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whichdanon Thermal Pad ‘Mod’ Makes M2 MacBook Air Faster Than 13″ M2 Pro

The marketing seems pretty straightforward? M1/M2/M3 (and their sub-variants) and fan/no-fan are the two performance aspects, and then you just decide whether you want a 13"/14"/16".

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

Corvus Insurance | Senior Software Engineer | Boston, MA | US Remote

https://www.corvusinsurance.com/careers?gh_jid=4455611003

We're a rapidly growing InsurTech startup (Series C, 50+ in Engineering) looking for Senior Software Engineers who want to write Elixir/Elm/GraphQL with us (even if you're new to FP!). We've used functional languages since Day 1, deliver software in 5-week cycles, and have an excellent culture with a very diverse and queer team.

whichdanon USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

I'm currently waiting to get a Dell UltraSharp 27" 4K U2723QE delivered. It's ~$630 and has a USB 3.2 Gen2 Hub:

- HDMI 2.2

- DisplayPort 1.4 Input

- DisplayPort 1.4 Output

- USB-C Upstream (PD 90W + DP 1.4 Alt Mode)

- USB-C Upstream (KVM)

- USB-C Downstream

- 5x USB-A Downstream

- Audio line-out

- LAN (RJ-45)

As far as I can tell it has the best connectivity and specs of any mainstream consumer monitor under $1k. It really doesn't feel worth it to spend $250-400 on a dock given the price point of these monitors.

It also doesn't have a power brick, which makes cable management a bit easier too.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-4k-u...

whichdanon Tell HN: Make sure to configure DKIM/SPF with Fastmail

Originally, Fastmail only had you add MX records. The DKIM/SPF change was more recent (as in, sometime in the past 16 years :) due to changing standards around email deliverability.

whichdanon IQ test for SW Eng interview?

Oh I had to take an IQ test for a company I applied for last year and it was one of (several) reasons I turned down the offer. It's such a weird and archaic way to vet candidates. I've never had another company ask for me to take one.

whichdanon Slack System Status

Finally, a chance for Zoom Chat to shine! /s

whichdanon Phone is still the best way to order pizza

Huh, I wouldn't have expected any of these numbers, given that Boston has a zillion Domino's and, at best, one each of the others.

whichdanon 70 First Co-Founder Dates

Sure, but managing that risk is still solely on the woman's side, so it's understandable that a cold message would intrinsically have lower value than it might to a man.

whichdanon immudb – world’s fastest immutable database, built on a zero trust model

What would be the benefit of an immutable API?

Semi-relatedly, Stripe has a great post[0] on how they handle backwards-compatibility with their API.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning

whichdanon Show HN: Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations

As far as I've seen, that's really the only way. Maybe with a slight throttle for the onMouseMove handler if the performance isn't great.

I wonder if a different UX would help? Like clicking on a card and clicking on the drop target instead of dragging it? It would be less tactile but also a lot nicer on a trackpad.

whichdanon Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech

Keeping a spreadsheet is such a good idea - during my last search I was talking to a dozen different companies initially, and it would have been impossible to keep on top of everything without some sort of organization.

whichdanon We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider

Same, I've been on Fastmail for 14 years and this is the first time I can remember them being down for more than a few minutes.

whichdanon Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week

Oh I would easily take a 20% paycut to have Fridays off forever.

whichdanon Discipline by King Crimson

I did not expect to see a Magma discussion on HN, haha. I saw them live back in 2015 and it was so surreal.

whichdanon Discipline by King Crimson

Gordian Knot[0] did about 20 years ago :) They're former Death/Cynic[1] members.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMamvozbIJY [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot_(band)

whichdanon Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)

I was thinking more like Sidekiq - https://sidekiq.org/products/enterprise.html

whichdanon Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)

I wish more open source projects had an "enterprise" plan with a few inconsequential features and maybe priority support - just enough to justify a line item on a tech org's budget.

whichdanon Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

I've been working on a lightweight Chrome Extension and it's been really, really frustrating. The documentation is all over the place and it's sometimes unclear what's for v2 vs v3, and there aren't any deep-dive guides for solving non-trivial problems. There also isn't really any tooling for development besides "reload the extension in Chrome and see if it works."

whichdanon Elm at Rakuten

We're using Elixir on the backend at Corvus Insurance and it's quite nice.

whichdanon The largest wildfire in the US is only 7% contained

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/controlled-b...

Check out "controlled burning" - it effectively achieves the same thing.

whichdanon Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

I'm sure it's a huge percentage but I doubt 54c/yr/domain is really going to make a dent.

whichdanon 4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity

Honestly, talking to a therapist might be the best start. You shouldn't have to feel anxious all of the time, and there are lots of different ways you can work on managing and minimizing your anxiety so you can have your weekends back to yourself again!

whichdanon Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0

fwiw, most folks would just use Lodash[0]:

  import times from 'lodash.times'

[0] https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#times

whichdanon Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?

What's the alternative? You could try to centralize all of your apps onto Google or Microsoft or Zoho, but frankly if you want the best user experience, you have to work with several different companies.

whichdanon Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible

huh, I never realized tapping the address was separate from tapping the top of the screen

whichdanon Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible

Having to scroll to get any controls to appear is such a mediocre UX

whichdanon Killing TurboTax

Excited for this to get turned into an interstitial when posting a new story "are you sure we need to discuss this again?"

whichdanon M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time

Baseline M1 MBA, about 1 month of regular usage

  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    9,670,166 [4.95 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 6,898,714 [3.53 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 75,916,955
  Host Write Commands:                41,914,954
  Power Cycles:                       80

Fwiw, my swap tends to hover around 2.5-3gb lately

whichdanon Ask HN: Are you experiencing kernel panics on your M1 Mac?

Data point of 1, but I haven't had any problems with my M1 MBA.

whichdanon Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

I used to love experimenting with LiteStep and Winamp themes and browser themes when I was younger, but honestly user interfaces are Good Enough now that I'm relatively happy with the out-of-the-box experience. But it's still disappointing that a generation of potential computer nerds won't have the same experience of being able to treat their primary computer as a blank slate for personal expression.