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New comment by idunno246 in "[dead]"

idunno246 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:38:33 +0000

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02/philadelphia-mint-c... Talked to the actual artist

New comment by idunno246 in "[dead]"

idunno246 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:31:51 +0000

The design was approved in 2024, it’s to represent that there was no peace during the revolutionary war, and is a one year commemorative coin for the 250th

New comment by idunno246 in "Facebook is cooked"

idunno246 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:27:37 +0000

I still log in fairly regularly and get a bunch of reasonably targeted content, but also a ton of ragebait ai shit like protestors attacking cops. So it’s a bit of both, they’re just flooded with bad ai posts. It’s changed drastically in the past year, from a bunch of posts you could argue make sense, to mostly posts of rage. But the number of actual friends posts is basically zero

New comment by idunno246 in "Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B"

idunno246 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:54:41 +0000

The article said they were buying it for the ad business, and the ad business it’s what is actively making the tvs worse

New comment by idunno246 in "Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B"

idunno246 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:02:54 +0000

Vizio recently changed their firmware on my tv to require you to use the smart cast app just to watch antenna. It's slow and buggy and causes nothing but problems, the people writing the software clearly never use one of these tvs. Dumb stuff like it would mute my receiver every time I switch channels and immediately unmute, except sometimes the unmute would fail. It’s a shame, it was a great little tv, but this push for more ad views means I’d never recommend a Vizio to anyone.

I know the common refrain is don’t connect tv to the internet, but for whatever reason the Vizio showed up in chromecast at times when the Roku stick wouldn’t, otherwise didn’t use tv smart features

New comment by idunno246 in "I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)"

idunno246 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:04:58 +0000

i dont doubt gcp will continue existing. but individual services/products/apis/pricing break way too frequently, and the response from google is deal with it. small companies dont really notice it, and how anti-customer it is, but when once a month youre dealing with some firefight because gcp decided to change something its tiring, since at a big company it means tracking down ten different teams. ive not experienced anywhere near the churn in aws

New comment by idunno246 in "Ask HN: Should I focus on promotions or job-hopping?"

idunno246 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:05:16 +0000

I had five jobs in my first five years, then two jobs five years each. In general all my raises came from promos or stock matching when getting a new job. One of the things that helps with staying is if the company is growing there’s a vacuum pulling people up. A big company is relatively stable so promos are fewer and less lucrative, but stock growth was a thing. But after the fifth job there was definitely more scrutiny on job hopping

New comment by idunno246 in "Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB"

idunno246 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:13:27 +0000

Also which dynamo price are they comparing to? On demand? Provisioned? Reserved provisioned? We had a huge spanner db with low throughput so had to add idle nodes just for storage which also ballooned costs for spanner(the increased storage size here helps)

New comment by idunno246 in "Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB"

idunno246 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:33:49 +0000

The gcs change last year was also terrible, such an expensive increase

New comment by idunno246 in "Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp"

idunno246 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:38:46 +0000

> But since going public it has been clear that they are trying to get money and enterprise customers at any cost.

And yet, as an enterprise customer, their sales team is terrible. Incredibly unhelpful with problems, not willing to discuss pricing, ultimately lost the deal due to how unresponsive they were, and how they basically told as that they wouldn’t be any more likely to fix all the bugs we were hitting if we paid.

The reason they had to go this route is they are getting trounced by their competitors and it’s all their own fault

New comment by idunno246 in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

idunno246 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 01:26:07 +0000

I've talked with a few people actively interviewing the past couple months, including myself, and fairly consistently people are passing hiring bar, having done the entire battery of interviewing and the company wanting to hire, but there not being any job which to hire them into. 'wait til next quarter maybe more headcount will free up'

New comment by idunno246 in "Ask HN: Did anyone land a job in FAANG after layoffs and how is it going?"

idunno246 — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:43:41 +0000

I’ve had a few companies that “had openings” and i passed hiring bar, but then actually didn’t have the headcount to hire me. Talking to some others this is very common right now, so I wouldnt trust job postings to reflect how many people are actually being hired

New comment by idunno246 in "Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances"

idunno246 — Fri, 05 May 2023 21:53:38 +0000

there's a cost to engineer something that automatically switches or someone going in and manually changing it. so the spot prices has to be higher than ondemand + switching costs. the new pricing models(a couple years old) though have mostly alleviated this

New comment by idunno246 in "I wanted to see James Taylor, but didn't know it would cost $5k"

idunno246 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:39:52 +0000

especially depressing when you know they also take 15% from the seller too, so thats another $50

New comment by idunno246 in "Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge"

idunno246 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:15:18 +0000

Yea, I mostly agree. I feel like a lot of the negativity comes from hobbyists, where an extra hundred dollars does matter.

I think one place that I disagree is while you could do that in a few hours, your average developer couldn’t. You’re now talking about everyone to learn lambda and terraform and whatnot, whereas with a “standard” web server, that people are familiar with, a lot of that is more easily centralized. just throw some annotations and routes are done, vs the arcane api gateway config. The tools and frameworks for lambda just didn’t seem to be there yet.

Fwiw I’m all in on aws, cost was one of the easiest arguments to deflect. Ultimately we needed to show developer velocity increases as that’s the cost that mattered. And security isn’t compromised, which the bigger the company the more roadblocks I’ve seen to just give devs terraform.

New comment by idunno246 in "Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge"

idunno246 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:11:56 +0000

The stuff you’re saving time on, managing hosts, just isn’t that much compared to dealing with aws/terraform/etc. I’m at a few orders of magnitude more spend than that, and in absolute dollars is very much noticeable how much more expensive aws is. But as a percentage of costs it’s so little next to wages, as is your example, that cost is really the wrong thing to get hung up on. Most engineers I’ve worked with don’t get that, they see a value they can objectively minimize, without realizing that even dropping it to zero his little business effect.

New comment by idunno246 in "Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US"

idunno246 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:50:51 +0000

they went through, its like $3-4 for a 2 liter. even diet so its not even about sugar, though diet soda isnt really much better. and i think the latest study is less than half the money went where it was supposed to.

at the least, tax at sales tends to be regressive, affecting poor people more than not poor, which maybe you could claim is racist. but pa constitution doesnt allow anything but flat taxes, so unfortunately theres basically no progressive taxing here. sin taxes in general i find somewhat troubling, sure its a luxury but why is this luxury deserve more tax than that.

New comment by idunno246 in "Ask HN: What do you do with vested RSUs?"

idunno246 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:27:50 +0000

agreed, i worked at a tier below faang and had this conversation soooo often.

ignoring blackout volatility, since of course our grants didnt line up with windows, pretending it was cash and would you purchase stock on a cash bonus really is the best way to think about it

New comment by idunno246 in "Ask HN: What do you do with vested RSUs?"

idunno246 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:21:13 +0000

yea, this tracks for mixing up rsu/espp. youre close enough, but espp are super confusing. the 15% discount is always income tax, even if you sell them years later. most plans do a 'lower of price between now and the beginning of the offering period.' this is called the bargain element, and that's the part that has tax advantages(qualified disposition) for holding 2 years from the start of the offering period(so usually another 18 months since most offering periods are 6 months)

New comment by idunno246 in "Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics"

idunno246 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:56:02 +0000

Wasn’t one of the companies in Texas doing that, which is how people ended up with bills in the thousands?

https://theconversation.com/amp/whats-behind-15-000-electric...