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Brasson New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

I’d love for games to work on a Mac too. I just can’t justify paying through the nose for a PC when I hate using it for everything else.

Brasson ‘Demakes’ challenge the idea that bigger and faster is always better

Paywalled. :-/

Brasson Ask HN: What iOS/Android do you use for Hacker News

Safari. Like OP, I used MiniHack for a while. Got a new device and started using Safari and it's been fine.

Brasson [dead]

Heading is low value clickbait for a post that amounts to: "use our tool".

Brasson Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct

Same goes for Georgia. Brian Kemp is currently the Secretary of State of Georgia and has indicated he will not step down. https://www.wabe.org/kemp-robust-systems-will-keep-georgia-e...

https://www.wabe.org/candidates-set-abrams-kemp-will-compete...

Brasson Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct

It's not good.

"On July 3, Marks' organization and state voters filed their lawsuit, and on July 7, technicians at KSU wiped the server. When the case later moved to federal court in August, technicians wiped at least one additional server one day after a federal judge was assigned to the case."

https://fcw.com/articles/2017/12/08/wray-fbi-georgia-electio...

Brasson In 5 states, richest Americans live in a “new Gilded Age”

Actual study: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-new-gilded-age-income-in...

Brasson Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

Why the shot at COBOL here? COBOL's creation of "real world value" by comparison is hardly a low bar: https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/

Brasson GoPro quits the drone business

Looks like they are private. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI_(company)

Brasson If the Waffle House is closed, it's Time to Panic (2016)

I'll forward this thread to the devs. Maybe that's a feature they'd be interested in adding.

Brasson Banks should let COBOL die

This is how I learned. The team I was on consisted of several entry-level people who were taught COBOL. After a couple years or so most of us have moved on to better compensated positions at other companies.

Brasson Banks should let COBOL die

Small businesses are doing this as well (where I learned COBOL). Having experienced it, I do not feel there's really anything wrong with COBOL itself. The language is verbose and relatively straightforward, however it requires a different approach from what most people are used to.

Brasson Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

Pentel Client Pens. Go-Ruck Slick backpack.