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Oh man I remember this! Seeing the test notification message popping up on my colleague's phone. Damn. That must have hurt!

Sidetracking a bit: does anybody know what tool was used to generate the table diagrams?

> they claimed the American territories as Spanish

Against the will of all the natives living in the territory. You can't just show up to a house and claim that it's yours and simply take everything out of it and then take it somewhere else and claim that technically you didn't steal anything because you first claimed it yours lol.

I always find it very amusing that the Spanish government has the guts to show up and say "hey, guys, so, we actually stole that so can we please have it back?"

Looting the whole continent for centuries was not enough. They want more, of course

I think that you're right in that by using Mullvad you're transferring the trust from your current ISP to them. It's also important to mention that you can pay Mullvad with cash, sent in an envelope, so that your (real) identity is never known to them.

We would know so much better if it wasn't for the genocide.

RIP the ocean

Watson Parker* stupid autocorrect ;(

Reach out to Watson Parken, they are an Accounting & Financial Advice firm based in Zaandam. They will be able to give you the best advice you need for your personal situation.

Hourly rate is ok if you team up with the other engineers and pay the hourly fee together.

> (Except I don't know where you'd find a retina laptop outside of Apple)

These days there are vendors releasing laptops with 90hz refresh rate OLED screens, 2k and 4k resolution even, on the 14" and the 16" ones. Asus for example has that on their ZenBook and their VivoBook series.

I can't believe it. It was the same for me back in 2009 when I was learning Ruby. Thanks for this.

Same in Spanish

I always found this funny. In Russian "second hand" is spelled секонд хэнд, which I find hilarious.

Which makes sense. The verb has already been declined and gives away which person it's addressing. Same in Spanish: Yo soy (you can drop the yo because soy only applies for yo). Same for other pronouns.

I truly have no idea. My knowledge in Russian is very limited. Maybe someone else can chip in

TIL that this is called Gaj's Latin alphabet [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet

Even though Russian does drop the "to be" in present tense for all pronouns, other Slavic languages do feature it either as a separate word or together. For example this is how you say "I am Russian" and "You are Russian" in:

Slovenian:

  Jaz sem Rus

  Ti si Rus

Croatian:

  Ja sam Rus

  Ti si Rus

Slovak:

  Som Rus

  Ty si Rus

Whereas in Polish is a joint word (but the to be is still merged in there):

  Jestem z Rosji

  Jesteś Rosjaninem

I also thought that using the Latin alphabet feels a bit of a hack and Cyrillic would be a more "natural" way to put things. However, using Cyrillic would impose a higher learning curve for those who do not it. This is mostly for phonemes that don't have a 1-to-1 representation in the Latin alphabet, like ш, щ, ж and what not. For these cases, languages like Croatian, Slovenian and others have come up with, what is my personal opinion, are quite acceptable workarounds (I just found out that this is called Gaj's Latin alphabet [1]) č, ć, dž, đ, š, ž (I skipped a few). Without knowing initially how they are pronounced, read in context you do get an idea of what the target sound is.

I also think that on-boarding Cyrillic-first cultures would be easier because normally countries that use Cyrillic as their main alphabet also teach the Latin alphabet at school (Russia for example does and they also teach you how to write "Russian" using Latin characters because they understand the importance of this). Whereas it's not the same way around: a lot of the Slavic countries do not teach the Cyrillic alphabet at school.

> I've always had trouble trying to parse out Russian transliterated into Latin script. I also think this is because when you're learning Russian as a non-native speaker, the courses focus mainly on Cyrillic (naturally so) so you never really learn that ж -> zsh

ш -> sh

щ -> sch

х -> kh

ь -> '

etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet

Edit: answer question about Russian transliteration, add missing link and try to fix formatting.

Off the bat I would say Metabase but it'd be good to know what kind of data you have because you can connect Grafana to Marinade and it'll give you really nice graphics but again, it depends on the kind of data you have

Caddy for example does this on their website. You can pick whatever addon you want and you'll be able to download a binary with exactly what you want.

> I've mostly kept tech and flying separate so far.

Don't you upload your tracks to something like xcontest or similar to analyse your flights?

Hang glider and paraglider pilot here. Surprised to see paramotoring being brought up on HN. Even more surprised to see the founder of ayvri posting in the same thread! And yes, I'm a user, though not OP :p

If you host your domain with Gandi [1] you get 2x mail boxes of 3GB each included in the price plus a bunch of (unlimited?) aliases. The web interface is sogo [1] which is very decent but you can always fall back to Thunderbird or any other email client.

I just migrated away from Zoho because since I'm already hosting my domain in Gandi, I thought that I might as well...

[1]: https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email

[2]: https://www.sogo.nu/

It's common practice amongst Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian/Bulgarian speakers to write in Latin alphabet when Cyrillic is not available. I know for a fact that this is taught at school in Russia. Not sure if in other countries.

What is stopping you from having a level headed, heart to heart conversation with your new colleague about your growing concern? Part of any job is to pass on the culture to new comers. I'm sure they'll understand.

That's true. The moment your data leaves the region you start paying for egress and that can get expensive quickly. Still beats the crap out of multicloud, though :)

You give HN too much credit.

I agree with you. I think that having multi-AZ is the first thing to figure out before wanting to do multi-cloud, which is just another buzzword taken out of management's bullshit bucket :)

Azure DevOps is just another runner for your migration. If it works from your machine it should also work in AzDO, so as long as the pipeline has direct access to your database.

> Where does it store the state of what scripts were executed so that it doesn't have to redo those the next time? It stores this information in a table called "migrations".

I'm also using bspwm after using awesomewm for years. Do you use any theme for GTK and/or KDE?

Can somebody post a tldr of what's going on? Like, why are people pissed and why are they giving refunds?