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cowvin··on A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
It's hard to sympathize with people feeling isolated because they're rich. They could at any time remedy their situation and return to the world of normal people. They choose to be in that situation.
cowvin··on Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year
The rise of self driving technology seems to be coming at a very convenient time.

For example: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/aurora-aur-werner-enterprise...

cowvin··on Dear TwitterSupport I am not “Russian State Affiliated media”
Pretty telling responses: https://twitter.com/AdamJSchwarz/status/1511736526304075778
cowvin··on Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
What happens if you do a factory reset and don't add him again?
cowvin··on Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
https://www.motortrend.com/news/self-driving-cars-faq-can-i-...

Waymo claims they will cost somewhere in the 150k range.

cowvin··on $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network
Even more shocking, is why someone would hand 17 million dollars worth of assets to a random company that has no security apparently.
cowvin··on Ask HN: Does your company's code – suck?
It's an endless cycle, honestly. We have shipping deadlines we can't miss, so we write some code we're not proud of. Then we do our best to live with it until it's hard to continue. This triggers a refactor that snowballs. Then that causes us to be behind for our new deadline, so we put in some code that we're not proud of....

All in all, I would say that the quality of the code depends on how close we are at the moment to shipping.

cowvin··on Launch HN: Carbon Crusher (YC W22) – Carbon Negative Roads
I love this idea. I really hope your technology is more widely adopted.
cowvin··on Ask HN: Got fired from one of my 2 jobs
Your friends and family won't judge you poorly for this. Don't worry.

Early in my career I lost a job at a startup and it also shook me up. I say "lost" because I asked if I was fired or laid off and they said I could call it whatever I wanted lol.

But yeah, basically, the head of the company had an inhuman work ethic and expected the same from his employees. I got in trouble for leaving work at 10pm on a Friday. I got in trouble for coming in late on the weekend because I was doing laundry. I got in trouble for spending time with my friends on my birthday (on a Saturday).

Basically, startups can be extremely unprofessional so if you get fired by a startup, it's no big deal.

cowvin··on In the time Python can perform 1 FLOP, an A100 can chew through 9.75M FLOPS
"<Snake> is slower than <GPU>" kind of makes sense, though when it comes to math.
cowvin··on Firefox removed Yandex search option
You can still use it. It's just not a default.
cowvin··on Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
Honestly, your first problem you need to solve is getting back home. Google has no way to distinguish between an overseas hacker trying to get into your account vs your current situation. You currently have no way to prove your ownership.

So what I would suggest is to focus on getting home. If you have to borrow money from family or friends or whatever, that's what you do.

cowvin··on Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
LOL a long time ago I had a similar problem with Words With Friends. The app somehow never seemed to sleep. Even when plugged into a 2A charger, my phone would slowly drain.
cowvin··on Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?
Yep, I'm planning to try for some sort of semi-retirement before retiring completely. If there are such positions, I would be interested at that point.
cowvin··on Ask HN: Do students often go to grad school because they had a bad industry job?
I don't think this is particularly common at least among people I know. When people in the industry aren't happy with their job, they find a new job. If they aren't happy with the whole industry, they usually change to a different industry.
cowvin··on Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds light on early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 [pdf] (2021)
"the progenitor of known SARS-CoV-2 sequences likely contained three mutations relative to the market viruses that made it more similar to SARS-CoV-2’s bat coronavirus relatives."

So sort of. The virus existed somewhere before the versions sampled in the seafood market, yes. It's possible that it existed in the seafood market but was not sampled there.

There's no way to know where it first existed in humans without more information and the deletion of this early data is definitely suspicious.

cowvin··on Ask HN: How can I make $50k in 4 months?
I suppose the easiest is to find a job that pays 150k/year.

But more seriously, you could flip houses if you have enough capital or access to it. This is not surefire at all, though.

cowvin··on Universe Splitter
Hah same here. I always imagined that it would be crazy if people always happened to survive in the universes they inhabited.
cowvin··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Which is why it's hilarious that Russian state propaganda says that Ukraine is a dictatorship and that they are there to liberate them. LOL
cowvin··on Ask HN: How do you stay focused when working at home?
For me, music helps me focus. It helps block out distracting sounds and keeps me energized.
cowvin··on Ask HN: What's the hardest thing about remote work, even if you like it?
It's hard to concentrate when my kids are screaming and crying.

It harder to communicate with coworkers since you can't just stroll by their desk to talk.

It's harder to do certain parts of my job because of dedicated hardware that lives in the office and operating it remotely is not nearly as good.

cowvin··on Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space
Well, they're both old. Many people around my age have seen them both. Maybe they're just before your time.
cowvin··on Ask HN: Not liking my first dev job. Any tips?
Well, once you get more comfortable in a codebase, you will start to get a broader view of where it needs to improve. That's the point where you can start being the architect behind new creations.
cowvin··on Victory: Google Releases “Disable 2g” Feature for New Android Smartphones
Strange, I don't see the setting on my Pixel 4 on Android 12. Does anyone know what versions of Android have this?
cowvin··on CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology
A lot of people haven't worked with socks beyond the level of Winsock.
cowvin··on Show HN: My Free OCR Website – want feedback
Yeah, that's as believable as Facebook saying they can't read your messages.
cowvin··on Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
Yep, this story sounds like an attempt to get social media pressure on Upwork to try to get them to cave.

I mean if Robin used someone else's card to pay, he never paid anyone for the services he received. So it sounds like instead of being angry at Upwork, the author should be angry at Robin.

Strange that he's not.

cowvin··on Ask HN: YouTube over Zoom
Jitsi can do it, but it's not as popular, unfortunately.
cowvin··on Reuters data scientist questioned the BLM narrative–so the company fired him
"Two of his colleagues warned him that he was potentially heading toward disaster; another, according to Kriegman, screamed that he “should fucking do [his] job” instead of spending time fighting about Black Lives Matter. (None of the Reuters employees returned a request for comment.)"

It sounds like instead of doing the job they hired him to do, he was spending his time arguing about BLM. I mean expressing his opinion is one thing but if it's to the point that his presence is an overall negative for the company, he should be fired.

I mean this guy knew he'd be fired if he kept doing what he was doing and chose to get fired, so it's hard to have any sympathy for him.

It's like if someone goes to work for Fox News and spends all their time arguing with everyone at the company about how Democrats are great and Republicans are evil, they will get fired too.

cowvin··on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
Well, people who flaunt their money are simply not that pleasant to be around. My friends and I have varying degrees of financial success but we don't really talk about money related issues much.

If they are your friends, you can tell them about how their stories make you feel. If they don't care, then maybe you need new friends.

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