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I doubt FEMA money is actually used for the immigrant stunt and Florida is not unprepared for hurricanes. Florida actually has pretty good stormwater management infrastructure, mostly because it has to. Homes in South Florida are also required to be built out of concrete block and have hurricane windows. Point being: Florida is decently prepared for storms. Could it be better? Of course. But I would not say Florida is complete unprepared. I do think there needs to be changes to insurance and government aid though. We're distributing (read: subsidizing) a lot of the cost of living in an expensive area. We're seeing ripples of this with insurance companies not wanting to insure houses in Florida. That or making it more expensive to get insurance directly (premiums) and indirectly (you can't have a roof over 10 years old in some cases because, by law, they have to pay to replace a roof if a few shingles come off).

I say Florida a lot because I lived there up until recently, I can't speak for other states.

Companies want to pay less to work with COBOL? I was always told you’d get a nice bump to work with COBOL because so few people are still around to maintain these critical systems?

It makes me want an extension that redirects to the lite version of every site if it exists.

This should be the top comment.

If so few users care about security, why should the government regulate for that outcome?

I think theoretically the argument above makes sense, but in reality it doesn't. The market that exists doesn't provide a solution because the barrier to entry is basically infinite. Even Microsoft couldn't offer an alternative to iOS and Android because Microsoft couldn't do it alone. It's a natural monopoly problem, which means normal market arguments don't work.

You are right. And I hate it.

I disagree on the importance you’re putting on what I think are edge cases for most development. When I’m building a binary, the biggest issue I tend to run into is the “machine” I’m building it on. Docker allows that “machine” to have reproducibly equivalent dependencies. Same version of Node, .NET, Java, etc. I don’t see how the kernel really matters that much here. I’ve never once cared what Linux kernel I’m on, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to figure which exact version of Cordova I need with Ionic or whatever mess of dependencies I need.

Do they? Having a stable starting point for the “machine” you’re building on contributes to having reproducible builds does it not?

Thank you for sharing this. This issue is constant but I’ve never had it explained so well.

Management never seems to understand anything besides direct dollars. How much time has it cost the company to switch to Teams? It's definitely not zero.

Thank you for the well written comment. You gave me a new perspective that changed my viewpoint.

Is it? I’m still holding onto my TV from 2014 because it doesn’t have “smart” functionality. Every time I look at new ones I can’t find good dumb ones.

Kinda like this? https://scroll.com/

I feel like I'm one of the few people who still likes flat designs. I hope it doesn't swing all the way back to full skeumorphism. YouTube looks way better than it did five years ago. What I do miss is efficient use of space. HackerNews still has a great design, it's really efficient with space. Old school iOS used space efficiently too, because it had to. It only had a 3.5" screen to work with. I miss that.

I've never heard of this before now. It looks legit. How are they able to remain free? Do they inject more ads than the already existing ones? It's not like TV doesn't already have ads.

EDIT: Okay, looked at the channels. Looks like they just don't have the expensive ones (ESPN, etc). So it doesn't have the sports people want.

The promise of USB-C is exactly that though. The goal is having one charger and cable for everything.

If you’re living with a 2015 13” Pro the MacBook Air is a huge upgrade if you opt for 16 RAM and the quad core CPU. I just upgraded and it can handle anything I throw at it (.NET Core, