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maneesh

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Founder/CEO of Pavlok, human behavior trainer / wearable smart dog shock collar for humans.

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maneesh··on It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999
Hilarious. Thanks for this.
maneesh··on Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
I have an 8, a 16, and a 64

The 8gb was just not enough. It crashed through normal use often

16gb was greatttt but got slow and weird (audio devices would disappear, requiring a restart) , occasionally with Docker Desktop

64gb is a beast and I'm running parallels windows and parallels KDE and even ELECTRON apps simultaneously ( ;) )

If you can afford it, get the 64. If it's too much, I'm guessing 32 will work very well also.

maneesh··on Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?
You would love https://reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance and https://reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge. Sort by Top > All-time ... Some of the best stories are exactly that format
maneesh··on Ask HN: Has any Rust developer moved to embedded device programming?
Our company builds a wearable device using an NRF5x chip, and our firmware is written in C. We are moving to Rust for our newest device, in order to run graphical output and RT operations. It is looking pretty sweet!
maneesh··on Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
I set the Triple Click function to automatically trigger grayscale -- very useful!
maneesh··on Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for ‘intense period’
This was already tried

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/heres-why-the-facebook-phon...

maneesh··on Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?
Probably because they killed Google Reader
maneesh··on The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas
You could almost elect Walter Mondale with this amount of cherry-picked data
maneesh··on Glassdoor not so anonymous
Shows up on mobile for me
maneesh··on Gas price drop hits 30 straight days as oil prices continue collapse
If your landlord raises your rent 4x, and then drops it to only 2x after a few months, does that prove your landlord is working towards your goal of spending less?
maneesh··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
As of 22:52 CET it's the top rated comment on this post. I've seen "this will get me down voted" at the top of a post's comments countless times but not once at the bottom.
maneesh··on World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)
India has dropped to just above replacement rate (2.2 births per women), down from just under 6 births per women in 1960

Africa fertility rate is dropping around 1.5% per year annually for the region as a whole.

Increasingly technologized populations drop fertility fast

maneesh··on Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
We could call it themybook.com
maneesh··on Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’
What?
maneesh··on We need to make adulthood more desirable
What location did you find, if you don't mind saying?
maneesh··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
It's 2088? Am I missing something?
maneesh··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
No shoes, no shirt, no service... Are you picketing 7-11?
maneesh··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I pay for raindrop.io. Their free version is fantastic and i recommend it
maneesh··on I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday
Yea, those dumb morons, finding meaning in their work and doing something they care about for a purpose they believe in. They’d all be better off as critics on online BBSs /s
maneesh··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
I agree that Reddit pushes too hard to get people to use the mobile app.

I found a good trick was to use AN app, just not their app. Apollo on iOS and Boost on android are really good alternatives to the official Reddit app, which is littered with ads.

maneesh··on Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes
Just us if we live in a simulation
maneesh··on Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes
While no single eukaryote did what you said, eukaryotes as a whole did, to some extent, during the Cambrian Explosion
maneesh··on Vector.js: an open source JavaScript library for creating interactive graphics
Crashes my Android chrome browser on a Google pixel 4 XL 67% of the time
maneesh··on Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?
One is development. The other is system ops. Some people like to handle both, and others don't.

I spent the last year migrating our backend off of heroku onto bare metal Proxmox servers with unlimited VMs. It blew my mind that 0, literally 0, of my developers took up my offer to give them free VMs (including KDE/Gnome with NoMachine/NX!!).

It turns out that my devs just want to be devs, and not use their free time to play on sys ops and k8s and ceph clusters.

When I saw this happen, I started hiring staff for sysops separately than expecting my devs to do so, and see much more clarity in output.

In summary, if you're writing the LAMP CRUD app, maybe someone else oughta be the one to deploy the service mesh.

maneesh··on Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel
I'm finishing my masters with Harvard Extension School and it's mostly as you say. It's good curriculum, pretty good professors (in comparison to my Stanford undergrad) but open-enrollment + Harvard's famous grade inflation does make it somewhat of a back door.
maneesh··on Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
Fmovies.to is an excellent example. Any others you know of?
maneesh··on Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides
Coinbase.com has/had 3x+ the fees of pro.coinbase.com. Likely the fees would have been much more reasonable by adding the subdomain.
maneesh··on Windmill.dev
I would love access! just tried to deploy and it threw me a docker authorization error.
maneesh··on Robinhood reports 43% revenue decline
I applied for a Robinhood account and was never approved, after sending in details 3-4 times.

Now, I find out from my bank, that Robinhood leaked my SSN, Drivers License#, Address, and Email to the dark web.

WTF!!!!

Is there any recourse here? My SSN is now all over the dark web.

maneesh··on Correlation Between Mask Compliance and Covid-19 Outcomes in Europe
The one sentence summary: “These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage.“

Should this source be trusted or not? If it’s trusted, does that mean that our efforts to mask were basically a waste of time, or not?

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