Early 80's, when I was 6 or 7, my best friend had a pinball machine in his basement. The front door "hatch" to it was unlocked and we spend countless hours poking the insides with a long screwdriver to trigger various component. Probably wasn't safe but it sure was fun!
Readit Newscameroncf commented on Hacking Pinball High Scores gwern.net/blog/2025/pinba... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
cameroncf commented on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report ainonline.com/aviation-ne... · Posted by u/elorant
cameroncf commented on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report ainonline.com/aviation-ne... · Posted by u/elorant
Isn't this just confirming a seemingly widely held opinion that the safety culture started to break down after 1997 after the merger with McDonnell Douglas?
cameroncf commented on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund” cbsnews.com/news/mormon-w... · Posted by u/nabla9
First thing that comes to my mind reading this article is that they are just saving it all up to build the Nauvoo from the show "The Expanse".
I feel this article 100%.
Too many people think that remote work means "working from home" or that co-working means "working from WeWork". There are tons of different variations that let you get out and be around other people while working remote. I have long wanted to start a small fun workspace with space for 5 or so people that's really just a place for us all to do work together without being in a traditional office or our houses. A space we can define ourselves (or I define and invite others) that is not my house and also not a stuffy office.
IMHO - This is the future of work.
cameroncf commented on Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB samthor.au/2023/aws-ampli... · Posted by u/kevinslin
The biggest problem with Amplify is not any of it's underlying technologies. These are all great services. DynamoDB is one of the best things in the entire AWS service portfolio.
The biggest problem with Amplify is that it hides complexity that the developer really needs to have a firm grasp of when designing their application. You really need to think a lot about your access patterns before using DynamoDB. DynamoDB is OLTP and not OLAP. You aren't going to have a ton of ability to do ad-hoc queries with DynamoDB. that's just not a use case it's well suited for.
HOWEVER - AWS Amplify is marketed without that warning - people use it without really understanding that. Then they get stuck when they start trying to treat it like a traditional RDBMS datastore, which it is not.
Amplify "dumbs down" something that really should not be dumbed down. That's it's biggest problem and the reason I also stopped using Amplify some time ago.
I think this article might bury the lede a bit:
>Walmart is offering some workers with past warehouse experience as much as $25 an hour. An Amazon executive told Reuters in late 2021 that the company was bumping the average starting wage for new hires in the US to more than $18 an hour, attributing the decision to intense competition among employers.
People used to work for Amazon warehouses in the 2010s because $15/hr was a much better wage than they could find elsewhere in their geographic location.
After the pandemic and ongoing inflation, it's not difficult to find easier work which pays better. Amazon responded with a token raise that doesn't even cover CoL adjustments, but history shows that they need to pay well above market rates to hire the quantity of people that they need.
It's funny to see this dynamic at a time when the federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25/hr.
> I think this article might bury the lede a bit:
When you read that quote carefully it doesn't say that Amazon employees get paid less. It's saying MAX pay at Walmart is $25/hr and MIN pay at Amazon is $18 an hour.
Apples and oranges. Meaningless clickbait.
cameroncf commented on AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance aws.amazon.com/about-aws/... · Posted by u/msmithstubbs
What's the point, if there isn't a discount for paying upfront?
Will some people/businesses prefer this because it's not 'credit'—does AWS scrobble to your Credit Report in any country?
I am failing to see the appeal here...
This is for when the departmental budget has a little cash left at the end of the fiscal year and they need to spend it.
cameroncf commented on HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009) news.ycombinator.com/clas... · Posted by u/ibraheemdev
The say Steve Jobs died, every single story was about that. Not complaining, the day was treated well this way.
I found out while sitting in a hotel lobby at Abode's MAX conference in LA. Watching the news ripple through the tech crowd attending was something.
cameroncf commented on Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed? · Posted by u/Markoff
That works if the OP has many different customers. But the easiest way to raise prices is with new customers.
If OP has only one customer they do not work for themselves, they work for that customer and have a job - regardless of what they like to tell themselves.