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RomanPushkin

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RomanPushkin··on $3 Trader Joe's tote bags resell for more than $1,500
FYI, it's about tiny bags. Large bags are everywhere.
RomanPushkin··on Microsoft’s original source code
Everything Bill touches gets frozen at some point of time...
RomanPushkin··on Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game
(shameless plug) Another JavaScript you might like https://make210.com/ (I'm the author). Do "Restart -> Hard" for a challenge.
RomanPushkin··on Is this the end of online interviews?
Looks like this is the end of online interviews, folks
RomanPushkin··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
> strong improvements in coding and front-end web development

The best part

RomanPushkin··on 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision
I don't know wether it's true or not, but I liked the red light, and my spouse too. It helps - improves mood, heals minor pain, calms you down, and warms you up. It also helps with falling taking naps if needed, I fell asleep faster. Lots of joy for $70. I found vintage Kenmore red lamp with red bulb on eBay. I find it better than LEDs, since it emits heat as well.
RomanPushkin··on IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
I thought "we gonna have uuuge success, many-many jobs, we gonna need many-many people, a lot of people"
RomanPushkin··on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment
Looking for his friends or people who knew him to make a video about this case, and who would be open to chat anonymously. I've a youtube channel with 60k subs, some of my videos are 300-500k views.
RomanPushkin··on Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]
Also, try Amanita Muscaria microdosing that has legal and different active alkaloid (muscimol, not psilocybin), look for the new "Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria" book.
RomanPushkin··on Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]
> tried Ketamine but I have tried shrooms, LSD, and DMT... After one or two days I'm always back to baseline

You did it wrong. You need to micro-dose psilocybe shrooms over the course of ~30 days.

RomanPushkin··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
One must not forget that cheaters are now everyone, and it's likely you gonna be interviewed by a cheater. I've seen this multiple times already, recent is Meta interview ~8 months ago. Very low quality interviewer - complained about bug in the code, while there was no bug. Can't keep the conversation going, the same for system design - poor guy didn't even want to listen, and was pretty much rude.

I would say that if it wasn't a pattern. So let's not pretend they're not cheaters. Call them out.

RomanPushkin··on Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby
it was sarcasm
RomanPushkin··on Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby
X11 Ruby manager choices are contributing disproportionately to climate change
RomanPushkin··on Developers should embrace creative coding again
It literally says "...coding aga", and there is huge m/f consent cookie banner highlighting the irony.
RomanPushkin··on Do Russians Support the War in Ukraine?
Russians are fed up with the current government and recognize that its leaders not only profit from the war but also from exploiting and selling out the country.

For example, former President Medvedev owns vineyards in Tuscany. The spokesperson Peskov’s daughter, Liza, owns penthouses in Paris with views of the Champs-Élysées. Many officials have moved their wealth abroad, including to the United States. A former mayor of Khabarovsk, a key city near the Chinese border, left Russia, purchased multiple properties in California, and is frequently spotted at a well-known banya in San Francisco.

The list goes on.

Ordinary citizens see this happening and are increasingly determined to avoid mandatory military drafts—just as it’s currently happening in Ukraine.

RomanPushkin··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Explain to me like to five year old why when I create a _successful_ drug marketplace that sold whole bunch of illegal drugs should be pardoned?
RomanPushkin··on React 19
> Why do a lot of people here hate react so much?

It's not a pleasure to work with.

I know quite a few programming languages, ~20 years of software development career. And React is the worst tech.

Don't get me wrong, but I wrote a lot of React code at work, and used it for personal projects (for example: make210.com)

But every time you touch React you're getting this distinctive "meh" flavor that tells you - oh yea, baby, it's because you're dealing with React.

RomanPushkin··on New iMac with M4
> iMac features a color-matched keyboard and mouse or trackpad... These accessories now come with USB-C ports, so users can charge all of their favorite devices with just a single cable

WOW!

RomanPushkin··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
> They are used to doing the necessary work to pass

The same for job interviews. I did a lot of technical interviews in the past as interviewer (hundreds) for Software Engineer positions (and still help companies to hire sometimes, as independent interviewer).

There is insane amount of cheating. I'd say at least 30% in normal companies are cheaters, and 50% and more in FAANG. I can prove it, in private groups, and forums people share tech assignments. And very large number of these people use some kind of assistance while interviewing.

It's interesting to see how sometimes questions that are intentionally sophisticated are getting solved in a few minutes the best way they can be solved. I see this over and over.

RomanPushkin··on Software development for the DMT headspace
Really cool, I shared your work in a private discord server to the people who have no problem experimenting.

It would be nice to have some sort of [landing] page for non-tech-savvy folks, so they understand it easier!

I love everything about this blog post and the software application.

RomanPushkin··on Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
I've accepted and embraced all the permanent changes for one very simple reason: it's better to be alive than depressed and/or dead and/or being in vegetative state. Note that I was dealing with extreme circumstances - life and death on a daily basis. I had stress that was so intense that all of my teeth were in pain, every day two weeks straight.

