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tylermac1··on I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit
I visited Jabra's website the other day, browsed a couple product pages and then left. Sure enough about 24 hours late I get an email with a subject like "Come check out some of these products you missed."

How the hell is that legal?

tylermac1··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
Is that something specific to CA?

I've worked remotely for 5 years and have only ever paid state income tax in my home state, not wherever my employer is.

tylermac1··on March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
School wasn't cancelled nationwide in early March. My area didn't cancel school until March 15th.
tylermac1··on Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19
I have to say. Staying off Twitter and avoiding any non-local news has been incredibly beneficial to my mental health over the past few weeks.
tylermac1··on Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
Anecdotally, I know way more people who avoid the doctor due to unknown treatment costs than go too often. My relatives that work in healthcare seem to agree.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
Love 25W bulbs for bedrooms. Perfect amount of light to provide a relaxed atmosphere.
tylermac1··on MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
FWIW I have the 16" Pro and haven't noticed the fans other than when I'm running a LOT of stuff (either a game or a heavy Docker workflow).
tylermac1··on Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?
I think they're joking.
tylermac1··on Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home
That's incredible. My gas bill in the winter for a 100yo house is more than that. Very jealous.
tylermac1··on Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125
A 10% off coupon that I not only received a few days ago, but has to be used before Jan 1, 2020. Just a middle finger to the people who's data they were irresponsible with.
tylermac1··on Risk of Acute MI After the Death of a Significant Person in One's Life (2012)
Also called "taktsubo cardiomyopathy" or "heartbreak syndrome".
tylermac1··on Why you should have a side project
It's a by-product of feeling like they're missing out on something. Also, some narratives around software side projects pit them as something you have to be doing in order to be successful. That's not true at all, but if you're even slightly insecure about your skills could elicit negative reactions.
tylermac1··on Why you should have a side project
Couple thousand dollars/year and some great experiences with friends.

Likely way more than what I would get out of trying to build a software product myself.

tylermac1··on Why you should have a side project
The people that I see react most negatively to the suggestion of having a "side project" are those that either don't enjoy programming or don't have time to outside of work.

That being said, I think the main point that most people fail to get across about "side projects" is that they don't have to be programming. I play music with a band in the area and would very much consider that to be a side project.

It would be a much healthier exercise if we focused the narrative on doing anything you enjoy outside of work.

tylermac1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)
Location: Midwest US

Remote: Yes (have been full-time remote for 4 years)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#/.NET Core, SQL, Python, Git, AWS, Docker (Swarm/Compose)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermcentee/

Email: tyler [dot] mcentee [at] gmail [dot] com

I'm a back-end developer with a passion for developer tooling and automating painful processes.

tylermac1··on Update from Chef
That stance just ignores the opioid epidemic in America.

/s "whataboutism" is a useless venture

tylermac1··on Update from Chef
The idea is to avoid normalizing the actions of ICE. Public perception is one of the largest drivers of change in government. Look at things like marriage equality and marijuana usage have driven legislation over time.

Whether or not Chef dropping ICE as a customer directly saves one kid isn't the only marker of success. The combination of hamstringing operations along with increased public awareness are steps along the path to shutting them down for good.

I also agree there is a moral obligation in advertising unhealthy foods, but equating the damages of that to ICE just undermines the efforts of both avenues.

tylermac1··on Update from Chef
That's quite the stretch. Equating the moral issue of detaining children indefinitely to producing a beverage is really something.
tylermac1··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
The 8th largest city in my state has a population of 16,000.
tylermac1··on M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
The contextual difference here is that many of these people are being criticized for working with Epstein well after his conviction. There's a big difference between pre and post conviction, even though it was somewhat of an "open secret" before he was even charged.
tylermac1··on Raspberry Pi 4 Review
Same here. I ordered a 2GB board around 3am Central US on launch day and mine still says it'll ship "in 2 days"
tylermac1··on Raspberry Pi 4
Amazon
tylermac1··on Most male managers are afraid to have one-on-one meetings with female employees
I would think a simpler solution would be to maybe not be a creep?
tylermac1··on Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review
As my flight anxiety will tell you, there's nothing safer than not going anywhere at all.
tylermac1··on How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
I wore the same pair of Warby Parker glasses daily for 6 years before my son broke them. They are very good for the price.
tylermac1··on Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
I'm currently working with on-site hospital data and have been designing our own in-house federated library on top of Keras to train in-aggregate while leaving all data on-site.
tylermac1··on Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
There are many ways to combine results during training in a federated workflow. One method I'm currently using on healthcare imaging data is to simply average each client's weights after every epoch. My server gathers all client updates, averages the weights, and sends the new calculated wights back to the clients to continue training.
tylermac1··on Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?
You said you saw it a week later. He could've looked at your profile any time in that week to establish a viable connection between you two.
tylermac1··on BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers
Every job I've had has paid accrued PTO/Vacation when being let go or even leaving on your own will.
tylermac1··on BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers
I think it's only mandatory in California.
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