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Regarding a), I seem to remember that Yahoo Messenger had animated stickers _with audio_. I recall they had a pack with Madonna's (the artist) voice/songs. I just don't recall when exactly that was, but I think it was ~2005.

Edit: I just found this: https://www.madonna.com/news/title/madonna-audibles-now-avai...

I want to clarify, I was not saying the finger pushing on the screen can damage the display, but rather that doing so increases the risk of dropping an already thin and slippery device.

I initially liked it, but gradually grew to dislike it. Having to press hard on the screen of a hand-held device that would be quite expensive to repair if dropped is just not a good idea.

I ended up reducing the force setting to the minimum, and still felt it wasn't practical.

Can you elaborate why you found those interesting?

I’m curious if Twitter will kick Elon Musk off the network.

You can write and publish your own plugins for JetBrains IDEs.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/

Scam is a bit strong. But I can see leadership wanting everyone back to office for whatever reasons, and out of fear of people leaving if they are forced to return to office, they came up with this 4 day work week thing to make it attractive enough for people to stay.

There are already many good advices in this thread, so instead of writing another one, I’ll suggest a podcast that has plenty of useful information related to your situation: Huberman Lab [0]. Skim through the episodes’ titles and descriptions to get an idea of what it offers.

[0]: https://hubermanlab.com/

I did have to use Paypal recently to pay for HBO Max, because they would not accept debit cards for whatever reason, and I lost my patience with their support. You are right, the Paypal app is really bad.

You should give Wise and/or Revolut a try. The apps are way better, and probably one of the best features both have is virtual cards (Revolut has also a one-time card that is automatically destroyed after use). Note that you also get physical cards with both. I think Revolut has a few more features that Wise lacks, like travel and device insurance, but for the financial part, the features are nearly identical. Also, currency exchange rates are way better than traditional banks.

I don't know anyone using Paypal for this scenario. However, people do use Wise and Revolut.

There’s no way that natural selection selected for this, simply because, well, after you die you won’t have offspring to inherit it.

It is just a side effect of some other mechanism that likely has a use during our lifetime.

No, I literally meant the physical distance between me and a nuke.

To the best of my knowledge, this is the closest I’ve ever been to nuclear bombs.

I live in Romania.

Because greed.

Influenza is not a coronavirus. There is no cross-immunity.

My guess is that the reason why we've seen a drop in cases of Flu during the Covid pandemic is strictly related to lockdowns and Flu being less infectious than Covid. In other words, the lockdowns were very effective against Flu.

You can try Sailfish OS [0], from Jolla. It can be installed on selected devices.

[0]: https://sailfishos.org

So M2s+ are expected to have empathy for M1s, but M1s are not expected to have empathy for engineers. And, M2s+ having been M1s prior to being promoted, have to develop empathy when becoming M2s+.

Have I described correctly the situation?

Legend:

M2 - senior management, has other managers reporting to them

M1 - first layer of management, has workers / engineers as direct reports

Netflix mobile apps allow you to download most content, too, so you can compare the quality to streamed content. However, then you are limited to phone/tablet screen size for comparison.

Worked for a bigtech well known name, large and extremely important project, literally the core of a service serving an enormous number of users, and feature flags were mandatory, no exceptions.

I can't imagine working without feature flags. Being able to enable new features in particular deployment rings (canary, dogfood, various production rings or regions), or per users / user groups, enabling gradually (percentage) and so on, is invaluable. I really can't overstate this.

Heck, we went as far as using feature flags for risky bugfixes even.

We had also internal tools to easily work with and track feature flags. A downside is that although normally you'd want to remove old feature flags that become obsolete, this hasn't been done very often.

What I suggested and we started doing was to tag the feature flags with the name of the author and the date at which they were added, and the same for the config updates, and usually ticket number and title for both case. This did help with tracking obsolescence, but obviously there was still a need to plan and do the actual work. Automating this process further was out of the question, due to the high risks involved.

Edit: added the last paragraph.

% python3 --version

Python 3.8.9

macOS 12.2 (Intel), Xcode 13.2.1, no homebrew, no macports

I always wondered, how safe from tampering during manufacturing are devices 'designed in US/Europe/etc' that are built in China? Can anyone shed some light on the processes/practices that keep these devices safe, both from HW and SW points of view?

> The stock market at 2x US GDP has concerned many for quite some time

Genuinely curious, since the stock market is global, can’t it be twice the US GDP without it being a significant problem?

That’s great to hear. Are you aware of any data on vaccinated vs unvaccinated hospitalizations for Ireland? If so, can you share please?

Strange timing, with Omicron going through the population like wildfire. Maybe they are accepting they can’t fight Omicron?

In any case, this experiment will inform other countries on how to proceed further. I sincerely hope the results will be good, both for Ireland and the rest of the world.

If you want to follow the Covid data for Ireland, here’s the official site:

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

jfyi, HDDs do break occasionally, even when rarely used. I had an external multi TB drive that one day just stopped working. It just wouldn't spin up. The heads got stuck to the platter. Stiction, it is called. Luckily, I got it fixed for enough time to make a full copy to a new HDD.

Lesson: never rely on a single backup for what's important to you.

> There is only one way to fix that issue, but unfortunately telling millions of people that the social security system is over and that they need to sort themselves out isn't something that gets people elected.

That is essentially what we want to fix. What you are proposing is accepting failure, and not a solution.

I worked in two different countries in European Union, and in both as far as I can tell (ianal) it’s perfectly legal to share salary information. Labor code states what the limits of what you can do are, and also that the contract can not be more restrictive than the labor code is.

However, this myth of illegality of sharing your salary information has been perpetuated by the employers to maintain an upper hand in negotiations. And it’s what keeps down the TCs in Europe, in my opinion.

Not so fast!

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Unless the code hidden there is magically executed, this is just a way of hiding data, and not exactly a malware attack vector.

To make this work, you need to already run on the host the code that extracts the hidden malware and executes it, and at that point you have something that is detectable.

This creates an incredibly unbalanced view of Bucharest, honestly. Bucharest is a very diverse city, with a rich architecture, and the authors of the post seem to have focused strictly on poor neighbourhoods and communist-built apartment buildings.

Such a missed opportunity.