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I married an Austrian while living with her in Texas. I made exactly zero plans before moving. She had the better degree by far so it only made sense to move to Austria.

Getting a job was easy by local standards due to a tight local market for programmers. Getting through German classes to earn the permanent residency was the toughest part.

I would never consider moving back to the USA. I was always a sceptic of the 'Greatest country on Earth' rhetoric. But now that I've lived in a functioning society for 10 years, it's clear to me that the USA is basically a "3rd world" country.

EDIT: I'm using "3rd world" here for lack of a better term indicating general decline and emmiseration.
> I don't think most people buy iPhones because of Apple's draconian control of software distribution, I think they buy them despite of it.

I don’t think it’s even that. Like the GP I just don’t care as long as what I need is available (and it is).

As a developer it’s a different matter, despite liking the platform I won’t be putting any apps in the store.
...and if they remove the capital?
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Of course they hash the password. Of course they don't know the capitalised version of your saved password, but they can know the capitalised version of the password you just entered
You should do your due diligence on the business and financing to avoid this situation, and unless you have a ton of equity, you should hedge your bet on multiple companies if you’re trying to make high ROI and you aren’t feeling confident that’ll happen in your current gig.

“Start-up” is a bit of a disingenuous term when using to compare with FAANG, because one refers to a class of high performing public tech companies, and the other is a catch all for small businesses.

I know chronically broke start up folks, faang millionaires, and a group of people who seem to to know how to play the startup game and are extremely wealthy, so YMMV.
Andrew Wilkinson recently took a company public in Canada through a reverse takeover https://www.google.com/search?q=CVE:+WE

Very early in the life of the company they have undertaken some pretty dishonest accounting of their revenues, net retention and other key metrics. The CFO resigned after the first reporting quarter.

I have a strong feeling there is more to this character than just the recycling of virtue filled business models.

Buyer (seller) beware.
This is kind of my point really. All those various "playful" mac designs were loved or hated by people, but they were interesting enough for people to have opinions about. Now the only aesthetic that anyone goes for is a tedious, utilitarian sleekness with a different colours and people argue about the relative merits of hole-punch or notches for their camera.

I'm kind of excited by what I've seen of the Pixel 6. The camera ridge seems to be getting a lot of jokes, but whether you like it or not it looks like someone actually thought about it and made a really conscious decision. Most camera bumps just look like they had to put the camera _somewhere_ so lets stick them in a corner cluster because of some internal engineering decision. The P6 is probably the first phone I've seen where the placement of the cameras looks like a visual design decision not just an engineering one.

It reminds me of when I've worked on stage sets and props. Whatever you do needs to look _intentional_, it has to look like you meant it to be like that, not that you aimed for one thing and ended up with whatever _this_ is, or whatever you had to hand.
I’ve noticed that Google Maps has this really strong desire to rat run. It really likes taking tiny roads, and making excessive turns to reduce your transit time by a few seconds or minutes.

Unfortunately it usually ends up being slower, because the tiny road aren't faster, Google just has very low accuracy speed data for then.

Apple Maps on the other hand tends to prefer simpler routes with fewer turns. In London this means Google will take you down a maze of backstreets, which frequently have turn or modal restrictions (specifically put in to prevent Google Maps style navigation) Google doesn’t know about. Whereas Apple Maps tends to stick to main thoroughfares, which are always quicker and much less stressful to use.

For me the classic example is driving from east to west across London. Google maps will insist on taking the wiggliest route that’s entirely 20mph speed limits. Apple Maps will suggest heading out east to a ring road and looping back west to your destination. A longer (slightly slower) route, that about a billion times easier to navigate.
I'm not sure whether you include trans healthcare among "shouldn't be covered", so here's my 2 cents:

- Most of Europe prescribes hormones upon a medical indication. This leads to bad gatekeeping; I've been told to see 3 different professionals before starting hormones.

- Anecdotally, I'm on grey market hormones while waiting, without any bloodwork - before starting those hormones, I've had suicidal ideations on a daily basis.

- This seems to be backed by data as well: Ideation rates are reported to be 37-83% and attempt rates are reported to be 9.8-44%. [0]

Given the frequent outcomes of depression and suicide, I think it's fair to say that trans healthcare is not optional and should be fully covered.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000235
Yes. The human digestive system adds bacteria you don't want in your fertilizer.
There is a delicious irony in a nobel peace prize winner advocating for more centralised control on speech. But I’ll leave it to people who take non-scientific nobel prizes more seriously than me.
I think the OP was kind of caricaturing what are some valid criticisms of Wikileaks.

The four main ones I think have been they were accused of selectively releasing things in a way that looked awfully political. They just so happened to line up with a bunch of political statements Julian Assange had made in private chats that were later leaked.

