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It is odd to see this topic here without any context.

I spent a decent time in the early 2000s debugging performance issues caused by the poor interaction between Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACKs (it's prominently called out on the wikipedia page). Now the effects are widely known and most latency sensitive applications will just disable nagling.

I believe John Nagle posts here occasionally.

I am sorry to hear that Yury. The timing especially is unfortunate heading into the Christmas holidays.

I suggest talking to an EU immigration lawyer at the earliest about your options to continue living in the EU while you look for new employment. You can do a quick phone consultation (in the US it costs about $75 for a 20 minute consultation with a lawyer, I hope something similar exists in your EU country).

From my own experience, there is no substitute for talking to a lawyer because they can give clear and crisp answers about your options.

Good luck and I hope you are able to overcome this hurdle.

I have to agree with the GP comment. This is going to be a drain on both the undergrad programs and on the California taxpayers.

I am not convinced that the value add to the undergrad environment will make up for it.

I always saw men in my father's generation (he was born in the 1940s) have many close friends that would get together regularly. These close and decades old friendships are especially critical now that he's retired. Without them, he'd be completely isolated.

A significant percentage of men not having any close friends feels like a recent development in the last 1-2 generations.

Most westerners have a subconscious and unacknowledged bias against Hindus. This shows up everywhere. I don't blame them for it, it's a product of decades of misinformation and misunderstanding.

In internet forums, criticizing or mocking Hindus is perfectly acceptable but any comments trying to present Hindu culture in a fair light get quickly classified as nationalistic or flamebait. The canonical example being r/India.

We're still years away from where this bias is seen and acknowledged for what it is.

For what is worth, I saw nothing in the original parent comment to classify it as flamebait. It was a perfectly valid opinion about how Hindu texts have been misrepresented by Western scholars.

Thanks Krishna for your comment, I for one learned something from it.

Chess: Agadmator (https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR)

I apologize if you already know this which is likely with 50+ chess books on your bookshelf. Chess is 90% memorization, be it tactical patterns or endgame technique or opening lines. Analyzing positions over the board requires subconscious memory of tactical and positional patterns as well as good working memory (aka RAM) to work through the decision tree.

I don't know whether each of us is fundamentally limited on our abilities. I used to have a lofty goal of 2000 ELO someday but now just enjoy the learning journey without a specific goal. I am better at chess in my 40s than I have ever been before and enjoying it more than ever.

If you are working with a real estate agent they can pull the disclosures before you make the offer. I am not sure how it works for no agent sales.

Also the disclosures have copious language to the effect of "To the best of sellers' knowledge" and "Buyer agrees to do their own research". I think this is supposed to indemnify the seller.

I am unsure how my comment is political while yours was not. But I see this double standard as a symptom of the same bias on HN.

Can you give examples of right wing or hate filled agenda of Modi? I see this Modi hate come up reflexively every time India is mentioned anywhere on HN.

I am sorry I don't have any specific advice for your situation. I am answering the part about good resources for new managers.

I personally learned a lot from "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently" (ISBN: 978-1531865207). The key idea is to not try and change the basic nature or capabilities of any person but to give them tasks that help them showcase their natural strengths. This may not always be possible.

I have found this idea to bear out in my experience. If you try to make a cat bark, it will result in a lot of frustration for both you and the cat. Personal growth and learning is a long, difficult journey and you as a manager can only give ideas or hints. You cannot mold your reports' nature or style of working.

You can set LastPass to prompt for the password every time you need to login to a password[1]. This presumably disables password caching in the plugin. Would that solve the your first problem?

[1] https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/account-settings/security/