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eep_social··on Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
Both missing companies were included recently, suggesting to me that the author used an older dataset.
eep_social··on Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
At a glance, I think the author used S&P sector categorizations. They were set in 2018 and intentionally split the mega caps/FAANG/MAG7 across multiple sectors based on some hand waving about “primary” revenue source at that time.

From a finance perspective I think they’re a _little_ weird but functional (NVDA moves with semis, MSFT with software, etc) whereas from a tech perspective I’d say very weird until you learn about the backstory and what motivated it.

eep_social··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I think you’re responding to “gaming” and thinking of AAA titles which are flashy and splashy but are a smaller market than mobile games. I guess gp might have been thinking of mobile or casual where Apple does have a significant stake and interest but no appreciable focus.
eep_social··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
you most likely have an Abe in your contacts, I don’t have an Abe but have a similar issue with a last name from mine. the behavior sort of makes sense if I squint and crane my neck around a bit but I have no idea how the weightings are so bad.
eep_social··on Aligned to whom?
Not that he got it all right or anything like that but it’s amazing how much of the current macro discussion around AI capabilities is covered in the Foundation series which was published over many years, 1942 to 1993.
eep_social··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
I definitely do not know the feeling you’re describing.

My favorite quirk of mine is aphantasia but kids are more entertained by ear wiggling.

eep_social··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
> when Amazon was first established, one of the largest loopholes that they had used..

I thought for sure you were going to mention USPS “media” rates which allowed Amazon to ship books very cheaply.

eep_social··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Interop standards for this like Open19 are not widely deployed and without interoperability it’s a dead end since you need the hosting provider to give you the drop to your rack or cage. Hyperscalers I don’t know, but I’d guess they don’t deploy rack density that calls for liquid cooling yet.
eep_social··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
What you said is not what the linked video says, so at best this is terrible advice piling onto terrible advice.
eep_social··on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
Phone numbers have become the unique identifier used to build profiles of people and the providers can still claim “security” when they change it to pursue that revenue stream.
eep_social··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
“great UI” and “burned to death because the door handle wasn’t” is a bold juxtaposition
eep_social··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
My understanding is that as people age their skin stays drier and causes this issue.

The parent post is a chef’s-kiss-perfect illustration of the problem with modern tech.

eep_social··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
which is why you went with Delta and not Nocturna I would think? Deltas are fine in an otherwise noisy environment but they’re misery in say a bedroom at night.
eep_social··on SFO Gate Explorer
I have also flown out of that airport. The early flights maximize viable onward connections but the logistics are a real pain.
eep_social··on Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
He’s a hack, now you know.
eep_social··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
If you tap into the address bar, start typing your search, type enough for it to be specific enough that autosuggest crap clears, and “On this page” appears. Wildly undiscoverable in practice.
eep_social··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
In a similar vein, I remember encountering a site where the frontend enforced basic complexity requirements ala “use at least one number and one symbol” but the system would silently drop all non-alphanumerics when it saved (presumably in some kind of failed conversion on the way into the backend DB). So setting a password like “foo_bar4!” would become “foobar4” which was surprising. What blew my mind though was when I figured out the stripped password worked to log in, which was how I eventually figured out what was happening, escaped the reset flow, and generated a compliant password.
eep_social··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
Unlike equity options, commodity future options are typically written with european style exercise rules.
eep_social··on You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
based on my experience, I suspect the latter

similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include:

- wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step during installation - bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade

eep_social··on The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline
US dollars or equivalents mostly, money market funds, treasuries, sgov, etc
eep_social··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
as an american I might call those “local ordinance” when they come from a smaller rulemaker like a town
eep_social··on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
edit: op also has this, disregard

hugged but someone caught it: https://archive.is/VrEtg

eep_social··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
A company I worked for used start date anniversaries rather than birthday for a variety of reasons.
eep_social··on The Dilbert Afterlife
> bottom management

“line management” is the term I am familiar with

eep_social··on How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
in high scale stateless app services this approach is typically used to lower tail latency. two identical service instances will be sent the same request and whichever one returns faster “wins” which protects you from a bad instance or even one which happens to be heavily loaded.
eep_social··on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
surely gp was referring to HD ;)
eep_social··on Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
I wasn’t in C++ style land but my recollection is that distilled experience would be backed up by extensive mailing list discussions. in case of contention the discussion might extend into case studies or other quantitative techniques atop google3. It’s difficult for me personally to describe the impact (outsized)of a super-resourced monorepo for this kind of thing. also as gp mentioned, it was sometimes possible to automate changes to comply with updated guidelines.
eep_social··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
My understanding is that the hardware is always installed but the dealer will not fill the liquid reservoirs unless the customer specifically requests (and pays) for it.
eep_social··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Not sure what you mean. His legacy to date is ruining the iphone because he couldn’t think of anything to do beyond “thinner”.
eep_social··on Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
I think six dev teams is small in terms of kube. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s close to the perfect size to move onto kube and create and adopt a standard set of platform idioms.

at orgs significantly larger than that, the kube team has to aggressively spin out platform functions that enable further layering or risk getting overwhelmed trying to support and configure kube features to cover diverse team needs (that is, storage software doesn’t have the same needs or concerns as middleware or the frontend). this incubator model isn’t easy in practice. trying to adopt kube at this scale is very challenging because it requires the kube team to spin up and out sub-teams at a very high rate or risk slowing the migration down to a crawl or outright failure and purchasing e.g. off the shelf AWS because teams need to offboard their previous platform.

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