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Was searching for some old email but seems like the site is down.

Why is it uncomfortable? It is the reality, and no one important wants to change it.

There are plenty of immigrants working under the table. And there are plenty of employers willing to hire them.

We do have it both ways.

If the situation in Italy actually got bad, the EU would suspend Italy's membership or at least many EU rights (such as freedom of movement) very quickly. As usual, everyone likes their neighbors until they don't.

Everyone said this about global surveillance before Snowden and yet. I don't see the value in questioning if this is true or not, rather I think we should assume it's true and act as such, isn't that what modern security is about? (see: HTTPS/DNSSEC/DoH etc)

I frankly wouldn't be surprised if it's actually happening.

Georgia Tech's CS6750 Human-Computer Interaction by Prof. Joyner

The lectures are free and the course can also be taken as part of OMSCS.

Fantastic course really. It teaches something new and the theory behind it all is really interesting.

Other top-rated OMSCS courses such as CS6200 GIOS are really good as well.

Could the CTO or some other employee go to Amazon's office to do something like this? I genuinely wonder.

You also see this sentiment with other topics related to hiring, like working 2+ jobs. Somewhat amusing.

How can a BNPL firm compete with apple offering the same service at no extra charge? Just the disappearance of easy money has crashed their valuations already.

Not really relevant to your point as a whole, but about BNPL. In Mexico basically any credit card worth having offers BNPL. Typically the agreed solution is just to charge interest to the merchant. Stripe Mexico has it: https://stripe.com/mx/pricing/local-payment-methods (see meses sin intereses), for an example of the fees involved.

In addition to this there are some institutions (like American Express) that offer BNPL at no charge for the merchant (other than the interchange fee).

No consumer pays interest in this scheme (it's in the name: meses sin intereses, months without interest), well, as long as they don't miss a payment (they charge interest then). So at least for this industry I don't think Apple is major threat. Surely BNPL firms can figure something like this out for the US. I think Mexico is not unique in this scheme.

Regarding Japan, I think the parent comment was referring to the 1980s US-Japan trade war. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela (when you could actually vote) are also federations (and not the only ones). Brazil's population is 210M and Mexico 126M. They all have national identity cards which can be used for voting like the parent comment says.

If there was will in the US for a national ID, Congress and the powers that be could achieve this within a few years if they wanted.

Here's an old thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244440

It's obvious when you the Page Visibility API original editors/authors: https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/

Can you expand on what do you mean by "just popped open the kernel"? I'm genuinely interested in this kind of "tribal knowledge" you talk about. Maybe there is something we (those reading this thread) could learn and make use of.

Maybe lichess.org?

Being able to get root access to your phone just like you do with a normal computer would also be nice.

We are increasingly losing the right to actually control our devices as time goes on, and it scares me. Especially since you can't really DIY this kind of hardware to remove these protections.

It makes me sad to think there's a pretty a good chance of this lawsuit going Apple's way. Even more sad is the fact that many actually support these ever-increasing walled gardens.

I am also grateful for PortableApps.com. Along with Scoop and Homebrew, they make using a system without root or admin privileges a really nice experience, in both Windows and Linux.

My sincere thanks to John and all the PortableApps.com contributors.

It would not surprise me if that was the case.

I do get that "video paused" popup every once in a while, but I have never seen the looping behavior.

If this is happening to you a lot, a cool way to get around it can be using mpv/youtube-dl, they both support YouTube playlists:

mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThlnilAqSEtI9HNfZEEy...

or

mpv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThlnilAqSEtI9HNfZEEy...

The --no-video flag hides the mpv OSC (a simple GUI, which is not necessary if you're playing songs). To navigate the playlist you'll need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts (<, >, ENTER, p), and more:

https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#keyboard-control

This works very well and is multi-platform.

Unless YouTube puts DRM on the whole site, this should continue working as long as you keep mpv or youtube-dl updated. Sadly I don't think we can know for sure if they're doing this on purpose.

Thanks for sharing your experience. It is interesting to me that it took 18 months. I was expecting a longer time.

In future years we'll probably hear more similar stories from other NoSQL databases and maybe even SQL databases. Who knows.

Working with people who have spent literal decades in this stuff, it is really refreshing to see your perspective. Never heard something so accurate for something this specific on the Internet. Your points about concurrency and overnights in special.

I am no expert and very young in average for people at my company (Junior Engineer), so I've never had a chance to take part in this kind of "big" decisions, but I've always suspected the way Pick/U2 works is the reason we have all kinds of weird limits across the board (as you pointed out, a big one is concurrent [write] access to stuff as U2 does not have transactions/ACID/MVCC). I'm sure paying for U2 also costs a pretty penny.

The company does know that nobody wants to work with U2. If you apply for a job here, they will barely mention it and will train you from scratch instead as it is extremely rare for someone to know this.

Thankfully I don't usually have to work directly with it and instead use SQL/Java, but it never escapes me because this U2 database is the source of truth for a lot of stuff.

How big were the systems you have migrated? How long did it take to "replace their solution"? I feel it must be soul-crushing to rewrite this kind of system entirely, especially testing it.

Thanks for commenting. My current job involves working (though in a minimal way) with a heavily modified install of Rocked U2 which has its own version control, kind of its own BASIC dialect and I can only agree with what you say. It also forces you to use a special in-house terminal and text editor for ALL programs in BASIC. No vi or anything.

They have discussed of doing away with it for years (decades?) and it has never happened.

The biggest argument against migrating is "performance" (that a RDBMS or even Mongo will be slower).

I would think many of those visits are for business or seeing family. Plus the fact that many of the tourists come from countries in the Visa Waiver Program [1]. An ESTA is much less involved than a B1/B2 visa application.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#V...

As a native Spanish speaker, I don't know of any successful tech community in Spanish. Vast majority of them just republish news from English sources with lazy translations.

So it may not be the best idea to learn Spanish this way.

With that said, I do know of two popular ones:

https://www.xataka.com/ and their network of sites (Webedia, see page footer)

News and sometimes discussion in various topics, mostly technology, hardware and random gadgets. Mostly written by Spaniards or Mexican authors, but don't expect a lot of original stuff.

https://elrincondelc.com/foros/

Somewhat popular but small community for general programming questions.