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shadykiller··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
The biggest factor for RTO/Hybrid for most, is that they moved to a lower cost area. I was in South Bay - bough a 70 year old just before pandemic - a small house for a lot of money. I found a huge, value for money house, 1.5 hours away from the south bay, for far less and sold off my south bay one.

There's no way I'm coming back to south bay and pay more in rent for a small apartment than I pay in mortgage. Even hybrid is a pain with commute totaling 3-4 hours on weekdays

shadykiller··on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
I started C++ firmware development last year coming from Ruby/Java background. Boy, I was so impressed - completely shattering the previous impression built in my college - 2005 or so. The C++ compiler seems so advanced and lets you do so many things like compile time checks. Built a framework for all our embedded development with thing like compile time checks, type safe abstractions over freertos threads/queues etc
shadykiller··on Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
Cat delays eating mice until later
shadykiller··on Meta establishes four-foot “personal boundary” to deter VR groping [Updated]
Would there be a setting to disable this for consensual “groping” ?
shadykiller··on We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star
Why would the planet be destroyed or have it's course altered ? The Star's mass remains the same and so does the gravity. Wouldn't the planet's own gravity hold it up when it's engulfed, and retrain shape when the star becomes a white dwarf ?
shadykiller··on ‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave
Greenland will soon be green
shadykiller··on I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
Good luck with everything !
shadykiller··on Alienware and Cherry MX create a true mechanical keyboard on a gaming laptop
Wow ! I wonder if cherry would sell these switches for standalone keyboards
shadykiller··on Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled
What happened to memristor based storage revolution ?
shadykiller··on Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
Anyone looking for a wireless mechanical keyboard - I can't recommend Logitech G913 more. Especially if it's employer sponsored. Low profile, compact and great switches. Love it :)
shadykiller··on Block Facebook Servers
Can pi hole do device specific blocking ?
shadykiller··on Ask HN: Am I experiencing burn-out or just getting too old
What do you do when you aren’t productive? Is there anything else you enjoy outside work where you feel productive?
shadykiller··on Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
I had already transferred all my stocks from Robinhood to my company provided Fidelity account sometime back after reading about their shady practices last year:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321

shadykiller··on Could Indoor Vertical Farms Feed Livestock?
How do vertical farms compensate for minerals ?
shadykiller··on Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
What qualifies a land as farmland ? Is there actual farming going on ? Can I meet Bill Gates in a farmers market selling his produce ?
shadykiller··on Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged with willful neglect for Flint water crisis
Isn’t Obama too complicit in this? He even failed to acknowledge the problem exists, let alone do anything about Rick Snyder
shadykiller··on Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type
I thought this mutes(disables) the inbuilt keyboard on my macbook. Would be super helpful for me since my son randomly presses key on my macbook keyboard while I'm trying to type from my external keyboard.

Still, a slick utility. Good luck !!

shadykiller··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
Would it be linoleum ?

Get it ? Coleseum - Linoleum :)

shadykiller··on Some Git internals
Git is really simple at the core and fun to poke around with. I gave a talk in RubyConf India about poking with git internals using ruby.

It was fun. Link for anyone interested(not very high quality but watchable):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPlwkxrG2NM

shadykiller··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
My LG Ultrawide 5k2k monitor has TB3 and two USB3.0 ports hub on the back. I can change source for the hub from TB3 to USB B input in the back. TB3 goes to my mac. My linux workstation is connected to the displayport and usb b.

To switch between machines, I just change display and usb hub source. I do this from monitor menu right now, but should be scriptable with dpcc , I recently discovered.

shadykiller··on GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
When are we getting dark mode for Hacker News ?
shadykiller··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
Plant based isn't always the best option for nutrition and environment. In fact with regenerative agricultural practices, holistic management and grass fed/finished cows, more carbon can be captures in solid than released.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is...

shadykiller··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Looks like Biden would be able to fulfill his promise of not changing anything: https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-no...

If the same situation persists in 2016 like the deep economical divide, we may even see another Trump like figure rising

shadykiller··on Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley with Them
The prices of bay area homes aren't dropping still. Looks like this migration is still temporary.
shadykiller··on Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
Your careers page is broken :(
shadykiller··on Pyston v2: Faster Python
I read this as Python V2 and thinking why would they make V2 faster than V3 :D
shadykiller··on The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions
Reminds of this podcast below which sheds light on the theory of cognitive dissonance. About how people justify their actions to reduce cognitive dissonance - basically sleep at night.

Link: https://peterattiamd.com/caroltavris-elliotaronson/

shadykiller··on Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
I love Ruby and great to see Ruby love on hacker news. Just curious on how popular it is in the hacker news community ?
shadykiller··on Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
This is amazing !! So much better than looking variable in the watch. Please add ruby support to this
shadykiller··on Non-obvious remote work techniques
My wife's ex colleagues built this - https://www.remotion.com/. It's more like always on room
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