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neogodlesson If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

By perpetrator you mean the person postponing performing a code review?

Right? Right?!

Otherwise you place all burden on high performers to not only push PRs but babysit the rest of the team.

It's not an easy fix, especially with AI letting people cosplay as high performers.

neogodlesson If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

As someone who often submits significantly more PRs (without using AI) than teammates, it's not exactly a skill delta. Yes that helps but it's often only a piece of the puzzle. The other ingredients include motivations and culture. In such cases, something else is the driving force, such as posturing for promotion, stability, etc. My current team is massively low performing. Management pays some lip service to all the problems, but also runs things in a way that discourages high performance. It's not a good fit for me, as I want to tackle challenges head on, improve the environment, be productive, embrace change. I'm also very comfortable with the code base as well as the code review process, but I'm surrounded by "seniors" who do not know how to code review, and who are happy to drag their feet and spin their wheels for months before pushing out small PRs that hurt my brain. How can that little work be shown after months, barely functional at best?

We had better management for a few months, and many on the team were actually quickly closing the skill gap with me, but we had another shuffle and things are stupid once more.

So I'd offer that's option 3. (There's always a third option to any suggested either-or fallacy.)

neogodlesson What it feels like to work with Mythos

For the rare uninitiated:

https://xkcd.com/303/

neogodlesson 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

While others pointed out that Have I Been Pwned is (kind of) for this specific purpose, there is a limit of like 10 email addresses. Beyond that, you will have to have a paid subscription. You'll still get "alerts" without the subscription, but have no way of seeing which email addresses have made it into a leak somewhere. And the pricing cliff was pretty steep if I recall correctly.

Minimum ~$50 / year for 1 domain and up to 25 breached email addresses. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Subscription

I'm just one guy, but I have a lot of project domains. If I wanted to monitor 5 domains, it would cost me $443 / year.

neogodlesson Azure Linux Desktop

More on Azure Linux 4.0:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499 Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (boxofcables.dev)

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neogodlesson Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

Comparing a few based on cheapest annual plan that includes custom email domains:

mailbox.org € 30.00 / $34.71

10GB+5GB storage, ample aliases, multiple domains, up to 10 family accounts

proton.me € 41.04 / $47.88

15GB storage, 1 account, 10 encrypted email addresses, 1 domain

fastmail.com € 51.44 / $60.00

60 GB storage, 1 account, multiple domains

For more accounts/users (e.g. Proton Unlimited or Fastmail Family), the pricing is reasonable. But mailbox.org certainly looks like the best value at first glance unless you need a lot of storage. If you've got 6 users and/or several domains, FastMail does look pretty nice.

neogodlesson Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

> Sure, I could switch to a different mail client and never see any of these language model features, but my experience these past months has left such a bad taste that all I’m looking for now is a clean break.

neogodlesson Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

Heh, well I was kind of thinking, this sounds like something someone in sales or content management or marketing might think is pithy and thoughtful. And we are (or just were) in the "Information Age", so that's what has value. But also, there are lots of other ways to um... make money. Unless you try to twist your brain around "well selling kids' toys to parents is selling lies to someone who wants lied to" or something perverse like that. shrug Maybe the big article does a great job of exploring these ideas, but I don't think they stand up to much scrutiny.

neogodlesson Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

A few things:

- yes 401k fund options are negotiated by people that don't know I exist, or care

- but... how I allocate my contributions to those funds is under my discretion

- and... I've never stayed somewhere long enough to have a $600k 401k balance. As soon as I'm gone, I roll it over to a private account that I have full control over (and much lower expense ratios.)

So I don't really care if I'm in the door or laughed out the door, because it has no material affect on how I manage my finances.

neogodlesson Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.

neogodlesson Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

In general you should never "sell your 401k." Period. (Short of using it for income during retirement.)

What you should do is have an Investor Policy Statement[0].

This should contain at least two things:

- your desired Asset Allocation (e.g. 30% U.S. stocks, 30% International stocks, 20% U.S. bonds, 20% International bonds) which should be decided upon based on specific, personal goals and risk tolerance

- your strict policy rules for if and when to do anything, if ever, e.g. (don't sell anything ever, or... rebalance your portfolio if one of your allocations is more than 2% from the desired goal)

Now... if say U.S. stocks took a big dump in the next 6 months (while other asset classes either grew, held steady, or simply didn't drop as much), when it would drop below 28% of your allocation, and you'd open a spreadsheet and figure out which other asset classes to sell a few percentage of, to buy the reduced price U.S. stock funds. (This is a policy-driven buy low, sell high strategy.)

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Investment_policy_statement

neogodlesson MacBook Pro Rival with the Nvidia Powered Surface Laptop Ultra

"world makers", quite sober ;)

neogodlesson Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

My current experience is that out of ~20 devices, about 6 are on 5Ghz and the rest choose 2.4Ghz. And it's basically perfect.

Because the 6 devices on 5Ghz: laptops and smartphones.

The rest are "smart" devices that work perfectly on 2.4Ghz.

neogodlesson Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue

Continue? Y/N ── SCORE: 1,549 Security-Conscious Engineer

Caught 3/3 threats "Not a single secret leaked"

So are there 3 threats? 8? Is it a different game?

Does everyone get a "good" score even if they missed 5 threats?!

neogodlesson Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

The Omada device* I researched also supports standalone mode and hosts the web UI like any other consumer router.

* https://www.omadanetworks.com/us/business-networking/omada-r...

neogodlesson The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader

The squircles and rounded triangles kill the interior for me.

neogodlesson My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck

Came to the comment(s) looking for this game. I've played this! Fun!

