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These "Private Schools" in Finland were famous for hosting bad boys from rich families who could not make in government schools. However the one I was in produced famed business leaders and prominent mathematicians like Raimo Lehti.

My problem was mild dyslexia, which was not diagnosed in any way 60 years ago. It took me 3 months to learn read and write, while other kids did it in 2 months.
Almost sounds like a feature. :-)
Do you really think this is a particularly try-hard contortion?
Looking from the perspective of 15 years of experience, I never took a tech lead role to lead established teams, it always appeared to me that in such teams there probably already is somebody who organically runs the team and I would be perceived as intruder. But I'm also not good when it comes to politics and people dynamics, and knowing my limitations I feel I can only run teams I build myself.. I'm most likely still not senior enough.

If I was you I would ask myself a question if I'm qualified enough (I mean people skills) to take over such established team, where I could potentially be perceived as unwanted addition- in such case I'd probably not take the challenge.
If they were a high-performing team nobody would have brought someone external to steer the ship in the right direction.
- "This Special Bulletin is published to raise awareness of a recent occurrence in which several cabin windows on an Airbus A321 were damaged by high power lights used during a filming event. The damage was discovered after takeoff on the aircraft’s next flight."
So, you use Mac?
Lead paragraph:

> In a meeting the other day, someone mentioned how it's great that you can think of the solution to a bug that's been plaguing you since the start of the day while you're in the shower. Having a solution unexpectedly appear in your head when you're no longer actively thinking about it is pretty great, reinforcing the idea that we should be taking many breaks, and I'm sure many folks have had this. But it got me thinking about how the problems we solve at work often bleed into our non-work time, and the effect it has on our industry.

Reaction: There is nothing "tech industry" about this. Most of my ancestors were farmers. In the context of professional work, I first heard this "solution...hours later...in the shower" articulated by an old attorney - who freely admits that she is not good with tech.
It has been a disaster from the start, but it got worse and worse with time. I remember reading that the schools would give the children iPads and other things just so they would sign up for that school. Basically they would bribe the children to get the parents to send them so that they could make more money. And that's only the top of the iceberg ...
Yes, but the dot-zero also has a letter to confuse it with.
This. I would gather it’s one of the bigger free mail services after Gmail, at least in the western world.
Don’t say I will die; instead, you should say we will die one day after struggling in life.
Makes sense to me, it was never super usable. The Windows versions in the early 2000s were ok enough (PGPWin by Symantec?) but outside of that, it was by CLI lovers for CLI lovers which is fine but this could only have worked with massive adoption driving network effects. Not to even mention keysigning parties, that were just the nerdiest thing ever :)
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Regulation is a huge factor in driving cost of items & services up.

Socialism involves heavy government intervention into the markets which includes regulatory capabilities.

Do you have a counterargument or are you going to leave it at ad hominems?
GPG sadly never grew up. It's a program firmly stuck in the 90s.

The original PGP manual talked about secretly communicating with your lover. That was the usage model, transmitting secret messages to people you could sometimes meet in person, and where the model was you talking to people you directly know.

Try to verify the GPG signature on say, the Tor Browser. It's signed by "Tor Browser Developers (signing key)". Have you ever met this "Tor Browser Developers" person?

Okay, what about the web of trust? Well, GPG offers no help whatsoever in finding a way of making a connection.

And that's why it's dying, because the model it targets ceased to be relevant, and we developed plenty new needs like verifying software signed by random people on the other side of the globe, while GPG did nothing to accommodate that use.
State Schools are also divided (in some parts of the country, such as Kent) into selective and non-selective at the age of 11.

If you pass a specific test (the 11+) you can go to a selective grammar school.

There also used to be government funded scholarships to private schools for the very brightest underprivileged children but that was stopped by Labour, the "party of the Working Class".
The state actors did us a favor by making the most widely used email encryption scheme less useful?

I must assume you are an opponent of privacy
The English Wikipedia page for “charter school” specifically talks about friskola as an example of one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden
MS (and other enterprise big tech) gets laws in their favor in the EU because the EU has no solid alternative to MS. There is no EU based big cloud provider with similar capabilities, software ecosystem, integration, nobody offering a comparable office suite, familiar operating system with legacy compatibility, collaboration platform, etc.

Even when you have solid competitors for individual components, the whole package is hard to resist. So they're stuck with MS for the moment, and slowly get absorbed in that ecosystem making it even more entrenched. But MS doesn't need to pay to get the law, they just have to let EU companies try out alternatives until they go back to being slowly boiled with MS. The EU is looking for excuses to excuse MS because everyone decided the price we all know now is worth paying to get access to a full ecosystem that fills all other needs.

