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I lose count..

Is Threads the one by the Twitter founder, or the one by Facebook? Or the one that's encrypted? Or is it about Twitter, Twitter threads? Or is it a Whatsapp thing??

Check your website's HTTPS:

The certificate for eev.ee expired on 22/12/2023.

As for PHP, and I can't read the TFA, it was a fantastic language, and still is. Look at what it enabled and continues to enable.

Back in my day you got predicted grades, went to an interview, got an offer (or didn't get, but that was rare, the interview would however sometimes result in a lower than standard offer) then got the grades, or didn't, but holding a cascade of offers down actual grades was common/recommended.

Was that system worse?

[UK]

HTMX

Edit: I'm really not joking. The amount of resources - people, time, enterprise - pumped into front end frameworks is quite horrendous when most applications are CRUD, and most others are CRUD 80% of the time.

A university degree, for many jobs, is a box tick.

A university for many careers, is a signal.

A trade school is for jobs.

Skills are different from knowledge.

Etc.

A glut of corporate devices coming to a 2nd hand electronics market near you soon. Or eBay.

Which I love, as I enjoy near perfect condition slightly older ThinkPads for $200. Though I don't buy many, and have only recently 'upgraded' from an X220 to an X250.

But. Why? What is the pressing functionality in Windows 11 that past versions do not have. I get the need for a newer phone if someone really wants a better camera or a special purpose app, or just has to have many many apps that run all the time and need extra cores and memory because of the users' habits. I get it for servers where energy's a big part of the cost function. These are hardware needs. But not software needs. We're already mature without hitting the next tipping point which isn't now. MS's motive must be alternate.

Take an hour for yourself everyday.

Do some exercise like situps or skipping early in the morning; have a pullup bar across a door frame to use when the kids are brushing their teeth, and some pushup handles. Much more time effective than a gym unless you're really into something in particular.

Do whatever they like in the evening, get engrossed, forget forgetting your work, forget yourself. Their time is fascinating.

Edit: Get an early night. Enjoy doing even more tomorrow, today's done with.

Firefox. I've used it since Pheonix.

Why not? It's stable, respects privacy and has a thriving ecosystem of plugins.

If a campany's silly enough to make browser-specific websites any more, and some are, I just don't use that company.

purelymail

I can't run blow for blow what'll work for you.

https://taxfoundation.org/location/wyoming/

https://taxfoundation.org/location/delaware/

For example.

But it's not just about tax. For privacy and having a Delaware-like specific business litigation process should you ever need it, Nevada's advantageous over Wyoming without needing much more in tax. Then for access to finance, a location that'll let you open a bank account for the business can be important (this might depend on US state). So there's a bit of YMMV, but nothing an Ask HN can't fix!

Why Singapore and not, say, Wyoming that has no corporate tax.

Personal tax isn't paid if you're not tax resident, and OP seems to be resident in Thailand so will have to follow relevant laws there.

If ASEAN free trade's of benefit, perhaps. Or if going for a Singapore ID card then having a profitable business might be worth it. Or access to SE Asia finance. Outside these, Wyoming!

That's an annoying way of presenting data: A chart without axis labels that requires hovering over a small dot just to find out the city name where the tooltip obscures nearby small dots and makes just highlighted dot hard to find again, excludes far away dots.

A table with 5 columns would have been easier for everyone.

The recent (9 month ago) Gandi change prompted quite a few useful links for changing registrar. [1]

Using Google Cloud reselling Sharespace seems like two terms of service rather than one, not a long term solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777

Relevant news. A different company, MindSift.

Important themes. That someone has won a Nobel Prize is old news also, as others have.

But different ends of 'noble pursuits'.

The tail end of a long death of China reporting.

Corporate HR, based on actual thinking unlike the Twitter author who seems based on ego. The reason for this is there's a lot embedded about what 'A', 'C', 'E' mean, and that's different for different people. Using specific terminology (somewhat) mitigates this.

'Average' is also 'Effective'. If the organisation's hiring most people at the right level, that's the way it should be, right?

[An organisational pat on the back that its employees are effective. And then whole business lines get cut, because they're not effective. But the employees are, correct? Blinkered into effectively obeying. That's different from the OP.]

Consistently getting 'exceptional' or 'outstanding' is a problem for your manager because it means they've hired you at the wrong level. Whether this is a problem for you depends on your manager.

It's not all in a name, it's how you think about it. That the author of the post deflates 'Effective' to 'C', which means overall able but lacking in in some areas, identifies something's off. Enough to make me run a mile from any association with this company.

Further, something wrong with the employee conversation. Given a job specification and reasonable leadership communication, having someone surprised means they've been working with the wrong goals, and that's leadership's problem. It happens, I've been there, and then you reverse it, however Tweeting it as a bragging point is lost on me as leadership communication.

Have you tried to use once popular CMSs recently?

At the other end of the spectrum, compiling a website to get a result I need to learn a static site CMS for but without the benefit of having a dynamic website is not user friendly nor is it feature full.