I am happy I was able to exchange it for the "permanent changes" that made me back alive. I won't hesitate to do it again (have to admit I don't need it know, I'm in peace).

> obsessing about where to source drugs

It's one of the things I avoid, because sourcing is dangerous. Everything is contam now, even weed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvIkZCZmzA. So "sourcing" and "drugs" are not the words from my vocabulary.

1000-year-old medicine I call it, that nature provides, ideally unprocessed (see /r/herbalism for safe-for-work examples).

Also, try to read the book I mentioned if you have time, it's in the very beginning (first 10% of it will answer most/all of your questions).

RomanPushkin··on Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
I've been dealing with burnout multiplied by cancer in the family. My spouse was diagnosed back in 2020. It was tough and unmanageable until I got back to P.Cubensis and started microdosing it just to stay alive. I didn't go to stratosphere, and not a fan of a mAcrodose. But mIcrodose helped me to rewire my brain. Can't recommend it enough. Don't do P.Cubensis though, since P.Natalensis is the better, easier choice in all aspects. Also, dried Amanita Muscaria does a great thing - you're probably just one dried (!) 10cm cap away from getting back on rails. And no, you won't have a "trip" from it. I'm not talking about "trips", euphoria, etc. I'm talking about saving your life instead of wasting one.

I've learnt the hard way that there are protocols from getting back on your feet from the shittiest shit in your life. There are communities of people with MUCH SEVERE problems.

It's also in books, read "PSYCHEDELIC OUTLAWS: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine" by Joanna Kempner. (there is also audiobook). There are communities, really really good communities that will help you to get back on your feet again, quickly, no b/s (I'm a bit hesitant to share the links, but you can always reach out). This really works, verified.

If you're suicidal, call 988. Also, I can send you a link to a protocol that helped many people with a very good reviews. I discovered it by accident, and there is a community of people who implemented that. Once you have all the things, the help is so quick, in a week you gonna enjoy life again.

RomanPushkin··on [dead]
With a pretty high precision:

It's speed of light in vacuum, Planck constant, Elementary Charge, and so on:

Speed of light in vacuum:

299792458.077272104522039393212883 Obtained

299792458(fixed) CODATA 2022

Planck constant:

6.6260686392218445411837981460499 * 10^(-34) Obtained

6.62606896(33) * 10^(-34) CODATA 2006

etc.

RomanPushkin··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
New computer game for blind and visually impaired people. I have computer prototype, but working on hardware to make it happen. Unfortunately, hardware isn't easy to tackle, I need to create custom keyboard-like buttons.

If you think about games, there is handful of them for blind and visually impaired players. But things got more interesting when keyboard is your screen.

RomanPushkin··on Bug squash: An underrated interview question
Thanks for recommendation. I just finished my rounds of interviews, gotten a decent offer (SF company), being 20 years in industry. I have my own rules, and luckily they align very well with industry standards. So I never had any issues not following the scenario when I need to share something to land a job. I also don't do any take-home assessments, and moreover, I only use one programming language while interviewing. Never had any issues with that.

I think I don't need a plan or virtual desktop. I just say "no" if it doesn't work for me. Unless I am really desperate, I do not share.

RomanPushkin··on Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
If you're pro-war and support this kind of shit, you should know that every fight has two possible outcomes: you can win and you can lose. This is the same reason you don't wanna be a police officer or go to the military if you're not ready to die. After all the pain people have experienced in eastern Europe, Gaza, Middle East, it's sad to see this has been funded by YC.

It's pretty obvious it's the same "defense" system as AK-47. While it's easy to justify, it will be used, highly likely, to kill people.

RomanPushkin··on Bug squash: An underrated interview question
The only downside I see is that I need to share my screen with a person I don't know. Don't get me wrong, but I normally have access to some crypto on my laptop, banking notifications turned on for my 2FAs, private messages I'm getting from my spouse, maybe some borderline NSFW chatgpt dialogs, screenshots of my ideas, emails, private notes, personal projects, whole bunch of tabs I am not willing to close or share, etc.

I don't have issues to show the screen to a friend of mine. Or showing the screen of a work computer to a colleague. However, demoing the whole screen is violation of privacy. Please don't do that, unless you grant VNC access to a machine with a set of popular tools, code editors, etc.

How about reverse bug squash? Interviewer shares the screen with all his/her private info, notes, tabs, development environment settings, shell command history (with maybe autosuggestions turned on), and the interviewee needs to guide the interviewer towards finding the bug?

RomanPushkin··on Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people
From my childhood I remember we had The Lives Of Remarkable People collection. Was available pretty much in any library. It's Russian-language Soviet series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Remarkable_People - those were pretty interesting read. I haven't read all of them, but I still remember the feeling after reading those few I had a chance to read.
RomanPushkin··on Cryptominers made $100k from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks
This is the first thing that comes to my mind. Even if my bill is $50k - I do it at home (assuming $100k is how much I get in the end). Something just doesn't add up in this article.
RomanPushkin··on Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
Yes, you can do that. There is a session limitation of 48 hours. Curious if it works for you?
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