Effectively the EU is "paying" MS to stay, not the other way around.
A good breakdown.

There are also a handful of true grammar schools left. These are free to attend, but are selective based on ability. There is debate about the extent to which raw ability is really being tested, and not preparedness for the test.

There are also private schools that call themselves grammar schools. These were once free and selective, but converted to fee-paying at some point. They like the prestige of being called a "grammar" but don't be fooled!

The lack of true grammar schools has been a big hit to social mobility in the UK. Now, getting into a grammar requires not just passing a test, but also having parents rich enough to buy a house in the catchment area. Public school alumni dominate top industries and government.

The UK "free school" approach has been a mixed bag. On the one hand, various academy chains have managed to turn around failing schools. On the other, some parents are left with no choice but to send their child to a religious school due to catchment areas and waiting lists.

As a tax payer, I don't want my contributions going towards religious institutions.

The loss of "special schools" for students with severe special needs has not helped anyone (imo).
Not just false positives. You won't get the original images with the hashes of course, so no problem for a hostile state to slip in a few hashes of other things it doesn't like: document on off-colour politics, criticism of the prime-minister, ...
If the Goog reduced headcount by 50%:

They could not accurately judge productivity, talent or motivation, so some groups would lose their key players. This would demotivate everyone left. They would launch 500-1000 startups with knowledge of how some market of merely a hundred million people is being underserved. A dozen or a hundred of those would become true competitors in those markets.

It would be good for everyone except those who lost health insurance and income at the wrong time, and the Goog itself.
You wonder what needs to happen that would make people stop using Windows.
Canonical seems to be heavy on the outreach to the press lately in an effort to save their pet project.

The Dutch website Tweakers also had a series of articles on 'how to write your own snaps' recently. Though they normally rarely write about Linux.

I don't suspect commercial motives (Tweakers is way too straight-laced for that) but I do imagine some whispering or press kits are being sent that are being picked up. Canonical is certainly a lot more active with press outreach than redhat or suse, not to mention the non-commercial distros.

Of course the register has a more optionated approach which is exceptionally clear here. I stopped reading them regularly a few years ago but they still pop up here on HN every once in a while.
I believe this as well. I like dynamic typing, because it often feels to me that rigour of static typing is slowing the prototyping phase. Plus overusing types creates a lot of boilerplate. In one of the frontends I've seen adding a boolean field to a form required changing over 10 files - thank you Typescript.

On the other hand, sometimes I feel like it has a lot to do with test writing. I feel people enjoy static typing, because you can get a feedback loop catching certain things without writing any tests. If you do write tests, all the type errors get caught pretty immediately anyway, so I just don't see the benefit.

Personally, the biggest advantage of dynamic typing for me is the ability to skip formalities for a time. If I want a function that can modify any struct with field "val" in (by, let's say, setting it to zero), I can - and I don't have to do multiple definitions, I don't have to define an interface. Just a function and I am done. If I want to skip error handling for now and only code the happy path, I can - and my program will work (and crash on error, but in some cases it's ok).

As the projects get more complex and require higher safety guarantees, static typing helps in ensuring nothing got broken - but nothing beats dynamic typing for prototyping.
Historically, public as a contrast to home schooling with private tutors.

Contemporary usage is ridiculous, though.
It's not dying. It's a secret thing, why would anyone advertise whether they use pgp or not...
Money. If you can pay, exceptions will be made for everything else.
And DHTML provides possibly the hardest version of PONG I've ever attempted to play http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex12/phong2.htm
I reckon spending the day in central London would prove that not to be the case. The difference with this and iPods/iPhones is that those things can at least be secured in a pocket or a hand - this thing is there floating on you, out of your context. One bump on the tube and it's gone. One kid running past you before you can move your hand to hold it, and it's gone. Street kids will totally know what this is, they're really tech savvy, particularly with new tech. One of the most prevalent groups using Blackberries back in the day were street kids. One wouldn't think street kids know the value of luxury wrist-watches, but people are being held up all the time to have them stolen from them. Stealing one of these pins, even for lulz, is beyond trivial if its only attachment is a magnet.
I'm not from the USA but it seems like "survivor" traditionally implies having survived a situation where the normal expectation is poor odds of survivability. Nobody's a stubbed toe survivor or an upset about the bus survivor.
How do small business owners network?
As a freelance consultant, I have a hard time matching with business owners.
A mail client supporting IMAP from the beginning, and then waiting almost 30 years to move on to step 2 of their evil plan? yeah I'd say so
iPhone have plenty of adverts. They’re just integrated in a way that you don’t always notice. Eg

- I just opened the App Store and the whole of the screen is taken up by two adverts.

