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Tech lead @ANZx Email- rob@robryan.me Github - https://github.com/robryanx @_RobRyan
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robryan··on Ask HN: Taking 6-12 months off work?
I did 6 months and would recommend. In my case it was much more being burnt out on the job than programming so I kept busy contributing to open source.
robryan··on Why I stopped using an external monitor
I think even if I preferred a single screen I'd keep another one around so more easily screen share and be able to keep some things offscreen.
robryan··on Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
Maybe if Facebook was building their own Roblox or similar people might get behind that. It seems to be all in on VR though.
robryan··on Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
Obviously PayPal works for lots of businesses. Will just say though that any support/ account manager contacts you have in PayPal become useless when a walled off trust and safety team permanently suspend your account.
robryan··on Bing AI can't be trusted
It has been shown to fail in less predictable ways. We have a good intuition of the stupid things people are going to do on the roads.
robryan··on PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years
Apple going to have a hard time getting people with M1 macs to upgrade any time soon.
robryan··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Isn't it more the scheduling of meetings? Does slack have a reasonable way to schedule huddles and integrate them with calendars? My company does scheduled meetings on teams and everything else on slack.
robryan··on Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
This seems fair enough. There is pretty big value in it avoids potentially millions of pictures needing to be taken to train the AI on, they should pay something for that.
robryan··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
I wouldn't say it is being punished, it is merely the share price being readjusted based on the new information compared to the predicted information.
robryan··on Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning
Yeah pretty cheap and easy, at least relative to the value of data to most companies to setup a server you have physical control of to go download the backup once per day.
robryan··on Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning
Yeah ideally hold onto a backup for say a year, if the owner hasn't come and downloaded it after a year can then assume that they don't want it.
robryan··on Surgeon General says 13 is ‘too early’ to join social media
Maybe you can restrict social media in terms of connecting to everyone, but I don't think you can or should stop 13 year olds from being able to talk to their friends with the various group messangers.
robryan··on Job Hunting in 2022
Or if there is some freedom around questions pick something that can be worked through. The worst are questions where if you don't know the algorithm or data structure there is no way to work it out from first principles.
robryan··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
Enforce it on clients over a certain number of users where they are big enough to manage following a bunch of rules around the ads. Then they can be audited to make sure they get doing it correctly.
robryan··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
The other weird thing is why only some 3rd party clients, was it the big ones that got cut? Harpy which I use seems to be working fine.
robryan··on Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages
PHP? You could argue Facebook but they mostly went and built their own thing that at best was inspiration of later PHP versions.

As far as I know currently the only real paid full time contributors are from the relatively newly formed PHP foundation.

robryan··on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
Interesting as for me it mostly just works, I wonder if has to do with the dock as much as the software.
robryan··on SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
It seems like all of these offers were about as likely to go through as the binance one. It isn't really surprising that there would be a lot of parties interested in taking a look at doing an offer. None of them were going to invest after even a cursory look at the finances.
robryan··on My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
Sublime still feels a bit snappier to me. The ecosystem around it has obviously fallen behind a bit now though.
robryan··on The Twitter Files
Even if he was, it is only going to turn the vote of someone looking for any reason to vote for Trump, given the whole Trump family was basically leveraging Trump being president for their own high paying/ high status positions.
robryan··on The Twitter Files
The US just needs preferences and compulsory voting and it would probably be fine. Australian election this year had 32% of the vote outside the 2 main parties, in the US this is more like 2%.
robryan··on FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
Similar case in Australia where they bought a company that already had a financial services license: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/23/ftx-b...
robryan··on Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
In Australia a lot of their delivery is Uber style drivers and is usually faster than other options.
robryan··on Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
The seller could argue that it was damaged in transit. The whole thing would probably be luck of the draw in how their first level support in India chooses to apply guidelines.
robryan··on 2 Years at Twitter
They set an interest rate in line with the risk that they are taking on. It seems like a pretty unlikely scenario where Twitter is worth nothing, if it goes bankrupt there can probably be a fairly sizable sale to recoup some value.

Allowing so long for the deal to close may have been a mistake due to what happened in the market between when they agreed to terms and when the deal closed.

robryan··on How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
For most normal countries that aren't engaged in a power struggle against the world order it is probably safest for them if no one else can have them.

The problem with nukes is that any one competent holder of nukes can basically trigger mutually assure destruction, so more actors are likely going to be more dangerous than the danger from the current holders.

robryan··on Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party
Probably after they were already dead but also Discord. Online communication is so easy and good now. My friends have talked about having some LANs again but it is so easy to just play online that it never happens.
robryan··on FTX’s balance sheet was bad
I was thinking about this. A chartiable explaination would be that individual companies in the group have proper balance sheets but there was no nice collation of just the material assets of the whole group.
robryan··on Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
Google plus had 90 million users sign up in the first 6 months.
robryan··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Airwallex is another good choice now, their API/ sdks aren't as mature as stripe but are catching up. If you are charging in multicurrrncy can actually end up with a much better deal on Airwallex.
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