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oogali··on Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
I have an Embody chair but no such issues with my 27" monitors.
oogali··on Governments want to know the identity of AI developers
The grade is based on sanitary conditions and equipment, not the identity of the person making your sandwich.
oogali··on GM’s decision to ditch Apple CarPlay, Android Auto sparks backlash
Maybe the connected division was one of many potentially decimated by the voluntary buyouts?

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-mot...

oogali··on Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok
So, in the old days, if you fall asleep in front of the TV you might have some weird infomercial-fueled dreams. But they’re purged when you wake up.

Now, if you fall asleep in front of your phone screen, it takes days or weeks to shake out that mistake?

oogali··on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses
If you’re open to fielding some questions about the area (and its academics), can you drop me a line at gmail using my username?
oogali··on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses
Your average mortgage broker does not care about the name of the company on the check beyond conversation.

The Fannie Mae underwriting manual and software[1] they use makes no mention of company prestige, age, etc.

Simply, is there consistent pay stub history, do the bank accounts agree with the pay stub history, do the filed 1040s agree with job and bank account.

If you have a non-average mortgage broker that cares about the name, then you’re in an SVB-like situation and we’ve all seen how that played out.

1: https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/applications-technology/d...

oogali··on Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury
That's somewhat similar to what happened in the US during the initial timeframe of DSL.

Regional Bell says your DSL is $60-120/month.

Your local ISP buys a circuit to a DSL aggregator (Covad, Northpoint, Rhythms, etc) and starts offering DSL for $50/month (their cost was $25-30/month).

After increase in customers, regional Bell says "we're offering $29.95/month for 6 months to new customers". ISPs nationwide start losing thousands of customers.

One by one, DSL aggregators start to go out of business which means ISP have no DSL connectivity and can't sell DSL anymore.

DSL is dead from anyone but regional Bell.

oogali··on After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on
This is not an aggregator.

The bottom of the article states that this is the original source.

The previous poster meant “reporting” not reposting as you interpreted.

oogali··on Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
It's about $500-1,000.

Coming in via an ambulance doesn't trigger some sort of re-prioritzation, if you're not suffering from something that is immediately life threatening.

In most NYC hospitals, you will end up in a secondary waiting area that lies just beyond the regular ER doors.

Good luck if it's a Saturday night.

oogali··on Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
I've waited hours in NYC.

I've waited less than an hour in New Jersey and Connecticut.

When I still lived in NYC, I resolved that if I needed a hospital but I wasn't in extremely bad shape, I would drive an hour into an adjacent state's ER rather than wait in NYC.

oogali··on Why use Rust on the back end?
If you're just looking for field names (keys), what's wrong with map[string]interface{}?

Maybe I'm missing some key context, but I've never reached for reflection in the scenario you've described.

oogali··on Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook parody
I found this[1] explainer of what qualified immunity protects and doesn’t protect.

1: https://grahamfactor.substack.com/p/what-qualified-immunity-...

oogali··on Databases on Kubernetes is fundamentally same as a database on a VM
It’s stated in https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/terms-of-use

Which is linked to from https://hub.docker.com/r/crunchydata/crunchy-postgres

oogali··on YouTube has become the world's nanny
Yes, but those 30 minute ads actually had content and you could enjoy them without the toy in hand.

I briefly let my son watch YouTube Kids and soon his stream was endless unboxing videos or weird knockoff cartoons with no words.

I’d gladly take 80-90s finite TV interspersed with PBS than infinite junk food.

oogali··on Make up a guy
It's a connection to the real life story of the test subject used for image processing.

The image is banned from use in certain scientific journals, and the subject herself has asked people to stop. But given its digital nature... it can't be stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

oogali··on Generative AI and The Future of Work
It's not just that a system built in MS Access facing scale concerns needs a rewrite from an engineer's perspective.

It's that the business will also accept that it needs a rewrite. As opposed to the current status quo where they'll ask what's wrong with continuing to use $Slick_and_Fancy_Tool (then act surprised when it stops scaling with regards to whatever business, performance, or compliance barriers you've then reached).

oogali··on U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members
Like this? I guess it depends on the base and someone stepping up to organize the game.

https://jblm.armymwr.com/calendar/event/75270

https://www.jbmdl.jb.mil/Quick-Links/Get-Connected-Clubs/

oogali··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
This.

In the US, maximum allowable per diem rates vary by location and are set by the Internal Revenue Service.

https://www.gsa.gov/perdiem

oogali··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
The company doesn’t care about the non-monetary perks.

They do care about making sure they reach the volume commitment on the bulk airfare and hotel rooms they have prepaid for in order to receive a large discount.

Prepayment that only works for the airlines and hotels if they’re not simultaneously discounting this large corporate customer’s rates AND paying fringe benefits to the end user.

