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New comment by 0x6862 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

0x6862 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:58:42 +0000

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: On-site preferred

Willing to relocate: Required - anywhere in the US via E-3 Visa (for Aussies, far better than H1-B)

Technologies: C++, Typescript, React, Python, Django, Rust, Java, Spring, k8s, Terraform

Domains: Payments, eCommerce

Résumé/CV: https://au.linkedin.com/in/hbriese / https://github.com/hbriese

Email: haydenbriese at gmail

New comment by 0x6862 in "Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon"

0x6862 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:48:01 +0000

They force you to use their billing system exclusively

New comment by 0x6862 in "Fix Intel CPU Throttling on Linux"

0x6862 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:46:24 +0000

Throttled is great for undervolting your CPU

New comment by 0x6862 in "Improve AI – Optimize Your App Easily with AI"

0x6862 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:51:41 +0000

Any technical reason why there's no Typescript SDK?

New comment by 0x6862 in "iOS 15"

0x6862 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:14:25 +0000

On many Android devices you can flash an AOSP RON which is a very viable alternative

New comment by 0x6862 in "The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history"

0x6862 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:58:18 +0000

Paired with other metadata (which can also be faked) I’d bet a jury would find the data quite convincing

New comment by 0x6862 in "50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says"

0x6862 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:52:26 +0000

You forgot the big one - regulation. Supply side is about making it easier for people to produce. You won’t find many free market types supporting QE and subsidies.

Would you rather live in a world where there’s only 1 large firm because over regulation has created a high barrier to entry and little incentive to risk starting a competitor, or a world with many firms where it’s easy for people to compete and they’re incentivised to do so?

New comment by 0x6862 in "50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says"

0x6862 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:36:02 +0000

Sure the rich hold some gold & BTC but most of their wealth is in investments (stocks, bonds, infrastructure etc.) to generate positive real returns - given inflation. This is far from hoarding

New comment by 0x6862 in "The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights"

0x6862 — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:33:17 +0000

I believe the common sense solution is to protect the vulnerable and elderly, yet I’ve been in complete lockdown for over 6 months. Lockdowns were never the solution to pandemics prior, so why now?

People don’t wear masks correctly at all, they don’t wash it, they don’t pull it down and fiddle with it every other minute. There has been no attempt at public education around this where I live. Old age homes have been severely understaffed, provided with no PPE, have allowed visitors, and their staff have not been continually tested. Over 80% of the deaths in my state have came from these homes alone

Before taking away almost all of a person’s fundamental rights you have to at least try these less restrictive measures. People have been arrested in their home when they’ve made a fb post about protesting the restrictions. The worst part, there is no lack of people supporting these measures. Only recently has it become politically unpopular

New comment by 0x6862 in "The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation"

0x6862 — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:21:40 +0000

I think the downvotes are about your assessments on some of these issues.

But you’re absolutely right in that only by reading these varied sources can you approximately discern what’s really going on. Reading bs trains your bs detector. Only read bs and you won’t be able to distinguish it from reality

New comment by 0x6862 in "C++ the Good Parts (2014)"

0x6862 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:01:10 +0000

All generic container manipulating functions use iterations - each of which you’d have to write a utility function for, just to use a couple of times.

What would otherwise be a trivial one liner with something like transform suddenly turns into a 3 line call

New comment by 0x6862 in "Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)"

0x6862 — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:10:19 +0000

You increase your defensive assets (bonds, term deposits, annuities etc.) as you become more risk adverse (closer to retirement or other change in circumstances). So when a 90% crash occurs that takes 10 years to recover you’re either still earning, or you can draw down on your defensive assets, letting your stocks recover

New comment by 0x6862 in "Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians"

0x6862 — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:01:15 +0000

University admission is for those on the margin, since the positions are limited

New comment by 0x6862 in "The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents"

0x6862 — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:39:42 +0000

Housing seems to be the primary issue, but you’ll find very little support for actually fixing the issue - more and taller buildings in densely populated areas.

I don’t think people have a problem with spending more on education, they just want a reasonable return on investment for it. Turns out pumping money into monopolistic schools doesn’t get you a better result

New comment by 0x6862 in "Everything you need to know about pointers in C (2010)"

0x6862 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:44:07 +0000

int array[] = {...}

1[array] == array[1]

Now add in some poorly named variables for some real fun

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#cs-eccentric...