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bythckr commented on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?    · Posted by u/davidkuennen
bythckr · a year ago
I use search engine for 2 purpose and not sure if its a common practice across.

Specific search expecting 1 answer. These type search is enhanced by ChatGPT. Google is losing here.

Wild goose chase / brainstorming. For this, I need a broad set of answers. I am looking for a radically different solution. Here, today's Google is inferior to the OG Google. That is for 2 reasons.

1. SEOs have screwed up the results. A famous culprit is pinterest and many other irrelevant site that fill the first couple of pages.

2. Self-sensoring & shadow banning. Banning of torrent sites, politically motivated manipulation. Though the topic I am searching is not political, there is some issue with the result. I can see the difference when I try the same in Bing or DuckDuckGo.

bythckr commented on Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?    · Posted by u/CodinM
bythckr · 2 years ago
I have personally used fastmail and I am happy.

I have personally felt Microsoft/Outlook service is better than Gmail. I have a couple of clients in shipping business, and they had issues with Gmail. Moved them to Outlook in 2018 and they are still happy.

Of recently, I have suggested Zoho to some clients. Its been good.

bythckr commented on Ask HN: Best monitor for a MacBook Pro for ~US$700?    · Posted by u/sarupbanskota
NhanH · 2 years ago
Pick a 4K in your price range from Dell or LG and you should be good to go.

Outside the US, recommending specific display is not particularly useful since stocks is an issue, not to mention the model would be straight up unavailable to you.

bythckr · 2 years ago
Do you know about which series or detail to look for in LG?

My friend saw an LG monitor and took down its model number. He missed that one the alphabet in the model was different (example 29ABC600-XYZ, but he got 29ABD600-XYZ - "D" instead of "C") and that made a huge difference.

bythckr commented on Ask HN: Best monitor for a MacBook Pro for ~US$700?    · Posted by u/sarupbanskota
bythckr · 2 years ago
If you are continuing your nomadic lifestyle, you might want to consider getting an iPad that can double as an external display via sidecar app. Of course, I am aware of the small size and crossing your budget. Or you might consider portable monitors.

FYI, Please be careful with LG monitors. Just an alphabet change in the model makes a huge difference. My friend saw an LG monitor and took down its model number. He missed that one the alphabet in the model was different (example 29ABC600-XYZ, but he got 29ABD600-XYZ - "D" instead of "C") and that made a huge difference.

bythckr commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus   apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece
bythckr · 3 years ago
I don't get the logic of removing the mute toggle switch. It is very convenient to put the phone in silent. Didn't have to open the phone. Plus it was easy to check if the phone was silent by just looking for the orange marker. They should have first turned the volume buttons to action button. I dont use the volume button.
bythckr commented on Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max   apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/jnieminen
bythckr · 3 years ago
I don't get the logic of removing the mute toggle switch. It is very convenient to put the phone in silent. Didn't have to open the phone. Plus it was easy to check if the phone was silent by just looking for the orange marker.

They should have first turned the volume buttons to action button. I dont use the volume button.

bythckr commented on The Nexus 7 was Google’s only great tablet, and it has never tried to replace it   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/elorant
bythckr · 3 years ago
One thing weird of Android tablets, it's so under underpowered (during the Nexus 7 era). Only recently after m1 ipads, I see good spec tablets coming out.

I like how the Pixel tablets has a charging dock that doubles as a speaker.

Would be cooler if the charging dock has a better graphics card that can be connected to a monitor, mouse & keyboard and turned into a desktop setup.

bythckr commented on Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?    · Posted by u/automatoney
nelsoch · 3 years ago
Semiconductor company laid me off after working there since 2018. I kept a lot of leaks quiet and helped save a lot of trouble/money. Went above and beyond the call of duty and even relocated my wife and kids to be closer so that I could be on-call(not in job description). I took leadership and management positions without compensation just to keep workflow going. Although I had clearly indicated I was interested in those positions, I was blocked from them because I was not going to be compensated for the additional responsibility.

Now I'm left with a mortgage, debt and other payments that Unemployment can't begin to cover.

I asked if I could keep my job or get relocated to another dept- 'No'.

Everything is frozen- everything is stagnate and people are afraid of more layoffs happening for both contract workers and direct-hires.