The second one was that the way in which they went about providing active support in getting some of their documents from sources went way beyond all previously recognised standards of journalism.

Third one of the things that did ultimately come out of the DNC leak they were a part of was that some of the documents were altered from the originals and so they were “mostly real” but did have fake things in them. The reason for that was that it was an intelligence operation by the Russians that was specifically designed to throw the election at the last minute.

Understandably people were a bit upset by this and began to ask a lot of questions focusing on at what point were Wikileaks aware that this was an intelligence operation and I don’t think there are good answers for that still to this day.

The fourth main one is that they have been historically irresponsible with how they have released information and it likely got innocent people killed or put in jail.

So overall I think there’s a bit of a question of do they act differently behind closed doors that isn’t consistent with their public image because there is at least some evidence of that now.
ORMs are made primarily for OLTP workloads, and they are the primary means of converting SQL results into objects.

There is nothing inherently slow about Hibernate (other than people not knowing how to use a tool and blaming it), and frankly, providing a unified SQL dialect that ports over another DB is a plus.
I could imagine having the left arrow key accidentally pressed (or stuck), but that's pretty niche
Maybe they are pissed that they cant drag you in the failures by saying "even X had the same opinion..."
I wonder how networking is handled. For example reading/writing data from/to UDP/TCP socket can be a whole lot different in e.g. C# and Java.
What's emotional about it?
In many jurisdictions, there's a statutory minimum amount of annual leave; you can take less but then the difference must be paid in lieu. (Versus if you give 30d, 18d is minimum, and employee takes 20d, then you don't have to do anything. Obviously could have a company policy of paying it if you want.)

So, a more cynical take on mandatory time off, and something that absolutely does happen, is that they'd just rather not have the work than have to pay extra for it.

Also common is not rolling over into the next year, so use it or lose it.
After the first hundred million dollars spent on personal expenditures, what material gains to quality of life are there?
The "City of London" (also referred to as the square mile), whose proper name is "City of London Corporation" is a roughly square mile in the centre of London that closely matches the area of the Roman settlement of Londinium. Given it's age and heritage it has many foibles; it is its own ceremonial county, it has its own police force, it has quixotic ownership of lands (and sometimes even entire towns) outside its own borders (the city of Londonderry / Derry in Northern Ireland used to be wholly owned by the City of London, hence the name Londonderry). The City of London is a strange and almost anachronistic collection of a few dozen blocks surrounded by the much larger Greater London. Read up on it, it has some very interesting and strange history.
I’m always blown away by how inefficient drilling, refining, transporting oil is compared to solar panel to battery. Even if you include the energy used to make the battery and panels… it’s a 1-off thing vs an everyday thing.
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>If not, do you have a source you can provide?

Unironically read Google's privacy policy page.

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
Only tangentially related, I know, but I see google maps quite differently.

First and foremost I want to admit that I have no good comeback to the public transport schedules, that is a good feature.

But regarding mapping and navigation, google maps does not treat you like a human being. It's essentially a catalogue of advertisements, much like google search. It's optimized to guide you to the "nearest pizza place" or what have you, and at least in my area, if you're not looking for a vaguely defined place to spend money and already know your destination you're screwed, quite ironically. Everyone I've talked to around here struggles with it and has developed the strangest procedures to trick gmaps into showing the route they want to see.

I personally use OpenStreetMap and it works very reliably, admittedly after I reconstructed some roads and added some labels to places I visit. Luckily there are many active editors around here, so even when I'm going to visit a new area 99% of the time I get where I want without issue.
Daily posts about how hard Facebook sucks. It’s getting old.
If your storing millions of passwords surely a version field and an if statement is not going to be a huge concern
Yes: Ć has "dynamic references" (`shared_ptr`) denoted as `T#`, "read-only references" (`const T*`) denoted as `T`, "read-write references" (`T*`) denoted as `T!` and "storage" (`T`) denoted as `T()`.

So you can (and probably should) do almost any memory management as you would in C++. Except I don't see any alternative for `weak_ptr` at the moment.
>Manually setting dip switches and setting pins to try to get your cards to each have a unique IRQ

Also, thinking about which IRQs are available when buying a hardware device and how that maps with possibilities for existing devices.

Even more fun - realizing that the solution is to swap network cards amongst a couple of computers because the other network card has more options. So you do the swap (and update the software to use the new ports) and then hope that both computers will even load afterward.

Had to do the planning by hand since this was before I was on the Internet and I don't remember seeing web apps that help with this.
Another thing that isn't mentioned here is the hassle they can put you through if you have kids. For example, before they discharge you with a newborn they will ask you if you have electricity and some similar questions. If you answer no, they call child protection and have them investigate.
Modern American county courthouses are stone ships, and use maritime (corporate) law for governing.

