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karcass | 8 months ago | on: Estrogen: A Trip Report

I mean, mostly, main counterexample is that Manuel_D guy who is spouting debunked TERF talking points, e.g. he thinks the Cass Report hasn't been shredded. I think it helps that there are a LOT of us trans folks in tech to represent here.

karcass | 2 years ago | on: A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion

I got my pilot's license in the Bay Area and transited SFO's class bravo frequently. The region has one of the world's most complex airspaces (a B, two Cs, and a crap-ton of Ds), and SFO has a mind-boggling amount of traffic for an airport of its size. Based on my lived experience in that airspace, I think ATC did the best they could in a tough position, and I think that Lufthansa asking for special treatment is the asshole move. If they demand ILS in VFR conditions, they should schedule their arrival times to less-busy times.

karcass | 3 years ago | on: Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach

It is not "less clear" how this applies to Kiwifarms. Their TOS says they "may" remove content that:

"Is otherwise illegal, harmful, or violates the rights of others, including content that discloses sensitive personal information, incites or exploits violence against people or animals, or seeks to defraud the public."

Kiwifarms doxxing and swatting is documented six ways from Sunday, and it's hardly just keffals.

karcass | 5 years ago | on: MBONE: The Multicast Backbone (1994)

I was working on streaming video in QuickTime at Apple, made approximately the same mistake, and got a nastygram from Van as well.

Now I wish I’d kept it.

karcass | 7 years ago | on: Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace

The Maxims were Huguenots (French protestants) who fled the persecution of Catholic King Louis XIV. Hiram's great-grandfather Samuel Maxim emigrated to Massachusetts sometime around 1710. The spellings of the surname bounced around a bit, some preferring Maxam, others Muxham, Moxom, and Maxham. I think roughly half of the modern descendants live in Vermont.

Hiram, his brother Hudson, and son Hiram Percy were prolific inventors, mostly in the field of armaments (sadly). Hiram was born in Maine but moved to England and was later knighted.

I am not a direct descendant but am in the (fairly sparse) family tree under Samuel.

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Maxim

karcass | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Zipcar | https://www.zipcar.com | San Mateo, CA | Full-time | Full-stack

Building connected-car technology for multiple product lines, including Zipcar and Avis. By putting our massive fleets behind an API, we are aiming to be the AWS of transportation.

Example of our connected car work for Avis: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-avis-budget-grp-tech-kans...

Overview of our partnership with Waymo: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15873236/avis-waymo-googl...

Stack is JDK services (Java, Groovy, Kotlin) on AWS, React for web stuff. Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Redis, ZenDesk, Twilio, Stripe, Docker.

Looking for big-toolkit generalists who like to solve a variety of problems in logistics, scheduling, telematics, mapping, billing, etc.

Mission-driven. Small team. Flexible working conditions. No worries about funding. :)

I'm the hiring manager. Hit me up at [email protected].

karcass | 9 years ago | on: His Doctors Were Stumped, Then He Took Over

My wife had a tumor on her pituitary gland. Four different MDs came up empty on her symptoms. The fourth doctor ran the right endocrine system test, but was only able to conclude "it's not [her] thyroid."

It took me about thirty minutes with the test results and Google to make the diagnosis. I was lucky, in that I had a colleague who was acquainted with the head of Stanford endocrinology, who confirmed the diagnosis and found us a good surgeon. Wife is fine today.

It's anecdotal, but my experience with the medical system is that nearly all doctors see the same handful of things day in and day out, and are not trained to see beyond their expertise.

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