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igorstellar··on Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
Why so? I think this is the way to be promoted/lead things. You don't have to live and die with your project but there are definitely a few opportunities that are opening up if "you care and army that doesn't". I believe calling your colleagues "army that doesn't care" is a bit disrespectful and this is what is wrong with "I care so much" people at big companies.

upd: I did generalize "I care so much" people as well; but I do consider myself one.

igorstellar··on Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?
My first day in SF downtown was "oh cool, here is a bunch of free parking spots along the street" when I got to Tenderloin. I didn't see any crime but at the same time I started to avoid this neighborhood since then.
igorstellar··on Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
Downside of buying enterprise for home use is noise - their turbofan coolers are insanely loud while consumer grade 120mm (Noctua et al) coolers are most quiet.
igorstellar··on A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for the Dyatlov Incident
Not Safe Before Sleep: I should not have opened this in bed.
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
Nah, horses -> cars was dramatic transition, while ICE -> EV is not. Some (younger) people won’t even notice it, if done properly. No way you can create a horse replica that will be so realistic, people ride it as a horse!
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
it could be because A5 (coupe) and A7 (liftback) are more enthusiast cars rather than your typical sedan. although A8 are way past commodity car.
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
Unfortunately, some brands started adding fake noise engines through speakers due to NVH being too good: you just won't hear the engine. It's funny how modern BMW I6 cylinder powered cars are making V8 noises through speakers - consider it as a free engine upgrade lol :)
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
I work in tech and live in Bay Area. A lot of my friends and colleagues have teslas. I have been in X, 3 and S and I have not seen one that didn't have any obvious issues. I am not nitpicky either: for example I used to have Mazda and consider it being benchmark of quality interiors for $25K. After all, interior is where I spend lots of time in a commute.
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
I'm OK with being minimalist (as in Volvo/nordic minimalism) but when your $80K car has window rubber sticking out and squeaky dashboard, that's where I draw the line.
igorstellar··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
Car power plant is important, but also everything else is. I just bought ICE german luxury car just because there is nothing even close to it in the EV department. Teslas interior are falling apart and build quality is really poor. I also do not want to share telemetry.

I do road trips sometimes and have no spare time to charge. Opinion: It seems like until there is something better than lithium batteries are coming up, EV market is just no good.

igorstellar··on Facebook senior software engineer interview
Got offers from almost every FAANG last year. Decided to join FB, and it was not about money (in fact it depends on your negotiation skills). The reason I joined was the culture and people who work there as well as growth opportunities. One might say PSC are stressful but that depends on personality. I don't know why I should not have clear conscience. Should kitchen knife company be also upset about people are being killed by it?
igorstellar··on Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years
How nuclear waste leaves power plant? I always was under impression the core is heavily isolated and water is just cooling or used for turbines.
igorstellar··on Show HN: Memory Pill
What are the benefits for blister packs except overdose protection? Are they recyclable like pill bottles? One of the reasons US uses pill bottles is pharmacies, where pharmacists fill in any amount of pills needed in a bottle, e.g. if you need just 3 pills of really strong pain killer, you get a bottle with three pills. As far as I remember blister packs packaged in a factory and not customizable.

Personally, I use habit tracking app to check in every night to mark I took my pills.

igorstellar··on Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase
I think it's great idea. This way we won't get any "bloatware" in game launcher, promoted apps, ads or anything that is not needed to play the game.
igorstellar··on Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
I always had a sentiment that “thought policing” by blocking people’s posts just reinforces all the bad stuff that happens there. It will reinforce the idea that something is controlling the speech or information (conspiracy theorists rejoice) and the reaction would be to build even bigger misinformation echo chambers, at least this is anecdata I observe in my feeds.
igorstellar··on Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
I mean, don’t they have a right to say if not “A because of B” but “B happened right after A”, which could be an observation? At what point we should do thought police? I do agree it sounds not very well educated but that could be a good start to get this education from someone in the comments. If it’s only echo chamber of like-minded people, I doubt thought policing helps in this situation as well and nothing will change their minds at this moment. If anything, blocking people’s posts strengthen conspiracy theorist ideas about invisible forces controlling information.
igorstellar··on Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
Someone’s opinion is misinformation?
igorstellar··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
To be fair, as someone who doesn't know what it is, I clicked "Watch Video" on Spark website and that video did not show me what it is and how to use the product but rather some nonsense-story. Story creator website showed me exactly how the app looks like and how to use it right away without having me to click anything. Awesome work, bookmarking it for future use!
igorstellar··on The Four Quadrants of Conformism
> These hypothetical people are getting fired because their words cause real harm to people.

These people are not hypothetical and the statement is dehumanization. If you punch a coworker they will have a damage that could be measured and reported. On the other side you won't be able to measure how offended someone is (unless it goes against the law). Cancelling people for having their own ideas even if they are different from what is conventional transforms into a witch hunt for a "greater good".

igorstellar··on System Hardening in Android 11
External storage used to be a shared storage for apps outside of it's sandbox. Files are retained after app is uninstalled. [1]

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage

igorstellar··on An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)
It's an old gist, you should flag it as [2015]
igorstellar··on Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
any chance you are going to make advanved level class as well? I covered basics a while ago, looking to work on efficiency
igorstellar··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
Their Github page has activity, and the last merged PR commit was 7 days ago. Running this for 3 months now after I've migrated from 1password, I can say that everything that extension has (password generation, notes, file upload etc.) is supported by the server as well as nice web UI.

Security-wise, I used nginx over my custom domain to enforce HTTPS and put bitwarden app itself behind a firewall.

As a bonus, bitwarden_rs also enables all premium features for you ("You are a premium member!" label is by default in every client).

igorstellar··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
Bitwarden on Amazon Lightsail server. It costs $3.50/mo to self-host which is very competitive comparing to paid password managers.

I use bitwarden_rs[0] server written in Rust which is much lighter implementation you can run on cheapest 512mb instance. Official bitwarden[1] server is using docker and mssql which requires a lot of RAM.

You can run it on Linux through Firefox extension as well as on any operating system, including iOS and Android (native app). iOS and Android apps have system Password Manager integration which allows you to skip running app manually in most cases.

[0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

[1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server

igorstellar··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
Immigrant here. I've got approved for $10K CC at BofA without any history, just provided a bunch of documentation like proof of income. It's also a good idea to apply for some credit union to loan your vehicle even you can afford buying it for cash.
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