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r3dey3··on ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity
Yoto Mini (https://us.yotoplay.com/yoto-mini) is based around an esp32
r3dey3··on Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges
Sure it may not be total comp but if I see a range of 120-160k I'm not going to apply when my current base 180k.
r3dey3··on How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
https://github.com/R0GGER/public-iperf3-servers is also a good list - a couple more US servers in various datacenters
r3dey3··on I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations
1099 isn't payroll. It's paying a sub-contractor which is completely different.
r3dey3··on I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations
At least California is generous enough to require at least 25% of payroll. Most states, if you have even a single employee in that state you need to register as a business in that state (and pay associated filing fees and taxes).

This isn't really news. 15 minutes of reading about staring an LLC in Deleware and you'll find you have to register in the state you live as well - so it shouldn't be a shock you have to file in places you have employees.

1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit.

IANAL, this isn't legal advice, blah blah blah

r3dey3··on The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
without % it only does the change on the current line; and /g means change all occurrences instead of first (per line)
r3dey3··on Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
I have hybernation working fine with root and swap under lvm in a luks encrypted partition. Pretty sure when I set up ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 it just worked out of the box. Though sound doesn't like to come back properly for the headphone jack and I need to rmmod/modprobe the driver.
r3dey3··on Ask HN: How big are your tablespoons?
Americans often have set of measuring spoons (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=measuring+spoons) that have 1 Tablespoon, 1 Teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon, 1/4 teaspoon (some have 1/8 teaspoon too). As you found, a Tablespoon is an "exact" measurement and most don't use their actual eating utensils for cooking - though I'm sure at one point they were used.

Often I've found with watching cooking shows (and some of my own experience) when hosts say something like "add a ___ of blah" and then proceed to just pour it out of the container without exact measurement the reason they are giving a measurement is to give a rough approximate of how much but the exact amount doesn't really matter, though it never hurts to go towards the smaller for things like seasoning.

In terms of baking recipes (bread, cakes, cookies, etc) the exact amount matters more (chemistry or live things) but you can still be off by a bit and things will still work.

r3dey3··on DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes
I was really confused about eclipse season, as I thought the satellites were in the earth's shadow every day.. But that's not the case; due to how high they are, they usually always get sun, except for a few months in the spring and fall where the earths axis of rotation is not pointing towards/away from the sun. That few months is the eclipse season; and the eclipses happen once/day for a max of 72 minutes - which is where the batteries are needed.

http://www.intelsat.com/tools-resources/library/satellite-10...

r3dey3··on New York is proposing the creation of a 'public Venmo'
Many banks have free checking - with no catch (no direct deposit required, no minimum balance required, no max number of checks/withdraws)

I'm also pretty sure I didn't need to show an ID when signing up for a capital one 360 account online.. so even the ID thing is a stretch. but sure, I might accept not having an ID as a valid reason since you may need it to use your debit card and probably will for checks.

r3dey3··on Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
I've never tried any of the following, but have come across them:

* https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare

* https://tmate.io/

* https://github.com/yudai/gotty - actually gives you a tty in a browser

* https://github.com/dtinth/ttycast

(edit: formatting)

r3dey3··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
The browser sends the domain as part of the request to the U2F key; so a MITM would need to be a true network-level MITM and not just a fake website MITM. The user would then have to ignore the cert error as well.

I'm not saying it's not impossible, but the it's not the primary attack U2F is designed to prevent.

r3dey3··on Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch
I'm enjoying this; but it looks like a few of the levels might be out of order. In State Selector uses Decoder in the library but it is before decoder. Then in the Arithmetics the "Bus" comes into play before it's described (I forget exactly which ones are out of order)
r3dey3··on Reverse Shell from an OpenVPN Configuration File
In that case you're already running code from them so what's the difference if the "exploit" is in the script or the app.
r3dey3··on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will
How much did that cost? and how far are you from wherever it had to be run?
r3dey3··on Home computing for $5/month
None of Anker's batteries charge and provide power at the same time so they cannot be used as cheap UPSs.

I think you'd be better off looking at some of the DIY electronic battery things - eg WiMos battery shield or adafruit powerboost (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2465) and a LiPo battery, but they will only provide ~1 Amp.

r3dey3··on Pygorithm – A Python module for learning major algorithms
You must not have looked at linked list. Besides being non-pythonic and having get and set functions, they don't even consistently use them.

Then there's the bug that you can't delete the first node in a list.

And then there's the fact that double linked list doesn't have a tail pointer.

And then there's the fact that they use the same node class in double linked as single, but the previous member is set by the list, but isn't always set so you might get an exception some times.

Then there's the fact that search is only implemented for single linked .. Oh and its RECURSIVE!

It'd be one thing if this was just them showing how they learned something in a blog post... But this was meant for teaching.... And yet there's no description and clearly obvious bugs.

r3dey3··on Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation
Horribly broken url management.... selecting a city replaces the home page in history so you can't use the browser back button.

Plus the search recommends locations nowhere close to the search term... and has like 15 total destinations.

r3dey3··on Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during office hours?
Is he/she using company resources? Then if so I'd say fire them. Since the team noticed, is it because of lack of responsiveness or inability to complete work? Or just that they saw them doing it? If they are getting their work done what's the difference between spending that time on facebook/twitter/hacker news??
r3dey3··on Working from home may hurt your career
I was going to reply along the same lines. - Cooking food; you'd either do that before work, or go out to lunch - so you still have to take time out of your day. - Plumber; going to have to take a whole day off to wait for the plumber or if you can get a decent appointment, make sure to extend that an extra hour for the commute.

Plus the mistakes are very rookie mistakes that any WFH guide will tell you not to do. Almost all of them say have a dedicated work space so that your work mind can switch on and off.

The guy that tried being Mr Dad and WFH should have known better; kids require almost constant attention until they are in school. On the other hand, a few interruptions from family is no worse than those from your coworkers.

r3dey3··on What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
I think the calculator is out of wack for the anything but the coasts in the US. A GS-12 government worker (entry level tech position) would make more than Lead with Lots of experience in Cincinnati, OH; and a GS-13 would make more in most places.. with a GS-14 (what would be 'lead') completely blowing the scale.

I think the issue is their base salary is completely off.. Especially when the 'rent index' is based in NYC. A Junior Dev w/average experience would make 87k in NYC. A comparable government GS-13 position (average experience) in NYC would make 95k.. that 8k difference compounds a lot when multiplying.

Also I don't believe the rent index. Who cares where your employee lives (at least country by country) - if they want to live in the midwest, why not pay them the same as somebody who chooses to live in California, especially if you are an entirely remote company.