PNWChris

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by PNWChris 2y ago
Is this the case? I was under the impression that Uber has to act as a pure play buyer-seller matching system. Otherwise the drivers aren’t independent contractors, they’re being controlled like employees.
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by PNWChris 2y ago
I don’t think this is a fair retort. Personal communication is not what is being looked at here. No business I’ve ever worked at has encouraged or tolerated the use of personal messaging platforms for business. Why do these execs get an exc
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by PNWChris 2y ago
I get the general idea, but in this case I feel that isn't strictly applicable. OP and the parent comment are focused on tenants that don't appear to have done anything wrong or unreasonable, they're just in a bind and the la
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by PNWChris 3y ago
I agree, I really enjoyed the author’s curiosity and writing style!
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by PNWChris 3y ago
I have nothing insightful to add, I just want to say thanks for posting this! I’m on a flight right now and just went to this URL. Sure enough, it works! I know this information is available via the wifi portal’s UI, but a JSON blob just hi
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by PNWChris 3y ago
The Levandowski lawsuit comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski#Civil_laws... --- Edit: Since I enjoyed OP's story, I thought I should clarify a bit. I'm speaking broadly of how I reme
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Regrading in Seattle(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by PNWChris 3y ago|0 comments
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by PNWChris 3y ago
I'm of two minds on this, I both agree and disagree. Once a code base is a certain size, explicit but bigger can be a boon. Magic dynamic dispatch systems and other tools that simplify plumbing make onboarding and routine, drive-by mai
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by PNWChris 3y ago
There was a suicide attempt that sparked a lot of discussion about Amazon and the way they do PIPs back in 2016: https://www.geekwire.com/2016/report-amazon-employee-jumps-o... http://www.businessinsider.com
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by PNWChris 4y ago
I think that’d be gibidollars (Gi$ or something like that?). All these unusual units are kinda fun, could spice up a presentation or conversation to throw in without context. It gives me that hacker having fun, tarsnap picodollar/byte-
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Another possible issue: arcing/stuff burning on to one of the lightning pins. IDK why it happens, it’s probably lint or something, but it’s easy enough to mitigate: If a cable stops working all the sudden, the first thing I do is wet m
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by PNWChris 4y ago
The worst part is that the old “stop stop play” trick doesn’t work on any devices I have that can play disks (Xbox and computers). Every time I play a disk and hit the unskippable nonsense, I’m reminded why nobody uses those things anymore.
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Oh snap, that is cool! Does the server use raw sockets to pull that off? Or are regular ole TCP sockets capable of this?
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by PNWChris 4y ago
OP here! Great discussion, it's made me realize I should also share my favorite speed test: https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat It both tests bandwdith and gives some cool latency measurements (both idle an
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Fair enough. I think technical users probably don't need this site, but I think there is value to be had (even for those technical users!). For a bit of context: I found myself using this site via my xbox's web browser to make s
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Fair point! Just got all the certbot stuff set up. Wasn't too bad, though at first glance it appears there may be a bit more variance in the RTTs. Edit: I think I found a way to get the best of both worlds! I've removed certbot&#x
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Super great points, I'm going to experiment with these ideas a bit and see how it goes.
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by PNWChris 4y ago
This is super helpful context, thank you! I was wondering why the RTTs appeared to converge only after a couple retries, and why the first measurement was so wildly different when pulling up the page after some time away.
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by PNWChris 4y ago
These are great points, I appreciate it! Labelling this a "ping" was a poor choice on my part. I meant ping in the RTT/latency sense, rather than an ICMP sense. Calling it "HTTP latency" is a huge improvement that c
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Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping(ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com)
96 points by PNWChris 4y ago|61 comments
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by PNWChris 4y ago
To add insult to injury, sometimes the share sheet is really, really slow! Like several seconds with no UI feedback to indicate anything is going on! That’s quite frustrating when I want to quickly invoke my password manager or search on pa
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Ah, great points! The person may have said it was an exam to keep the explanation simple for others. Perhaps they didn’t match (entirely didn’t match or couldn’t match where they needed to be for family/some obligation), burnt out, etc
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by PNWChris 4y ago
Likely they mean one of the step exams. Med school and residency are a brutal game - the exams don’t stop till you pass the boards at or around the time you become an attending!
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by PNWChris 4y ago
That’s a consequence of suburbanization and divestiture from the major auto cities (Detroit, Pontiac, etc) in Michigan. In recent years there has been meaningful investment and growth in Detroit [0], but a lot of auto money is in surroundin
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by PNWChris 5y ago
I’ve had this kind of trouble in the past, a site I was paying for even blocked me from accessing it at home! My ISP is running a big CG NAT and appears to have my whole building on one (or very few) IPs, so it looks like a VPN/proxy o
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by PNWChris 5y ago
Yup! If you want something that just works (no need to prefix with http[s] in your browser’s omnibar, works with Apple devices, etc), `.home.arpa`[0] is the canonical option. A somewhat on topic tangent: I did a fair amount of tinkering wit
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by PNWChris 5y ago
I’m glad I’m not alone doing this! I’ve gone so far as setting up a content blocker on my phone and putting Reddit on a blocklist. I just can’t handle all the front page content that elicits outrage and/or incredulity, and the comment
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by PNWChris 5y ago
Agreed. While doing my undergrad in CS a decade ago (wow - I can't believe it's been that long) a lot of coursework was relatively light-weight to execute, and when it wasn't it could be done by SSH-ing or VNC-ing into a univ
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by PNWChris 5y ago
I used to maintain a sprawling spreadsheet to manage my retirement investments. I would use it to compute the trades I'd need to do to rebalance (so I can stay on-target with my desired asset allocation). I ended up making https:&#x2F
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by PNWChris 5y ago
Is the goal of such a policy to expose our leaders to the horrors of war, and hopefully yield a more compassionate government? A noble idea, but to implement it, you would basically need to actively pursue a state of war. If the government

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