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jpp

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About jpp

Jeff Potter -- CTO @ Enveritas. Also author of an O'Reilly book (Cooking for Geeks).

For more, see https://jeffpotter.org

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    Enveritas (YC S18, non-profit) | Backend Software Engineer | Remote (Global) | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working on sustainability issues facin…

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    Comment #43625117

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Backend Software Engineer; UX Product Designer / Engineer | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working…

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    Comment #43247872

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Backend Software Engineer | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working on sustainability issues facing…

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    Comment #42976605

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Backend Software Engineer | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working on sustainability issues facing…

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    Comment #41070331

    The gold standard for this in sensory analysis is a triangle test — which I happen to have done with coffee from Ninth St Espresso, who sells a regular and substantial identical de…

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    Comment #39735871

    Speaking from my own experience, which may be different from the grandparent comment: I’ll ask ChatGPT (on GPT4) for some analysis or factual type lookup, and I’ll get back a kinda…

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    Comment #39726563

    > touchid sometimes fail due to grubby fingers. Can't malware spoof a "can't read fingerprint, please enter password" dialog? That would require the malware to be able to determine…

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    I worked at WebTV before it was public… back when it was called Artemis Research and had a website that proclaimed we did research in sleep deprivation of rabbits (there was a pet …

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    Comment #37894069

    I hear you! We’ve definitely had candidates we’ve talked with in the past who didn’t have experience with the tech stacks involved. In our case, we’re not suffering from a lack of …

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    Comment #37884109

    We finished a hiring process about 2 months ago, along with two other hires earlier in the year. As a hiring manager, 2023 has been brutal — 1,000:1 application to hire ratio (base…

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    Comment #37357778

    Neat to see your stuff show up here!

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    Comment #36159378

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Frontend & Backend Software Engineer | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working on sustainability is…

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    Comment #35427603

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Frontend & Backend Software Engineers | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working on sustainability i…

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    Comment #32311334

    Enveritas | Software Engineer | REMOTE (US or Global) | Full-Time Enveritas (YC Winter ‘17) is a non-profit working to reduce poverty in coffee farming. We visit smallholder coffee…

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    Comment #31981344

    I can imagine a number of complications here. How should delayed send work with respect to both end-to-end encryption and with network connectivity loss? Ie I can see a possible wa…

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    Comment #30883836

    Enveritas | REMOTE US (Eastern Time Zone) | Data Viz Team - Data Analyst | Full-Time | enveritas.org/jobs/data-viz/ We're a non-profit (and YC W17) who provides sustainability assu…

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    Comment #30294798

    If I were a guessing person: because future products will be the same size and price as AirTags … what would it look like if an Apple Watch cost $50? It could be used like an AirTa…

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    Comment #29318203

    I’m not aware of anything like Substance P for temperature sensation. If I had to guess, it sounds more physiological— circulatory system adaption to handle colds exposures (e.g. b…

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    Yes, this is correct —- it’s actually a fascinating study, but the translation from French was done poorly and then the English-speaking media ran with the clickbait version. The o…

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    Comment #29314441

    Yup! There’s a neurotransmitter for registering the compounds that trigger that hot sensation, and that neurotransmitter gets depleted over time, based on exposure. I don’t know th…

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    Comment #25211631

    We're also seeing issues with FarGate ECS -- the task we had with auto-scaling scaled down to 0. The one we had with a fixed number of workers is fine.

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    Comment #24830918

    I can confirm I'm seeing this -- I just noticed, searched Google, and ended up ... here. I have an email generated by one of our internal systems with a link to it, fetched via IMA…

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    This is such a joy to watch ... 5 minutes well spent; thank you!

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    Comment #24042617

    Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Frontend Javascript/React | New York City | Full-time | https://enveritas.org * Frontend Javascript/React Software Engineer -- apply here: https://…

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    Comment #23965791

    Ah, very nice! Our setup is on python, and because of some other dev tooling we have, it’s very easy for us to have a simple decorator function that grabs the advisory lock. We can…