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throwaway202351··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
iirc, he said something like "when plugged in you can use it all day, and on battery you get two hours"
throwaway202351··on Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child
fully recovered now, I'm assuming?
throwaway202351··on [dead]
tldr:

  We present two cases of COVID-19 vaccine-induced pityriasis rosea. Skin lesions appeared in a 49-year-old female 8 days after the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and in a 53-year-old male 7 days after the second dose of the same vaccine.
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  Her rash gradually improved and at follow-up, 4 weeks later, it had resolved completely.
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  The itching was self-limiting and therefore the patient did not receive any antihistamines. His rash resolved completely over a period of 4 weeks.
throwaway202351··on Ask HN: Real-life, ridiculous security incidents?
Not necessarily a malicious attack, and pre-covid, but I was able to get into my "secured" office building by just tailgating or waving to the security guard, even though we're supposed to check our badges with them every day.
throwaway202351··on [dead]
meta: This is a paper that uses "landmarks" in text as a way to be able to scan an arbitrary part of the text, it is not necessarily a "landmark... transformer paper" as the post title may suggest.
throwaway202351··on Tesla instructed employees to only communicate verbally about complaints
Well it's good for limiting a company's liability, at least.
throwaway202351··on I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
Not OP, but if you mean that ~200 page doc, it's pretty good but has some issues and inaccuracies some places, but it might just be me. Some things like how carries are supposed to work in some edge cases, for example, but I think it was written under the assumption that the reader would be familiar with a standard Z80 chip.

Something else I noticed was that there were some specs that I guess the gameboy follows, but not exactly. For example with swapping pages, it's supposed to take up to (I forget the actual numbers) 50 cycles, but the actual gameboy always finishes in exactly 38 cycles, and some games are written for that.

In the end, what worked for me was finding a working emulator that would output the registers' states every operation, and then making sure mine would match up with it.

throwaway202351··on YC Interview Questions Gamified
Actually google has a pretty similar one: https://grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/
throwaway202351··on YC Interview Questions Gamified
Not going into YC, but I've done similar practice for behavioral interview questions. I've always wished, but rarely have seen, tools like this that give examples of good or bad responses.

I'm not sure why this is, but it always makes me worried that I'm answering them "wrongly."

throwaway202351··on U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
If someone was born post-AIDS (so roughly age 40 and below), they'd have gotten to see things slowly improve until 2016, when they started sliding back.
throwaway202351··on Show HN: Ask Harry Potter any question with GPT-4
Is Rowling still infamous for issuing takedown orders for fanfiction?
throwaway202351··on I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
I saw some CA employment lawyer [1] on youtube, and something he says a lot on his talks is "Don't call me if your manager is mean or not following some legal requirements, instead, here's how to best document and complain about it so it'll look good for you if they ever retaliate against you. Once they retaliate, then you should call me."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@braniganrobertsonlaw/

throwaway202351··on I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
As another trans person that's been in a similar position before, it's really frustrating how many loops I've gone through where the moment I'd get to some part where it wasn't voice only anymore, you could just hear the tone shift and get rejected shortly after.

Combine that with the current tech market being on a downswing and it's not unreasonable that this would take a while to find a new place.

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