javawizard

That was painful to read.

I had a very similar experience at Google about a year ago, and the worst part of it was that they did it 2 weeks before I was set to receive a 6-figure retention bonus for sticking around for 2 years after an acquisition.

Several other members of my team got the boot at the same time. All of us had come in via that acquisition and were set to receive that bonus, and because of the layoffs, none of us did. Folks I talked to on the inside stopped just short of saying that was why we were chosen.

It was especially galling because years before at the company that eventually got acquired by Google, I survived a round of layoffs, and leadership issued stay bonuses for everyone who was left. Those bonuses explicitly stated that they were still valid in the event that we were laid off before their time period was up.

Big companies are soulless.

And yet only one company I've ever worked for went this way.

I wish more did; it really is such a small goodwill gesture to departing employees.

Note that the two are chemically related: glycerol is propylene glycol with its end-chain carbon atom and bonded hydrogen atoms yeeted off and replaced with an oxygen + hydrogen pair.

(The process of actually manufacturing glycerol is more complicated than that, of course.)

> Aside from GitHub I only have one other answer and it starts with, “this is going to sound crazy but hear me out.”

Do tell...

Where did you hear that? You can buy replacement print heads for all cartridge-less printers I've ever worked with, including my ET-8550.

The difference is that they're purchased separately from the ink, so as long as the original one works you can continue to use it no matter how much ink you go through.

Nope! As long as you've got a bottle or a syringe with an opening small enough to fit in the refilling ports, you're golden.

Yes - mine is an Epson EcoTank 8550. It has a flatbed scanner and can print up to 13x19.

They also make one that can only print 8.5x11 but that has a document feeder on the scanner. It's otherwise the same printer.

I'd recommend either one, depending on how useful a document feeder would be for you and whether you need the larger print size of the one I have.

It's a good point.

My workloads are similarly bursty. I've had no problems so far; the worst I've had to deal with is splotchy printing after it's been sitting for O(months), and a quick print head clean fixes that right up.

Laser printers are great if you're doing all or mostly documents though, I can't argue with that. About half of my printing is stickers and high quality photo prints, both of which benefit from inkjet printing.

(My specific model of printer is an Epson EcoTank ET-8550)

I gotta say, switching to an Epson EcoTank printer was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

It has ink reservoirs rather than cartridges, and small, permanently plumbed tubes that go from the reservoirs to the print head.

Not only does that mean there's no way it can tell what kind of ink I'm putting in it, it also means the tanks are fucking massive. It's so nice being able to go O(years) without refilling.

It cost about twice what a comparable, cartridge-based printer cost at the time. To this day I still consider it one of the best purchases I've ever made.

> I consider what's machine-readable to mean [...]

I hate to break it to you but the world has a very different and well agreed-upon definition of what "machine readable" means.

You're going to get nowhere if you continue to argue that your definition is the correct one. That ship sailed long ago.

This reminds me of Zach Weinersmith[0], of SMBC fame.

He was originally Zach Weiner, and he married Kelly Smith[1] and they concatenated both their names together and adopted that as their last name.

There's something I love about that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Weinersmith

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Weinersmith

I'll counter that it does, allowing that it's perfectly fine to adjust the threshold of certainty about a particular thing's purpose to suit the circumstances.

If that fence is stopping the school bus from driving off the edge of a cliff, for example, I would absolutely not want to remove it - and you can bet I'll spare a modicum of thought to make sure that's not the case before I yank it out of the way.

Ok, this:

> Stupid comment

got me. There's literally an HN rule about this: [0]

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ah, I hadn't broadened my search terms enough to find that. Thanks!

I can't find a source for this quote or one that fits this pattern. Do you have one?

In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.

I'll say as an ex-FAANG that recently released a similar stat that it was absolutely real, but only because doing anything required an atrocious amount of boilerplate that AI was really good at figuring out.

Compared to how productive I am at my current startup? Not a chance.

> You don't have ventilation above your stove?

My stove fan vents straight back into the room. Anecdotally maybe 75% of friends whose stoves I've observed do the same thing.

It's a travesty as far as I'm concerned, but there you are.

(I live in an apartment; otherwise you can bet I would have done something about it before now.)

You probably want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033

I've never heard of itch.io before but from what I can tell:

- Itch.io is a platform where people unaffiliated with itch.io can create pages and sell video games

- An itch.io user created a game that used Funko's brand without authorization

- Itch.io (correctly) removed that page when they were made aware of that by their registrar and server host, then responded to both letting them know they'd taken care of it

- The server host (Linode) said that was great and closed the issue. The registrar (iwantmyname) did not respond, then a few days later yanked the domain.

This is exactly the sort of thing the DMCA exists for (assuming itch.io is located in the United States) and it's exactly why the safe harbor provisions exist.

It's like if someone posted a copyright-infringing picture to Facebook and Facebook's registrar responded by taking down the entirety of facebook.com.

So no, this is not on itch.io's shoulders, this is on iwantmyname's (for disabling itch.io's domain even after being made aware of the circumstances) and Brand Shield (for not submitting a complaint to itch.io first and waiting to see if they'd take down the infringing user's content before escalating to itch.io's ISP and server host).

I'm pretty sure GP is referring to moving between GitHub and GitLab as repository hosts, not as employers.

Citation most definitely needed for this one.

For anyone asking what this has to do with NCSI, have a look at the README of the parent repo: https://github.com/stryngs/edgedressing/tree/main

It turns out that (modulo some details) it's possible to trick a Windows computer connected to a network you control into opening a browser that points to a URL of your choosing. That's because NCSI initiates probes using plain HTTP rather than HTTPS, so the usual injection attacks can be carried out without the user having to take any action of their own.

(The directory OP linked to appears to be a payload they just added to the repo that fingerprints users who are presumably on the receiving end of such an attack; the actual code to carry out the attack in the first place is outside of that directory.)

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The interesting part about that is that that's more or less what captive portals are supposed to do. One imagines that where this gets interesting is when one couples it with one of those attacks where you convince someone's computer to disconnect from a public WiFi hotspot and connect to your computer instead; then you can force a page to pop up without them realizing you're not the owner of the WiFi hotspot.

I wonder how easy it would be to carry out a phishing attack via such a mechanism? Force a captive portal prompt to launch on an unsuspecting user and have it render UI that looks like Windows and tells them they need to re-enter their Microsoft account credentials or credit card number or something.

I'll bite. Why not?

First sentence of the article:

> Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year [...]

Sounds great. How do you do that?

Apple has (to a first approximation) a royalty-free license to ARM IP by virtue of the fact that they co-founded ARM - so yes, Qualcomm is most likely paying ARM more than Apple is.

Am I to understand that impression is incorrect then? Where might one look to ascertain the actual revenues involved?

I'm seeing plenty of articles about it. Here's one: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/new-boeing-ceo-kelly-ortberg...

Because the group in question isn't the majority group, and still isn't after this increase.

It's definitely eliding a lot of the nuance of the article, but technically it's not wrong.

The work they're talking about in that sentence[0] launched ~2 months before Let's Encrypt was publicly announced, and almost a year before Let's Encrypt signed their first certificate.

So no, this was a separate effort.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl#:~:tex...