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I have this exact build of MacBook Air and in day to day use browsing the web, doing some light coding, and connecting to Kubernetes clusters hosted in the cloud, I don't really notice. There is definitely some disk swapping occurring but you don't really notice it in small amounts due to how fast the SSDs are.

Would I recommend the 8GB of RAM to someone who wants to use it as their primary development machine or for heavy photo editing, absolutely not. Would I say it's OK for casual use, yes.

Do I think Apple is being stingy considering their incremental cost for an extra 4GB or 8GB of RAM in the base model would be tiny, yes.

I always thought the sums people were paying for MBAs was absolutely outrageous. In tech I feel like MBAs can actually work against you and can be perceived as a red flag. I knew someone a decade ago who paid I believe $120k to Duke Fuqua for a mostly online MBA that also required travel to multiple international destinations. This was a person in their late 20s.

Battery preconditioning for DC fast charging is available on some CCS cars as well and is getting more common. Sometimes it's manually trigger-able and sometimes it's integrated into navigation.

This is so hot it’s cool.

I believe founders will own a percentage of the company outright as recorded in the cap table.

Exercising NSOs generates taxable income on the difference between the exercise price and the Fair Market Value (FMV) as determined by the current 409A valuation.

Exercising ISOs does not generate taxable income nor immediate capital gains when the option is exercised, but you will generate capital gains in the future on the difference between the sold price and the strike price when you sell your exercised options. If you are higher income, which is common if you work for a startup on the product and engineering teams, the difference between the strike price and the FMV when exercising the option counts towards AMT calculations.

It's common to pay AMT when exercising ISOs but you do generate AMT credits that can be used in future tax years when your taxable income and capital gains are below the threshold for triggering AMT.

Carta has a great article on ISOs vs NSOs that goes into more detail: https://carta.com/blog/equity-101-exercising-and-taxes/

The vast majority of candidates below the VP level will not be successful in negotiating the exercise window. Certainly not a startup past the seed round.

Also this title is clickbait, no one forced this person to pay anything. Walking away from equity for free is always an option that some people take.

Delightful!

Those features would be enough for me to happily upgrade my Series 4.

Thanks for the information! I am tempted to upgrade my 2018 when the next revision (M1X or M2?) Mac mini comes out to improve the display refresh rate issues.

I have a 2018 Mac Mini driving two 4K displays with Display Port over USB-C cables. I previously was driving 2 x 24" 2K displays (same cables) and had no performance problems. Once I upgraded to the 4K displays I've observed very noticeable display draw performance issues. It's not enough for me to give up the 4K displays but I'm wondering if this is improved on the current M1 Mac mini?

Did anyone else initially read the title as "Show HN: Anon -- Create anonymous, self-defeating blog posts"?

I was rafting in Montana last summer and we got the treat of seeing several osprey and eagles during our trip. Such cool birds of prey!

Fluentd (https://www.fluentd.org) is a great alternative to Logstash that I've had a lot of success with. It is easy to pair with Elasticsearch and Kibana and myriad other inputs and outputs.

I also remember the extremely poor customer service provided by taxi cabs. Dirty cars, rude drivers who acted as if they were doing you a favor instead of engaging in a business transaction. The taxi cartels are no better than Uber and Lyft corporations for sure.

This is an interesting position. I have always thought that font and font rendering were always an especially pernicious issue with Linux and a relative joy on MacOS?

I experienced this issue using an HDMI to DVI adapter from my 2018 Mac mini to a Dell Ultrasharp display. After purchasing a replacement cable that didn't remedy the problem, I discovered that it's a known issue.

The fix was to use a USB-C -> DisplayPort cable (using DisplayPort via USB-C alternative mode). It appears that the HDMI port can't be used with a DVI converter. DVI ports have been replaced by DisplayPort, HDMI, and DisplayPort for some time but it was still a disappointment.

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work on Grafana. It's an indispensable tool that I couldn't do my job without!

What datasource are you using? I've only used Grafana as a visualizer and use other alerting/monitoring against that datasources. At my current employer, Prometheus is the data source and we use Alert Manager which allows us to write alerts in PromQL which is very flexible.

Wow that's crazy. In Seattle liquor stores, breweries (take-away only), beer bottle shops, and marijuana stores are all included under the "essential" exemption. I can't imagine the upheaval we'd have if the government had shut them.

I'm sorry to hear this. In a subscription model world, Omni stand out in producing very high quality one time purchase software. I love OmniGraffle! Such a great product once you learn it.

At prior company we used Secor to backup Kafka topics to S3 and would use to replay/reingest data with success. If I were to reimplement Kafka somewhere new it would definitely be one of my "Go to Production" requirements.

Hulu on my Apple TV 4K works great for me. I've been very impressed although I also have a good experience with Netflix and Amazon Prime and I do have a fiber internet connection.

Because they’re the right tool for the job. MacBooks aren’t perfect but I can’t imagine a productive workflow without them in my experience. Perhaps your requirements are different than others?

There are many people who work in tech who highly value location and quality of life. I've lived in the Midwest, the South, and now Seattle. If you enjoy the outdoors, hiking, skiing/riding, sailing, mountain biking, kayaking, etc., but you want to earn strong compensation with the security of having many employment options there are relatively few good options.

There are other chicken and egg dynamics such as a large city is likely top have a large airport with lots of direct flights which is helpful for business and leisure travel.

Employers, especially startups and growth companies, want to hire top talent (and poach top talent from similar firms). That means they want to be located where there is a baseline of other similar firms.

Remote work is slowly changing that dynamic but the gravity of the city is strong.

I saw Julia speak at KubeCon last year in Seattle. She’s a talented engineer who has found a unique and approachable way of teaching DevOps/SRE tooling and concepts. I wish her much happiness and success in the next year!

Respectfully, that's not a good reason to use public cloud providers like AWS. They provide features and tooling that make building redundancy into your services easier but for many of these redundancy features you must integrate them into your infrastructure design to take advantage of them.

Computer science is not software engineering.

They are both very valuable and are extremely complementary but they are not the same thing. As you enter the workforce, understanding this distinction will serve you well.

There are a few reasons this is an unlikely scenario: 1) You need to unlock the phone to access the Amazon Go app QR code 2) There isn't just a door to the store, there are security portals that make it difficult to tailgate 3) If a thief is bold enough to steal a phone, they're not interested in petty convenience store theft, they're going to flip that phone for cash

A flock of thieves wouldn't be stopped by a convenience store clerk either. By requiring Amazon Go customers to be registered Amazon customers, Amazon have already significantly reduced the "shoplifting surface". If you're in a city that mandates that customers can use cash, they must interact with an employee in the store (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-go-store-how-to-pay-c...).