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This is a Surface Go 1, which can not.

I'm in the same boat, with a 2020 Surface Go. It's not a powerful machine but works just fine for taking notes and light browsing. I'm fine with it being stuck on Windows 10 - 11 would probably make it unusably slow - but when I purchased it I reasonably expected it to have similar longevity to the then 6 year old iPad it replaced.

When you try to use Edge to download Chrome, it aggressively prompts you to not install Chrome and just keep using Edge. I imagine it's similar if you try to install Firefox.

(On the other hand, while Apple has been taking unix tools out of the default install, Windows now comes with a bundled curl, so I just use that to download Chrome)

There are ways to do it, but it probably requires an expert in customs law to get the paperwork filed correctly.

When I moved from Australia to Sweden I shipped about half a shipping container worth of personal items -clothing, furniture, books, electronics - and I didn't have to pay any import duty apart from a small processing fee.

This is a great piece and deserves to be revisited from time to time - it shows how much journalism is actually just PR for for-profit companies.

The most insane thing about this is that none of the patents specify enough detail to actually implement MP3 - the official specifications are behind lock and key, and can no longer be purchased for any price. Unless they leak from someone who had a license, the public will never get to see them.

For all intents and purposes, the LAME source code is now the official specification for MP3.

I don't think the situation is as bad as it's made out to be. Yeah, you're not gonna get the latest triple-A looter shooter 3000. I've never enjoyed those. It may be a small minority, but enough games still get native ports that when I'm travelling with only my mac I'm never short of things to play.

Tangentially related - I recently made a fun discovery. Many older Steam games on mac are marked as 64-bit incompatible, but it turns out this is just a backend flag that's not always set correctly. Steam will let you install the game in spite of the warning, and if it does actually contain 64-bit code, it'll run just fine.

The days of this being relevant are probably numbered though, because at some point we will lose Rosetta. But I'm going to enjoy Antichamber [1] on my mac while I can.

1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/219890/Antichamber/

Your description got me wondering if Sonos had actually done anything novel so I decided to go and dig up the actual patent. Best I can tell, it's this one:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7571014B1/en

Spoiler, it contains a detailed description of the functionality, complete with UI mockups and flow charts. It does not contain any novel method for keeping audio in sync between rooms, for example.

It is insane to me that this is patentable.

Thanks for the explanation. It'll be interesting to see how this strategy performs with our current API - it has a few rough edges that stem from being designed for consumption by internal clients only at this stage.

This sounds pretty cool, but I'd love to know a bit more about how you handle the impedance mismatch between OpenAPI and an IaaC provider. So far I've only dabbled in making small changes to existing providers but to my somewhat uninformed eyes it seems like a "draw the rest of the owl" situation.

Writing some terraform providers is very likely in our not-to-distant future, so I created an account and imported our spec. It failed validation and wouldn't let me proceed, and the errors provided weren't helpful. When I have a bit more time I'll throw it at another OpenAPI validator to try to work out where the problems are, but we're using this spec for code generation for several clients already and haven't had any issues. It's dynamically generated from our backend.

One more thing, I noticed you have logos for stripe, twilio and plaid on your site, above a "Learn how SDKs help" button, which 404's. If those are your customers that's pretty cool, but otherwise using other companies' logos is a bit shady.

Generally if I lose my job in the private sector and am unable to pay my rent or mortgage, my landlord or lender isn't able to go after my employer even if the employer dismissed me unfairly.

I'm not the OP, but a company I worked for once had reason to set up a US presence, but decided against it because once you have a US entity, patent trolls have someone to sue in their jurisdiction.

I used to work on the 7th floor of the building at 1-5 Railway St, Chatswood. Sometimes at around 5pm the building would shake subtly but noticeably, we theorised it was from the trains passing underneath.

MacOS used to be very flexible in this regard - you could clone your drive to an external disk and boot off the external disk very easily - but this may have changed with the T2.

> already has a pretty high cost and difficulty

That's true, but properly implemented secure boot could serve to increase it by an order of magnitude.

The same way secure-boot provides protection against hardware modification / evil maid type attacks in CPUs today: by verifying the integrity of the code that's about to be booted before the CPU boots it.

It would significantly raise the cost and difficulty of this sort of attack.

I haven't found anything like this offered by a Swedish bank and available to individuals.

Ah, I was not aware. Hopefully they're successful and it just keeps working seamlessly.

How do I, as a resident in Sweden, open an account that can receive a payment in Euros, then spend those euros without having to convert them to Swedish crowns and back, and pay conversion fees each way?

Revolut does this. It also works out 2-3% cheaper for converting SEK to Euros than either SEB or Nordea.

Unfortunately, as it's UK based, it's not at all clear if Revolut will continue to exist in its current form after brexit.

> it can easily happen to a smaller company like Atlassian or GH.

I work for Atlassian and I agree with the other posters that you're right to be skeptical, but it's worth pointing out that Atlassian has many product offerings other than Bitbucket.

I do work there but our HR process doesn't work like that. If you're after a full-time role I can submit your CV but it won't be treated any differently than if you apply through the website.

Our recruitment process for grads and interns is somewhat different and I don't know anything about it, sorry.

You should consider applying for Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/