Look up your county government corporation on Dunn & Bradstreet. You will see it is a private, for-profit corporation. Same with your state government.
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It is definitely more complicated than changing the case and running the hash again
Like with a lot of things it's more of a spectrum than a binary. Yes it still would be "theft". But if they were responsible with it then I'd definitely be more okay with it(like a lot of libertarians) . It'd be more okay if we all paid proportionally to our earnings. It'd also be more okay if we had more and more granular controls over what it gets spent on (like the humble bundle where I'd pick which ratio of my share of gov spending goes to which department or social good).

The thing that irritates me about it is that none of these intermediate steps seem to get any traction. My pet theory about that is they don't get implemented because they would inevitably lead to full public control over social spending. And when we get there we're essentially doing libertarianism anyways and realise we are responsible for our neighbours and society and have no need for a government that does stuff without our consent.
I think we can be sure that any uncurated app stores would quickly become a cesspit.

Once you acknowledge this you have to accept that original complainant would have the same problem everywhere.

Nobody will want his trash in their store.
what category does "beauty plastic surgery" fall under, if not "emergency" or "elective"?
Solar makes up 2 % or world electricity. Wind 5 %. Coal and natural gas together make up 61 %.

Where is this solar capacity? Where is this available low cost renewable energy? We are decades away from making the renewables our main electricity source if there were massive investment into it, meanwhile we are building new coal and gas plants instead. And the electricity demand is still going up.

Even if things go way better than anyone can predict, we will never have enough energy to throw it away on inefficient hydrogen, not in a lifetime of anyone currently on Hacker News.

The whole H2 hype is just shilling for oil and gas, whether the people perpetuating it know it or not.
The outrage could lead to autonomous ships.
Why do you care that Google's improved one of their ML systems. Are you a competitor to them. It doesn't seem very nice to be against others improving their services.
My wife and I made the decision of moving from Brazil a couple years before we moved. Even before the destination was chosen, I started working remotely for companies outside Brazil.

We looked for countries that would take us that had a good political alignment, a decent social security system, and a thriving tech ecosystem. We ended up with Canada, Ireland, and Germany. We selected Toronto even though I am a Hungarian citizen and that would have made Europe a lot easier.

My wife and I applied using Canada’s points system, something mine and mostly hers post-grad work impacted positively. My wife would continue her studies and I’d go along and work remotely. She had everything set up and we’d move the next semester.

Then, out of the blue, I was pinged by an Irish recruiter and now we live in Dublin. Ireland is much nicer than either of us suspected and while the government is slightly to the right, labor law and public healthcare are sensible, and the voting system weeds out extremes such as the Trumps, Bolsonaros and Orbans that made some countries so undesirable.
This is in no way an educated guess, but it could be something about dealing with right-to-left language support?
It's actually a pretty common use case, if employed properly. For example, I've heard that the Cuban expat community in Florida and their cohort still in-country will use HF radio to pass information. During the recent protests there was reports of the Cuban government employing signal jamming on frequencies associated with this. It gets harder to DF a signal if you use directional antennas and low power, short transmissions. Digital protocols help a lot with this. If you have a communications schedule with the receiving end and perhaps have exchanged one time pads, then setting up a temporary station at a pre-set time to transmit a message then book it, it'll be quite hard for anyone to catch you. And, of course, if you fall into this use case then laws concerning encryption are probably of lesser concern to you.
She is correct with that statement. A decade ago I would have not imagined that "fake news" will become such a big issue for society.

We need to find ways to combat at the very least the state-sponsored disinformation campaigns. FB and others must be forced to do much more here.
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Interesting. I don’t think we got those questions for either of our kids. We do live in an urban area though.

I recall some questions about food security and heat security though.
I moved to Korea when I was 23 in 2016 from the USA to see if I could globalize my idea for a start up in Seoul to take advantage of the focus on innovation.

Here's a post I wrote many years later now that we are the most awarded global startup in Seoul - https://www.jacobjacquet.com/blog/building-a-global-startup-...
To me, the encryption things is a big issue. In 1950, transmitting for the world to hear seems reasonable. In 2021, virtually anyone with a few grand could record literally everything transmitted on the 160, 80, 40, 30, and 20 meter bands and archive it for all eternity.

Do I want my casual conversations going into some historical record?

Probably not.

Testing is also a bother. I support testing, mind you, but so much of this is memorizing factoids. "What segment of the 20-meter band is most often used for digital transmissions (avoiding the DX propagation beacons)? (A) 14.000 - 14.050 MHz (B) 14.070 - 14.112 MHz (C) 14.150 - 14.225 MHz (D) 14.275 - 14.350 MHz."

