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throwaway211··on Ask HN: What do you wish interviewers had asked you?
That's when you use skills of management and what you're being paid for.

Not packing stuff back to back without important but non time critical padding's not always an option.

Solutions will depend on your context. I agree pushing back time isn't a valid option, it's not a work culture I believe in.

How about: Using post interview time that should be saved for reflection after the interview §. Trust a colleague to do it or at least start. Make time before you need time by managing it throughout the process.

Or many more options depending on context. Perhaps you're both on flights leaving from the same airport?

§ 'Reflection time' being so important but so often missed. Planning stuff without reflection time is to leadership what assuming the critical path will always be achieved is to project management. Both destined to achieve failure.

throwaway211··on How is everyone managing user authentication for their platform?
Depends what you need.

From just the headline I thought the question was slightly different however: JWT with requires time, UA, IP and some decay of variance of these customisable via an integer value from 0 to 100. Let the user choose?

LOL.

No device fingerprinting via JS or any 3rd party as I believe in users' liberty.

So, how the user gets the above JWT:

Is any authentication needed?

Is they want to opt in, how's a trip code?

An account name recoverable via email. Or secret. Or SMS. Or remembering last account action? Or a combination?

For a sensitive action, what's the tradeoff between verification and convenience? Against what sort of actor?

SMS is exclusionary. Which works if you want to exclude non US/EU phone dependent users and target those that care little about security or privacy.

throwaway211··on Upwork are removing RSS feeds
They're feeding personal RSS feeds?

A CPU killer for sure. Or completely unanonymous. Or... are they also ceasing providing HTML?

/snark and more serious: Is this through obfuscated URL or login?

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Are .dev domains worth anything?
People are creative enough, and enjoy sufficiently, being able to come up with unique short snappy names. We're post rr and ly suffixes.

A tech audience in particular is fine with some 1337. And always has been: /. kuro5hin, etc.

For non tech, go with a commonlyacceptedtld.lol

throwaway211··on Ask HN: What do you wish interviewers had asked you?
"Is there anything you'd like to mention that you've not had a chance to do so so far?"

Don't say it like a police interrogation. Do make it clear there's plenty of time should a candidate need it.

On time, never signal there's a fixed cutoff time until interview over. For the right candidate there shouldn't be. As a manager it's your job to be able to make time.

throwaway211··on Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
cache_control http header of the site
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Someone please give me a webapp idea to make for a school project
Deliver snacks and food to school gate from local shops combined with group buy app.

Several tens or hundreds of people are hungry or thirsty at the same time.

Said people are constantly change minds and want new and familiar experiences.

It's a unique enough proposition.

That or another 2nd hand book app.

2nd hand food app no thanks. Though I'm curious about an app that can collect refuse/rubbish which usually has resale or social value. Local councils do poorly in the app space.

throwaway211··on Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses?
I worked in an organisation that replaced all directory structures including network drives and folders with what a friend called 'a swimming pool' where all documents were security/sharing the classified then tagged. 2002ish.

Finding a document again was entirely down to search: title, author, date, meta data, full text.

I loved it. I was in a minority. I loved Gmail's search.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Why does Google ignore their own recovery process?
Get off Google.

They can shut down essential services for your business with no recourse.

Well, with some recourse, that is not being able to pay a mortgage and having your home foreclosed. But no recourse for you over Google.

It is centralised unaccountable power. That should be illegal.

So act first and get off Google.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Best Domain Registrar?
Might depend on what you want.

Cost+service - http://porkbun.com

Service+extras+non-US - https://netim.com

Privacyish - https://njal.la/

While cloudflare's a few cents cheaper, not giving freedom to set DNS is a no-go and not worth those few cents. I'm also not that interested in further cloudflare tracking.

AWS: Route53 apparently works better with AWS's SES (cheap emailing). But that's what a friend says, I don't use AWS.

I'd suggest not to consolidate unless you've good reason to put all your eggs in one basket.

A good topic for me to look out for other options and reasons for them.

throwaway211··on How Moldy Bread Can Change Your Brain [video]
Why is narrating with the intonation of a 1980s midwest local news reporter a thing across YouTube?
throwaway211··on Covering All Birthdays
I'm curious why the author thought it necessary to default to simulate a numerical distribution.