I tried for years beforehand- to get moving up, but told it wasn't possible(yet). I even tried playing the 'I have another offer elsewhere' lie card, with nothing to show for it.

What's additionally frustrating, is that many local retail places won't hire me.

My experience at the company has cut me off from other work- for fear that I may not stick around for the long-term.

DoorDash is no longer taking applications in my area(that was a shock). Retailers wont take me because of my accomplished work history. Lyft/Uber wont allow me to work for them because my car is too old.

I have applied to soo many Craiglist, HN, Dice, Linkedin, Indeed, Gov and GlassDoor jobs that I my feeling of self-worth had diminished what has felt like eons ago. It's not that I don't get decent offers- it's that I get turned down relatively quickly despite my time at Semiconductor Co.

I'm at the point where I just want any income- the desperation to feed and provide for my wife and kids is what's driving me right now.

bythckr · 3 years ago
nelsoch (OP), please don't be offended by what I am about to say, I don't intent to offend you. I am just sharing a valuable advice I received for everyone in this boat.

When I was at my first job, I too went way beyond my scope of job descriptions and did many things. Everyone appriciated me and I felt I was a vital part of the company. That is when my new manager gave this advice. Though that the time, I was annoyed by him and felt he was a pain in the ass. I was too young and stupid to understand what he was telling, so he just forced me to comply. Which, in the end, helped me a lot.

I had to fill an excel sheet of all the things I did and forward to my supervisor. I only filled what was my job and didn't put in the extra things. The manager asked why I was not informing the company of what I was actually doing in the company. The manager said that I was not giving enough focus on the work I was hired to do and doing other things. Though, my supervisor was very happy with my job.

Then I started begrudgingly (curing my manager) filling everything I did in the company. Again I was called by the manager for not fully reporting what I was doing. When I showed, that filled everything. It turned out my supervisor was deleting the extra stuff I was putting in. That is when I realized that my supervisor was just praising me. But didn't report this to the manager.

So, I just stopped doing other things and just did my work and avoided anything that was beyond my description. Then I started getting official email asking me to do extra things and started getting "certificate of appreciation". That lead me to getting extra pay and bonus. My increments were also higher, and I got promoted too.

Then, when I moved to other companies, I just stuck to my job description and didn't do anything more. I set the tone from my interview. Whenever I was asked to do anything extra, I always bargained for what I was going to get for the extra work. I made sure that extra expenses (like petrol,road toll & parking charges for travel) were compensated, and I got extra time off.

Basically, I understood that only when the company was paying for my extra services, did they appreciate it.

Management always value you based on how much they are paying you for your services. They are not going to asking around and see how much you contribute.

bythckr commented on Launched my first mobile app after learning to code for the past 9 months    · Posted by u/PeterStrelec
bythckr · 3 years ago
What did you learn? What framework did you build your app on? Where did you host it?

Having achieved all this. Anything you wish you has done different - like learn some other course or use some other framework. Something you feel is the wrong path to take and must be avoided at all cost?

bythckr commented on Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp   github.com/aleixrodriala/... · Posted by u/aleixrodriala
jesprenj · 3 years ago
I was on a ferry ship from Italy to Greece where they had paid sattelite Internet via WiFi. The WiFi AP was at first a captive portal. You could buy Internet access with cash at the reception or you could pay online. For that they had to enable access to stripe.com. But stripe uses fastly CDN, so they enabled one specific fastly endpoint that stripe uses. You had direct IP traffic to this specific IP address. reddit also uses fastly CDN. So with a /etc/hosts hack I could load reddit pages for free. Not images though, as they are hosted by imgur.

I assume one could also create a tunnel over reddit chat connect to the Internet, but I never did that.

By default, reddit did not work though, as their fastly CDN endpoint is different from stripe's, also the stripe's endpoint did not correctly sign TLS for reddit.com. But setting a Host header of old.reddit.com on that fastly IP successfully downloaded the page.

When I still had phone network by the coast, I set up iodine IP over DNS tunnel, but it did not work, even though DNS requests worked on that WiFi. Maybe they had some sort of protection specifically for iodine.

bythckr · 3 years ago
Pls explain how you did that. I would like to try it for myself.

u/bythckr

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