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dandy23··on Remote work morphs into elite status symbol for wealthy, college-educated
I think in this setting (WFH) blue collar job also means hospital jobs, restaurant, r&d lab workers, teachers, sales etc, i.e. any kind of job where one cannot physically work from home.
dandy23··on Remote work morphs into elite status symbol for wealthy, college-educated
But it will and should increase the salaries for employees in fields where they cannot work from home.

Salaries for blue collar jobs will go up and for white collar jobs down.

dandy23··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
How about making satellite phones illegal and then put anyone with one in prison. Allows them to arbitrarily put opponents in prison.
dandy23··on Notes on Emacs Org Mode
If you want an easier startup using text based todo lists and notes then I recommend Easyorg, https://easyorgmode.com.

Its agenda supports searching on time which is handy.

dandy23··on Why I Like Obsidian
I like easyorg for development and project tasks. Makes it easy to prioritize tasks etc but still in a text file. https://easyorgmode.com
dandy23··on Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)
Why cite a useless study? Because it serves his purpose maybe?
dandy23··on The Muddled Origins of the Word 'Viking'
I think you confuse what OP meant.

The words viking and Viken probably both stem from the word vik, as in bay. Any bay.

dandy23··on Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
The point probably was that OP don't want to run Windows as main OS.
dandy23··on Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
Really? If that is true, I wonder how much is due to the fact that the phones are more expensive so people take care of them more or delay their next purchase. It's not because the actual quality would be better.

If you pull statistics you also have to filter out the sub 150 dollar Andoid phones which may well have shorter average usage life.

dandy23··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
It's funny how the banks say the reason is that they must know their customers, but they clearly show they do not.

They probably know equaly bad the customers whis accounts they do not close.

Both banks and the banking regulation is a joke. They could certainly do some more manual verification of suspected cases to clear out the obvious mistakes, but they only care about the bottom line and to not be fined.

dandy23··on My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't Dead Yet
If you want type system you can use PHP and Laravel.
dandy23··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
If I'm not remembering wrong, since a while back, in EU the hotels are free to set their prices lower even if they are on Booking.com.
dandy23··on Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
On my budget Samsung Android it works great.
dandy23··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
A simple timer that switches off after a couple of hours would do. The timer could reset every time the oven door is opened. This should solve most issues. Long cooking could have a bypass button or somethong (if the door open reset is not enough).
dandy23··on Japan will try to beam solar power from space by 2025
And you can pump water up the mountain using solar in the day and use it in the night and on rainy days.
dandy23··on Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
They should have done it with dry cleaners instead. Selected from 100s or 1000s of shops.
dandy23··on Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry
And don't forget that those $900M are based on a very high lithium price. It has dropped since and very likely will drop more.
dandy23··on Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Why would more companies/states be interested investing in Chile if Chile nationalizes and takes a bigger chunk of the profits than before?
dandy23··on Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales
For a Dell you can buy that RAM from anywhere.
dandy23··on The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
People use clothes driers in Las Vegas? No wonder there is global warming.
dandy23··on Leaving China
Your comment is not that relevant to the article as you talk about Hong Kong and the article about mainland China.

Of course there might be similarities, but the Hong Kong story is still completely different.

dandy23··on Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
It's similar in France, maybe half that number though. It's a good system. The one's who use the highways pay for them. The highways are in a very good state in France.
dandy23··on Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours
This post summarizes a few ways you can track time using org-mode and particularly summarize your tracked time.

https://easyorgmode.com/blog/clocking-using-org-mode-and-eas...

dandy23··on Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
Moving tasks between days and weks can be done by simply updating the SCHEDULED timestamp.

Viewing can be done with orgzly or beorg or any mobile text editor. Same with editing. With orgzly or beorg you can use filters to create custom agendas.

I use orgmode mainly on desktop for project management. So not much use on mobile, but i use it for quick notes, some lists and sometimes to read my bogger project files.

dandy23··on What if writing tests was a joyful experience?
No, the test would not help to find it, but now you can write a test for that bug. Later, when you change something, related to this code or something unrelated, you can be sure it did not affect this part.

Tests are useful when you change code that is unrelated, but still somehow connected. You would never notice the issue as you don't manually try the unrelated code, but the test would catch it.

If you had unit/integration tests for all potential edgecases you came up with, you don't have to manually test that over and over.

dandy23··on On the Joy of Reading Slowly
Sounds like GPT-3.
dandy23··on We should have Markdown-rendered websites
The org-mode version is better in my opinion. Either [[link]] or [[link][text]].

Only uses square brackets and the optional text comes second which makes logical sense.

dandy23··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
But we didn't need lower interest rates.

Support for the poor or laid off, in terms of a check, yes.

dandy23··on Get things done with Emacs
Here is an easier approach:

https://easyorgmode.com/blog/a-workflow-for-using-org-mode-w...

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