throwaway82931

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by throwaway82931 1mo ago
I have a Kaiser Permanente health plan via the ACA. I assume based on capitalist incentives that Kaiser would fire my primary care physician for prescribing outside the official guidelines. But I've been thinking about this for a whil
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by throwaway82931 1mo ago
All my immediate family members are obese. I'm not (BMI 24.5, borderline overweight at the high end of normal, highest lifetime BMI was 29.5), but that's through strenuous, exhausting effort over decades. I also exercise regular
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by throwaway82931 3mo ago
Yeah, I way overperformed on this test because it was multiple choice. There were 11 words I didn't know at all, and another 8 where I was uncertain to varying degrees. My score of 99/100 does not reflect my actual ability. Even
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by throwaway82931 6mo ago
> when I have my 2 programmers in office I'd like to think that you see "my 2 programmers" as "my team" but I've come to expect phrasing like "when we have our 2 programmers in office". That
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by throwaway82931 9mo ago
Indeed, passkeys would seem to represent a step forward from single-device to single-account.
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by throwaway82931 2y ago
What bothers me about the rest of this thread is not that "grunts" are seen as fallible, but that management is implicitly infallible. Blaming everything on the "grunts" is irresponsible garbage in an industry where lea
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by throwaway82931 2y ago
You’d think from this thread that the messes inevitably originate from ”grunts” wandering off the reservation. In my experience the source has often been “innovation” imposed from above, in the form of buzzword-driven development champione
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by throwaway82931 2y ago
For what it's worth, I'm actually a senior IC who's cleaned up plenty of messes over decades and who enjoys migrating legacy systems. In my experience, it's the management-level architecture astronauts who don't un
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by throwaway82931 2y ago
> they are usually right. This message encapsulates why so many software jobs are terrible. Put your heart and soul into doing your best, earnestly combat NIH and pursue meaningful productivity, and _still_ the culture is such that at
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Github has made multiple decisions which, whatever the rationale, damage trust in them as an identity authority and make it more difficult to believe that a Github account represents who it appears to. They also allow for accounts to be ren
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Web search engines claim fair use for snippets, and MS claims fair use for Copilot. However, a web search engine result page is only an aggregate of the excerpted pages, and it refers back to them; unlike software authored using Copilot, i
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
I've always heard about technical debt at AWS, with thousand line functions everyone is terrified to touch, demotivated employees doing whatever it takes to close tickets without dealing with the root causes, and so on. I presume that
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
> I'd wager price, convenience (fast shipping, etc.), size, and design matter far more to a buyer. That's true until having been poisoned suddenly matters more. But laissez-faire and buyer-beware I guess. Who needs any safety
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Amazon has a long history of selling hazardous, poisonous goods on its website: https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso... > Amazon has been selling thousands of products that have failed federal sa
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Like prosecuting Facebook for colluding in the sale of stolen property?
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
> I am loathe to recommend the use of Facebook for anything, but [...] It's at least better than doing nothing Is it? A central theme of the article is how Facebook is facilitating bike theft by providing essential electronic sto
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
> Ideally, this article would hopefully help de-platform this seller off of Facebook, but we aren't holding our breath on that one. Facebook is basically terrible about this, and their existing mechanisms for dealing with reporting
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
This safety risk applies to anything else you buy on Amazon. Not just pottery, but all dinnerware. Not just dinnerware, but also items like children's toys. If you can't trust the origins of pottery on Amazon, why can you trust
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
A punitive culture of "accountability" naturally leads to finger pointing and evasion.
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
This fits with everything I've heard about terrible code quality at Amazon and engineers working ridiculous hours to close tickets any way they can. Amazon as a corporate entity seems to be remarkably distrustful of and hostile to its
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Google is Kafka at scale. All of the other characters in The Trial besides Josef K have been optimized away and replaced with silicon. The key insight that made it possible? That responding to front-paged Hacker News complaints doesn&#x
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I guess I couldn't let go of the idea that an an appeals process should be scalable for paying customers. I still believe that.
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
That's one option. Another would be that you need to pay for your service on a monthly basis. Some way that for a user to have faith in the appeals process and purchase peace of mind. Just knowing that a backstop is there would help
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
OpSec is hard. I'm not going to risk that Google won't be able to connect the shadow accounts.
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
Maybe 1) remove everything else from Google and 2) Start paying for your Gmail account, which will hopefully make it more likely that the appeals process actually works? Gmail's service is clearly something you depend on and that is w
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
The user cannot log into their Google account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458794
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by throwaway82931 5y ago
It's terrifying that the punishments are so draconian (because one false move and you lose access to the entire Google account, and possibly become persona non-grata and lose the ability to create another one even in a company context)
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Ask HN: Errors and Omissions insurance for a Contract-to-Hire position?
2 points by throwaway82931 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway82931 6y ago
One way to do better is to recognize that the onus is by default put on minorities to explain discrimination. For example, black people in the US spend extraordinary amounts of time explaining racism to white people, an exhausting and neve
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by throwaway82931 6y ago
By "open source orgs" I mean entities such as all the non-profits which host/support open source projects. You're right about it being unhealthy, unfortunately. It might be for the best if it dies and is replaced by som

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