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The answer, like most things in life, is in the middle. That's why the "hybrid model" has been talked about recently as the world opens up.

Reading lots of comments here and it's clear there are two camps. Which is great. There will be a big realignment of people switching jobs to go remote and moving to cities to get to work with a cool in person team.

But there's also the middle of the road hybrid model where you can still be remote but there will be offsites every month or every quarter.
I find that C actually gets in my way compared to D when I am writing code with limited resources. The end result is semantically the same but with D I can avoid macros, inline asm is easier etc.
My example was of a municipality (Canada) that designated a place where it previously wasn't allowed to drink alcohol to be allowed. That's what I meant by "supporting". At least don't expand the options.
I also drink about this much per week. I like a beer or wine or whiskey every now and again, but I've never really seen the point in getting buzzed or drunk (or high for that matter). When I do drink, I only have 1 or 2 at a time, not out of an express desire to stay sober, but because I'm usually pretty naturally satisfied by that amount.

For whatever reason, I like sobriety. It's strange to me that people should think we need a religious motive to prefer sobriety, as though escaping or distorting reality is inherently preferable. Maybe I equally misunderstand the motives of the heavy drinker?
If you’re at 99.9% of your (small) cap, the Amazon device won’t know that.
The answer to your direct question is, in fact, "fax". The digital fax machines that started to come out were able to send documents without much loss and then print multiple copies of them (rather than essentially attaching a modem directly to a glorified receipt printer like earlier ones had).

He had a Palm Pilot he would scribble on a lot to work out of the house when those became a thing, and he had one of the first actually-portable laptop computers. We (he involved me in a lot of his process of learning tech) tested out early tablet computing devices (running Windows 3.0 "for Handwriting" ;P).
Sounds like a fun project for the future Black Hack conf: Implement tor / torrent on top of Amazon mash network and break all the bandwidth limits.
I was going to write exactly the same comment but see everyone else writing it is getting downvoted and flagged to oblivion...
Absolutely. In the context of GCC, there is the famous example of the Objective C frontend, which NeXT/Apple tried hard to make proprietary.
libvault is a side-project, lightweight client library that works with Hashicorp Vault server. It has 0 dependencies, it implements only what's necessary, and one of the main goals of the project is to study. There is still a lot of development to do here.

This is my first open-source project. Feedback and comments on the code, tests, features, all is welcome.
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Third-party JS isn't behind sites that perform so badly they make the whole system slow down even when you're not on the page, or eat memory like it's free. Both those things can happen on sites that aren't "apps" at all, or that don't need to be as huge and wasteful as they are to achieve the same levels of "app-ness" that they have (gmail is a notable offender in the latter category, but it's far from the only one). Those problems are largely due to really bad judgement, in first-party code, about where (and whether) to attach Javascript event listeners, terrible use of timers, and all manner of programmer-productivity-and-QOL enhancements that invariably (it seems) manifest as much higher end-user memory use and lots of bad (for performance) memory access patterns.
As a non-American working (legally) for a while in America (in Silicon Valley), I ran into a situation where my visa lapsed and I wasn't sure where I stood legally (like I wasn't sure if I was even allowed to be in the country any more). I can't remember how I found a lawyer. Anyway, I did a 15-minute consult over the phone. Actually, he was really casual about payment, at the end he said "mail a cheque to my secretary" and hung up, haha. Probably was mostly treating the call as a loss leader.

Anyway, among other things, he said that doing any work inside US borders, if not on a work visa, is technically illegal. Like apparently if I'm on vacation in the US, and I pull out my phone to answer a few work emails, that's technically a visa violation, not that in that case anyone's gonna mind. IANAL TINLA. And of course you're interesting in jurisdictions other than the US.

So, yeah, I think the way to find out is find a lawyer in the jurisdiction you'd be wanting to work from, one who advertises themselves as specializing in visa issues.
With their kids?
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Isn't this just forming a government cartel instead of letting competition lead to the most efficient forms of government?
You want a Chevrolet Avalanche
Does it not also introduce the possibility of introducing possible vulnerabilities by sharing connections? I generally have a pretty good idea of what I’m doing on a network, but now my neighbor might be up to no good on my network and that seems like it would be a potentially big problem.
I decided to give up alcohol for a year. That was three years ago and doubt I will ever go back.

