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ChadMoran

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ChadMoran··on Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious
Quite a few reasons but primarily CarPlay doesn't know about your vehicle's charge and road trip navigation requires external inputs to determine your charge route.

Apple could potentially offer an API to have "reverse" CarPlay where the car's app can feed information into iOS. I recently rented an Mercedes EV which had Apple CarPlay and it was a weird experience having to manage two sets of experiences.

ChadMoran··on Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
People in this thread don't know the difference between performance and scale.
ChadMoran··on Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Each request gets its own server! Wait isn’t that lambda?
ChadMoran··on Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Rails scales fine. People use that as an escape hatch when they don't know how to write performant code.
ChadMoran··on Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much
Yeah. Sometime around 2021 I believe. I’ve been here since 2012.
ChadMoran··on Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much
Yes they can. You have to badge out of offices as well.

Citation: I currently work at Amazon.

ChadMoran··on There's something off about LED bulbs
I've been looking for solid high CRI LED bulbs, thank you.

Lately I've been using the GE Reveal/Relax. They were better than the contractor grade bulbs that came with the house but still just... wasn't there.

If you know any other manufacturers like this I'd greatly appreciate it if you could provide their links.

ChadMoran··on Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
> Try and write any complex SQL as a series of semantically meaningful CTEs

I used this exact same method. Not only does it help me but those who come after trying to understand what's going on.

ChadMoran··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
I'm also seeing ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net pop up in my PiHole.
ChadMoran··on So I reverse engineered two dating apps
Interesting. The last 6 apps I've reverse engineered they all had pinning on.
ChadMoran··on So I reverse engineered two dating apps
I haven't run into an app I've reverse engineered that didn't have it.
ChadMoran··on So I reverse engineered two dating apps
Unfortunately with modern iOS/Android you need a rooted device.

Modern iOS/Android have something called SSL Pinning. Which means if you want to use a self-signed cert to Man in the Middle the HTTPS traffic it won't work. So you need to patch the network stack to allow this. I have a spare iPhone I keep rooted for this reason.

ChadMoran··on Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems
Listen to the audio. The whole front dash is shaking during acceleration. The front suspension of the car vibrates pretty badly during moderate to heavy acceleration. They claim that of the 5 suspension settings (Very High, High, Standard, Low and Very Low) that one should keep their car in "Low". In Standard it feels like the car is trying to create rattles. I feel like this is BS because it's an engineering flaw that they haven't figured out how to fix yet.

What's happening is premature wear of the front half shafts and CV joints and they CAN fix it they just won't.

ChadMoran··on Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems
Just sold my Audi to get a Tesla. 3.5 years and 42,000 miles and the car was never in the service center for more than a scheduled service.

Tesla has been in the SC 4 times in 6 months of ownership.

ChadMoran··on Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems
They say it's within spec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABAR362zLw

EDIT: I emailed the Seattle SC and they seemed indifferent at best.

ChadMoran··on Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems
Yeah? My $100k+ Model X built over a year after the release has been into the service center 4 times to fix 42 issues. One of which they refuse to.
ChadMoran··on Early owners of Tesla's Model 3 are reporting quality problems
I have taken in my Model X for a front end vibration issue that they refuse to fix 4 times. This is a June 2017 build, which is rather recent.

Tesla is deferring quality issues to their service centers instead of fixing them at the factory.

It's a familiar situation. I want better quality but if you want the tech and convenience a Tesla provides you really have no other option. There is a wide gap between the lower end electric drive cars (Leaf, Bolt) vs Tesla. I love my X I just wish the quality matched the price.

ChadMoran··on MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies
Unless I'm mistaken they don't have access to your location while running in the background. Running != access to location.
ChadMoran··on MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies
iOS 11 introduced the ability to allow apps to only access your location while you're actively using the app. Using this method should be a good mitigation.
ChadMoran··on Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
https://www.amazon.com/go there's a helpful video

EDIT: To explicitly state it. It handles that. It has a "vritual cart" as you pick things up and put them back.

Disclosure: I work for Amazon but have no affiliation with the Amazon Go program.

ChadMoran··on Eye Strain from LED Backlighting in MacBook Pro (2008)
This, so much this.

I have nystagmus which means my eyes move uncontrollably. Primarily on the horizontal plane. While my brian compensates for this and I don't see a moving image anything that uses PWD flickers very, very badly.

PWM tail lights are THE ABSOLUTE WORST for this condition. Not only do I see it on the source but I see it on anything the light projects onto, it's horrible.

ChadMoran··on Amazon Restaurants
Lots of my friends work in CS and they love their jobs.
ChadMoran··on Amazon Restaurants
As a Software Engineer with Amazon I have only great things to say.

EDIT: I've been at Amazon over 5 years.

ChadMoran··on DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
Or bra
ChadMoran··on How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M
CTRL+SHIFT+N Opens a new incognito window. Paste. Done.
ChadMoran··on 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts
Unless you're looking to buy a house in 5+ years putting your down payment in the market is super risky. When you have $100k+ in a savings account $1k/yr isn't bad.
ChadMoran··on 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts
I do. I use Ally banking which is 1%. Great place to store a house down payment.
ChadMoran··on [dead]
Doesn't mean they don't accept credit card information, by that I mean I doubt people -only- enter starbucks cards. Still a method for people to transfer their credit card information insecurely.
ChadMoran··on [dead]
You can transfer the balance to your own card using the information stated, I believe.
ChadMoran··on Amazon's heavy investing eats into bottom line, shares drop
In what timeframe? Every quarter? Amazon is in it for the long haul and will likely make shareholders a lot of money in the end.
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