Perhaps maths is not taught or appreciated in CS much now.

throwaway211··on SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
I was looking at self hosted RSS readers recently. The application is single user. I don't expect it to be doing a lot of DB intensive stuff.

It surprised me that almost all required PostgreSQL, and most of those that didn't opted for something otherwise complex such as Mongo or MySQL.

SQLite, with no dependencies, would have simplified the process no end.

throwaway211··on SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
i.e. opening and closing many files from disk is slower than opening and closing one file and using memory.

It's important. But understandable.

throwaway211··on In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
I like the problem to the move away from IP Chains.

We should move to the Command Table.

throwaway211··on When British Railways deliberately crashed a train
The harbour was destroyed.
throwaway211··on The Shortest IQ Test Has Only 3 Questions – But Can You Get Them Right?
You shan't forget now.
throwaway211··on A week of not using a search engine
> The vast majority of my browsing is limited to a handful of sites that I already know.

Which is why search is at the local equilibrium it is.

throwaway211··on Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
Interesting.

How about edits, changes of time and location, who's signed up and to which revision.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?
Why were cats not used for NFTs?

The question verges on the rhetorical.

throwaway211··on The Shortest IQ Test Has Only 3 Questions – But Can You Get Them Right?
patience, not patients

Though patients could presumably, too, be tested.

throwaway211··on When 1+1 Equals 1
You may have the wrong person.

But that's the magic of throwaway.

throwaway211··on Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench
I ended up on Zettlr after a long search for a note taking application that would allow not only easy note taking but retrieval and linking as part of the process of creating larger rigorous documents. I especially wanted something that wasn't about a gimmick, was operable without a cloud, was reliable, and was open source. I've found Zettlr wonderful for personal note taking, academic note taking, and putting that together in creating academic and professional use papers.

For me: It fits the Zettlekasten method as far as I want to take that. However the tools in doing to don't impose that. Tools I like in particular:

Configurable left pane with files and folders similar to a code editor like VSCodium or SublimeText.

Quasi WYSIWYG markdown. It helps, especially for things like quotes.

Inline tags, inline references via linked bibtex (for me, from Jabref), timestamps.

Another pane on the right I configured summarising links, references. These panes can be hidden for full screen editing too.

Exports in a wide range of formats.

Zettlr facilitates the creation of knowledge better than any other note taking application I've tried. On top of that, it's open source.

Apologies in advance if this sounds like an ad. I have no affiliation with the project other than as a user.

throwaway211··on He Tried to Bilk Google and Facebook Out of $100M with Fake Invoices (2019)
But Google and Facebook intruding on me is non-billable?

Anti liberty and anti equity is fine for big tech.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Good Examples of Personal Websites
Have an RSS feed. Or Atom.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Performance of Apple Sillicon vs. ThinkPads (Or Other Linux Laptops)
My 11 year old ThinkPad still runs Linux fine. It is up to date and as secure as that makes it. Firefox, Thunderbird, VSCodium, Zettlr are snappy, background processes from python or postgres are stable. I have confidence a similar ThinkPad bought today will be fine in a decade.

An 11 year old Apple isn't in the same state. An M* processor is a gimmick for today's needs; it is a niche platform solution that's reactionary to niche needs of today; that's not a design for the future. Hence M1, M2, M2, M4, M88, etc. The Apple OS will not support decade old hardware, it's not in the business model. You have a fine computer for today that is designed to be disposable. Like buying a plastic stool instead of a wooden one. The plastic one may be lighter, in a variety of colours, your friends might go for them, and it could lie about being privacy focused, but in the end it's a plastic stool not a wooden one.

throwaway211··on Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List [pdf]
Yes.
throwaway211··on Usage data and analysis from my AI chatbot
'Vouched' as this was marked as 'dead'.

Unless obvious, it would be nice if when flagging something to saying why. We can only guess motive as they left no comment.

I have no affiliation with this story. But also upvoted as it was quite detailed and valuable real-world case study.

throwaway211··on Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List [pdf]
"Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam

throwaway211··on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
Pi's a trick that was invented to keep us busy.

That or integers were and we should have an natural number of fingers and toes.

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