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justinator··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
If you are, for a year, constantly hiring senior software engineers? That tells me you're just throwing engineers at problems, which is not how problems are solved elegantly. That's sliding into Brook's Law.
justinator··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
>If we decide we're going to grow headcount by 10 senior software engineers, we don't copy and paste the same job listing 10 times.

I'm not confused that's just a red flag not to work for your company.

justinator··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
n of 1 and all, but most jobs I've gotten that were worth getting were from personal reference. To the extent that applying through job sites seems like a real waste of time unless I'm really desperate.

And to reflect that, the jobs I've gotten were the ones you'd only accept if you were really desperate.

(Covid Times, man: Covid Times.)

justinator··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
I was under the impression a large % of jobs posted on jobs sites are done simply for compliance reasons and because HR has some "bullshit jobs" parts to it and the companies will usually simply hire from within the company itself.
justinator··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
>Nothing short of a face-to-face security response will deter these criminals

Is this one of those, "US only First World country that has this sort of problem" problems?

I can only imagine why?

justinator··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Amazing -- appreciate the explanation.
justinator··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Just spitballing here, can't you just store the salt alone and make the hyper-saturated salt water on the fly? That seems reasonable.
justinator··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
Other than the 17G LM and associate features I won't use and will attempt at least to ignore, looks like a boring release with some good bug fixes including cosmetic. So, alright.

I'm happy to have gotten the max SSD when I got this thing, and I'm already juggling external drives (mostly for large media projects). I guess business as usual.

justinator··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
"don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

posts on Twitter

justinator··on iPhone Duo
Doesn't ycombinator run a business where they let people borrow money with a high degree of likelihood that the venture will be a complete failure?

If I was the receiver of such a loan, am I just going to give myself a huge salary, or what it is that you do, here?

justinator··on iPhone Duo
I cannot with good faith tell you the financials of every HN user to any degree of accuracy to defend a statement like you're defending.

What you have is a "guess".

Maybe one data point is that this forum is open to all, without any gatekeeping based on salary?

justinator··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Things were simpler in the Slashdot/iPod era.
justinator··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I guess exception:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593

justinator··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Looking forward to the photo samples with the variable aperture. If it's something you can manually set (with the Camera app or third party), that would be neat. The miniaturization of this mechanical piece is really quite wild.

Eh, that's maybe about it.

justinator··on iPhone Duo
Not sure if this new reimagining of the Apple Vision Pro is going to make it a hit.
justinator··on iPhone Duo
>We (the HN audience) have disposable income

Ah the fallacy of thinking a collection of individuals as being a homogeneity.

justinator··on DaVinci Resolve 21.1
I'm not doing serious scripting, but that scripting allowed a clever way for open source products to work with Davinci, without them being wholly tied to the Davinci Way of Doing Things(tm), and that allows the app to work standalone, as well as with Davinci's competitors.

It doesn't cost Davinci any more dev time to keep it enabled in the free version as the scripting engine is used throughout the app.

And weird to drop support in an odd point release. Usually when features are Studio-only, you'll get a prompt "hey you've reached the limit of the free abilities". Trying already installed scripts after upgrading just failed silently, which was a pain in my butt to debug.

justinator··on DaVinci Resolve 21.1
"Advanced scripting now requires DaVinci Resolve Studio" :thumbs_down

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2398...

justinator··on Playa Phone
>it's mostly very well off tech people

well you're here at hacker news

justinator··on I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
Sir, we standardized on DOOM.
justinator··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Can't actually read the Verge without a subscription either.
justinator··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
It's not actually free, it's $14 to unlock all the features.
justinator··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
It's the Hamptons, these houses are for some of the wealthiest people on the planet.

I'd make them wear a giant visor over their face rather than have to talk to them directly too. They're also some of the most insufferable people you'll ever meet.

justinator··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
One of the benefits of these old eTrex models is that they run on AA's, so they're used for things like long distance cycling (across countries).

I don't know if there are top tier models that run on replaceable batteries you can get at any gas station.

justinator··on The End of Creativity
You know what I've learned working weddings?

They're all basically the same. They hit the same beats. It's not where radical creativity is found. It couldn't be more of a bucketlist item just to say you did it because of social pressures to do so. No one wants surprises at a wedding. Do the ceremony, get the signature drink, sit down, boring speeches, lackluster meal, dance to Mr. Brightside, etc, etc, etc. Pay the many tens of thousands of dollars for whatever that all was. It might as well be getting Chick-Fil-A through the drive in. It's just another product to consume and it's all terrible.

The gross AI video is not the illness, it's just another symptom of the milquetoast wedding industry.

justinator··on Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow
Driving cars releases tons of CO2 into the atmosphere (per car). There are 300 million cars on the road in the States. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

75% of U.S. adults are considered overweight, I would think that walking would first help this problem, as well as be a catalyst to other beneficial habits, including eating less meat and more vegetables, which would further reduce the amount of CO2 released from agriculture, as well as slim people's waistlines.

justinator··on Great Salt Lake Tracker
It would probably be better in the long run if we all drove less and walked more, then built a 1,000 mile aqueduct from the ocean to (and I can't believe I'm typing this) replenish the Great Salt Lake.
justinator··on Great Salt Lake Tracker
I remember I was gunna drive out to see Spiral Jetty, but it's not a jetty right now, so what's the point, you know? And it's not like it's close to the shore or anything -- it's a mile away

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/06/26/spiral-jetty-baromete...

justinator··on Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
I can't but agree. Either the Gerald Ford was not in shape for a conflict, or it was taken out. Our navy kept a good distance from the conflict and it seems pretty obvious why: these ships are expensive and the drones that could come in en-mass are cheap. Iran never showed the medium range ballistic missiles that were one of the given excuses to start a war.

I would point the finger at the head of the DOD, who does not seem to be qualified for the job. After his massive gathering of the top brass and the messaging shared therein, I'm seeing a dissonance of action promised and action shown. Piss Poor Planning.

I am under the opinion that this war should never have started, just to be clear. This is a mis-use of all our military resources, and insulting to our service men and women.

justinator··on Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
If you will remember from a few months ago, many of our actions was apparrently to cause a revolution from within. That didn't happen.

We can't just change our strategy to "nvrmd: kill 'em all" and think we'll have any allies after this. Iran would once again not just attack us, but practically every country near it, causing even more causalities and infrastructure damage.

And this doesn't get into the problem that this would eventually require a land invasion, which would be impossible. We couldn't even get an actual war ship close to Iran.

There is a "Sunk Cost Fallacy" that someone in our Administration should listen to. Times up with this complete disaster.

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