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csunbird··on Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals
Exactly my thought. A well-sleeping kid who stays where you put them is not that much work for now. But when they start being mobile and explore the world on their own, you will need to keep an eye on them forever.
csunbird··on Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
My father has a 98 S320, with over 1 million kilometers. The engine just recently started to have overheating problems and needs to be rebuilt with new gaskets, but otherwise runs fine!
csunbird··on Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs
if Apple wants to sell their products in EU, they have to listen what EU says.
csunbird··on Researchers fool self-driving cars with stickers on street signs (2017)
as always there is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1958/
csunbird··on I was banned because of a security flaw in Facebook’s password recovery system
You can probably send a GDPR request for your data to be deleted, with your identity proof (e.g. an ID Card). They have to take the profile down.
csunbird··on AWS Purity Test
That is why you also pay per request :)
csunbird··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
A sign that says “We pay our staff fairly, tips are not required” could be a good advertisement for your shop!
csunbird··on Taking over a Dead IoT Company
Love the story! At one point, you are asking about the purpose of the giant hole in the backside of the display: The most plausible explanation is that, it is to allow air circulation within the device to prevent overheating.
csunbird··on Please don’t film me in 2023
You also must have a good reason as well!
csunbird··on Please don’t film me in 2023
Security cameras: You are only allowed to use them to film private land.

Dash cam: The footage can not be published with faces and/or license plates legible (anything that can be linked to a person really). You are allowed to keep the footage for private purposes unedited.

csunbird··on No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)
It depends on the medicine! For example, I have a medicine that I take regularly, and to reduce the amount of doctor visits, my doctor just prescribes me several months of medicine in one giant box.

The box contains smaller boxes of the medicine and they all come with the same description paper - all 30 boxes! I have read that paper 100 times already, there is no need for me to read it anymore.

csunbird··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
Apple DOES say that, when you set up FaceTime and iMessage!

There is a pop up that says "Your carrier may charge for the messages used to activate iMessage and Facetime" You can choose to not activate and do it later.

csunbird··on Migrating from AWS to Fly.io
The point the OP wanted to make was:

Servers sitting less than 1km to each other tend to have lesser latency between them, compared to servers that could be anywhere on the public internet.

csunbird··on Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
This link now redirects to a 404 page for me. I presume that they are reading this thread.

Whoever is implementing these changes, shame on you.

edit: this one works: https://lastpass.com/delete_account.php Let's see whether they remove it or not.

csunbird··on Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned
Are you running the whole lichess on one machine, or is this one shard only? 30 GB RAM for one instance of application seems very high. (sorry did not have time to read the whole article yet)
csunbird··on Notes on Saudi Arabia
In law, yes. In practice, your destiny is between the lips of your “sponsor”. They can demand anything from you, like monthly payments, to keep sponsoring you. Basically, the foreigners have no power and the system extremely heavily favors Saudis over everyone else.
csunbird··on Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
isn't @NonNull just a syntactic sugar for adding checkNonNull() call as first statement to the function declaration in compile time, or am I mistaken? Just like lombok, it is supposed to generate code that checks null arguments, from what I know.
csunbird··on Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature
I mean, depending on how the OP phrased the work to be done, they probably did valid work.
csunbird··on Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
it is probably very easy to bypass, by creating a sub package that can do the decoding via proxy functions, which is not evil at all, and depending on that package on the evil one. It won’t trigger the alarm, as it is indirectly depending on the base64 :)
csunbird··on U.S. pushes Japan and other allies to join China chip curbs
“Our guys” is more appropriate.
csunbird··on Having a campus that looks like a Benetton ad isn't a compelling state interest
(warning: unpopular opinion)

I would like to point out that, affirmative action does create harm, as it tarnishes the image of people legitimately got selected and got in to the college/program, as there will always be the question in the air: "Did they got in because they are qualified or because of color of their skin?". Also, people who weren't selected because they are not in the affirmative action group will always have the doubt that they weren't selected because of their race/skin color and this always will fuel racist thoughts.

Fixing discrimination with discrimination is not a good idea: two wrongs should not add up to a right. We should fix the systemic issues that cause people in to be in the situation where they are discriminated against, even although it is going to be slow.

csunbird··on See a Satellite Tonight
- And if it is getting bigger and brighter by the second, you should evacuate the area.

On the non-joking side, most of the lights in the sky do appear static, as their relative positions only change by earth's rotation. If the light does not appear to be static, then it is not a star or planet, and probably is human made, unless it is a meteor or shooting star.

csunbird··on Meta stock price drops more than 20%
In Europe, you pay taxes, as soon as you get them.
csunbird··on Most people don’t finish online job applications
Linkedin and other job advertisement sites get paid per "Apply" click or redirections, so they gate keep the information on purpose.
csunbird··on Ask HN: Is it possible to have a structured work day in software dev?
An American company recently rescinded an offer that they made to me because I mentioned the mandatory rest hours between oncall procedures in the interview.

I felt like I dodged a bullet.

csunbird··on Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps
All vehicles are better at some things and worse at some things. That is why replacing all cars with bicycles won't work at all, and we should stop pushing this idea.

We just need to use more bicycles.

csunbird··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
For EU, Whatsapp actually solved a different problem, as SMS already existed to send messages to offline people: You could fit tenfold amount of messages to an mobile data subscription to a SMS package that you can get from your mobile data provider. It was so cheap and whatsapp also had more features.
csunbird··on Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension
> That's because the alternative is for browsers to send a "I-WANT-TO-BE-TRACKED" header if users want tracking and then basically no-one would consent.

I would say that, getting companies to convince the user that they would be better if they are tracked would be a good feature. Currently,tracking helps the company and hurts the customer, so companies should come up with a reason why tracking is actually good for the customer.

csunbird··on Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in the world
Also, there is a meme video about those parrot species, a male parrot mistakes a zoologist to be a female parrot, and attempts intercourse with him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY

The shaking parrot head emote with rainbow coloring in Slack is from this video :)

Edit: Realized that someone already posted the video here below in the comments.

csunbird··on Social media app Parler buys cloud-services provider
I also think people should be able to voice their opinions, even if they are very opposed to my personal beliefs. There is a need for that, to evade corporate or state sponsored censorship.
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