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New comment by edgriebel in "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

edgriebel — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:28:34 +0000

while factual (and quite alarming if I'm honest), it is factually a non sequitur for the commonly held definition of "non-stick pan"

New comment by edgriebel in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

edgriebel — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:31:18 +0000

And you’re going to hit the ever-present concern at companies, namely “it’s working perfectly fine, why would I spend any money on it?“

New comment by edgriebel in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

edgriebel — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:29:02 +0000

> imagine if

We can play this game all day, but the fact is somebody put a ton of work into a project and made about what they could have made in a month at a FAANG.

Pretty crappy trade off.

New comment by edgriebel in "Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?"

edgriebel — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:05:12 +0000

^^^^ yes! Your worker already has one foot out the door and has seen the greener grass outside the door. Is it really greener? Probably not but will be to them!

New comment by edgriebel in "Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?"

edgriebel — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:20:50 +0000

> set up a packaging proxy to [connect with a system outside the airgapped computer]

Do you even know what an airgapped computer is?

New comment by edgriebel in "Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?"

edgriebel — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:19:28 +0000

Huh, almost seems like 5G is marketing bullshit? The primary goal of 5G being to goad and shame consumers into upgrading a perfectly capable older phone to a new phone that is “5G ready”

New comment by edgriebel in "Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?"

edgriebel — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:51:26 +0000

> where everyone keeps reinventing the wheel and complexities just keep growing

Cue XKCD "Standards" comic. People look at an existing framework and declare "this is total shit, I can build a better, easier to use version!" They then start building the better-easier and realize why the old version is so hard to use--because it's a difficult fucking problem begetting awful complexity + shitty code.

This repeats itself every 18-24 months, giving us the current clusterfuck of JavaScript libraries. Lather, rinse, repeat for the past 30 years (n.b. XWindows Athena -> Xt -> Motif/Lesstif -> ...... -> Qt -> Electron)

New comment by edgriebel in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

edgriebel — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:50:19 +0000

Same thing happens with Chinese restaurants in the states. New name, new sign out front, but oddly enough same fixtures, same items on the menu, and same folks behind the counter.

New comment by edgriebel in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

edgriebel — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:48:28 +0000

> rebrand to avoid government regulation

Aww, kids are so cute when they're having a temper tantrum

New comment by edgriebel in "New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012"

edgriebel — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:21:25 +0000

THIS! Touch bar is cool but when they went and removed _the ESC key_ they failed. Both would be ideal

New comment by edgriebel in "10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes"

edgriebel — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:21:47 +0000

In this country we have a right to do dumb things and make bad decisions. The Nanny State can't fix every problem.

New comment by edgriebel in "Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag"

edgriebel — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:37:55 +0000

I've seen the same behavior on a 10+y.o. system with Win11 on it. I started unplugging it every night and re-plugging it every day when I went to use it.

Funny thing has happened in the meantime, since getting a MB Air I haven't plugged it in for like 2 months now...

New comment by edgriebel in "Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware"

edgriebel — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:17:38 +0000

> There's no "there" there!

Sorry, wrong Clinton.

New comment by edgriebel in "Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)"

edgriebel — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:32:58 +0000

I get that there's a lot of anxiety involved in firing someone. But at the end of the day (lol) you still have an office to go to tomorrow, they don't.

Source: Been on the receiving end of 2 layoffs (dot-bomb and covid), it _reeeaaaallllyyyy_ sucks to be fired in a down market, like "how am I going to feed my family, how much is in the bank, and when is the mortgage/rent due" level of suckage.

New comment by edgriebel in "Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)"

edgriebel — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:22:50 +0000

When you have a one-on-one with your manager and the VP of Engineering or a HR person is there too, or when your team in another site is laid off and you hear it thru the grapevine instead of from your manager.

But for something more actionable, if your manager is constantly pressing you for "what happened with this one" when dates are slipping, or reminding you "you know, you're one of the highest paid people here..."

New comment by edgriebel in "Problems with Oracle SQL"

edgriebel — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:03:47 +0000

That's pretty much what OC is saying, any technology good enough to be commonly used is going to suck and/or have sharp edges

New comment by edgriebel in "Problems with Oracle SQL"

edgriebel — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:01:50 +0000

Tom Kite is/was great, but his answers are the equivalent of "I'm glad you asked, pull up a chair and let me tell you a story about a white whale..."

New comment by edgriebel in "Problems with Oracle SQL"

edgriebel — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:59:48 +0000

That old Burleson Computing guy lives in my nightmares...

New comment by edgriebel in "20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?"

edgriebel — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:16:37 +0000

Last time I checked even a relatively small 737 is ca. $100 million. You must be related to Bezos if you don't consider that expensive.

New comment by edgriebel in "Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients"

edgriebel — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:06:57 +0000

You mean like all the anecdotes in this discussion, which some might call "replies"?