- in settings, the 1st option is an add for Apple Care.
Officially money, an interview and an entrance exam.

That's not to say that all things being equal you wouldn't stand slightly more chance if you were a member of the aristocracy.
The commitment is pushed by those that materially benefit, so it shouldn't be a surprise.
Meh... not convinced. Once you have toggled the checkbox a few times, you start noticing inconsistencies: e.g. in the example shown by default, the second "m" in "time_limit" is obviously wider than the first one because it has more space to "grow" having "i"s on both sides. Not sure if I like this...
I am having the same issue in KDE Konsole: https://imgur.com/a/Dj1HZiu

I have to explicitly set the "Show all fonts" checkbox which shows all "non monospaced" fonts.
The only reason I bought my firestick was android compatibility.

- Wasn’t that also the reason for most people?
Business analytics is a field that involves the use of data analysis tools and techniques to make informed business decisions. It includes statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and other methods to extract insights from data.
> As I write this, with just a handful of browser tabs open, Slack, and a distraction-free writing app (iA Writer—it’s great), I’m consuming just about 11GB on my M2 MacBook Air.

Yeah it does not matter how memory you have, the system is supposed to use as much as it can from it. So this does not mean anything. I’m not saying 8GiB is enough, just that this particular sentence makes no sense.
Of course, demand is not high.

In my experience, it's only one very specific type of person who wants that. Usually male (phone goes in front pocket) and older (at least older than gen Z, rarely watches videos on mobile devices). Uses smartphones more as a utility/tool instead of as an entertainment device.

Which fits that apple actually released another phone with that form factor after the 13 mini: the iPhone SE 3 is also this small and it is more recent than the 3 mini. I just didn't list it because I dislike the large bezel and I think from a performance perspective, it's strict worse than the 13 mini.

But that phone fits the demographic, because those people also don't switch phones every 2 years.
World Population Estimated at 8 Billion
Who on earth approved something like this at Microsoft?
Why should I use hundreds of tabs ? I don't think I could even use this, I'd be lost. Also Why should I use Docker ?

From the article:

> Yes, you need more than 8GB

No, I don't.
That only means it failed in its aim, and needs to be replaced with something better. If you really rely on encryption for something important, a system so easily broken is no good.

And "state actor funded"? Come on, the spam attack was absolutely trivial. It required no state funding, just a single person with an axe to grind, a target, and a trivial shell script. Attaching spam signatures was a thing decades ago already and didn't require any real resources of technical knowledge.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212453
We don't necessarily need to do that. We just need less anti-intellectualism and to reduce the power/influence of the religious right in the US.
And if you want more recent packages, Debian testing is very stable as well.

I've been running a desktop/gaming Debian system with testing as a base, pulling some gaming-related packages from sid and a few (mostly Mesa and related packages) from experimental. I use apt Pinning for that.

This system has been running that way for months without a hitch.
Infinite Dungeons and Dragons
Put one of my prompts into GPT with access to DALL-E and Code Interpreter, and now it can manage rolls, combat, and actually show you what's happening to your character
I think "preps" got autocorrected.
Worse than SSBJs and flying cars, the idea of proliferation of nuclear reactors will never make financial or safety sense. The wingnut shooters of transformers would love to cause a radiological incident.
Everything will run in Azure and all apps will be web apps. You can count on that. This is a clear strategy from Nadella and I doubt anything will change his mind.
A lot of religious non-selective schools tend to get better results than non-selective secular schools.

You see a few parents suddenly get religion as their child turns 9 or 10 and they realise they are unlikely to get into a grammar school.
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Thanks for explaining. As with most science news coverage, it was hard to understand this context.
I dont use FB much.
I did not know I could send mail from Facebook.
It's absolutely ridiculous to state that it's not a breach of trust for a country to spy on its ally.
oh god i just updated to ubuntu 22.04 and it’s a been a nightmare. i use firefox, and ubuntu want me to use the snap-based distribution now. it didn’t tell me that’d be a thing, so i was surprised when opening firefox that:

* it took ages to start up cold

* my window theming was ignored

* my bookmarks and extensions were just.. gone

* this was marketed as a benefit to me

infuriated, i added the mozilla PPA, and told apt to get firefox from there. that was fine, nothing was deleted, and it all worked again.

imagine my next surprise, when i go to use it the next day, and the snap variant was back! running ‘apt dist-upgrade’ fixed it again, but this happens every day. something is silently re-installing firefox every night, and i have run out of energy to find it and stop it.

when i next have the time, i’m dropping this distro and switching to arch or even perhaps gentoo again.