Aside from having better sleep than at any other point as an adult, I truly enjoy the activities I partake in just as much, if not more, than when I still paired them with alcohol. It took about 6 months to stop feeling like I was missing out, and now I feel like everyone else is.

Anxiety in general is noticeably lower (this was a huge windfall for me when the pandemic started).

Enjoyment of conversation, food, setting, all seem richer and doesn't flag as quickly once the alcohol is metabolized.

The end of the drinking activities don't leave me sleepy or craving bad food. I can go home and read a book or get some work done.

General reduction in workout recovery time and aches and pains.

Holidays are way easier to get through.

The only drawbacks have been the situations you discover are entirely dedicated to consumption, e.g. dive bars, beer gardens, work holiday parties and happy hours. Without having dulled your senses adequately, some of these things tend to be only loud, smelly, or without much to offer besides booze and banter.
I’ve seen it work in companies at scale, though it’s not universal. Teams are still on the order of 20 or so and the dynamics still apply. Beyond that, you’re right — but even at huge companies a lot of exec hiring is done that way.

I got hired into a big i-bank through a couple of Facebook messages. We ticked all the HR boxes but it was a done deal. Happens all the time
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Sorry Doug how did you get so brain washed its the employers responsibility to provide this, you know they should be inspecting your home for H&S

And when I worked in high end rnd if we brought kit on behalf of a client to use on their projects we charged them AND A 25% MANAGMENT FEE.

The company is not your friend as people often say on here but buying equipment for them is OK FFS
Moving your hand from keyboard to mouse 1000 times a day is really good recipe for RSI. Ask yourself this question after doing this 10y+ in a row.
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Hah, that probably explains all the age-disclaimers on dating sites. I had assumed it was just "login with Facebook" people not being allowed to change their birthdate by Facebook, but as it turns out that may have been unjust (though FB itself might also prevent bday changes for the same reason).
Station wagons may be a good equivalent of modern CUVs, but I have my doubts about their ability to functionally compete with minivans (at least in the "target" minivan market of moderate to large families). We no longer live in an era where you can just hold infants on your lap while you drive and let your toddlers roam around on the floor. I can't imagine it would be fun for a parent to have to crawl into the backseat of a wagon every time they needed to buckle their child's car seat. (And, of course, if you have more than 2 kids the third row seat is essential since it is basically impossible to fit three car seats next to each other even in a larger vehicle.) Statistically, families have gotten smaller, but car seat regulations have gotten bigger...

This is not even mentioning the superiority of sliding doors when it comes to loading/unloading in parking lots, etc.
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I think you are thinking of oil immersion (microscopy) there. They are using a meta material as a superlens though which allows to work around the diffraction limit.

Edit: they seem to be improving an already known technique called "structured illumination microscopy". For that, the sample is illuminated with a light pattern (here: a speckle pattern) and the phase of the light is shifted in the process. After collecting various images, an image of better resolution can be computed. Their improvement seems to be to use a particular meta material that allows to capture far more spatial detail than otherwise.

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_immersion , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlens , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic_metamaterial#Hyperbo... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_microscopy#St...
I'm a full time university student (20 y/o). I work part time as a labourer for a crane truck company.
>For instance, Amazon::S3 was last released in 2009. AWS::S3 was last released in 2019. Net::Amazon::S3 seems alive and well, but the "++ed by 6 PAUSE users" isn't very comforting.

Paws is actively developed too: https://metacpan.org/pod/Paws
I've been doing WFH for the better part of ten years. So beat you. Lol.

But it is kind of vindicating seeing people everywhere start to have the same philosophy. It makes me hopeful that other good things may catch on in the future eventually.

The next stage is possibly moving somewhere with a lower cost of living. Been spending most time in Mexico for almost three years.
>consumers will get a $10 class action settlement for each device.

Worse, it would likely be settled in the same way the Ticketmaster case was settled ... with a 10% off coupon for a Prime membership.
Most people I know work nonstop until the bell, salaried or hourly. The chitchat and internet browsing is not sustainable at the vast majority of workplaces, you will fall behind and there will be questions asked. IT can also pull logs of internet browsing and show your boss your reddit history.
> what do you do when a foreign country puts your citizens on a plane bound for your country?