And since they can’t tell you to not travel, this is generally why large company CFOs have policies in place that mandate these categories of spend are done via their travel agency, which was dominated by Concur prior to the SAP acquisition.

oogali··on TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights
When I used to travel for work I would [reliably] get SSSS but only in one specific scenario: flying to/from DCA (Washington, DC) on a specific airline. All other flights were fine.

I once flew from Montreal to Washington, DC and there was secondary screening at the gate. I held up the flight because airport staff didn’t know the procedures on how to handle my SSSS flag.

I called DHS about getting off the list and after getting bounced around a few times I was told:

- I was not on the no fly list, which DHS does actively maintain

- DHS manages and publishes selection criteria which is pushed down to airlines. What the airlines do with it and when they do it is their own process independent from DHS

- I could submit my driver’s license, proof of address, address history for exclusion, as well as any additional information requested after the initial submission.

- DHS would review and update the parameters, but it would be 6-12 months before the database update fully took effect with the airlines.

I stopped flying that one airline 16 years ago.

oogali··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
Neither did I... I took a guess.

I generally see it abbreviated as SV.

oogali··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
I think OP means Silicon Valley?
oogali··on A Poor Man's API
The root of the issue has always been the definition of DDoS.

Network engineers define it as one thing: a massive amount of abnormal traffic generated by a large number of sources (distributed) that you need adequate bandwidth to soak up without impacting normal traffic.

Software engineers define it as another thing: unwanted traffic that causes resource exhaustion and should be blocked. They're almost always thinking of DoS but refer to it as DDoS.

That's why when TFA talks about DDoS, the example immediately attached to it is rate limiting at what to me (network engineering background) seems like an absurdly low limit (1 request every 5 seconds).

oogali··on Photography for geeks
For me, it truly was after my first 10K photos — speed shutter and all.

Once you sit down and go searching through that burst for the perfect or otherwise usable photo of that burst, you start to notice the small things: the slight detail changes at the edges, what may have transpired between captures, how a light source that changes in milliseconds can affect the overall feeling.

It took me about 2.5 years to reach that point. Shooting at different times of the day, different seasons. Countless hours tweaking levels and cropping in Photoshop, Capture One, etc. Lots of changes in gear: UV/haze filters, circular polarizers, tripods, zoom lenses, prime lenses. Flashes, reflectors, gray cards. Exploring the different modes on my camera, Magic Lantern firmware, etc.

It all counts. But the post processing is the crucial part of the feedback loop.

oogali··on Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
I think you’re now conflating the principal place of business activity with a mailing address.

The principal place of business has to be an address where actual business activity takes place. That establishes your business nexus and which states/agencies have jurisdiction over your business.

It doesn’t matter if it seems “fine” to put down a virtual address in the principal location field, it’s not sketchy — it’s simply not allowed. The state can revoke your business registration for doing so. (And if you look at the terms and conditions for your bank and/or credit cards, they can close your accounts for doing so as well)

In the context of business formation, it is entirely legal for a business to have three different addresses for the three different address roles (principal place of activity, mailing address, and registered agent) provided those are real addresses.

Every secretary of state (or division of corporations, if it’s called that in your target state) that handles business formation allows for this. Sometimes the principal location is public data, sometimes it’s not. The registered agent is always public data.

The original comment I responded to was in regards to your stated requirement of the CEO receiving mail for the company — that is the role of a mailing address. The address to where the business can be served notices, subpoenas, etc, that is the role of the registered agent address. In the context of a remote-first business, you can choose to put your home address here or you can put in legal substitutes.

With regards to your last comment, the judicial system uses your principal address for determining jurisdiction and your registered agent address for delivering notices. If you are providing a virtual address when they go looking for any of these two address roles, you have screwed the pooch.

In the new context you’ve raised regarding tax authorities such as the IRS, when you are filling out said registration paperwork or change of address forms, you are explicitly asked to give the physical address where your records are kept which introduces a fourth address role — that again does not have to be your house, but it does need to be a real, legal place.

oogali··on Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
Or an actual registered agent.

Again, the registered agent does not have to be the address of any of the principals of the business. But it must be a place that is open during standard business hours and accept process notices or legal correspondence upon behalf of the business.

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/what-is-a-registered-agen...

oogali··on Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
No, I believe you're conflating the principal place of activity with the registered agent -- they do not have to be the same.

The registered agent is responsible for getting served, receiving legal mail, and other government correspondence on behalf of the company and forwarding it along in a timely manner.

This is different than a mailing address because a process server or government employee must be able to physically walk into the premises of either the principal place of activity or registered agent, deliver the notice/correspondence/etc. to someone, and record who they handed it off to at what time.

oogali··on Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable
If you’re not living on campus, Florida State University ticks that box.

https://admissions.fsu.edu/first-year/finances/

oogali··on I fought the PayPal and I won
You read all of that in 3 minutes?
oogali··on Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired
Bernie Sanders has a habit of posting his op-eds in the publications that he feels will deliver the message to his intended audience.

In other words, he likely wants to spend less time "preaching to the choir".

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/media/op-eds/

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