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New comment by n8ta in "Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?"

n8ta — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:06:21 +0000

Believe so

Your tech or my tech: make up your mind quickly

n8ta — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/your-tech-my-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39763147

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Learning your Nth programming language?

n8ta — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:56:07 +0000

What resources do you use to learn the details of using a new language when you are competent in many other languages? Not the basics like class hierarchy, syntax, and loops, but more language unique stuff. Eg:

- Compilation model: bytecode/native/whatever

- Are there multiple implementations which are most used and why?

- Package management and versioning

- Common build tools

- Concurrency/io model (async, os threads, green threads, etc)

- Language-specific/more-common data structures

- Sources of UB to aware of

All the "Java for experienced developers" pages I find start by teaching me HelloWorld, move on to declaring variables, loops.... and never get to anything interesting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554207

Points: 18

# Comments: 8

New comment by n8ta in "Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID"

n8ta — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:41:20 +0000

It's also a crime to organize transactions in this way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

New comment by n8ta in "Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID"

n8ta — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:39:50 +0000

I use wise ~1 time / yr. Last time I started a transfer they required ID first. I uploaded two photos and my account was immediately locked since my bday on ID did not match my wise acct (typo). Quick email to support and it was unlocked 2 hrs later. Was able to complete my transaction after that without issue. Fine experience overall if inconvenient.

New comment by n8ta in "The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge"

n8ta — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:07:58 +0000

Broken for me too. Firefox but through Xfinity. Edit: also broken on Chrome.

New comment by n8ta in "How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested"

n8ta — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:05:26 +0000

Follow up to : https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/07/11/back-end-parallelis...

How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested

n8ta — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:05:26 +0000

Article URL: https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/07/25/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-data-analysis-assistance-requested.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858138

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Second System Problem

n8ta — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 03:58:42 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/second-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546393

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by n8ta in "Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust"

n8ta — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 04:03:01 +0000

The articles needs some left margin, very hard to read on mobile with the text touching the edge of the page.

Otherwise looks interesting! I'll take a look when I'm on desktop.

Edit: I'm on desktop now, it is well done (:

New comment by n8ta in "SVB collapse could mean a $500B venture capital ‘haircut’"

n8ta — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:03:47 +0000

To try to answer the first question: It's about who your customers are.

If you're a business with 30 employees all making 150k/yr you have 375k in payroll costs every month. Holding even 1 months payroll in cash puts you above the FDIC limit of 250k. Normal people rarely need more than 250k in cash so the ratio of business to normal people in customer base matters.

To make things worse let's say you're VC funded and you don't have monthly revenue to put towards your payroll. Instead you have X months of payroll/runway in cash in an account being slowly drawn down. Now you might have 1 year of payroll in cash. Nearly all of that is uninsured.

Quick googling shows me that SVB was only 15% insured. Likely because of their focus in startups with large balances vs regular ppl with low balances. For context BOFA is 40% insured and JP morgan is 35%.

https://time.com/6262009/silicon-valley-bank-deposit-insuran... https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/bank-of-america-revie...

But I do see your point, short term treasuries probably would make sense for startups right now. With a 4.2% rate on the 1 month treasuries it would make sense to setup a ladder with bonds coming due as you needed them. But in the very recent low interest rate past this probably wasn't worth the hassle for many startups.

New comment by n8ta in "Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work"

n8ta — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:59:50 +0000

13:41 is where the relevant bit starts

New comment by n8ta in "Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work"

n8ta — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:45:17 +0000

Can we get a link to what he said? I don't see it in the article.

New comment by n8ta in "Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror"

n8ta — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:31:12 +0000

# Used for Alexa, I guess, who cares

User-agent: Amazonbot

Disallow: /

Breaking up with Python

n8ta — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://cedwards.xyz/breaking-up-with-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34177703

Points: 75

# Comments: 174

New comment by n8ta in "Ruby 3.2.0"

n8ta — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 16:15:43 +0000

I was writing native extensions about 2 years ago so its been possible for awhile. The rutie crate for rust makes it much easier.

New comment by n8ta in "What frequent fliers do for status"

n8ta — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:25:10 +0000

Flying in a plane is basically the most carbon intensive thing normal people do. It's something like 1/4 ton of CO2 per hour per person. Per capita carbon emission in the US are ~15ton/yr.

(https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...)

New comment by n8ta in "iFixit Put Up Right to Repair Billboard Along New York Governor's Drive to Work"

n8ta — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:49:31 +0000

If I can fix my phone for $100 I won't buy a new one for $1000. It's clear why they oppose people fixing their own stuff.

Apple & John Deer are the most famous examples but lots of companies lobby against your right to repair things you own and just as importantly have access to the schematics and parts that you would need to do so.

https://pirg.org/articles/who-doesnt-want-the-right-to-repai...

New comment by n8ta in "It’s getting harder to do a randomized trial for some drugs"

n8ta — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:36:20 +0000

Great read!

So why are trials getting more expensive? The crux of the article was triald aren't being done because costs have risen, but why have costs risen? Have they risen faster than drug prices?

New comment by n8ta in "Signal Introduces Stories"

n8ta — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:24:10 +0000

RCS is not here for Android and will likely never arrive for IOS...

Even if Android saw 100% adoption for RCS I'd still want to message my apple people via sms.