At least we finally got rid of Morse Code.

And aside from that, the authorized modes of transmission aren't that interesting anymore. I'd enjoy experimenting with things like spread spectrum, or similar types of innovative things. Building an SSB radio in 2021 seems archaic.
Not exactly. {, }, [, ], (, ) are not part of the English alphabet but they are widely used. Same thing for ->, =>, !=. But things like λ are not used at all. So the alphabet of computing is ASCII.
If you are still bashing hex. You are delusional. Better buy before pulsechain launch, and besides that don't be an idiot and miss the pulsechain airdrop cause your stupid hex bias.
Maybe better than a single 'lunch escort' would be a group of friends, or a team the candidate isn't being considered for or something.

So that there's some joviality (or not! Something to get an impression of) without putting such one on one pressure on the candidate so that it still feels like an interview. Candidate can just sit and eat even and enjoy others' conversation.
or logic is in db, with validation triggers and constraints constraints, but that is not always the case.
Our son is 8. If we let him, he would stay up until 1am using the computer. We've tried other approaches, such as reasoning with him, or positive reinforcement, but this is the only thing that has worked.
Great question! Many people have been asking this. I found this incredible series of software engineers sharing their journey of moving abroad - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxd8PfGfq4gUXfxeDu55TdZQR...
However small, isn't it better than losing them? I think yes.

Because you can't bring that "quality of life potential" in the grave
UK CoV2 infection rates among fully vaxxed are higher than those of unvaxxed ≥30
> a resilient, grassroots, worldwide communication system

With the tsunamis, the impending climate collapse and social unrest this should be seen as a need rather than a hobby.

Governments allocated huge chunks of the spectrum for commercial use (and pocketed lobby money) while keeping HAM radio unusable and public use spectrum tiny.
> navigation, public transport schedule (extremely accurate in Prague)

Have you given Apple Maps a go recently? In cities where they’ve done the big transport updates (I think Prague is one of them), I’ve found Apple Maps to be far superior to Google Map.

Live transport times, accurate station entrances and exits (great here in London where stations can have half a dozen entrances spread out over half a square mile). Incredible walking and cycling audio instructions, which make good use of cycle paths, and provide instructions using traffic lights as landmarks (e.g. go through the next lights, then turn right).

Reviews etc are a bit crap still, POI data isn’t as good. So the directions to your destination are great, but actually telling Maps what your destination is sometime frustrating. Additionally I’ve noticed a view map errors that result is silly routes, but I suspect Google Maps has the same, i just didn't have the local knowledge to notice them.
No, in Canada
It's interesting to hear that. Here in the UK I find GMaps way better than Apple maps in a number of ways. Apple maps has a frustrating habit of sending you to anything but the proper entrance to large venues or places of interest, it's become something of a running joke with my wife who insists on using it when driving.

It goes to show how these companies are much less monolithic than we might sometimes assume.
Don't you think that Facebook is a centralised entity that controls speech globally?
This has been like this for at least a couple years now. Struck me as bit odd in the beginning but it doesn't really improve the chances of brute forcing too much (which is hard on Google login anyways). And potentially saves so much time and server resources
This is made to compile to a bunch of targets, presumably to make things easier, but then literally the first thing they do is just explain exactly how many inconsistencies there are in their number and array logic between platforms, and that it’s up to you to keep track of that.
Until FB stops sucking, the volume, frequency and intensity of the commentary should continue to increase. "It getting old" is precisely what FB is waiting for so that they can continue their shittiness without consequence.

Sadly history shows us that they're probably right about how it'll play out.
The real advantage of HAM radio is that you own all the associated infrastructure. Everything you need to send a message across the planet can be packed up and carried with you. The same cannot be said of the satellite - though it's certainly a easier option in most cases.
> what sort of new things did it unlock?

Talent: "it has allowed us to hire some of the best talent from organizations where employees are fed up with politics, infighting, and distraction"
I tried at first, google location data is somewhat inconsistent. I do pull out some of the items and stick them in a varchar column. And I also pull out and store long/lat as a postgis type (which is an amazing bit of tech btw).
The little-known web browser that beats Chrome for productivity (Vivaldi)
Why do you suggest it saves time and server resources? Because people are likely to miscaptialize the first character of their password?
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I’m very surprised by the quality of the writing. It’s both very informative on a quite difficult topic, has humor, and lets you get a good broad understanding of the three « camps » that the different options favors.
An oil tanker is a floating bomb. And another Exon Valdez would cost hundreds of millions.
Not one based on manpower anyway