mastermojo (u/mastermojo)

mastermojo commented on Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009) phys.org/news/2009-11-ext... · Posted by u/samaysharma

lightedman · 2 years ago

No such thing as hot or cold blooded.

You have:

    Endothermic: Generating internal heat to moderate body temperature, e.g., modern birds and mammals.

    Ectothermic: Relying on the environment and behavior to regulate body temperature, e.g., typical reptiles.

    Homeothermic: Maintaining a constant internal body temperature, e.g., modern mammals, birds, and some others.

    Poikilothermic: Having a fluctuating internal body temperature depending on the local environmental conditions, e.g., typical reptiles and actinopterygiian fish.

mastermojo · 2 years ago

Looking at only what you presented, it seems like Endothermic/Homeothermic share a lot of overlap (hot blooded) and Ectothermic/Poikilothermic share a lot of overlap (cold blooded)?

mastermojo commented on To opt out of Grammarly AI training requires business account with 500+ users front-end.social/@fox/110... · Posted by u/deviantintegral

Racing0461 · 3 years ago

who?

mastermojo · 3 years ago

I’m part of the team at Sapling AI (YC W19).

We offer a no data retention option for all teams. If a business wants to try us out for free I’m happy to set something up.

We also offer our application self-hosted/on-premise/cloud-premise. We have single-tenant (separate data) options as well. These options have a higher deployment cost so they may not make sense for teams under 10.

mastermojo commented on An unconventional LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case dotat.at/@/2023-08-06-ltb... · Posted by u/fanf2

mastermojo · 3 years ago

> what’s your email?

> dot at dot at dot at

> ಠ_ಠ

mastermojo commented on The Mac Sonoma sure is starting to look like the iPhone theverge.com/2023/7/12/23... · Posted by u/RadixDLT

areoform · 3 years ago

I've noticed that the MacOS codebase seems to have kibble. Features that used to work have degraded in quality for seemingly no reason over successive generations.

For example, Spotlight, ever since their updates, is now unable to find any of my applications, struggles to find PDF documents while being slower and worse than the spotlight I used to use in OS X Snow Leopard. Yes, my current Mac's spotlight has more features. But the core functionality no longer "just works."

Another example is networking. For some reason, MacOS is now really flaky when using VPNs and it seems to have struggle connecting with WiFi networks from time to time. It's bizarre.

I'm using the latest hardware (the 28GB M2 MacBook Air) — it shouldn't be this bad.

Let's not even talk about Apple Care. Apple Care theoretically does more now, but they've made it functionally worse for most consumers.

mastermojo · 3 years ago

I look back at the leopard to snow leopard upgrade with incredible fondness. 2 years worth of work. "Zero new features": improved performance, better cpu + memory usage.

Probably the only stuff people Hacker News care for.

mastermojo commented on Why you must not use Auth0/Okta for login/pass solution medium.com/@michael_93843... · Posted by u/mooreds

mastermojo · 3 years ago

Migrated from Auth0 to Firebase because it was 2 orders of magnitude cheaper.

After explaining that we didn't need any fancy features, just OIDC+SAML sign-in they proposed a number that was a little over $1/user/month ($30,000 a year for 2500 seats). This was after multiple rounds of back-and-forth, sitting through custom decks and sales pitches around "you aren't paying for SSO, you are paying for an increase in conversion and revenue".

Firebase is self serve for ... $0.015/user/month (or $450/year for the same 2500 seats)

https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth

mastermojo commented on Ask HN: Why are so many PHP projects moving to Node? · Posted by u/kypro

trynewideas · 3 years ago

I mean, those are popular, but what makes them well-written? What do you see in them that makes you say those are amazing projects?

mastermojo · 3 years ago

I think at this point we can all roughly agree on what makes code well-written?

1. Stylistically consistent for things like format, naming, control and logic flow

2. QA: linted, unit tested, code reviewed

3. Design: Modular, scalable, future proof, secure, stable, reliable, performant etc.

4. High adoption implies testing/verification of above design attributes

5. Follows (or establishes) best established practices for interfacing with platform APIs etc.

6. Keeping complexity low enough that a junior engineers can contribute

7. Descriptive commit messages

etc. etc.

mastermojo commented on Ask HN: Why are so many PHP projects moving to Node? · Posted by u/kypro

trynewideas · 3 years ago

> amazingly well-written JS projects are ubiquitous

I'd genuinely love some examples.

mastermojo · 3 years ago

Node: https://github.com/nodejs/node

React: https://github.com/facebook/react

Vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium

If you want more, here is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

mastermojo commented on Emergency SOS via satellite is included for free with iPhone 14 Pro for 2 years apple.com/iphone-14-pro/... · Posted by u/faebi

ChemSpider · 4 years ago

How much would it cost if I buy a non-Apple device with (just) this feature? Is it even available? Or would I need a full-blown satellite phone?

mastermojo · 4 years ago

I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and roughly $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years. This iPhone ... is quite compelling in the face of that.

mastermojo commented on Emergency SOS via satellite is included for free with iPhone 14 Pro for 2 years apple.com/iphone-14-pro/... · Posted by u/faebi

codebook · 4 years ago

I cannot find anywhere the subscription plan price after 2 years. Kind of disappointing to this.

As a garmin inReach user, I hope this supports location report to closed friends like how Garmin did. But it's not. It is only for emergency.

mastermojo · 4 years ago

My read of the marketing materials is that it supports the "Find My" feature which you can use to share locations with friends/family?

This is really a killer feature for me as an outdoor enthusiast who hangs out in places with no reception every other weekend. I'm also a weight weenie and really care about how heavy the stuff I carry is. I'm going to keep an eye on how well this works in the field for sure.

I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years.

If the satellite messing works well, this phone just added $650 worth of value for me on top of a regular iPhone. Basically, it doesn't matter how much a continued subscription will cost after year two. I'd be completely happy to buy a new phone in two years just for this one feature.

mastermojo commented on Coinbase does not list securities. End of story blog.coinbase.com/coinbas... · Posted by u/kgwgk

t6jvcereio · 4 years ago

> Earlier today, following a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into a former Coinbase employee’s misuse of confidential Coinbase information related to listing decisions (...)

If my exchange was accused of having an employee doing something so damaging as insider trade against my customers, I would deny it if it were false, or apologize and promise corrections/reparations if it were true.

Instead, Coinbase does not deny that their employee damaged their customers, but instead spend their effort in denying the legal technicality that could make them liable.

I've made up my mind, Coinbase leadership are scumbags.

mastermojo · 4 years ago

I don't view it that way.

I think the fact that Coinbase does not deny that their employee acted wrongly is a good thing.

Their stance is that cryptocurrencies aren't securities to avoid ("unfair") SEC regulatory capture.