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jwithingtonon 'Vanity' Product Management Analyses?

Some sort of Monte Carlo-like simulations for things like project timelines or even feature adoption.

jwithingtonon Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails?

Sweet!

jwithingtonon Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails?

http://sendy.co

Yours is the exact use case that it covers super well.

Pay a one-time ~$60 fee and runs on top of SES.

jwithingtonon Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC

Thanks for sharing!

jwithingtonon Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC

Why are there so few competitors to Zendesk I wonder?

jwithingtonon Uber's Still Not Profitable

Uber has a still? Uber whiskey is coming??

jwithingtonon Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim

…if someone doesn’t do what is required of them (participate in discovery), what would you have done?

jwithingtonon Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

Found the web agency that did that dudes e-commerce website lol

jwithingtonon My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)

why not use GCP?

jwithingtonon Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

Yes. The primary mission of “fast-attack” submarines are to shoot torpedoes and destroy ships and other submarines.

It takes only one torpedo to disable most surface ships. An American Seawolf class submarine can carry ~50 torpedoes.

jwithingtonon Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

I think we could but why build a whole base complete with nuclear weapons handling and reactor maintenance facilities on the Great Lakes? Just use the ones in Georgia/Washington.

It’s a fun thought exercise though!

jwithingtonon Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

Hmm…maybe I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. But I think you’re implying is that subs drive pretty far away with their nuclear missiles and shoot closer to the target?

jwithingtonon Ask HN: How can we lay people off without cruelty?

Disagree with the bit about one at a time. You’re laying off 50% of the company, and I can’t think of anything more nerve-wracking wondering if I’d be the next person tapped watching people go in-and-out of a conference room.

jwithingtonon How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook

I've certainly had your skepticism and these same challenges. Nonetheless, one study of Shopify storeowners who adopted dashboards saw a 4-10% increase in weekly revenue post adoption: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2022.135...

But to your point there's often a principal agent problem in larger organizations. A decision-maker wants to appear "data-driven" so asks for a dashboard because it costs nothing for them to ask--someone else does the work. And when the dashboard shows something different than expected they dismiss the concern or find a reason that the dashboard is "wrong."

jwithingtonon Getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

Thanks!

jwithingtonon Getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

That's what I'm saying haha. I'm not looking to "prep" and the prepper manuals go overboard for what >99% of people are looking for. I'm looking for the practical things.

An emergency action guide of some sort...

jwithingtonon Getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

I'm always impressed by 80k hours to surface answers to the most existential problems! They had another good one about spinning up the global food supply post-apocalypse.

Dartnell seems to be thinking longer term than immediate (first 2 weeks). Are there any guides for the first two weeks?

I wonder if the US military's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) guides are the most comprehensive resources? While intended for stranded individuals, they assume you're dropped anywhere in the world with minimal gear.

jwithingtonon Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

I do support a number of creators on Patreon and I myself make a tinyyyyy bit of money from Patreon.

Your question is better asked to the creators in question I think. They prefer to provide you content through an ad-supported model.

jwithingtonon Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

Advertising powers the free and open web. Never sure how to feel about Pi Hole…

jwithingtonon Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

Can I get an ELI5 on this? I don't do enough in this space to understand the significance. Thanks in advance to whomever can help out!

jwithingtonon Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

Can I get an ELI5 on this? At time of writing 2018 points but I have no clue what the significance is.

jwithingtonon Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?

Wait how does a shooter on a single stick controller work again? How did we move/shoot?

jwithingtonon Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

Maybe it’s ultimately a subjective thing. If one feels underpaid, they are underpaid. Then it’s a matter if there’s an employer that agrees, and it just takes one.

I’d just note that the service academies crowd the rankings for highest paid graduates at early/mid career https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors#ful...

Anecdotally, I had a reservist friend with a Harvard MBA who realized he could pull down more money as an activated reservist in Bahrain than his role at BlackRock.

Your mileage may vary…

jwithingtonon Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

lol I feel like this debate plays out at least weekly in a HN thread about a subculture, specialty, etc.

jwithingtonon Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

Because I’m replying to someone who would know what those acronyms are.

The ELI5 is that the Navy pays officers who do the core ship/flying activities quite well. Compared to their civilian peers, Navy lawyers, doctors, and cyber people don’t get paid well.

The posted article is about rust on ships. A ships management team is paid well. Low pay is unlikely to be the cause of dissatisfaction.

To be clear, “paid well” is not “paid well” as measured by FAANG tech salaries. A submarine officer with 8 years of experience is making something equivalent to $200Ks if I am to believe the calculators that adjust for tax advantages of military pay, discounted value of future retirement cash flows, etc.

jwithingtonon Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

Good point RE: sailors in barracks, who don’t receive BAH.

I was a submariner, so I’m not certain who ends up chipping paint on surface ships. Submarines don’t get the people who washed out of schools.

jwithingtonon Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

The Navy pays officers very generously across all fields, EXCEPT medicine and JAG. URL JOs will take a pay cut for the first several years (at least) after leaving for the civilian sector. I never, ever heard a URL peer get out because of financial reasons.

FWIW, BAH (pay for housing that is tax-free) is $4000 for an O-6 in Point Loma v. $2777 in Offut, NE. Seems to be aggressive adjustment, no?

Enlisted pay might be another story…

EDIT: I know one guy who griped about pay once…kind of in passing. Went on to be a YC founder haha.

jwithingtonon Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine

What guy on Reddit? Would love to follow his work!

jwithingtonon ‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania

Health clubs don’t appear exempt. They are exempt from section 4 of the bill, not the entirety of the bill.

Section 4 deals with changes to terms of service.

https://legiscan.com/PA/text/HB2511/id/2569740/Pennsylvania-...