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New comment by 71a54xd in "Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days"

71a54xd — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:26:31 +0000

Not exactly surprising - most activity on reddit these days is just NSFW smut to promote FANS pages.

Ask HN: No clue how AWS account was compromised – how to move forward?

71a54xd — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:25:08 +0000

I recently got an email from AWS about an account I created for consulting work nearly six months ago. Someone managed to get in and stand up a bunch of EBS clusters. Fortunately, this was caught by logs at the startup where I was consulting via their analytics. This was an account I'd only logged into a few times with it's own separate email.

I'm sort of afraid to keep doing anything important or sensitive on the macbook where I logged into this account. Fortunately amazon has been great with support and it looks like I'm off the hook for the fees. But I'm in desperate need of advice for how to prevent this (even with 2fa) in the future and how to safely move all of my bitwarden credentials to a new completely sterile machine?

I guess I'm just a bit flustered since I've never had this happen before and I consider myself a solid developer with good security practices.

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New comment by 71a54xd in "Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source"

71a54xd — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:32:39 +0000

But can I export video assets with this!? That's my question - I've had to resort to WebGL for a lot of this so far.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center"

71a54xd — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:23:16 +0000

Feels like I should maybe just do something else. The startup I cofounded with decent funding is starting to flounder and big tech seems to have zero jobs. Not to mention the market has been with a new wave of thousands of ex-faang engineers far smarter than me. Going to college for CS seems like a waste now, but at least I have savings to burn.

Starting to lose sight of the point of doing this anymore...

New comment by 71a54xd in "A way to earn cash back for applying to jobs"

71a54xd — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:51:20 +0000

$1 is meaningless, $4-5 would be a real incentive.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets"

71a54xd — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:48:13 +0000

Tbh I'd take a greyhound any day over a Spirit airlines flight.

New comment by 71a54xd in "FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades"

71a54xd — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:25:33 +0000

Random reach here but has anyone here managed to get FFMPeg to render JS text over a video? I've been thinking about this workflow and just haven't quite figured it out yet, only a prototype in MoviePy but I'd like to move away from that.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

71a54xd — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:33:42 +0000

Glad I'm not the only one who's had this experience!

New comment by 71a54xd in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

71a54xd — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:07:38 +0000

I have ADHD and unapologetically take adderall.

Yes, there's a stigma but there's also about a 6x improvement in my mood and ability to stay focused on a single task after I take 5mg. I've never developed dependency and generally only take it 3-4 times a week. I've also never really had to increase the dose.

This came after two diagnosis from neuropsychiatrists both reaching the same conclusion.

Being diagnosed at 22 I'm glad I wasn't prescribed adderall as a teen but I loathe how much more I could have achieved in college seeing how much more capable I am now.

I acknowledge it's probably not great for my heart health - but I was so depressed about how I was unable to get anything done or focus on studying before that I'd always make this tradeoff.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:15:04 +0000

Thanks for your positive encouragement - I'm hoping to land something in January this has just been a tough time for me mentally.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:59:31 +0000

I have to say - my most bizarre interview experience was a round 2 "culture fit" interview at Coreweave.

The guy interviewing was way too nice to the point it was weird and the whole interview was him asking about my "best traits" and breaking them down to "get to know me".

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:58:28 +0000

Granted, I've applied a few hundred places and only got maybe 6 interviews.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:57:50 +0000

Sure thing, do you have an email in your prof here on HN?

I basically trust recruiters less than realtors at this point...

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:56:54 +0000

Thanks, obviously things have slowed down now because it's just Nov / Dec which is historically always a slow time of year for hiring. I'm just starting to lose hope because I started fielding my resume about four months ago - only a few bites so far and my emergency funds are running low. Feels shameful to have to dip into my savings.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:54:18 +0000

I'm mostly confused because I made it to a final round for technical product roles at DeepGram and Bilt but I seem to get passed over for almost any other "entry" product or software eng roles.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:53:10 +0000

This is something I've worried about - when I apply to eng jobs I change my TPM role (which still had me coding quite a bit) to "product engineer". Which is accurate and my prev boss would back this.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:52:01 +0000

Right, but my conversion rate for interviews v applications is less than 8%

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:50:57 +0000

Thanks, I'm mostly confused when I don't even make it to the intro stage with a recruiter. This is why I'm paranoid that hiring managers see something structurally wrong with my work history.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:50:03 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts - I might do uber or pick up a medical delivery route to supplement my income to make sure I don't burn too much of my emergency fund.

New comment by 71a54xd in "Ask HN: Am I unhireable?"

71a54xd — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:32:18 +0000

Thanks, other than working somewhere longer I'm curious how I could stand out from other candidates?