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I'm also confused, but I'd imagine that if Trump lost the election and betting sentiment on polymarket predicted strongly that Trump would win, it could be used as further "proof" that fraud occurred and that the democrats stole the election.

Polymarket probably thinks that the Biden administration is angry with them for showing how the population truly feels as all other sources are obviously corrupt /s

Not to take a dig at you but to set some context for other language learners reading this, 1000 words in a year is awful progress. It would take you 10 years to have just a semi-fluent vocabulary in a simple (for native English speakers) language like Spanish, Italian, or French, and that's not including grammar. This is the main problem with feel-good apps like Duolingo, giving all sorts of positive feedback for what amounts to very little progress.

Anki + a frequency dictionary + 34 new words/day (with 80% retention due to spaced repetition) is easily doable by our brains to get to semi fluency (~10k words) in a year. Or, take a month to cram the first 2000 words and you're well on your way versus other wastes of time.

The UHK (ultimate hacking keyboard) comes pretty close. I can vouch for its high quality, and it's about as portable as you can get for that many keys without switching to a slim profile like in the OP

Try that for baldurs gate 3. The trash results that are returned might have what you're looking for, after scrolling past the SEO highschool essay style intro and after closing the mid page JavaScript embedded nag window.

The post is flippant but a decent strategy. Your goal (whether you're a total comp+promo seeker or just looking to float) is to arm your manager with as much ammunition as possible to argue on your behalf during calibrations. Project impact can be easily argued against, especially when your area of work is difficult or not well understood by other engineering teams, not to mention that coming up with undeniably impactful projects every 6-12 months is not possible on many teams. Lines of code and moving efficiency or cost metrics cannot be argued against. It's not the only way to "succeed" at Meta but it's certainly the easiest way

All of Facebook uses btrfs for their root filesystem (or did when I worked there). Millions of servers. They of course have the caveat of having kernel and btrfs developers working for them, and they run new kernels

Wendover Productions "Why Russia Is Invading Ukraine" on YouTube provides some good info. Some reasons include: - They need to secure energy sources (natural gas) to ensure a future for their economy. Ukraine was threatening this business by beginning to get funding from Western companies to develop their natural gas industry - Geographically, losing Ukraine to NATO/the West would result in compromised defensive lines - Putin wants to reestablish the former united Soviet Union

The culture is a bit different in different offices. Most of the stress from working at FB is from your twice yearly perf reviews, where managers have to go and argue with other managers over what rating their direct reports' performance deserves. If your manager is not assertive or does not have much clout, doesn't really like you, doesn't get to give their shpeal before all the "exceeds+" are given out, or simply gets paired with one or more a-holes, then all that shit is going to roll downhill (your meets expectations will turn into a meets-most, and you will have a PIP in front of you soon for example).

Cultural differences in conflict, negotiation, and corporate drive can make this more or less stressful for the managers and as a result for the employees. As such, you can predict more stress in the US and less in Europe+Canada. The Irish office for example is a bit more laid back but also can be more passive aggressive.

Per decision making around immoral things, all those decisions happened in the US when I worked there.

He was paid 12.7 million from investors....to find gold coins worth 2 - 4 million? How does that make sense? Do all investors get their money back plus proceeds from gold sales, minus costs and a stipend or something?

Also the dude actually does look like a pirate

this is useful for network connectivity troubleshooting in any environment (container, embedded device, and so on) where curl, nc, telnet, etc. are not installed

This is great! Git is highly unintuitive and I wish it would die in favour of mercurial or some other as-yet undeveloped thing. Those that like the way git works have stockholm syndrome from being abused by it for so many years.

To echo what everyone else is saying, get FZF. Most of these linux productivity things are just some dumb pet project that solves a specific problem that a specific person finds annoying. FZF is not this - it makes something you do hundreds of times a day (history and file opening on zsh, bash, fish, whatever) indisputably better. If you find yourself sitting there tapping ctrl+r multiple times like an idiot for some thing that may or may not be there, do your stubborn beardy ass a favour and install fzf.

You can implement some or all of the tips in this HN post, it'll make fzf results better.

Email I received from Amazon regarding the issue:

""" Hello,

We are writing to let you know that your email address was disclosed by an Amazon employee to a third-party seller on our website in violation of our policies. As a result, the employee has been terminated and we are supporting law enforcement in their prosecution. The third-party seller has been blocked from selling on our website. No other information related to your account was shared.

This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to take any action.

Thank you,

Amazon Customer Service """

Well I remarked to them that it was remarkably similar to the qwertywriter and got this response:

"Hello.

We are different company. It is our prototype model. You can see our key layout on our Kickstarter Page. www.elretron.net

Regards, Elretron"

My Response: "I noticed that you posted a review to the qwerkywriter on geekhack in January (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86879.0). Are you using qwerkywriters with a different case in your prototype videos and photos?"

No response yet. I expect that they have no product, and will manufacture a cheaper qwertywriter clone should their kickstarter go through (or just take your money, who knows!)

On the plus side, I like the squared-off keycaps, and the price is right for a knockoff version.

This is literally a qwerkywriter with a different case. The key spacing is exactly the same, as are the features aside from new square-ish keycaps.

Interesting that the domain name is elretron.com...someone with username "elretron" posted a youtube video to a review of the qwerkywriter on Jan 10, 2017 ( https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86879.0 , http://i.imgur.com/hecpAgx.png)

Is the qwerkywriter creator behind this second upcoming kickstarter campaign, or is "elretron" just ripping off the entire thing and selling for cheaper with a cheaper case? Or is the original creator just hoping for another round of kickstarter funding and making no mention of qwerkywriter on their website (which has prominent spelling errors, as if it had been thrown together quickly)?

Either way, pretty shady