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fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust github.com/LGUG2Z/komoreb... · Posted by u/bsnnkv

orev · 3 years ago

In Windows 10 and 11, after you create another virtual desktop, you can easily move between them with built-in Win+Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow. It may not be as perfectly tuned as many would like, but it works well enough.

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

You can disable the switch animation, which makes it much nicer to use. Just instantly changes the content on all your monitors then. It even works with fullscreen applications on different desktops...

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Expectations of professional software engineers adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/17/... · Posted by u/EntICOnc

mjw1007 · 3 years ago

His expectations around producing documentation go only as far as "Think about what documentation or data users need to understand and use your solution."

That seems like rather a low bar, compared to items like "I can articulate how all the data I use is laid out in memory."

I'd prefer to live in a world where a professional software engineer was expected to write documentation, and expected to be competent at it.

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

Knowing how your data is structured in memory is a trivial exercise for anyone working on a game engine like the author of this talk. You don't even need to think about it. The layout of every data structure used by the engine is known and chances are you have implemented a bunch of them yourself.

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate jasonshen.com/120/... · Posted by u/jasonshen

helen___keller · 3 years ago

> For me, a lot of my meaning comes from two things. One is doing something in the world that feels like it's actually making things a little better somehow. And so contributing to society in some meaningful way.

> But the other thing is socialization with my coworkers is a huge part of my daily satisfaction in a job. You might be free Monday through Friday but all of your friends are working when you want to grab coffee.

I can't relate to many of the author's life experiences, but this quote really hit home. I think we're all wired to want to (a) make something better and (b) share our life and experiences with other people.

How (a) and (b) manifest varies greatly depending on life background and opportunities, but I can say most of the mental healthy difficulties I've had previously in life can be related to those two points.

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

There are a lot of people who have given up on a) and instead spend all their time trying to tear the stuff other people build down because they got bored.

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/v... · Posted by u/bluish29

wintermutestwin · 3 years ago

Unless you are a network security expert, aren't you greatly increasing your risk by running that WireGuard server?

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

Why would you? Nobody can connect to it without your private key. Or is there something I am not aware of? Genuine question, as I am running wireguard in a few places and thought it was secure by default.

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership) cloudflare.com/products/z... · Posted by u/hugoromano

jgrahamc · 3 years ago

You can buy up to 10 security keys with the offer. If you have multiple account administrators (separate email addresses) for your Cloudflare account, you can buy up to 10 security keys per administrator.

If you represent a larger organization with over 500 employees, you can get 50% off the first year of a 3+ year YubiEnterprise Subscription (no limits on keys for YubiEnterprise Subscription).

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

Awesome!

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership) cloudflare.com/products/z... · Posted by u/hugoromano

jgrahamc · 3 years ago

Yubico Security Key NFC at $10

Yubico Security Key C NFC at $11.60

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

Can we buy keys for all users in our companies or just one per Cloudflare account?

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Explained from scratch: private information retrieval and homomorphic encryption blintzbase.com/posts/pir-... · Posted by u/blintz

blintz · 3 years ago

Author here, happy to answer any questions! I know it’s a complicated topic, and I’m still trying to figure out how best to explain it.

Also, we’ve applied to YC for W23 to commercialize and expand this tech; wish us luck!

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

I'm confused, it seems like this will require processing the entire database for every request, which would be unusable in practice. Did I miss the trick?

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU? · Posted by u/committed

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

The most effective way is to be active in communities for the thing you want to be doing. Get a reputation as one of the people who know what they're doing. Eventually others will start reaching out to you privately when their companies are looking for new hires. If you get your foot in the door this way, your location becomes mostly irrelevant.

Sounds unusual, but I've previously gotten very well paid jobs in multiple startups through this kind of personal networking - you even get to skip most of the interview process. Meanwhile everything I applied to without any connections has been a wash.

Negotiations are much easier if you can deal with working as a US contractor, dropping most of your employment protection laws for more money.

fjfbsufhdvfy commented on We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity erikmcclure.com/blog/we-n... · Posted by u/blackhole

rybosworld · 3 years ago

I always thought it interesting how most tech companies prioritize shrinking the hardware but GPU's seem to be an exception.

fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

The technology is getting smaller! It's just that at the same time, people still demand orders of magnitude higher performance. There are physical limits to how small a cooler can be, and that takes up like 95% of the space.