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np_tedious··on The other kind of staff software engineer
I think that's why the title reads "the other kind"
np_tedious··on I saw a cool truck today
In the kind of less formal bodegas that do a poor job listing prices, this clerk might very well be the owner or a family member.

Chain convenience stores and grocery stores will reliably list their prices for each item

np_tedious··on Sentry.io outage
I kind of agree. Their source map thing to get better traces is a nicety, but few would find it release blocking to forgo it

Edit due to other comment: this assumes CI/CD. If you were deploying only weekly then this might be good reason to delay

np_tedious··on Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
No. All women want a man 8ft+ tall
np_tedious··on 100k Detroit homeowners illegally taxed $600M still waiting to be compensated
I am also in the northeast and my assessed value is under 1% of actual market value. https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/equal/rar/index.htm

There are also many firms to dispute your assessment and lower your property tax bill. They do aggressive mass mailing and are able to claim very specific reductions. They then take a percentage (usually half) of first year savings.

np_tedious··on Robinhood: We are letting go approximately 9% of our full-time employees
E4 and lower is indeed in a hiring pause. The just kind of messed up the pacing an hired too many too quickly.

E5+ and managers are unaffected

np_tedious··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
I wish 1000 dangs could moderate / set moderation policy on most major platforms
np_tedious··on Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study
Brings up an interesting question. Say you couldn't donate due to tattoos, needle use from steroids or IV drugs ("have you ever injected anything not prescribed by a doctor"), gay or paid sex, etc

Are there services for bloodletting?

np_tedious··on Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
> I'm not even using mypy often, if ever.

Hopefully your CI does?

np_tedious··on What chords do you need?
He was only talking root and major vs minor. No mention of upper extensions of any kind. So V7 is still V, V13b9 is still V
np_tedious··on What chords do you need?
Or last verse/chorus up-modulation
np_tedious··on Analyzing iMessage with SQL
I think that's just a parsing issue/ ambiguity

(surprising facts about the people) you text

Vs

surprising facts about (the people you text)

While i don't use iMessage and therefore have no intention of doing this myself, I find exploring on-device sqlite pretty interesting and enjoyed this read. Doesn't seem at all like click bait

np_tedious··on InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court
You preferred Star Wars I assume?
np_tedious··on The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
You'd be mostly reading code and writing <100 lines of C, much of which would be copypasta. I'm not convinced having the familiar editor would be that big of a deal here.
np_tedious··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
From the product's perspective speaking in aggregate, that is entirely correct.

From an individual user's perspective, you still need own your shit and avoid making these mistakes. You can't rely on everything you use having smart safeguards.

There will always be dumb/careless users that a product should consider. There will always be suboptimal UI (we could've just as easily been talking about CLI database tools) that a user should watch out for

np_tedious··on TSA confirms controversial Amtrak passenger screening program underway
The idea of a train hijacking kinda made me chuckle. Some angry guy demanding the train go somewhere its tracks do not run
np_tedious··on What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
That's fun. I had the converse experience when I discovered and read an old pop science article that discussed the light ether as if it were established fact. I was quite young and it was several years until I learned in high school physics class that this was complete bunk.
np_tedious··on “World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat
Real musicians frequently record things they are unable to legitimately perform live
np_tedious··on Why income share agreements did not work out
I've worked with a few AppAcademy grads. Was pretty impressed by most. It certainly seems like one of the better ones. Congrats on your success
np_tedious··on US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
It's not as dramatic as that looks. They changed the definition of M1.

From the same link:

Before May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal, or NOW, and automatic transfer service, or ATS, accounts at depository institutions, share draft accounts at credit unions, and demand deposits at thrift institutions.

Beginning May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other liquid deposits, consisting of OCDs and savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts). Seasonally adjusted M1 is constructed by summing currency, demand deposits, and OCDs (before May 2020) or other liquid deposits (beginning May 2020), each seasonally adjusted separately.

np_tedious··on NYT shutting down the Wordle archive
If the bundle is minimized / obfuscated, and the license doesn't state which library or portion it applies to, then is it reasonable to say a well intentioned reader may think it applies to while thing?
np_tedious··on NYT shutting down the Wordle archive
The Javascript bundle had some kind of Microsoft license. Not sure what that meant

/! ************************************** Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH
  REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
  AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
  INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
  LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
  OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
  PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  ******************************************
np_tedious··on Show HN: Asmle – Wordle in 512 Bytes
Dictionary contains: LET’S

On line 256. Wonder why

np_tedious··on Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
I think you're correct. It's a webserver and they don't seem to release binaries
np_tedious··on Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
I think sharing among teams is supposed to be the draw. I don't really see the point either
np_tedious··on Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways
*primary dictionary
np_tedious··on The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (2014)
The trick is to dribble some on your shirt and discreetly look
np_tedious··on The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (2014)
I'm no wine expert but I bet I could reliably tell red from white in a blind tasting
np_tedious··on Ask HN: Charter wants $7100 to make my new home serviceable. What gives?
Sounds like something Adam would say
np_tedious··on Single dependency stacks
I have nothing to disagree with here, but it's worth noting that his company Crunchy Data are themselves a postgres provider. So they, more then most, have the chops and incentive to do a great deal in postgres alone.

https://www.crunchydata.com/

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