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massinstall commented on When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
Mainan_Tagonist · 6 months ago
This reminds me of a early chapter in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, where Shaftoe gets to meet Enoch (Red) Root.
massinstall · 6 months ago
Yes! Makes me happy to see someone else notice this. :)

I was thinking that this event might have been the inspiration for that part of the book?

massinstall commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
samier-steward · 7 months ago
Stealth Startup | Remote (US/CANADA) or Hybrid (Seattle or Los Angeles) | Lead Fullstack Engineer | $160k-190k + equity (US/CA range; adjusted for geography if international)

We are a startup in the Wealthtech space looking to hire our 4th engineer. We are looking for a highly experienced fullstack engineer to join our team. This is a great opportunity if you are looking to build something that leverages agentic AI to deliver practical value for families, and are interested in working on a product that places a high premium on UX.

Requirements:

* 10+ years of software engineering experience

* Familiarity with modern TypeScript and React, + at least one non-TS backend language

* Experience mentoring junior engineers, upskilling one's teammates, and generally fostering a sophisticated engineering culture within or across teams

* Understanding of the infrastructure involved in delivering modern web applications, such as CDNs; networking layers and protocols; observability and telemetry; etc.

* Track-record of mastering new technologies and diving into unfamiliar parts of the tech stack

Nice-to-haves:

* Experience with Python

* Experience with DynamoDB

* Experience with Docker, as well as AWS Fargate and other AWS services

* Experience writing unit tests for frontend components using tools such as Jest and Storybook

* Experience building chat applications, building LLM-based workflows, and/or working in fintech or legal tech

* Familiarity with SRE principles

About the Engineering Team

Our engineering culture is collegial, both in the sense of being friendly, as well as placing an emphasis on continuous learning and refinement of our craft. We are very much into internal tooling, improving DevEx, and constant improvement of our processes.

Email CV to hire-ss@proton.me, and/or reply here

Happy to answer any questions

massinstall · 7 months ago
Can you share a few more details about your company (e.g. a website)?
massinstall commented on Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/Jaruzel
massinstall · a year ago
From the publication: “The speculation that the hand gesture herein presented is a freemasonry’s conveyed code is fascinating, but it is hard to accept.”

This sentence concluded a very short paragraph that apparently aimed to explore whether the hand sign could have a Masonic meaning. But instead of giving any explanation for their conclusion, the authors merely postulate the above without any given reasoning. I’m surprised to find this in what appears to aim to be a scientific analysis. Even more so would it surprise me if any conscious reader found this conclusion satisfactory.

Any thoughts?

massinstall commented on The Sinusoidal Tetris   andreinc.net/2024/02/06/t... · Posted by u/nomemory
massinstall · 2 years ago
Very cool and creative!
massinstall commented on The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year   bloomberg.com/features/20... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
Damogran6 · 2 years ago
'average' people might see it in a year with an inheritance. That was me two years ago. It was a finanically interesting time before the money got placed in more safe places than the checking account.

By the same token, it's not hard for a person to be worth $1M+...steady long-term investment in a 401k over the course of your career can get you there.

But it's _unavailable_ to the average person. They'll get taxed brutally if they touch it, and when managed correctly, will be divvyd out over the course of their retirement...so having 1M doesn't mean it's liquid.

massinstall · 2 years ago
Reality check: 'average' people do not get inheritances of such significance.
massinstall commented on Major outages across ChatGPT and API   status.openai.com/inciden... · Posted by u/d99kris
bilsbie · 2 years ago
Anyone still having issues? 3pm ET?
massinstall · 2 years ago
Yep, down for me as well since then.
massinstall commented on Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results   duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=... · Posted by u/massinstall
snerc · 2 years ago
What causes this?
massinstall · 2 years ago
I have no idea, but equally curious.
massinstall commented on Video Shows Russian Fighter Hitting USAF Drone   youtube.com/watch?v=IUiNx... · Posted by u/justin66
massinstall · 2 years ago
It appears curious that you consider video evidence of an incident “war propaganda”.
massinstall commented on Show HN: Scribble Diffusion – Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI   scribblediffusion.com... · Posted by u/zsikelianos
massinstall · 3 years ago
It's buggy on Firefox for me. Can't draw anything.

u/massinstall

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