You simply deny the validity of their travel documents.

China does this all the time:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-deportations-ex...

Airlines really do not want an entire aircraft refused landing because of one person. All the pre-departure paperwork procedures exist to prevent this from happening. Airlines won't go along with "just board them anyways" schemes unless forced to do so under threat. If they do cooperate (or are forced to) it gives the destination country cause to void that airline's licenses without risk of reciprocal sanctions against its own airlines. Dragging commercial airlines into a political dispute like this won't work.
This is not surprising. It's kind of obvious that cloud costs will scale more dramatically than any other cost center. So it's really an attractive idea to think that you can cut your largest bill by going on-prem.

The problem with going on-prem is that for most companies this is so complex and hard to operationalize that they will likely just fail at that attempt.

Cloud biggest contribution besides seamless infrastructure access, is the way it has lower the overall technical competency threshold to operate an internet business. It's really easier to find someone that knows AWS or Azure than is to find that someone who knows how to build on-prem infrastructure.

I imagine that repatriation for the average large cloud business will only be possible for those who are already operating in modern infrastructure constructs like Kubernetes.

If you have critical workflows build on propietary cloud services, you're probably fucked. You will have to rebuild every single service from scratch and make it scalable out of the box. If you're a multi-dimensional business that sounds like a nightmare.

I honestly think that Dropbox was capable of doing it just because the nature of their business.

At the primitive level you're mostly replacing your storage vendor. It happens to be that storage is their business model so it's quite evident that repatriating that critical piece of your business will yield great gains.
I don't think it's that simple for other cloud businesses.
If you mean a low resolution, you can use any of several browser extensions (I like Iridium) to automatically "manually" select the resolution right when the page loads for every video, and this will also increase your maximum buffer from 20 seconds (?) to 2 minutes, which is nice if you're on wifi. If you mean on high resolutions the videos still look terrible, that's because the av1 versions of many videos look very bad above 720p on purpose if they're mostly watched in certain countries (can't find the source now, so treat as hearsay) where most viewers are on smartphones. You can mitigate this by going to settings > playback and performance and select "Prefer AV1 for SD."
Thanks for the recommendations. I just watched a clip of Beer's conference at Monterrey Tec on his ideas about 'The Intelligent Organization' - incredible indeed!
True, but I don't think that applies to cars. Cars are too personally expensive and don't last long enough for outside investment. Investing in fiber is cheaper than copper if you don't have anything in the ground anyway, and either way your investment should last 50 years or so which is a lot of time to pay it off. A car can last 50 years, but only with a lot of expensive maintenance.

Also those poor countries benefit from richer countries giving up on otherwise good cars because they are not new anymore. If you are going to buy a new car, EV is the way to go, but if you can accept a used car ICEs will still be the way to go for a bit longer.

Of course this assumes average person in whichever country. the rich will do what they want, and EVs are cheap enough that they won't really care if it makes economic sense if they want one.
I definitely meant East Berlin. I blame my Memorial Day hangover. :D
WTF is going on with their cookie dialog? Surely that's not even remotely legal? There is just agree and a second dialog with guidance on how to clear cookies per browser (???) and a second agree button.

That's not even an attempt at a dark pattern nudging you towards one option...it's just do you agree or do you agree.

Hard to trust companies that think that's how consent works...

https://imgur.com/a/Ya1XBvG
I’ve never been much of a drinker, generally preferring soda, sports drinks, or sweet tea to stay hydrated. In my experience, this is unusual.

My friends, relatives, etc. all exclusively drink beer when doing yard work, home improvement projects, or hobbies like working on cars. When I’m at the marina, I’m the only one not drinking beer while working on their boat. Maybe all of these people stick exclusively to water in private, but I doubt it.

Given that, I can see how it’s quite easy for someone to consume 5-10 drinks per day. I’ll easily drink the equivalent of a six pack if I’m working outside, and if I were a beer drinker I don’t think I’d find it excessive to drink at least that much over the course of a day.

However, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the group drinking a six pack of 90-calorie light beer over the course of a day is healthier than people like me drinking a six pack of Dr. Pepper in the same timeframe. Cirrhosis on one hand, diabetes on the other. Pick your poison, I guess.
> Could someone familiar with like Go or C#, or whatever explain how they would handle that?

Visitor pattern. A really shitty, but workable, implementation of tagged sum types.
> So why can we hire a doctor without asking him to transplant a dog's kidgey during an interview, but not a developer?

This is false. Your assertion that doctors don't perform in order to demonstrate their qualifications is wrong. They do have to perform multiple dissections and surgeries before they can get hired anywhere.

> I do have data: I and a friend...

That's not data, that's personal experience.

Your "data" is proving my point that coding tests aren't causing a hiring problem.

Last chance, third time I'm asking: what would you do to fix it?
Right, but if you couldn't purchase it, Opera wasn't "usable" prior to their ad-supported version either - it had to be purchased once the trial ran out.
I'm curious, what Cicada songs the people on HN are hearing?

I'm in Montreal and I'm pretty sure the ones I hear are Dog Day cicadas (N. canicularis)[0].

[0] https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/neotibicen-canicularis-h...
This is such false equivalence it’s silly.

Travel restrictions in the west enjoy wide support and are in response to a global health emergency, not spurious political reasons put in place by someone who appears to be an illegitimate leader.

Your ‘unpersoned’ comment is laughable.
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As someone who works in marketing, I tend to think that traditional mediums like billboards or direct mail tend to be highly underrated specifically because the tracking is not as detailed. As we move to a world with less data for digital ads, I have to imagine the playing field will be levelled out.

But really, the winners are Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn etc. Nearly all of our digital ad purchases have been directly on the big platforms. In-app or network ads have increasingly been absolute dogs for user acquisition anyway.

Meanwhile, I can pay Facebook directly to access their users and they don't have to give up any of their valuable data to anyone to do it because it's all in a closed system.
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Easiest is to just hit CTRL-I. Otherwise click the lock/not locked icon to the left of the address, click Connection secure/Connection not secure, then click More Information.
On mobile there are ways to force quit apps. They just aren't front and centre, nor mandatory for users to understand, like it is on the desktop.

Too many apps abusing resources and affecting UI speed is a separate issue, and mobile OS's developed a lot of techniques and technologies to allow apps to work in the background without bothering the user, and without overloading the device's resources. It's a nice set of systems, really, and I would be happy if desktops worked the same way. Nobody would be taking force quit away from me, even if such a system were to be implemented.
Part of it is surely nostalgia, but I honestly think it's more fun, it makes driving more engaging. I don't have to spend much time in stop-and-go traffic so it's rarely a pain, and I really love engine braking, especially in the snow which is what much of my driving centers around.

It's also good theft deterrent! A previous manual of mine was broken into and they didn't even bother to take the iPod in plain view or anything else; I think they wanted the car and didn't realize they couldn't drive it till they popped the window.
systems engineering is pain in the ass but it exists for a reason, its proven to reduce development costs and surprise issues.
Yeah, I’ve been working out of the living room all pandemic.

We are actually moving soon primarily so that I can have an office.
Yes, I agree that people should definitely educate themselves and watch out for scams.

While it is true that there are certainly a ton of pump and dump schemes and outright scams in the crypto space, I don't think it's fair to just dismiss all of crypto as a scam.

There is a HUGE demand for an electronic currency that can be freely transacted globally. Because the currency needs to be globally usable, this currency can't be controlled by any particular government. It needs to be owned and controlled democratically by the people actually using it. It needs to have low (or zero fees). It needs to be extremely simple to perform transactions. It should be a safe place to store your money. It should be difficult or impossible to steal. It should be stable.

I could keep going and list a hundred other things, but my point is simply that we aren't there yet. This magical currency does not yet exist, but cryptocurrency is absolutely the closest we have ever gotten to it, and I'm confident that if we keep iterating and trying out different ideas, a winner will eventually arise from the mix.

Or maybe the winning solution will be some combination of different cryptocurrencies? Maybe an inflationary one, a deflationary one, and a stable one? Who knows?
Your viewpoint of microsoft and linux is about 10+ years out of date:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/what-is-microsoft-doing...
Which addon do you use?