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delinka

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I use code to solve problems shon@fyrestead.com East of Atlanta
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delinka··on Agent design is still hard
I'm sure this site works quite differently from what you say. There's no paid team of moderators flicking stories and comments off the site because management doesn't like them.

There's dang who I've seen edit headlines to match the site rules. Then there's the army of users upvoting and flagging stories, voting (up and down) and flagging comments. If you have some data to backup your sentiments, please do share it - we'd certainly like to evaluate it.

delinka··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
I’ve been using this account on HN since 2010. I created a new HN identity because reasons [1]. Some time after I had reaped a bit of karma, I was replying to someone who was being fairly emotional (and a but irrational) in their arguments. Someone else in the thread flagged their next reply. They thought I did the flagging, looked up the domain that matched the handle, found me on LinkedIn, and complained at me in DMs on LinkedIn. I was freaked out a little.

1 - this pseudonym has followed me through many places and it was time for a change

delinka··on Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
And, if not death, prison time for the 'prankster.'
delinka··on PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
My sibling comments seem to all want to attribute this foresight to Jobs alone. Jobs had an organization of designers and engineers informing him. Not only informing, but collaborating. He’d express a vision, others would help shape and hone based on existing tech, or based on how they could build new tech, and eventually Jobs would present the vision and solution publicly.

And Jobs would take credit. And the process probably didn’t feel collaborative to the other employees. My point is that Jobs didn’t come up with these things all on his own. Other employees were heavily involved.

delinka··on Victor Mono – A free programming font
Fitting more on the screen horizontally. Wrapped lines are a different cognitive load.

I personally don't care for the narrower fonts, but I can see the utility.

delinka··on Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
> the value of the contract had fallen

Why would I, Middleman Hitmeister, tell the marksman I'd hired about taking a cut and passing the job on?

"They hired me for $500K to get this done. I'll pay you $250K to get this done." Now I risk the guy killing me to take the full $500K for the contract.

Amateurs.

delinka··on My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
You owe tax on an exercise below market value, whether you can sell or not. This is why you get the official 409a valuation from the CFO before you file your taxes. The 409a is prepared by the company's CFO, accountants, lawyers, and somehow in conjunction with the IRS (or by IRS rules?) and is the valuation that you use to compute whether you owe tax on an exercise or not.

>The only thing that accurately values your shares is a sale.

Accurately? Perhaps. But until that sale happens, you can still be on the hook for more tax.

delinka··on Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
OK, drones are cheap. How about that projectile firing apparatus?
delinka··on Kim Peek
You're offended. Says more about you.

Why would it even be offensive at all (but especially to you) to question the veracity of facts in a Wikipedia article?

delinka··on Kim Peek
I think it's just stylistic phrasing.

"I place a piece of paper between books on the shelf to remember that I've read all the ones on the right."

Yeah, technically, I'm not 'remembering' in this case, I'm 'reminding' myself.

delinka··on Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children
Have you seen the blueberries Chick-fil-A is putting in their fruit cups? Yuge!
delinka··on New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
I did view the source, but I was expecting exactly what GP screencapped rather than a single line. So, yep, it's there.
delinka··on New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
Not seeing it. You got hacked? Plugins maybe?
delinka··on New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
> ...because clouds are quite warm.

And are, therefore, radiating heat back into the small body via parabolic reflector.

delinka··on Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API
I was hoping for a 3D component to the space the lines occupy underground. This seems to be 3D structure and trains laid onto a 2D map.
delinka··on Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
> ... fees have not traditionally been considered a requirement for probation completion ...

Is that the case? It seems like I've heard of cases where probation comes with requirements ("wear this tracking bracelet") that are provided by a private entity who bills the convict, and if the bill isn't paid, probation gets revoked.

delinka··on Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
I suspect (and I'm talking out of my bum here) that the verbiage is something along the lines of "...and any such sums required to conduct parole or probation...", then the service is outsourced to a private firm, and the private firm simply isn't monitored for due diligence in reporting accurate information to the state.
delinka··on Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
> ... because you probably owe us money, and we can't be arsed to find out
delinka··on Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
Indeed the only instructions rely on Xcode tools. That sucks.
delinka··on Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
You do not notarize. Apple does. You submit the app to Apple for them to notarize. Pretty sure you don't need a Mac for that.
delinka··on Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
homebrew removes that hassle. "brew install" doesn't make you download and build everything from source.
delinka··on Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
It doesn't need to know that. When you use a GUI app to download an app (web browser, for example), the executable is marked 'quarantine.' When you build an app yourself, it doesn't get marked 'quarantine.'

Items marked 'quarantine' get the "Are you sure?" (or "you can't" or "find another way" or whatever) dialog.

delinka··on Startup options are better than they look (2017)
And even if you are pushed over the AMT threshold, and if the only reason you went over was due to purchase of ISOs, and if you don't go over the threshold in the following year, you can get credit in future years for that extra tax you had to pay.
delinka··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
How would "speed camera apps" encourage illegal behavior? The state patrol in my state is happy for people to know where cops are places on the road, where speed cameras are used ... this knowledge makes people slow down and makes the road safer.
delinka··on Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems
If I were in the market for such a library, I'd still have serious concerns. The GPL license still appears in the root of the repo as if the entire codebase might be subject to GPL; It appears to be a fork of newlib (GPL) and that means it might not qualify as a "clean room implementation" of GPL'd code - the legal team in a corporation is going to insist on a ton of due diligence on Picolibc before they allow it to be used.
delinka··on Whatever Happened to Steampunk?
Steampunk was most assuredly not born out of the 1999 movie. If some ridiculous movie tainted your view of the genre, I think that's more a reflection of you than the genre or the terrible movie.

That said, the movie was supposedly inspired by a series from the 1960s by a nearly identical name ("The Wild Wild West".) The genre, however, has been around for much longer, and the name 'steampunk' seems to have its creation in the 1980s.

delinka··on UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3
The page title is actually "Improve CSVs and API descriptions with these Open Standards Board recommendations"
delinka··on This To That
It's a recommendation engine for adhering [this] item to [that] item. The adhesives recommended and the advice given appear to be US-centric.
delinka··on Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
How are frozen pizzas currently assembled? I'd have assumed machines with similar speed. They're only missing the oven.

Am I incorrect? Frozen pizza factories don't use 'robots'?

EDIT: According to videos on YouTube, humans still place the toppings on frozen pizzas.

delinka··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
I'm sure there's a method we could use to find overlap and reduce the worth of items that overlap ...

"Maybe less" indeed ;-)

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