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drdo··on Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned
This is normal in Portugal.

I can generate single-use cards with an arbitrary limit, limit cards that can be used any number of times, and cards with a monthly renewing limit.

This works for literally any bank in Portugal via an app called MBWay.

drdo··on Ask HN: How do you fall asleep?
Sounds good. Except that if I can't watch something or at least listen to something in bed. I will delay bedtime as long as possible. But if I can watch some tv series or something I usually fall asleep in 5-10min.
drdo··on Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
You don't need to scroll down at all, at least on desktop.

It's right there at the top, very prominently.

drdo··on Mercedes-Benz new subscription model: increase performance for only $1,200/year
That's fine. Just ship the more expensive version with the same hardware but with the extra power firmware.
drdo··on You need to earn over $200k to afford a typical home in these 8 U.S. cities
Given those numbers maybe the right move is to open a daycare!
drdo··on You need to earn over $200k to afford a typical home in these 8 U.S. cities
Where do you live that daycare for 2 kids costs more than one full-time salary?
drdo··on Apple Rankings
Wrong, granny smith is number one.
drdo··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
I don't really have any advice for the negative colouring of incoming messages.

But for the onslaught of messages I simply don't have notifications on and will only check it a few times a day when there's a natural break in my work.

Also, just leave the channels, there's no reason for you to be on 100+ channels.

drdo··on Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?
Macbook Pro 14 M1 16GB/512GB

Used for around 3 weeks for light development, browsing, etc

  === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        30 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    2,248,989 [1.15 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 2,286,963 [1.17 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 55,208,855
  Host Write Commands:                62,154,580
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       128
  Power On Hours:                     43
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   7
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0

  Read 1 entries from Error Information Log failed: GetLogPage failed: system=0x38, sub=0x0, code=745
drdo··on Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?
What model of Macbook is this? And how big is the SSD?
drdo··on Ask HN: Looking for Email Service Recommendations
I use Hostinger and I'm generally happy with it.
drdo··on 2160p resolution is now premium feature on YouTube
The price might be very reasonable for someone making a US tech salary. But it's quite expensive for people in lower income countries, specially when you take into account that there are many services you could subscribe to, it adds up fast.
drdo··on Ask HN: How to deal with potential discrimination when applying for job
I would say just move on. There's little to be gained by pursuing this.

Additionally, why do you have a photo on your CV?

drdo··on Seven megatrends that will shape the next 20 years
The planet has a constant supply of an incredible amount of energy from the Sun.

Most forms of energy we can tap into can be traced back to the Sun, except for maybe nuclear.

drdo··on Seven megatrends that will shape the next 20 years
The Sun is going to last a few billion years, we can worry about entropy later.
drdo··on Ask HN: How do you change your budget around a big raise?
Since I'm happy with my current lifestyle, I simply increase the fixed amount that I invest in broad index funds.
drdo··on Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream
If only they would start shipping in Portugal!

Or any EU country for that matter.

drdo··on GTK 5 might drop X11 support
Screen sharing definitely works on Chrome (webrtc), Zoom (desktop app) and Slack (desktop app or web) on my vanilla Fedora 36 setup.
drdo··on GTK 5 might drop X11 support
Do you have an example of something that does not work?

I'm using Fedora 36 and everything that I can think of works well.

drdo··on Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
Honestly, I think they are going in the right direction.

The main problem with the Linux desktop has always been the insane fragmentation in my opinion. There's a million different options for every little thing and so developers don't have a platform they can count on and their option is to either provide reduced functionality (no integration with the desktop environment) or support a bunch of different things. And users don't get a polished JustWorks(TM) desktop experience.

drdo··on Should the browser use all available memory?
I never quite understood why there is no way to ask the kernel for "weak memory" that can be deallocated at the kernel's whim.
drdo··on Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
I don't think anyone needs to be convinced that we should stop with DST, or the whole timezones thing for that matter.
drdo··on Who knew cereal was so bad for you?
Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 10 years.
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
This is a misunderstanding, you must have answered to my reply after ithayer edited his comment, the initial comment said "constant time".
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
Didn't understand what you meant, care to elaborate?
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
It's not hard to prove that that's impossible
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
There's no Base64, it's just regular ASCII, for each leaf that has an ASCII character '0' through '9', you sum 0 through 9 respectively.
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
It's just as ASCII, you should sum the leaves that have ASCII digits (sum their digit value, not their ASCII code) and ignore the non-digit leaves.
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
One quickly realises that you must mean a balanced tree, since otherwise there would be no unique solution, but it would still be nice if it was explicit in the text.
drdo··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
Wasn't hard. The problems could be better explained, for example in the second one they should clarify that the binary tree is balanced and that each node is one character.
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