My only thing I know about Salon is that at one point, they had a piece about how depressing it was to live in a hacker house, and I was like “wait. I lived in this exact apartment”. I remembered the Pinterest guy who lived in the closet. That was slightly surreal.

Oh nonono don’t worry about me! I’m just exaggerating and making up a dramatic story. Started writing and got carried away a little bit 😂. Luckily for me, I was always on good teams. But I did work in big companies long enough that I’ve definitely seen variations of this kind of thing play out.

Anyone got store recs for non-english books? Or that mostly just gonna vary a ton by language?

Wish granted. Now management questions why everything “takes you so long”, and you were passed up for promotion in order to promote Jim (just last week, he did a presentation about his new feature that uses fancyAssDB).

Don’t worry, though. They’ll need your help soon, in order to make Jim’s fancyAssDB pet project sync with the oldAssDB legacy server (which is a completely different User/id structure. TBH might need to refactor most of Jim’s code to fit. Have fun extending all of Jim’s hardcoded features). He quit the company to join a crypto startup. Still no promotion though, since you finish stuff kinda slow (I mean, Jim built it in 2 weeks, so it can’t be too complicated).

EDIT:

So now I hear you thinking “well at some point, they’ll notice how much better my code works, and that features are much easier to integrate”.

But don’t worry, because the next month, your manager will be promoted to head of a new department and forget you exist. Meanwhile, the new head of your department doesn’t know you, and is thinking of promoting Frank.

While you were fixing Jim’s code, Frank added some features to your old project using fancyAssLib3 to save some time. He’s doing a presentation on it tomorrow, and management is very interested, because they haven’t heard about this code yet. It’s Frank’s codebase, right? I mean, he’s doing a presentation on it.

Hmmm I’m not as familiar with how routing works with OSM, but I wonder if those transits routes show up in other OSM apps, or if Organic Maps is flitering/sorting that in a way where it isn’t used? Like is the data missing, or is the app doing something poorly?

Huh really? I haven’t had that issue. But we might be totally different use-cases; If I’m routing, I’m usually in major cities mapping a route via public transit. I quite like OrganicMaps for this, because it’s still quite stable in underground subways when internet is sus.

edit: To be clear, I haven’t noticed issues when I map for driving either, but I’m admittedly not driving a crazy amount.

• For directions, I use OrganicMaps.
• For location bookmarks/pins, I’m currently building an app, so I use that.
• For checking business information, sometimes i’ll still use google maps

Yo so question for y’alls: what’s your opinion on using custom domain (for portability) vs masked emails?

Rn I have my main emails on my personal domain, and then I have masked emails going through [email protected] for more anonymity + segmenting (err i mean just being able to disable a certain address individually) . But watching all this reminded me that if I decided to move away from fastmail, i’m much more locked-in this way. Do y’alls use a custom domain for masked email as well? The one thing I don’t like about that is that it’d be so easy to connect multiple accounts based on domain, so anonymity is probably kinda broken.

Just wait until you taste “Songs You Recorded in High School” 😬

heh… p sure this is the lighthouse that made me decide to buy a camera. Me trying my best with an iPhone SE 6 years ago:

Fwiw, on my m3 + max ram, I also was recording 1080p 30-ish minute obs videos for a while running large Ableton Live project playback + a facecam, and (while I don’t remember specs specifics) I didn’t find it to be unstable. I don’t do heavy video editing, so I’m not sure about the requirements, but for obs in 1080, it felt fine for me. I think I also exported some edited 4k footage at one point though, and I seem to remember rendering that one took a solid amount of time, so if you think you might move to 4k, pro might be more appropriate.

But I remember having specs reservations when getting my air, and I have not regretted it at all. Especially when I see my friends lug around their monster of a laptop. Those pro machines are thicc

FYI graphene does still rely on the Google updates:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

This reminds me of the time when I accidentally walked to the Kawasaki Daishi Prayer Hall for Safe Driving, and attended a ceremony for… blessing your… car… I stood by an empty parking space.

Fwiw, this was also on HN yesterday. Never tried it myself, though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941232