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mr90210··on Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts
This has been my observation living in the EU.

Two regions that have been capitalising from skilled programmers and that hardly anyone talks about are the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

mr90210··on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
Speaking of aesthetics, I switched back to VSCode but I ended up installing the theme "Zed One Theme" and switched the editor's font to "IBM Plex Mono".

I know it's not Zed, but I am pretty satisfied with the results.

mr90210··on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
Ok, how big was your project?

My JetBrains IDEs (RustRover, Goland) probably would have choked out too.

mr90210··on I'm leaving Ruby Central
Someone shared this on this thread: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
mr90210··on I'm leaving Ruby Central
Strange take for a Danish living in the US.
mr90210··on I'm leaving Ruby Central
For some reason I always had a feeling about him. Perhaps I couldn’t understand why a guy that did so well in life like him found so much time to pick fights on Twitter. With the kind of money he had, I’d pay to be anonymous.
mr90210··on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools
Google: "wikipedia Evidence of absence"

Also, https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=segfault

mr90210··on Notion 3.0
It used to be simpler and focused on capturing text. Slowly they turned into an alternative to Confluence, Trello, Jira, ChatGPT's UI, ad infinitum.

Most people got hooked before it was that convoluted.

mr90210··on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
Sure, as long as consumers are not forced to update which will justify a subscription model.
mr90210··on The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving
> Because it's a step towards larger Rust adoption in Linux, simple.

Ubuntu is not Linux.

mr90210··on The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving
> I don’t get why people are so militantly opposed

The author wrote about why he opposes such rewrites. You might not agree with him but you will get him… once you read the article.

mr90210··on Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
> It's a stretch to pin blame on Microsoft. They're probably the reason the service is still up at all.

I reckon that the ecosystem would have been much healthier if NPM had not been kept running without the care it requires.

mr90210··on Linux phones are more important now than ever
Oh João vai-te deitar pah. LMAO
mr90210··on Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps
If it were possible, how would you have prevented your Trigger account from being abused once a bad actor got its connection details by inspecting your FE app with DevTools?
mr90210··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
I stand corrected.

As a fellow EU citizen that came from a “third world country” I can’t help but to be surprised about 3 things:

- How slowly but surely the EU and its members are becoming exactly like the governments of said third world countries. (I’ve lived through them, trust me, I know)

- How unaware most citizens are about EU’s power hungriness. The same EU that hasn’t yet apologised for their attempt to clean up the US mess in the Middle East by taking on the displaced people from that region without proper integration plans.

- The fellow Europeans have little clue about the shit-show and corruption in Brussels. It’s rotten.

mr90210··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
The Danish showing their claws. The grass isn’t greener.
mr90210··on Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Can we flag this post? It doesn't add value to the platform.

PS: Take a deep breath before you reply. Don't let me ruin your day.

mr90210··on Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency
They all are until they get threatened.

Soon or later we will default to analog means. It’s not looking good.

mr90210··on Chat Control Must Be Stopped
Safer for whom?
mr90210··on Plex Security Incident
> (e.g. salt + pepper + argon2 w/high factors) they can still be reverse engineered. It is a matter of when, not if

How much compute/gpu and hard dollars would hackers need in order to reverse engineers those stollen passwords?

mr90210··on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
> survey of 791 developers

We have got to stop. In a universe of well over 25 million programmers a sample of 791 is not significant enough to justify such headlines.

We’ve got to do better than this, whatever this is.

mr90210··on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test
You describe it as if it’s a bad thing. It’s your brain working as intended.

Now, you can be strategic about staying sharp about topics that interest you.

mr90210··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
The issue with that is where do they draw the line. Next thing you know each country becomes North Korea.
mr90210··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Dude, that’s a killing machine, someone will always end up dead.
mr90210··on Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)
Why call it Gonzo? This is a well-known word in other realms.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_pornography

mr90210··on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
Oh you are one of those. The nit picker. This is not at a PR review mate.
mr90210··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
I would think that much more people would share the same beliefs. Why would I want to eat lab grown salmon?

I’d rather eat non-lab grown salmon once a month or once a quarter than eating that f—— aberration.

mr90210··on Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't
This post is very simplistic.

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You live in a country called Politistan, you own a tech startup in which 75% of engineers are foreigners on a PL-VISA. A new party comes into power, and draft a proposal do abolish said visa.

Do you expect your employees - that could be at risk of not being able to renew their visas - to not discuss politics at work?

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I know my example is flawed, I don’t have a good proposal either, but hard “Don’t, just don’t” isn’t enough for extreme cases.

mr90210··on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
They shouldn’t, but each bailout should be accompanied by consequences for the execs and partial nationalisation of the company. Companies that big should see the German government as the devil they never want rely on.

That’s my view - which I stole from N. N. Taleb - on how to deal with too-big-to-fail companies.

mr90210··on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
It's possible that they are uncertain about the path to monetisation. As far as I see, it's either subscriptions or selling ads.
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