but hey, at least with linux i have the choice :)

oh, and whilst i’m here, wayland is still - unfortunately - not desktop ready.
same here: both firefox and chrome open, VScode, terminal, multiple dev apps, node processes, PDF reader, Bunch of terminal processes, etc. Memory pressure is green. Its almost like they dont believe us. Sure 8GB sounds stingy, but I'd only need to upgrade if I started using VMs that gobbled up memory for themselves.
Hi Peter,

I'm not sure if my situation/questions are under your scope but I appreciate your time and energy on this thread.
My fiance is British with an O-1 visa, currently living and working in NYC. She works in fashion, not tech. But I am a tech worker in London (EU citizen) and would love to move in with my fiance of course. Is my understanding correct that even if we marry it wouldn't allow me to legally reside and work in the US? What would be the best approach?

Thanks so much.
It’s not really a problem, in my experience.

Step 1: pick a distro (I use Fedora)

Step 2: install stuff using their package manager (I use dnf)

Step 3: be productive (HackerNews wastes way more of my time than Linux ever has)

Anyway, for me, Linux is great.
Rust supports linker plugin LTO (https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/linker-plugin-lto.html).
So sad. We really need to get back to the moon, not just for the adventure, but for the technology. There was a lot of technology that came out of the space program that wouldn't exist, even today.
What is native these days? They seem to have a new UI toolkit every 2 years.
Apple reaches $25M settlement with DOJ for discriminating against US residents
Hi, one of the maintainers of the Unikraft LF OSS project here (www.unikraf.org), clearly in agreement :) . We regularly run Go workloads, and even use Dockerfiles to build Go and other projects that we then turn into minimal unikernels. We also have a closed beta/free (unikernel) cloud platform if people want to try, sign up is at kraft.cloud .
Just a small weekend project. Open to any feedback to improve the experience (I am not that good at making UIs).
In general, lots of money. Most do scholarships, so if your kid is really bright you might get one of those (usually reduced rather than no fees), they do this to bump up their examination results. Connections seem less important now than it used to be, but many will give preference to those whose parents or siblings attended.
Or: to participate in the cycle you need to be there for at least 6mo (or something like that)

Of course, this doesn't mean you're fully off the hook during that time, while it is less informal and laid back, doesn't mean you don't have to deliver

Especially in countries that have some kind of labour protections and limits on letting people go, this is important
I tried to add my key a while ago, but their version of PGP doesn't support Curve25519.
XR devices with eye tracking have practically no latency instead you would need to tune down the points of interest hover over time triggers and then there are a lot of experimental keyboard ideas in Spatial Computing that could be integrated like starburst wheels could give you layers of type assist etc
Rewriting also costs less. Be it a typo or significant parts of a code. This allows you to try more things.
Seems like Facebook turned into Emacs between 2004 and now.

I left after tagging people in photos became a thing but before "privacy" controls existed.
Talking in Rye over Telegram
Snap does a really good job of solving this. The software selection is very good, between Apt and snap, which are both browsable with the same GUI.

The snap versions are not outdated, because they don't have to deal with the whole shared dependencies thing like traditional Linux packages, they bundle everything and don't have to stay in sync with everything else.

It's not quite as perfect as Android, but stuff generally just works.

I used to have a collection of AppImages, now all that is in the snap store.

I haven't seen any custom package repos or .tar.gz installers(With the exception of Ardour and their downloadable installer, and Chrome's .deb installer) since switching.

I think one of my next tech project s is probably going to be learning to create Snaps myself
They get access to whatever records transmit to the insurance company and they provide a medical opinion on the necessity and adherence to accepted standards of care of given treatments.

That's not the same as what doctors and nurses do.
That's how it is wildly profitable: treat the size as a challenge, and the SmokingBros will take that challenge and hotbox the entire place in some glorious out of control 4/20 party, to the Sphere's profit.
As usual it is the commission, the rotten part of European always doing everything possible to undermine our rights to please gov and wealthy company lobbies.
Thus the debate. Though for healthcare outcomes including pain and suffering seems like the obvious choice.

Getting an unnecessary MRI costs money but doesn’t provide any net benefit. As such treatments aren’t what’s valuable.

Similarly preventing a Cholera outbreak via proper sanitation is more valuable than treating that outbreak. Defining GDP in such a way as to avoid the broken window fallacy is tricky.
It's possible to solve both the friction to start and stop using PGP by looking up keys automatically on the target domain, for example using WKD [1]. We (Proton) host a key for every user, which can be used to automatically end-to-end encrypt emails to all Proton Mail users, without any setup needed, nor risk of DoS (since the user can always remove their key from WKD). Various other providers also offer this [2].

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-koch-openpgp-web...

[2]: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD#Mail_Service_Providers_offering_W...