Hacker News: Aqua_Geek

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

Aqua_Geek — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:54:55 +0000

Anecdata, for sure, but my experience working at several big companies in tech is that they won’t significantly bump your pay (and especially not your stock grant!) when they promote you. If anything, they will move you to the minimum of the salary band for the new level.

In my experience, you’re better off getting the promo and looking for the next job at your leisure. It sucks that that is what the system rewards, but I certainly don’t fault people for playing the game that is given.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

Aqua_Geek — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:00:38 +0000

America has a long history of promoting “rugged individualism.” Community is hardly ever part of the conversation, unfortunately.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Remembering the LAN (2020)"

Aqua_Geek — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:57:42 +0000

Warcraft 2 definitely used IPX for multiplayer. I remember struggling to get an IPX driver installed on our family computers so we could play.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:03:53 +0000

I doubt much has changed. The Bay is lagging in terms of infrastructure — it’s hilariously sad.

My only options currently are Comcast or DSL. I’m anxiously waiting for Sonic to become available.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Square Enix to record extraordinary loss of 22.1B yen"

Aqua_Geek — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:16:20 +0000

Block (fka Square) pays them for the redirect, IIRC.

Apple announces WWDC24 dates

Aqua_Geek — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:06:44 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39830243

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training"

Aqua_Geek — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:49:36 +0000

Honest question: what do you (in the general sense, not specifically asking the parent) use Siri for? I think my main (only?) use case is setting a timer.

Maybe I find conversational UIs awkward, or maybe I just got jaded REALLY quickly from Siri’s lacking capabilities early on, but I have hardly used it in the decade or whatever that it’s been around.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor"

Aqua_Geek — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:51:24 +0000

The sensor typically goes on the back of your upper arm (your tricep). You can accidentally bump into things with it, but it was infrequent enough that it didn’t bother me.

The needle is only used in the application of the sensor. It’s spring-loaded and retracts after the sensor is attached. I hate needles, but I found that the tape on the sensor provided enough stimuli to overwhelm my brain and not really feel the needle when it went in.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "I bought the Apple Vision Pro and even though the tech is amazing I returned it"

Aqua_Geek — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:12:01 +0000

I imagine a not-insignificant number of those who preordered will return it. Anecdotally, everyone I know who bought one plans on doing just that. Sales numbers have been higher than expected, but I do wonder where they net out after returns.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Nano-scale inks could lighten airliners by hundreds of kilograms"

Aqua_Geek — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:35:12 +0000

Do airlines that have a “bare metal” livery still coat the planes with something, then? (I assume there’s a clear coat.) Does that weigh less than white paint?

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Rethinking serverless with FLAME"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 02:12:44 +0000

Yep. Absolutely this. I get the frustration of people building fragile junk and bouncing before the house of cards falls, but I wouldn’t hold switching jobs every couple of years against a candidate when a significant difference in salary is potentially on the table. A 20% raise, compounded over a couple of switches, is massive.

I got way more by switching jobs (after 4 years) than I was ever going to get by staying.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Out-braking the ABS myth [video]"

Aqua_Geek — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:38:40 +0000

> What's interesting to me is that in emergencies, apparently many people don't brake hard enough.

I did the Mini Stunt Driving Course the other week in Palm Springs. One of the first things they cover is emergency braking. Even in that situation — not an emergency; the whole point is to stop the car as fast as possible — I had trouble overcoming the urge to NOT brake as hard as I could. It took a few runs for me to get myself to stand on the brakes properly.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge"

Aqua_Geek — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 01:45:24 +0000

Whenever I grade take-home assignments, the first thing I do is open the Xcode project file in vim and look for shady stuff. Admittedly, I don’t think most of my colleagues do the same due diligence.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize"

Aqua_Geek — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:34:54 +0000

There are several unions in film/TV. Writers are usually part of the WGA. Directors have their own, as do editors, producers, cinematographers, etc.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "25 Gbit/s at home, part 1"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:15:21 +0000

What Ubiquiti equipment are you using? Doesn’t their router top out at 3.5Gbps?

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet"

Aqua_Geek — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:28:57 +0000

What kind of fiber? Did you run it in conduit? If so, what kind?

I’m about to start construction on my own outbuilding office and want to not screw this up.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Ask HN: Resources to Learn macOS Development?"

Aqua_Geek — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:14:25 +0000

I would second this recommendation. This book is how I originally learned Objective-C and macOS development 20 years ago. It walks you through the fundamentals and provides a very good foundation for digesting the (archived) documentation from Apple.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "The curse of the corporate headshot"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:02:55 +0000

Remember when Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco took some stock business photos to promote their movie? I think Uber even used some of those to promote Uber for Business when that first launched.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:02:09 +0000

Good point. I forgot about that.

New comment by Aqua_Geek in "Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public"

Aqua_Geek — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:25:54 +0000

That’s a LONG time (in total) for employees to wait for liquidity. Yes, they likely provided some opportunities for early employees to liquidate some of their holdings, but it’s got to suck to sit on that much funny money for so long.