Hacker News: ajacksified

New comment by ajacksified in "Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027"

ajacksified — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:33:37 +0000

Same thing with hardware in every company I've worked at. Really, "Sr. Staff Engineer Alice" makes $300k/yr, but only gets a budget of $2k for a laptop that's meant to last four years and is their primary tool? How does this make sense?

New comment by ajacksified in "Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI"

ajacksified — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:18:05 +0000

Hot takes aside, if you're looking for great foraging books, I'd suggest anything by David Arora, such as "All That the Rain Promises and More" and "Mushrooms Demystified". The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is, of course, pretty good too.

Outside of identification, "Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares" and "Radical Mycology" are good reads too.

New comment by ajacksified in "Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links"

ajacksified — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:57:01 +0000

Let's go ahead and ban pen and paper, typewriters, email, and unregulated verbal speech too, to make sure they aren't avenues for sharing pirate urls.

New comment by ajacksified in "Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content"

ajacksified — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 07:46:32 +0000

Exactly. I'm pointing out that what gp says:

> It may end up having a much larger impact than reddit corporate anticipates.

Is unlikely. I'm not adding an opinion on whether or not this is a good move, or a user-friendly move.

New comment by ajacksified in "Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content"

ajacksified — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:09:21 +0000

"reddit corporate"? Like Steve, who was the original founder and is the current CEO, or Alexis, another original founder, who is the executive chairman?

There is absolutely zero way they're unaware of the impact and I guarantee you they have thought this move through thoroughly.

New comment by ajacksified in "Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds"

ajacksified — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:37:01 +0000

Do you have a link to any of these models? I was just wondering if any existed a few days ago.

New comment by ajacksified in "Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web"

ajacksified — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:15:48 +0000

Hi, I work at Inrupt (Tim's company.) Here's two recent examples:

The BBC just announced that they're hosting Solid Pods for personal data, allowing users to control access to their information[1][2].

The government of Flanders is hosting Solid Pods for citizen data[3].

Solidproject.org is a community-led project, but I'd recommend trying out going through our docs at https://docs.inrupt.com under "getting started" if you'd like to play around with it. Feel free to let me know if you have any issues or questions.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-10-social-tv-and-personal...

[2] https://advanced-television.com/2022/10/27/bbc-social-tv-per...

[3] https://inrupt.com/blog/digital-flanders-reconnects-citizens...

New comment by ajacksified in "Ask HN: What Happened to the Reddit IPO?"

ajacksified — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:17:14 +0000

Yup, this. I see how my statement was ambiguous.

New comment by ajacksified in "Ask HN: What Happened to the Reddit IPO?"

ajacksified — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:20:58 +0000

When I built reddit's mobile website, I refused to add any mobile ads - I told the product owner that they could buy ads like anyone else. Literally the week after I quit, they added in mobile ads. lol

At some point recently they changed it to ask you every time you visit. There used to be an option to disable the mobile app ads. Funny that that's the only thing they've changed in six years (I left late 2016.)

New comment by ajacksified in "Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined"

ajacksified — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:42:10 +0000

FYI your docs are broken - I can't scroll down on anything (such as https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/authentication/login-use...)

Chrome 101.0.4951.64 / MacOS 12.4

Very curious though as I've been doing a lot of OIDC work at Inrupt.

New comment by ajacksified in "Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview"

ajacksified — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:59:56 +0000

Not only that, but this is an interview question. It isn't helpful at all to judge the quality of code in isolation; nobody's going to write perfect code in an interview setting, especially one in which the candidate can't have a conversation with the interviewer. When I conduct code interviews with candidates, we pair on projects. The candidate is asked to complete the task without regards to how clean the code is. We then have a conversation afterwards about how to clean things up, solve for complex cases, etc. It's much better signal to talk through these things to get the candidate's insight than it is to just get a chunk of code at the end that may-or-may-not meet the linting guidelines of my company.

I've interviewed hundreds of engineers in the last twenty years. I've been (and am) a hiring manager for many of them. I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole, and I'd run away as a candidate if my git commits were being judged as part of a coding interview.

These "metrics" are for conversation, not for automated "judgement."

New comment by ajacksified in "Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing"

ajacksified — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:50:22 +0000

> A free tier with unlimited cards but no sync/local only, could help to get users into seeing value.

Quite the opposite, for me. Local storage is far more valuable.

New comment by ajacksified in "Cheese Making"

ajacksified — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:02:49 +0000

I've been brewing beer and mead for a decade, so I'm used to issues of contamination - although it's very hard to make yourself sick with beer. Worst case, it tastes bad and you have a little bit of gastrointestinal distress, but cheese is a different beast!

I have friends who raise goats, and it sounds like it's time to give them a call. I'll err on the side of safety and read more on home pasteurization. Thanks for the info!

New comment by ajacksified in "Cheese Making"

ajacksified — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:56:32 +0000

Thank you for all the information- your username checks out!

Re: "don't make cheese with raw milk. You'll regret it." If the only non-homogenized milk I can find is raw, is it safe to home-pasteurize it (63C for 30 mins,) or am I better off using the homogenized stuff?

I've only made ricotta and mozzarella so far, but I've been thinking about diving into hard cheeses soon. I was just talking to my partner about cheesemaking over the weekend, so a random cheesemaking article on Hacker News is rather serendipitous...

New comment by ajacksified in "Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?"

ajacksified — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:41:36 +0000

I'm not surprised you made a throwaway to hide behind, because not only are you a coward, but this is the worst take I've ever seen on a website full of terrible takes. I can't imagine working for someone with this point of view, and I'll happily say that, on the record, without a throwaway account.

As an engineering manager- an actual one- I'm not paying for hours, I'm paying for output. I couldn't care less if my employee was working 15 hours or 40, as long as they got an appropriate amount of work done for my investment in them.

Are we praising someone for demanding itemized timesheets? How absolutely toxic.

New comment by ajacksified in "Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library"

ajacksified — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:25:19 +0000

See also: https://github.com/inrupt/solid-ui-react, and the `https://github.com/inrupt/solid-client-*-js` names under Inrupt. (I helped build most of them!)

I can already imagine the naming discussions if we were to build a Solid library for Solidjs. "Solid-ui-solidjs"? "Solid-client-solidjs-js"? Oh boy. We're currently using React for most things, but I could imagine switching to this if it takes off... that's going to make following conversations very confusing, haha.

Now that I say that and I've clicked around, I wonder which is canonical: "Solidjs", "SolidJS", or "Solid.js"? I've seen it all three ways.

New comment by ajacksified in "We killed our end-to-end test suite"

ajacksified — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:43:48 +0000

I loled that you were downvoted, I was going to post the same thing - they discovered multiple layers of testing? Congrats?

New comment by ajacksified in "You don't need a math PhD to play Dwarf Fortress, just to code it"

ajacksified — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 01:24:20 +0000

It does not take a PhD to download the Lazy Mac Pack. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158322.0

You can even get it as a Brew cask.

New comment by ajacksified in "Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings"

ajacksified — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:51:51 +0000

I was super excited until I saw this; I guess I'll have to wait. Offline storage is essential for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the ability to reach my notes if Hera is having an outage.

New comment by ajacksified in "One week of Libera Chat"

ajacksified — Wed, 26 May 2021 11:53:38 +0000

Good usecase for Solid (https://solidproject.org/).