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Re:The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:13PM (#49541819)
EB-2/EB-3 green cards which an H-1B holder usually pursues are quota-capped per country of birthplace. An Indian born applicant may have to wait for over 100 years.
Re:Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:19PM (#49423013)
I don't buy and return products that don't charge with a single usb-c cable. How can I expect good quality from a product if the maker saves on ¢1 cent? It's 2026 yet new products still keep people from going all usb-c.
Did you take a blood test for magnesium level?
Re:Fable 5 Is Back on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:02PM (#48752368)
Yes, I've been using Opus to write a plan and fanout sonnet subagents to implement it. Cheaper and faster
Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:22PM (#48573561)
Communicating ideas helps, but thinking out loud may not work better to some people.

Thinking silently fits Asian Americans better than Euro Americans*.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-murder-and-the-m...

Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:48PM (#47938776)
hopefully their billing server is also available
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:03PM (#47840663)
Best in terms of what? Quality Control? UI/UX?
Re:macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:44AM (#47441386)
If you have ScreenTime turned on. Port :8080 is occupied and your ubuntu apt-get in a docker build gets hash mismatch because they obviously modified packets. Let alone I am having another issue of unable to delete a private key in Keychain Access.

The whole macOS thing is amateur

The identity issuer - the government - already has the your privacy. If you have a unique identifier from the government which websites can call the government with to verify your identity, you won't lose any privacy. All the websites get is just a unique string, no date of birth, no name, no address. This approach is the cornerstone of oauth/oidc.
Some religious groups may not support science
Re:Collaboration sucks on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:26PM (#45894823)
There is a saying: "big meetings for small things, small meetings for big things". Get sponsors before a meeting if there's anything you really want to push out
depending on how you define "leave". The search engine was shutdown, and the office still has business like ads
Re:What good workplace politics looks like in practice on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:29PM (#45441349)
There is a saying "People are politics. How can you avoid people?".
Because social media. The same goes for a phone number. If your contacts give out a phone book, your number is leaked.
Re:How good are American roads? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @09:31PM (#42200489)
Yep, in New York the pothole season is early Spring rather than winter, for example.
Re:One Million Checkboxes on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:31PM (#40802327)
It only works in Chrome, not Firefox or Safari. Sad.
I convert and upload my flac files to Apple Music which is available cross-platform, though poor on linux.

Speaker quality makes a huge difference according to my experiences from lower end $30 portable speaker to stereo sound systems in cars. Last weekend I rented a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Its sound quality is noticeably terrible because I couldn't hear some backing violin/piano sound of a symphony compared with my own car.

Have I found a bug? I entered JFK and Heathrow, it resolves to correct airports but the map shows a route between London and Lisbon.

Addresses used:

John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States

Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom

Re:Wayfire (a Wayland compositor) 0.8.0 announcement on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:59AM (#37832198)
As an average user, wayfire has been pretty reliable since 0.7.5. It is just its ecosystem needs more work.
Fairychild, which incubated many of these semiconductor companies above
Re:OOP in C on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:47PM (#34301830)
The famous htop actually employs OOP in C. https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/650cf0f13bf667270d0a6a...
Re:Should Small Rust Structs be Passed by-copy or by-borrow? on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:36PM (#34199277)
Re:I have reached Vim nirvana on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:38AM (#34146238)
This can be further extended to show plot images if the author decides to render repl outputs in a separate terminal (or a tmux pane) instead of a vim window.
AFAIK, a vanilla flake.nix does not help you start/stop services like docker- compose does. You need extra customization. devbox is like a wrapper around nix and docker-compose
Re:Devpod: Remote Development at Uber on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:55PM (#34047795)
I always dream about this setup. But an unreliable network prevents it. mosh and VSCode Remote partially solved the problem of latency. There's is still a problem of unavailable network - when you are in flight.

nix solved my problem by and large for well modularized projects. Because, nix can provide nearly identical dev environment in practice.

Re:Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:46AM (#25008982)
Maybe some people of power who get involved and want to reap benefits. Maybe the company found in 2013 is too new for the government to catch up. China does not have a long established financial industry like developed countries. State capitalism has just started four decades ago. Maybe Jack Ma knows regulations will come out soon and just made public opinions before regulation rules are revealed to the public.

I do not have any source to back my guesses.

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