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Yes, this past week he was doing a lot of practice with a rope. This building isn't new to him. He's also climbed it in previous years I believe.

Really nice graphic design. If you build it out more, maybe you can teach users Morse code. Maybe a toggle button for decoding the dots and dashes.

With this discussion about perfumes, seems like an appropriate place to offer a PSA about phthalates. Perfumes often contain phthalates, which are endocrine disruptors. Exposure can be very harmful to a developing fetus and young children. It can create problems for adults too.

Phthalates are pervasive too in soaps and shampoos, where it's hidden within the ambiguous "fragrance" item.

There are phthalate-free options for soap and shampoo, and a quick google search indicates the perfume industry is starting to offer more products without phthalates. Phthalates aren't the only nasty chemical used for scents. Parabens are another, and maybe more I'm unaware of.

How common is this? How many founders that raise series A are liquidating? What are the amounts typically?

For starters, I don’t think America will hold Canadians hostage to be used as bargaining chips, like China did with the two Michaels.

This is a tech-savvy bunch in HN. I’d like to encourage my fellow hackernews users to counter this narrative that imo is being pushed by TikTok and the CCP, which is this one about data privacy. It’s a comfortable one for TikTok to attack since they can point to abuses by other tech giants. Every breath spoken or word written about personal data feeds into the CCP strategy. Instead we should be educating our peers, friends and families about the real danger from TikTok which is that it can spread propaganda. Not just influencing Americans to support pro-CCP positions. But there is a lot of negative press about the CCP that TikTok can hide or suppress. This isn’t hypothetical, it’s been happening already. I have faith young TikTok users can understand this. Congress understands this and they did the right thing (for Americans).

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With S3, the default is for the data to be replicated across Availability Zones. Each AWS region is comprised of at least three Availability Zones. Each AZ can be thought of as a distinct data center, each one a few kilometers away from each other. So if you store your data in the Northern California region of AWS, it would take a major natural disaster to pose a risk to your data. S3 also offers replication from one region to another (eg Northern California to Northern Virginia).

My view is that Google Drive and iCloud will cost significantly more, but that is getting you a nice web interface where you can see your files. And maybe other features like sync’ing. Also, customer support.

I like AWS S3 because I trust my data is more secure there and it is much cheaper. I also trust the durability of s3, not sure that Google Drive or iCloud discloses so openly how they replicate data or if they have an SLA like S3. But S3 takes some technical knowledge to understand how to manage things in a cost effective way. And you won’t get help from AWS support unless you pay for a support plan.

Is price a factor? Google Drive and iCloud are more expensive than using raw storage from a Cloud services provider, like AWS or GCP.

I’m guessing the original maintainer of xz handed responsibilities to Jia Tan without ever seeing him/her or at least sharing a phone call. Is that common to only communicate only through email/github? I guess some maintainers of open source projects will be more cautious after this story.

I did not like this movie. That must be an unpopular opinion, given all the movie’s success. And specifically what I didn’t like was that the film makers could have gone in many directions in telling a story about Oppenheimer, but chose to make the RDJ villain central to the plot. The conflict in the film felt forced and unnecessary for telling a good story.

I think many Americans want to buy Made-in-the-USA products. Some evidence of that are websites, Reddit groups, etc dedicated to helping people find those products. I think it’s generally understood by these consumers that the price will be higher. And I don’t think it needs to be premium either.

There’s a market for knit hats made in the USA. I doubt the quality assurance or price could compete with a factory from Asia, but they still sell. Partly because Americans want to support American businesses. Not the same as a toaster, but I can see consumer demand being similar.

This is really nice to have for ChromeOS. The main selling point of ChromeOS for me is that the environment is secure because I’m not installing anything. I don’t want to install some app in ChromeOS just for simple notepad usage.

I think taking that opportunity with your current company to do product work is a great way to make this career shift. In a software engineering role in the past, I had a chance to work do product work because it was a new product and so there weren’t any existing PMs already working on it.

If you say that you’re not sure how to get involved, I would just suggest that you work to set boundaries as clear as you can with management about what your responsibilities and ownership will be. That could be a tricky thing if your colleagues think of you still as an engineer. The line between developer and PM can already be a fuzzy one, and it could be even harder to make sense of if you’re just starting to do PM work.

Other advice would be to pay attention to how you communicate your ideas, sell your ideas, and your writing skills. Things that PMs need to do a lot, but software engineers often undervalue. Work to develop those skills.

I would argue that a good interview process will certainly reject some candidates that would in fact end up performing very well at their job. To really understand if someone is good for the job, it would be very costly in terms of time spent in the interview process, both for the employer and for the prospective employee. It’s a poor allocation of resources by the employer and the candidate wouldn’t stand for it either. To judge a candidate, I wish they could come to our office and they have a full day to work solo on completing a small coding project. It’s just not practical.

I have been quite happy with BitBucket. This is mostly from a UX perspective. The design is clean and simple. I’m using GitLab lately too, and my experience is the opposite. I can’t think of any webapp with a worse UX.

The comparison is not quite equal. Because if I don’t pay for photopea, I can still use it for free with ads. So in effect it’s like a pay-what-you-want pricing model.

As someone who frequently does the full and mini NYT crosswords, I really like this idea. I’ve wondered what it’d be like trying to make my own. This seems like a useful tool for giving it a try.

Some feedback: - The chart showing the distribution of word length is very cool. - Maybe you could educate newbies about how can choose a grid. I’m wondering if the predefined ones you provide are commonly seen in NYT. Does NYT prefer certain grids? Are you more likely to be accepted by NYT with a unique grid? - Custom grids sounds like a great feature. I’m guessing there are some rules about symmetry and no two-letter words that you can help users with. - Auto filling on an empty grid basically does all the work except clue writing? Maybe that’s intensive for your back-end? I noticed the page hang when submitting that. Maybe you can require some percentage for the user to first fill in on their own? As a user I think I’d only want the grid to highlight areas where I have an invalid word.

Agree. I grew up in NJ and lived a few years in NYC. NYC has a lot of variation in what is called NY style pizza. A lot of it is bad. In NJ, the NY style pizza is a lot more consistent and overall better than NYC. Living in NYC I was always puzzled how there could exist such bad pizza there. Mostly I’m talking about Manhattan. Maybe it’s bad to me and not others, and has to do with NYC having so many residents that grew up elsewhere, bringing their own varied tastes in pizza?