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I'm also a proton mail user. It sounds like you have privacy as long as you don't break any European law. That's certainly not the "Swiss bunker" style of service I was expecting

Agreed. Duck Duck browser on Android has a very prominent "burn" button next to the URL bar which deletes everything. It's great!

I'm privacy conscious but would not consider looking at such detailed information. For me it's delete all site state on exit. Do people actually look at this stuff?

Tough sell given the M1 MacBook air is $800

If you define the scope of what you're trying to accomplish narrowly enough then of course you can automate. This is what the nocode systems do and they give you a nice and easy to use UI.

Automating all of software engineering is something that will be done at the same time as every other job title - when general AI comes along. Hard to know when that might happen - it could be next week or it could be in 20 years.

As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be difficult to pay for.

I'd expect a more meritocratic society would be a more equal society wealth wise. Looking at inequality in the UK vs USA - such as the share of personal wealth for the top 1% - seems to support the article:

https://wid.world

That data appears to show that the increase in inequality in the UK since the 1980s has been modest compared to the USA.

If we're talking about a skill that can be written down, the following works for me:

- read the manual and summarise as I go

- using the table of contents of my summary, I rewrite the summary in another document

- I repeat this rewriting the summary a bunch of times over multiple days

- this works for text, diagrams and code

For me, the act of trying to recall from minimal input (a topic heading) gets the job done.

It's really just a variation of the techniques already mentioned here.

Denim pants and shirt at the same time. Ahh the 80's

Yep any time I install a new editor the first thing I do is switch it to Source Code Pro. Maybe a bit boring compared to those on Doug's list but I love it nonetheless.

I think it would be the amount of caffeine per cup. My guess is that a standard coffee cup would be 80-100mg. 600mg is a hell of a lot of caffeine - on rare days when I have 400 I feel very well used at the end of the day.

I think you missed the "6+ coffees a day" part.

It's true: contractors will be the first to go when things spring back.

The market is very hot right now in Australia. Our government closed the borders so only Australians can apply. That combined with an unwillingness of staff to move roles means there's a big shortage. Salaries have shot up in the software industry. I have seen $1000 AUD per day contact rates for senior engineers. That equates to $220k AUD before tax (-30% net).

I wonder if we're going to see some more of Torvald's excellent management technique?

>PATCH 3.12 108/142] fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation

>Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Oh maybe not this time :-)

Hospitals operate 24x7 but individual Nurses and Doctors don't. They work in shifts of course! A 4 day working week means a hospital would have to hire more doctors and nurses of course.

It's a thought bubble though: in my country doctors and nurses are severely overworked as it is. The health system could not permit 4 days a week for doctors and nurses.

I don't get the point of likes and dislikes on YouTube. In more than a decade of use, I have only in the last year or two used the like button and from my TV. Views matter - not likes.

Don't worry Google: our federal government is spineless and will surely find a way to water down the legislation without appearing to do so.

I see a lot of people complaining about not getting what expect out of free Google services. How about choosing a non free provider of those services that has support?

I see discussions about storage re renewables but I never see anyone mention the obvious solution. If you need power at night, just use high efficiency led lights to power your solar cells.

/jk

This is probably not a response to the other story this week about a start-up that got a $70k bill from Google cloud erroneously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336

It's obvious a lot if work went into the project and I salute the creator.

This is a computing device made out of 74 series chips. I wonder when I'll see a computing device on HN made out of discrete transistors, capacitors, etc

That is so not jq! I've really been pining for jq on my current Windows project :-(

I think it's wonderful news that Arm is joining the ranks of giant American tech oligopolies. This is a win for freedom and increases prosperity for all.

/s

Honestly I don't know any issue in the real world that has been solved this way. Just because much of the world has a mobile phone doesn't mean they are getting the right information at the right time.

Anecdotal of course but there are stories of foreign workers being promised one thing then receiving something else when they get there. It's difficult to complain when you can be sent home for doing so.

This kind of employment arrangement which is very open to exploitation is not unique to Singapore. Where I live there are similar programs for foreign farm workers and the are also stories if exploitation. However the scale of it in Singapore is enormously larger.

Ask some of the million poorly paid foreign workers what they think of the success of Singapore - I'm sure the story won't be quite as glowing.

This is masterful work. I love the move from the now well understood s6 to the s9 in blind fashion.

I just can't believe how dumb it was to put a memory read command into the older NFC chip! Maybe nobody thought about security back then?

It's always been a dumb idea to make yet another rendering engine. For the same reason that Firefox is sliding slowly but surely into obscurity: the web works best in Chrome, like it or not.

I'm sure the team working on it are talented but I can't imagine any commercial company picking this up for any reason.

They should have switched to blink or WebKit years ago. Yes I used Firefox since it came out of AOL but for quite a few years now it has been a liability. Too many web sites simply don't work in Firefox. Nobody making web sites tests in Firefox any more. The Mozilla leadership adopted the head in the sand approach on this point with the obvious outcome. So long and thanks for all the fish!