HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

skuzye

86 karma · joined August 3, 2015

submissionscomments
skuzye··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Same here in the UK. If you need to see a specialist, you regularly have to wait months, assuming you can even get a referral in the first place.
skuzye··on Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change
The long term obligation for them is created by the very thing you wanted to leave out.
skuzye··on Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free
Not sure about the other stuff but food allergies in Europe are very high as well https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193945512.... It seems to be linked with economic development.

Anecdotally, we have no history of food allergies in the family but my daughter has severe sesame allergy, milk, egg and nuts allergy. We are from South America but live in the UK.

skuzye··on AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
And here I am in the UK, where the brackets have been frozen until 2028 (if they don't invent some reason to freeze further).
skuzye··on Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts
I don't have a horse in this race nor a particular interest in US elections but I don't think your definition of popular vote is the commonly used one (i.e. candidate doesn't have to have more than 50% to win it).
skuzye··on Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
Still the case. It’s a good system IMO. My team is low toil and low page it’s basically free money/time off
skuzye··on Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
Can't say for other companies but they came for engineers as well at Google.
skuzye··on How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
My dad used to be in the refill business selling parts, inks and all needed to get it done. Im not sure about this particular model but the DRM can be worked around in a couple of ways: swapping for a 3rd party drm chip, using a reset device or some older models just click “print anyway”.

Edit: typo

I’d imagine things could be worse nowadays.

He used to buy products from an American company so it should be available in the US too.

skuzye··on Disney begins laying off 7k employees
Feel bad for those employees, being on the line of fire myself at Google and waiting to find out if I have a job next month.

That being said, how on Earth has Disney managed to screw up 10 years of Marvel success? They spread themselves too thin trying to create too many shows without proper planning. And that's only focusing on Marvel. They also managed to piss people off with their half-assed Star Wars trilogy, to the point that you can clearly perceive directors going into different and incompatible paths for films that should build on the predecessor.

Edit: They should be two franchises that print money, but instead we get the current headlines.

skuzye··on Just use a monorepo
I have to say, I really enjoy using Google monorepo and all tools available to me.

Having said that, it's not free of course. There are many engineering teams and computer power being invested to provide this environment to all googlers.

skuzye··on DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market
The lack of good content from Hollywood lately has been pushing me towards cancelling streaming services and buying used old favorites from a local store (going as low as £0.50 a pop) and buying blu-rays of the new ones I'm interested in.

I know they will always available for a rewatch and I don't have to finance the whole bunch of canned crap they have been putting out.

skuzye··on What to read to understand central banking
Being hard to understand is kind of the point. If everyone understood how modern banking really works they wouldn't be so happy about it.
skuzye··on The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)
Google is hiring in Munich too. I couldn't find public salary information on salaries there though. I'd say it's competitive enough that I'd be willing to relocate from London there.

Disclaimer: I work for Google. Words my own.

skuzye··on MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
It's all explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
skuzye··on Brazil Suspends WhatsApp Payments
Speaking as a Brazilian - the country is an odd one. If you go by GDP it should be a rich country but it just isn't.

It's rightly classified as an emergent country. It has deep social and poverty problems that needs addressing even though it's a regional economic force.

Brazil is definitely capitalist but it's hard to do business there - 144th place in economic freedom index.

skuzye··on Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
I may be misunderstanding but I don't believe the Same-origin policy will protect you there. You're browser wouldn't be able to tell whether the JS it's reading is the real one or the modified one. So it would be all "same origin" for it.

It won't stop a modified code from pushing data to anywhere in the web either.

> More fortunately still the application is a diff tool, so it can perform self validation

Yes, if the application has been loaded before but I feel like it would be a half-baked HSTS implementation.

Edit: it was too convoluted

skuzye··on Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
If you don't use HTTPS you are also forgoing the integrity check and not only the encryption. Any router standing between your users and your servers could inject anything into your code, html, etc.
skuzye··on When physics meets biology: a less known Feynman
Biology is a huge field so I don't mean to speak for all of them. My wife is doing a PhD in Immunology so I know that at least for her, she's thinking in a whole different abstraction level. She's not that concerned about the physics in her day to day experiments.
skuzye··on DNS over HTTPS
if the traffic is encrypted how can you tell whether it's http or plain dns?
skuzye··on Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
Regular software, yes, they crash all the time. But I would think these systems would be more safely handled. For example, nuclear energy, air traffic control, bank systems and automated train lines don't crash nearly as often, for example.

Being such an important feature (not crashing) it shouldn't be ignored. I am also skeptical but we have examples of reliable systems so I believe they can work.

skuzye··on Why I love Swedish taxes
Don't forget to factor that in lots of developing countries your salary will probably be a lot less too.

Edit: I feel like I should expand here. I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Rent is through the roof if you want to get two work in less than 1 hour. The goods are very expensive, everything is taxed 100% when imported, plus there are a lot of taxes added to the local products price.

I have a good salary for the place and even so, if my wife wasn't working we wouldn't be able to afford our two bedroom apartment within a 30 minute commute to the city center.

skuzye··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
If you really want to use PyQT you may try PySide which is LGPL licensed. I'm not sure whether it restricts commercial use.
skuzye··on Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?
My personal experience was that the recruiter actually gave very good answers to these kind of questions. So, not a bad idea.
skuzye··on Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard
I guess that we'll have to come up with a way of having these workers have some kind of income. Otherwise, who's going to buy all those robot made products?
skuzye··on New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss female contraceptive side effects. I know it's anecdotal but my wife quality of life improved a lot after she stopped taking them. And it was not brand related because she used like 4 different ones.
skuzye··on AMD Ryzen Full Lineup Prices, Specs and Clock Speeds Leaked
That's something I'm also interested in for my next desktop computer. I've been holding off until Zen comes out to see how they compare with Intel's but I really feel like having this exact setup.

Guess, we'll have to wait until they come out to see how they behave.

skuzye··on GIMP – 2016 in review
The lead developer for Redox OS is on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/crowdfunding-os-7569975
skuzye··on Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8
I've been using Emacs for years now but since I got introduced to PHPStorm I must say I won't ever use Emacs for PHP again. It's features are so addicting that I don't mind not having the shortcuts I'm used to.

I was never an IDE guy but PHPStorm is just too good, so much time saved.

skuzye··on What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
I know you are trolling but for the sake of educating both you and someone not acquainted with Gitlab, they offer:

* CI/CD * Docker Registry * Testing Pipeline * Self hosting option * I'm sure there's more

So I don't think you are being fair here.

PS: I'm not affiliated in any way with Gitlab, just an user

skuzye··on An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads
this particular attack targets IE users
Page 1 of 2Next →