jonchang

One way to approach this work is to understand the genre of the work you are reading! We can determine genre in a few ways, but in this case, we see that the publication is the New Yorker, which tells us to expect magazine-style writing, specifically longer form feature pieces.

Another important clue is that this is published in the New Yorker's "Books" section, suggesting that this is a book review. And, if you know much about the New Yorker's book reviews, they often include things such as history of the field the book addresses, compares the book to other related books, and what the book's thesis might imply about our world today.

This longer form book review can introduce important context and enrich your understanding of the world! I encourage you to keep an open mind and continue to read pieces that are outside of your usual genre.

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-323290

Mostly bits of code and explanations that I took notes for and then later realized would make a good blog post.

Compare using back/forward on a boring HTML site like Hacker News, and to something like say, the Google Search results page. What's funny is that Google itself has a page on how to optimize your website for bfcache implementations, with some Chromium-specific tweaks, but the left hand doesn't talk to the right at Google, so we're stuck with lots of full page refreshes on Google properties.

https://web.dev/bfcache/

I also helped work on python app dependency resolution in Homebrew. For apps (i.e. not libraries) written in python, Homebrew vendors the full dependency tree as formula resources. However this was a fully manual process for a while and relied on maintainers laboriously copy and pasting URLs from pyPI, checking requirements.txt and so on. We instead transitioned to a system that used pipgrip to do dependency resolution (and helped report a few bugs) so that all of this could happen automatically instead.

It's kind of sad that all of these are built outside of the pip team, but I imagine in a few years pip will be good enough to replace both of these use cases.

The term here to look for is "tuition discount rate" which is how many students actually pay the full price. You are correct in suggesting that high discount rates mean that only the extremely well-resourced schools will be able to compete for students who aren't able to afford the full price of college. Here's IHE's summary of a study about 2020's numbers:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/20/private-colle...

> “Tuition discounting strategies come at a heavy cost for many colleges and universities, especially those that forgo a significant amount of tuition revenue to expand educational affordability for students and/or to meet enrollment goals,” the study said.

> On December 13th 2021, the Firefox browser will be officially "resorbing" Firefox Lockwise. Don't worry, all your saved Lockwise passwords will still be available through the Firefox browser using a Firefox account.

> The Firefox Lockwise app will no longer be updated and supported by Mozilla and will not be available in the Apple App and Google Play Stores. After that date, current Lockwise users can continue to access their saved passwords and their password management in the Firefox desktop and mobile browsers.

It seems pretty clear-cut to me.

http://skranz.github.io/r/2021/09/24/bundestag2021.html

Why go after hotel or airline rewards? Because these accounts can all be cleaned out and deposited onto a gift card number that can be resold quickly online for 80 percent of its value.

“These guys want that hard digital asset — the cash that is sitting there in your inbox,” Bill said. “You literally just pull cash out of peoples’ inboxes, and then you have all these secondary markets where you can sell this stuff.”