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mmacvicarprett··on No More JetBrains Products for Me
I am on the same boat. The only one I was still using was datagrip, over the last months it became unbearable slow and started crashing due to memory.
mmacvicarprett··on Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)
How to quickly kill a language primarily meant for technical computing.
mmacvicarprett··on Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)
Do you mean any specific library?
mmacvicarprett··on Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
Can they pay with stock?
mmacvicarprett··on Brazil's top court rules US laws do not apply to its territory
“those providing material support to human rights abusers face sanctions risk themselves.” The irony, this comes from a government with strong ties to Saudi Arabia, Israel and El Salvador.
mmacvicarprett··on Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
I am a paying user! the app is really good, it helped me as an adult starting piano 2 years ago.

Main feature request would be to generate the notes from a score, focusing in the intervals, ranges and patterns the score uses. Doing random notes feels weird, it helps with quick recognition but feels very different to what my head wants to do while playing.

mmacvicarprett··on TikTok goes dark in the US
I think the point is that China does not present itself as the paladin of free spech and individual liberties.
mmacvicarprett··on Dust XP1 switches to GPT-3.5-turbo, is now free to use
"Mr X is an experienced software engineer with over 500 connections". ChatGPT learns from the best bullshit as well.
mmacvicarprett··on The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience
Apple makes great hardware, good OSs, horrible apps, indecent websites. Also, they use a very preechy way of advising, which for me means they think they are right, instead of looking at the market to tell us what works or not.
mmacvicarprett··on Unity merges with IronSource
As of today, unity is worth 10-12bi, Ironsrc intended to go public at around 11bi last year, now they are being acquired at 4.4bi. Ironsrc main competitor, AppLovin is worth 12bi. Ironsrc 2021 revenue was 553m, Unity revenue was 1.1bi. However, Ironsrc had a net income of 21m and Unity had a net loss of 531m. Both hold around 0.7bi and 1bi in cash respectively.

So is Ironsrc much smaller? I do not think so.

mmacvicarprett··on Ask HN: What stack for a multiplayer board game?
This platform looks very cool! https://www.boardible.com/
mmacvicarprett··on I hate what video games have become
You are missing one big and relevant point, the goal is not to get money for every small change but that now nobody needs to pay $20 to play the game. It is done to grow the game but by drastically increasing its reach. For a competitive multiplayer game that is a very good thing.
mmacvicarprett··on Ask HN: Alternative ways to move a dog, human, and some baggage overseas?
+1 I moved from Chile to the US and then from the US to Brazil, the experience was ok. Everyone goes in the same plane.

The only part that was harder was taking the dog out in Brazil. In the US he was delivered to US in the Luggage area, in Brazil we had to go to the cargo areas and deal with some bureaucracy. Knowing how it will work in advance can save a lot of time, potentially get a service in the destination country that knows how to do it in case it is needed.

mmacvicarprett··on Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
It is just an alien intergalactic VOR
mmacvicarprett··on Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare
What is preventing the US from putting a QR in those cards as many other countries?
mmacvicarprett··on Ask HN: I’m starting a new job and things feel off. Am I overreacting?
The higher the role in the hierarchy, the more common is for me to see involving the new person as soon as possible, specially if there is a rare opportunity, like participating in an offsite or event that could provide a lot of context and happens close (some weeks before) the starting date. Many the times the new hire himself request it.

Said that, if you are not comfortable doing it, you shouldn't. It would be a warning signal if they make a situation about it. I wouldn't make it a thing of whether you should be compensated or not but in the future I would expect the same consideration when you ask for an hour here and there as well. It is about trust.

The HR and IT things are more common than you believe, shit happens. That might or might not mean that some processes are not working well, just send the feedback. I do not see why you feel obligated to wait for the FedEx package if they did not ask you if you could wait for it. It makes me feel you are not comfortable being candid.

mmacvicarprett··on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
This is a great insight of a consequence that is unlikely to be considered.
mmacvicarprett··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
Not surprising, the candidate did fail at acknowledge who the interviewer was to adapt their answers. It was a recruiter reading answers from a sheet, the simpler you keep it the highest the chance of passing the stupid test.
mmacvicarprett··on Rust Moderation Team Resigns
It means the leadership is willing to accept responsibility, not just accepting negative feedback but also working with others to correct the behaviors. In this case I would say it would involve admitting a violation happened and to say what will be done differently in the future.

I can see how this can be extremely complicated, depending on the type of CoC violation people tend to be extremists, forget about being constructive (to assume good intentions) and immediately grab the pitchforks.

mmacvicarprett··on One painful meeting with Steve Jobs
I think you are missing the point, knowing is not about conviction but facts. OP put emphasis in it, he not just think he knew. If you say you know something it is expected that you have reasonable arguments and evidence to back them up. It is fine if you are wrong but if you do it without anything to show then you are just bullshitting.
mmacvicarprett··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
Nice page, quite generic. My experience is that in practice such frameworks do not help much.
mmacvicarprett··on Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse
Valve has been using deep learning detection to analyze replays for years. Based on behaviors like reaction times and shooting precision they can flag suspicious cases. They are completely wrong thinking it is undetectable.
mmacvicarprett··on What Does My Site Cost?
The cost numbers does not make any sense for me, you get 8gb for 10 usd in Brazil postpaid, around 3 times lower than the prices used.
mmacvicarprett··on Reddit’s disrespectful design
"An obvious attempt to effectively shame people into using it." "I would assume that they’re actively alienating their users."

I hope you are being ironic.

mmacvicarprett··on Frozen in Siberian Permafrost for 24,000 Years, Microscopic Animal Comes to Life
Maybe it is not bats we should be worried about
mmacvicarprett··on Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research
I sounds to me that when you say that many people end up spending totally crazy amounts for their income and essentially ruin their life you are just referring to anecdotes (kid using mom phone with activated credit card and no protections), what makes you think this is a real and big problem?
mmacvicarprett··on Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research
"limited time offers and special deals", like literally any company selling something out there.

"The report said that many games use a "psychological nudge" to encourage people to buy loot boxes - such as the fear of missing out on limited-time items or special deals"

mmacvicarprett··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Why do they need IMEI for? and mac addresses of close networks (besides location).

When the user gives consent for PII like IMEI, location, networks mac addresses?

I wonder if both companies might be breaching the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA").

mmacvicarprett··on Ask HN: Is it bad that I don’t want to be a senior engineer?
No, it is fine if that is the role you enjoy and you do not the expectation of being compensated at a higher level.
mmacvicarprett··on Launch HN: Atrato (YC W21) – Credit Card Alternative for Latin America
It should, in brasil there are around a dozen of them!
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