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whatnotests2··on Ask HN: What's the right way to do layoffs?
Start at the top and work your way down.

Like anything else that needs cleaning.

whatnotests2··on UK gov launching app for digital documents, driver's license this year
Multipass coming soon
whatnotests2··on TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan
Any excuse will do.
whatnotests2··on Why America is in an alcohol recession
Recession? Let's get into Remission.
whatnotests2··on [dead]
It's HAPPENING!!!!!
whatnotests2··on Tech Talent Quest
The country selection failed on USA until I also added France.

Mobile browser (Android) is difficult to select from the combo boxes because the viewing area is taken up by the keyboard which pops up.

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: Let's say I'm not as smart as I think, how do I stop acting stupid?
Defer to your betters?

Do as you're told?

Submit?

Great question!

whatnotests2··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Thank you for your detailed response. This is what I suspected.
whatnotests2··on TikTok goes dark in the US
When the CCP asked Google to censor search results, that was a bad thing.

When the US government asks China to censor TikTok, that's a good thing.

Make it make sense.

whatnotests2··on Mark Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta 'inclusivity' push: report
Fingered again
whatnotests2··on Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework
Running this on my Samsung Galaxy S23 causes the hamburger menu flyout to freeze halfway, and takes a few seconds for it to appear at all.

I like the idea though. Post again when you get the bugs worked out!

whatnotests2··on Zig comptime: does anything come close?
Ruby metaprogramming, perhaps.
whatnotests2··on Looking for work, cannot pass background check
Many smaller companies and startups don't do any background check at all.

Try one of them.

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence.

During WWI he was sent from the UK to the Arabs to find a leader who could unite them and lead a rebellion against the Turks, who were allied with Germany.

He succeeded.

whatnotests2··on Rebuilding Rails: What Does a Rails Expert Know About Debugging That You Don't?
Brilliant idea. In order to learn more about Ruby on Rails, the course takes you on a journey in which you build Ruby on Rails from scratch.

This could go a long way towards removing the magic and actually understanding how Rails works, and why it is designed that way.

whatnotests2··on Lauched new site I wish I can get some feedback from you gys
Great job - everything seemed to work well on my phone (Samsung S23).
whatnotests2··on Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?
Music! I missed that one, but yes, I think it fits right in.

I'm glad it has served you well.

whatnotests2··on Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?
Seriously, yoga.

Martial arts.

Painting. Crafts. Working on cars, bicycles, motorcycles, skateboarding.

These all have something in common: each has a goal, but these are individual pursuits. They require and reward focus, and succumbing to distractions will be obvious because progress will suffer.

whatnotests2··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Remarkable work! I was part of a team in 2014-2016 that tried using silicon micro needles layered with polymers in order to filter the interstitial fluid's glucose. Unfortunately it was difficult to calibrate for all the variables. We could have two sensors from the same silicon wager on the same person at the same time and get two different readings.

Hats off to these researchers, who went a different direction.

Better health really can start with glucose monitoring for everyone. Because we could all learn about sugar's effect on our bodies.

whatnotests2··on The Neo-Victorian Neo-Nazi Lesbian BDSM Cult That Made Video Games
...next time, on Geraldo.
whatnotests2··on Audrey Tang: The Real Legacy of Cybernetics
I'm glad to see Audrey's name on HN. But the link is a 404.
whatnotests2··on Database mocks are not worth it
Nested transactions handle commits. At the beginning of a test, a new transaction is begun, and it is rolled back at the end of the test. As others have pointed out in this discussion, it's pretty standard with Ruby on Rails apps, especially those which use rspec for testing.
whatnotests2··on Adding a Fully-Bootstrapped Mono
Wow what a great writeup. I remember back in 2001 when .NET was making huge waves, when Miguel and his Mono project seemed (to me) the only thing standing between Microsoft and absolute world domination (they also had Project Hailstorm (oAuth), SilverLight, PowerShell, and this Windows Vista/LongHorn thing which was supposed to use SQL Server as it's file system.

SCO UNIX was suing IBM (IIRC) because of some code that was found in the Linux kernel but they said it belonged to them (turned out to be comments, basically).

Oh and everything I wrote was in Flash ActionScript and Perl, or i had to make multiple versions of each web page because rendering on web browsers was so different across vendors, versions, and platforms.

Good times.

whatnotests2··on Database mocks are not worth it
Transaction per test is how that works in ruby on rails. Also, the rspec parallel gem will create N test databases for running tests - one per process.
whatnotests2··on Show HN: I built a tool to visualize MRR
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
whatnotests2··on The paper passport's days are numbered
My god, can I please rent your basement? I want off this ride.
whatnotests2··on Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?
They had mental problems, i suppose.
whatnotests2··on Build Landing Page with AI – No Generic Templates,After 2 Years of Coding
Hey this looks great.

One typo: "walpaper" on the pricing grid.

whatnotests2··on Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?
This is the correct use of tarot, IMO
whatnotests2··on Show HN: I built a website that explains any difficult concept in seconds
Looks like some website error at the moment. I hope you get it fixed soon
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