A. Write it down sufficiently succinctly to publish in academic journals. Or failing that, a book with an ISBN that gets archived in libraries. Perhaps creative commons etc licencing will help a bit, but it's gotta make it to distributed archives.

B. Teach a future generation. It lives through them and gets built on.

C. Embed it in what you do. It might not be a webpage, but there's code and ideas living in organisations today that have outlived their authors.

In this sense, perhaps bash.org hasn't died. It's just outlived its domain.

- No response to questions, after follow-up we got a meeting from middle-management

They're busy running the company paying mortgages while C-suite believe nice sounding words and budgets are all the incentives needed. Welcome to middle management. Some in C-suite will get this.

- Got some new info, but mostly circle-talk

You're speaking different language. Speak company, not generic IT.

- Received very negative feedback, where the middle management and only focussed on the questions or steps that where wrong ??

Again, welcome to middle management. It went wrong. There's an error. Fix the error. It's what they do. Again, speak their language.

- General tips for nailing down requirements ?

Ask for their existing "provide us the steps or process flow for when to alert who after what time, when xyz happens" flowchart, escalation matrix, escalation tree or whatever it's called in their corporate language. Perhaps it doesn't exist. If they're ISO9001 it should, but perhaps not.

Don't ask for meetings on your terms. Go sit in the team, attend operations meetings. Understand them. Corporates are anthropological studies.

A simple CMS. I became frustrated at actually being able to install Drupal - where a framework must be installed to install a framework to actually install... the framework, and Wordpress's new incarnation where a blog post ends up as a header and the footer ends up in the contact form didn't impress me.

It was easier to DIY my own thing over a year than deal with these 'tools' that once did what they said on the tin.

And I get to have joined the annoying HTMX crowd!

There's an awful lot of Soho, and ten with an SE postcode which seems surprising as no one ever seems to come from SE aside from Greenwich.

A separate device. Work should be separated anyway, at a minimum you have access to confidential information from employee data to customer data to code to reports.

That your company doesn't provide this is... not on. And a problem for their compliance and legal departments.

In the mean time, get a burner Android device for $100-200 for anything work.

TIL automated decision making isn't legal in UK/EU.

Thanks for your reply. It's great to have one, even if to confirm these record types are not widespread yet. I don't really want to self-host DNS, and will eagerly and patiently wait for options to propagate around registrars and more independent DNS providers.

Thanks again.

Going for mean temperature?

Domains with HTTPS records are hosted in more than 2.3 k ASes and name servers serving the records are in more than 1.6 k ASes. However, most records are hosted in and served by Cloudflare (98 %).

Having bitten Nginx 1.25 by the horns in getting HTTP3 going, I was looking for a DNS host / nameserver with support for HTTPS (and/or SVCB) record types, but my search didn't turn up anything. I'd rather not use CloudFlare, Google, or any monopolistic companies.

Does HN have any to recommend?

I for one do not like brioche buns with burgers.

While a matter of taste, what was once a novelty has become commonplace. I don't believe I'm get off my lawning in this.

I also noticed this today. It's not been like that before.

The long term yield on treasuries is the long term expected return.

“You can buy a 6-month T-bill that’s yielding north of 5%. Why wouldn’t you buy that instead of a long bond that’s yielding 4¾?”

Clearly people do want them, then. So much so they'll pay a 1%+ premium to be locked into the certainty of a long term treasury return rather than gamble short term rates will forever stay higher.

The current 30 year yield is 4.5%, and that's almost 0.5% lower than at the start of the month.

The FED taking a pause on rates was not despite the Silicon Valley Bank collapse earlier in the year, but because of it - banks contracted balance sheets, money is created via lending, as a response, meaning the Fed could take a pause as the banking sector was doing what rates would otherwise do in cooling money creation.

And bond portfolios are getting absolutely hammered. The longest-dated Treasury bonds are in a bear market worse than the dot-com bust and almost as bad as 2008.

To check that, I looked at the FED yield curve which shows the prices of bonds , expressed in interest rates. Here: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

Yields have decreased (prices risen) across the board since the start of the month. The end of October was in fact the highest yield (lowest price) all year.

Is the article 28 days too late?

Is cutting negligent reporting with political anecdote (the US being able to borrow (unsecured!, though repossession would be difficult) in perpetuity, control it's interest rate, and have its own currency, does not make an analogy with household finances/borrowing make - aside from the word 'borrow' they're quite different ideas) useful?

Does crossing the web design of the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal fool a reader into thinking this is in any way credible news?

OP asks: why so many people are now convinced that we are living in a simulation?

Not whether we think we do or don't.

Which is a quite different question.

For my 2 pennies, whether or not it makes a difference (as mentioned in simulation argument) does itself not matter, all that matters if people think it matters (it is, after all, entirely in our head at this point). Does it create a disassociation effect where counter-intuitively a constructivist approach allows is to see the world more positively (positive, as in positivist). And if not, are poll answers blunder or is there no disassociation of self determination.