It's interesting to explore the spectrum of what people find fun. In large groups, it seems like games that tilt heavily towards luck can be a great deal of fun for everyone, while "board gamers" (like me) enjoy games where you can learn and leverage strategies to gain advantage, and the role of luck is diminished (to varying degrees).

As a board game host, you have to get that spectrum, gauge group size and preference, and pick a game that will work for them. Strategic games, in particular, take learning the rules, learning the strategies, practicing them, learning your opponents... it can take a dozen games before you're competitive. And for a lot of people, almost none of those games will be any fun.

A few games kind of nail this with an unexpectedly even playing field, where strategy helps, but luck offsets it. If luck really offsets it, very strategic players will also find that it's no fun.

Some luck-based games I really like include Lords of Vegas (not to mention... just Vegas), Bunny Kingdom, and Flip 7.

A lot of card-based strategy games like Terraforming Mars and Wingspan certainly have some amount of luck in them, but it can be dwarfed by good synergy / strategy.

neogodlesson A portentous reunion

> comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty

> regulate their emotions

> Emotional intelligence

I'm not sure we read the same parent comment. There is almost nothing in there about emotional intelligence beyond learning self-regulation, but emotional intelligence is at least as much about understanding others' emotions, understanding social cues and etiquette. But the bulk of the parent comment is about adaptability, general self-awareness and self-examination.

You then make an argument that education does, in fact, teach those critical skills indirectly through basic subjects. Having given such a bold premise, you would need to back it up with at least some supporting evidence. Given that you provided none at all, you shouldn't be surprised that no one sees reason to agree with that premise.

neogodlesson The real cost of owning a home

Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

If you're just looking at the numbers, it's worth doing the math. Obviously many things will be estimates.

Most people don't do apples to oranges comparisons, because a 2-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom you're living in is not comparable to a 3-bedroom, 2 bathroom, quarter acre house on a lot you're considering buying.

So it's obviously not just math, but also preference, or need.

Local house prices, tax rates, utility rates, services for maintenance and upgrade... they'll all vary greatly depending on the area. And if you're moving from an urban apartment to a suburban house, you're changing how much you'll drive, maybe even need an additional car. But maybe you turn in your rail pass, and decide to cook at home more, and eat out less.

If you think you can decide this based on a formula (or some folk wisdom), well you probably can, for yourself. But of course there's no one universal right answer that applies to most people, because there are too many variables and too many options.

neogodlesson I Miss Terry Pratchett

If the AI-generated content doesn't push out all the good stuff, the absolute flood of accusing everything written everywhere as being written by AI will.

neogodlesson Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

In theory, maybe? This is behind a paywall...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-revi...

Title: Trump Mobile T1 phone test: device no longer ‘Made in the USA.’

Heading: We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA.’

And then there's https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-t1-trump-phone-is-the-same... (linked in the sibling comment at The Verge)

"Trump Phones Are Finally Here—And People Aren’t Happy"

neogodlesson U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190454 CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)

~7 hours ago, ~27 comments

neogodlesson New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

How close are we to all of the richest people being out of money?

neogodlesson US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

https://its.ucdavis.edu/blog/no-electric-vehicles-arent-driv...

This 5 year old study suggests that some early reports (on early EVs) lead us to believe that it was a universal truth. After all, the early BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf only had ~50-75 mile range. But even as far back as 2019, that had changed, and electric cars were being driven as much, and often more, than their gasoline equivalents.

neogodlesson US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

Average car gets 24.4 mpg, while federal gas tax is currently $0.183 / gallon.

US drivers average 13,476 miles (across gender / age groups).

So currently gas tax is ~$101.07 (for "cars", more for light trucks.)

As someone who drives 5000-6000 miles a year in an EV, I don't love $130 flat rate, but it's not far enough from the average gas tax to be wildly upsetting to me.

In my state, though, I'm already paying $250 / year, or about $0.04/mile. Gas tax here is $0.576/gallon which comes out to ~$318.12 annually, or $0.024 / mile for an "average" gas driver (using figures above). If I drove a more average amount, it would be inline.

As others have discussed, the trade-off of a flat fee is not having to devise ways to grant your exact miles driven data to the government, and the taxes are close enough to the gas taxes that I'm not going to be up in arms about it. I save way more than that having virtually no powertrain maintenance. (My state inspection was 15 minutes and $40. Basically they said, yup, it has tires.)

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10310

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/road-user-c...

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/revenue/resources/tax-rates/moto...

neogodlesson AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

52 weeks / 4 weeks = 13

neogodlesson Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

But raising the floor or having some improved tools available to pad your skillset is neither incredible nor unimaginable. Could you elaborate how you feel it would have been unimaginable before you started using Claude?

neogodlesson Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

That doesn't really clear anything up.

We've had large applications released by big companies before AI.

Windows 11 existed before Microsoft started relying on AI to contribute to the codebase. What incredible things have been added to Windows 11 now that Microsoft is using AI to write it?

neogodlesson Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

Can someone translate this?

> What we're capable of delivering now is incredible and would have been unimaginable just a few years ago

What I mean is - are there concrete examples, real world "things" that came from AI programming, that are incredible, and someone can talk about and point to how AI led to the thing being possible?

neogodlesson US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

https://apnews.com/article/us-inflation-consumer-iran-war-3f...

Consumer Price Index (CPI) vs Core CPI

The above link is a little dumb because their own graph only goes up to March. But it looks like in March Core CPI was 2.6% while CPI was 3.3%.

Still, the details are in the text:

> Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called consumer core prices rose 0.4% last month from March and 2.8% from April 2025