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New comment by throwaway7894 in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

throwaway7894 — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:40:27 +0000

34 years? I have 10 years at a couple of FAANGs, and got $3M in stock, with maxed out 401k, etc. I am having thoughts about retiring early, maybe in 5 years. Long time Apple employees could definitely retire after 10 years. He most likely stayed there because he liked the job.

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics"

throwaway7894 — Sat, 03 May 2025 04:42:33 +0000

Of note is the drama surrounding the Doom Eternal soundtrack: https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d...

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

throwaway7894 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:06:12 +0000

Right, but they'll underprice just below the floor price for the imported good, because why would businesses leave money on the table?

The choice for consumers won't be "choose between a $5 item and $15 item" it will be "choose between $13 and $15", like I mentioned above.

This doesn't work as easily if the sticker price for the imported good is $5 and the real price displayed at the end of the purchasing funnel. The local business will have to keep its sticker price at $5 to avoid losing customers when they initially compare goods or rely on customers to come back to them once they get faced with the tariff tax, which will also lose customers.

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

throwaway7894 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:56:10 +0000

In your example, why would the domestic seller keep their price at $5 if the other option costs $15?

They'll just raise the price of the domestic good to $13 and we will all pay $8 extra on a thing that used to cost $5.

If the price displayed is still $5 but tariffs added at the end, the domestic seller's $13 sticker price will not look attractive to buyers.

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

throwaway7894 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:11:05 +0000

In stores yes, but on the Internet, including it in the price makes it easier to bump up prices. Showing the price without tariff allows you to easily compare before / after, and then when you see tariff added to your bottom line order (e.g. on Amazon) it should drive home the point that tariffs are a tax paid for by the consumers (which unfortunately lots of people still dont believe).

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge"

throwaway7894 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:39:30 +0000

Sorry for the lazy question, but would you be able to share some links or pointers to where these guys are active? I've been out of the loop for a few decades but enjoyed the scene when I was a teenager.

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language"

throwaway7894 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:50:53 +0000

As someone who has a file with similar hacks, I will say this: I am not a C++ fan, but if you find yourself writing C code where you simulate methods via structs with function pointers often, just use C++ as a basic "C with classes" at that point. You want methods anyway, you have to go through a pointer dereference to call the function, it's just not worth the code weirdness. If you have the grit to use structs with function pointers everywhere, you have the grit to stick to the simpler subset of C++.

New comment by throwaway7894 in "Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language"

throwaway7894 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:39:56 +0000

  #define hc_task_yield(task)   
  do {     
    task->state = __LINE__;   
    return;     
    case __LINE__:;           
  } while (0)

That's just diabolical. I would not have thought to write "case __LINE__". In the case of a macro, using __LINE__ twice expands to the same value where the macro is used, even if the macro has newlines. It makes sense, but TIL.