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ryaan_anthony

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ryaan_anthony··on Making my own wedding rings
this is what i did! it cost me less than 100 bucks in supplies and just under 2k in various gold (14k-18k) i bought on ebay. i mixed in enough 24k to bring it up to 42 grams of 18k. i cast two sets of rings (11g + 2g) and had some leftover gold to recast into grains to share with our parents and future children.
ryaan_anthony··on Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment
now do a poll: would you rather spend 10B on a telescope or X?
ryaan_anthony··on AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next
Is this the new cookie clicker?
ryaan_anthony··on The Eraser Men
no extension poles? thats back breaking work..
ryaan_anthony··on A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
1995 - the year JS was first released
ryaan_anthony··on TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
not all taxable income is reported to the IRS
ryaan_anthony··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
So who decides what is true/accurate? Is this action just related to the current election or will this extend to other "fake news" and elections in other countries? Covid news comes to mind.
ryaan_anthony··on Moving OkCupid from REST to GraphQL
reviewing profiles one a time allowed them to jam more ads down your throat. it ruined the experience and made it way more time consuming to use their app
ryaan_anthony··on Notes on My Colon Cancer
The prep juice tastes so nasty but you are right about feeling refreshed. After the colonoscopy I had intense cravings for a cheeseburger and milkshake, but let me tell you that was a mistake! It gave me the worst acid reflux. Keep in mind your insides are virgin again after the prep juice. It causes you to shed the lining of your stomach, I'll be smarter next time.
ryaan_anthony··on Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
Even if zero hedge has an extreme right bias, does that mean everything they report is fake news? Was seth rich really shot twice in the back and not robbed despite the official story saying he's a robbery victim? He certainly had access to the DNC emails and was a devote bernie sanders supporter. It's a low barrier to connect those dots and it becomes even more suspicious when left wing media and "fact checking" websites jump to calling it a conspiracy theory. It seems a lot more likely than the russian story which is falling apart every day with official memos saying hillary pushed the russian narrative to distract from her email server. I'd love to believe we live in a fair and just society, but maybe we dont.
ryaan_anthony··on Show HN: Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer
Gotta say, the docs alone are impressive
ryaan_anthony··on First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate
Despite what you see in social media, most people are not a stereotype.
ryaan_anthony··on Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS
Starting with voting machines!
ryaan_anthony··on Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?
I organized a cookie swap. There are dozens of process improvements and internal efforts that I've had success with but the cookie swap is my favorite story. Without some culture, work is work.
ryaan_anthony··on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
When i exercise or try to meditate i just wind up thinking about things i need to do, and i typically abandon my workout to go do it. It can be as simple as picking up a dirty sock or putting away a coffee cup.
ryaan_anthony··on Ask HN: What do you use for SSH key management of teams?
we use signed certs with authorized principals to manage access [1] and sign the certs after successful MFA. if you need a non-interactive connection you can use token authentication to fetch a cert.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/security/scalable-and-secure-acce...

ryaan_anthony··on Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
ive worked for 2 fortune 50s and in both cases i had lots of autonomy and ownership of the product and process.. however other teams in the same org were clearly being burned out and worked to the bone by their bosses. its a management thing. smaller companies have fewer managers so your odds of working under a bad one go up.
ryaan_anthony··on I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
gonna make it faster?
ryaan_anthony··on Hackers are defacing Reddit with pro-Trump messages
I wonder why they would do that.
ryaan_anthony··on Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
Just wait til you get lantern flies, they're no where near as cool.
ryaan_anthony··on Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
i keep buying them new/old stock for $100 on ebay.. they last a year or more -- just a little slow sometimes. i have one more in my desk drawer and i might upgrade after that one.
ryaan_anthony··on Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform
Publix makes great subs but i definitely wasn't thinking about them at first.
ryaan_anthony··on Shirt Without Stripes
What does the color of people's skin in search results have to do with morality? I was raised not to see color, now we have this "progressive" movement hell bent on manipulating search results to disproportionately represent minorities. If you want to filter your search results based on the color of skin you can do that easily.
ryaan_anthony··on Macy’s to Furlough 100k Employees
Only if you are fired or quit. If you are laid off, you have the option to continue your insurance at your employers discounted rate. The program is called COBRA if you want to look into it.
ryaan_anthony··on Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls
shoutout to princeton radio! wprb.com i love their deejays and all their crazy selections
ryaan_anthony··on Ask HN: How do you do home surveillance?
guns and insurance riders. low tech but i sleep well at night
ryaan_anthony··on Ask HN: Are RSUs worth your loyalty?
Or if the company is sold before you vest, the new management can decide not to honor your RSUs. It happened to me!
ryaan_anthony··on A Lonely Plea: ‘Anybody Need a Grandma for Christmas?’
Living in a densely populated city like LA just compounds the loneliness as you are constantly surrounded by happy people and groups of friends/family. I went through it myself for a few years. The best thing i did was to go find a random spot to eat out. Eating alone used to be really hard for me, but i got over it and i would come home feeling 100% better mood.