/sexvision.pdf

corprewon Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns

don't you mean "some memes refuse to die no matter how much RF radiation they're exposed to?"

corprewon Show HN: Wave-share – serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

This is really neat, but I'm sad that it didn't start with classic modem sounds.

corprewon Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon

I wish journalists would publish headlines like this and Kodak's recent adventure as "The company that currently has the rights to the name [Whatever Past Beloved Consumer Brand] is [Doing Whatever]"

It would be a lot clearer.

corprewon Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster

"we cannot retrieve the item referred to in section #.#.#.# in the timeframe specified in section #.#.#.#, please follow previously agreed upon contingency plan #.#.#.#"?

corprewon When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew

Some people continue to use their original name professionally, but their payroll and tax forms have to be filed under their new name.

corprewon The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

"you’re clearly young, so she’s likely alive" <-- why the youth-based insult here when you could have made your point easily without it.

corprewon How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?

A great book that discusses this and a lot of other cognitive categories is George Lakoff's _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things_.

Highly recommended for everyone that makes things that use categories, tags, criteria, &c.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women,_Fire,_and_Dangerous_Thi...

corprewon Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries

I'm really glad that these folks are succeeding, they've been at it a really long time. They contacted us when I was on a non-profit board that ran an event a few years ago, and it was obvious that it was a great idea that we had no way of implementing. Now that everyone has a phone with them all the time, they're past that barrier.

I hope that they get great success.