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There is this joke in Europe...

What do you call a person that speaks 2 languages? A bilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks 3 languages? A trilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks 1 language? An American.

noobeeon Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone

This! Google is beating the drum about RCS, but Google Voice, their own service, does NOT support RCS.

noobeeon Comparing PostgreSQL-Compatible Databases: From Amazon RDS to YugabyteDB

One thing that I would find cool as a follow-up to this article would be something like a decision tree (I understand it would get very complicated, very fast, but it should be fun): I, as a developer, am using AWS/Azure and I need features X,Y,Z, tell me which database I should pick.

Probably even better if it were a model trained extensively on the documentation / features of each individual database and it would also give references to the answer (see how Bing does it).

noobeeon USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

I am using the USB-C 4K with an M1 Mac Pro (Pro CPU), driving 24k@60Hz (via DP) and 14k@30Hz (via HDMI): https://plugable.com/collections/docking-stations/3x-display...

noobeeon Windows 365 Cloud PC

The service is free (you need Microsoft E3/E5 license), you just pay for the VMs, which you can customize any way you want.

noobeeon Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options

Not sure why this is news - Amazon is the first company to embrace a hybrid work environment, way before the pandemic... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - work from the office. Saturday and Sunday - work from home.

noobeeon Gödel and the limits of logic (2006)

A light take on the subject can be found in Logicomix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix - a cool blend between the dry topic and comics.

noobeeon Border-adjusted cash flow tax (to replace corporation tax) explained

NPR's Planet Money also had an episode on this recently: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/01/512921756/episo...