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rr808··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
Wait a second - if you have gsuite it isn't a regular gmail account. Did you talk to gsuite team? If you even paid there is real support.
rr808··on Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
Still quite like the windows log approach which (if logged) stores the template as just the id, with the values, saving lots of storage as well eg 123, foo, bar. You can concatenate in the reader.
rr808··on A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
There might be a plan but more likely Chinese salaries have grown a lot in the last 20 years. 20 years ago US salaries were much higher - it makes sense to get a US degree and work here. Now you might as well go home again, it isn't better to be in the US any more.
rr808··on A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
There is no shortage of US families who would pay the $100k/yr for top 10 university education.
rr808··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Sorry, it was just a genuine question. No one in my extended family has had serious problems or issues with insurance companies and I genuinely dont care if my records or even dna are public. Probably would support it for research purposes.
rr808··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Do Europeans care if their health data is secret or not? I feel in the US its a big deal that people dont want insurance companies to measure them and deny coverage to those who need it most, but in most of the world that isn't an issue.
rr808··on We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments
I found a video! 14 years ago and its C#, but VC++ had this in the 90s too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6J34B37wUc
rr808··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Thanks yes of course you're right, still frustrating. I'm nearing retirement so not really worried about job loss, just want to make use of the tools.
rr808··on We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments
The best I can do is rebuild the class, then when the function runs next time you get the new code. Is that what you mean? Quarkus is good like this too.
rr808··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Its super frustrating there is no official guide. I hear lots of suggestions all the time and who knows if they help or not. The best one recently is tell the LLM to "act like a senior dev", surely that is expected by default? Crazy times.
rr808··on We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments
Speaking of better in the old days, MSVC in the 90s had edit and continue, where you could stop in a debugger, change the source code and move the current breakpoint back and run it again. Even VBA had this 30 years ago, why cant I do in Python?
rr808··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Most (?) Kobos can run libby so you can get ebooks from your library.
rr808··on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
> told me it was even more incredible during the height of the dotcom boom

I was a developer in the 90s before Netscape even came out. I didn't have a computer at home and dialup barely existed. If you wanted to do computer stuff you had to read. If you wanted to try a library you had to buy a CD from a bookstore or mail in an order which would get posted to you.

rr808··on Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
2020 was a special time where every child in America was given a Chromebook so they could do school from home.
rr808··on Scala 3 slowed us down?
I'm on Spark Scala 2 project and I hate it. Basically any good Scala dev would never want to work on our ETL projects, so we get second rate Python or Java devs like me who bastardize the language to get anything to work. Most of our new stuff is all pyspark, hopefully we can replace Scala asap.
rr808··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
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rr808··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
We have these weekly rah rah AI meetings where we swap tips on what we've achieved with copilot and devin. Mostly crickets but everyone is talking with lots of enthusiasm. Its starting to get silly though now, most people can't even get the tools to do anything useful more than trivial things we used to see on stack overflow.
rr808··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
Lol you made me think my power bill has gone up but I didn't get a pay rise for my increased productivity.
rr808··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
There has always been a lot of Microsoft hate, but now its a whole new level. Windows now really sucks, My new laptop is all Linux for the first time ever. I dont see why this company is still so valuable. Most people only use a browser now and some ios apps, there is no need for Windows or Microsoft (and of course Azure is never anyone's first choice). Steam makes the gamers happy to leave too.
rr808··on Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
That's the same as most countries then.
rr808··on Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
US doctors earn that every 12 weeks.
rr808··on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
I have a job where I'm 5 days a week. The biggest problem isn't the juniors which are all happy to leave their small apartments to go into the office. Its the senior guys with big houses out in the suburbs that have the long commute. Unfortunately the new grads are having fun hanging out together but aren't getting the face time from the seniors.
rr808··on GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
bitbucket?

Gittea for self hosting is something I always wanted to try.

rr808··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
I think the issue is to create an ICE is a very complicated process requiring lots of specialist knowledge, skills and technologies. An EV is just much simpler, comes down to who has the cheapest batteries. Europe and Japan are great at the former, the latter no chance.
rr808··on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
$4/mo is more than I expected. I always compare to cloud storage and $50/yr is significant.
rr808··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Prices going up 2-3x is not market failure, its just another commodity cycle. If it went up 10-100x you might have a point.
rr808··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
> 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value.

ugh, I hate this. Often when doing a search for how to do something I get 100 beginner blogs that cover the absolute basics but have no depth. People who know what they're doing are drowned out.

rr808··on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
How hard can it be to have an Android laptop? Basically most people just use a browser and the choice of applications is already extensive.
rr808··on Blender 5.0
Microsoft Office is dying. Most grads we get only know Google docs and avoid Office. Most of our docs are on wikis or email now.
rr808··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
Median dev salary in USA is $133k, most likely with healthcare already. You can easily afford a mortgage on a median home which is about $24k/yr.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/102001/united-states/

https://www.calculator.net/mortgage-calculator.html?chousepr...

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