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sichtlinkair··on How narcissists climb the career ladder quickly
Seems pretty obvious to me
sichtlinkair··on EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives
Obviously, but they're targeting everyone with a huge feature set
sichtlinkair··on TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
Genuinely curious why Germany's position is excellent for chip production?
sichtlinkair··on Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
> That way my nose travels less

Your mouse, you mean? Otherwise you have some explaining to do :)

sichtlinkair··on Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
so it worked for you when you finally did it with a therapist? or it worked 10% of all the time spent with a therapist?
sichtlinkair··on Ask HN: Linux/low-level programming courses with chat support
I would pay good money (well, my personal development budget would) for courses like this
sichtlinkair··on The Button Cheat Sheet
Kinda funny to me we need a website to explain you should use <button> for a button
sichtlinkair··on Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
Because there's enough people who don't understand it that it's worth trying?
sichtlinkair··on All Hail King Pokémon
Wish I had the downvote button
sichtlinkair··on Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view
Wow really nice! I also have some contact with Firebase at my job and the web client is really poor and frustrating to use.

I wonder why Google hasn't done this yet? Would offer an even stronger case for Firebase

sichtlinkair··on Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you
> At the end of the day you still need to trust the organization building your OS so they don't push a backdoor in your root installed package.

I am curious what are good solutions to this problem? Compile your OS (and any other software) from source?

sichtlinkair··on Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you
> ... the owner of their operating system ...

I think this is exactly the bit people don't like. I don't want them to "own" my operating system.

sichtlinkair··on Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average
> It's likely to be a "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" type trade.

What does that mean?

sichtlinkair··on Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
Aha, totally missed the copypasta
sichtlinkair··on Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
Interesting perspective

> The core is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself

though I think this is a bit exaggerated, no? AOSP gave me a perfectly fine, modern Android 10 experience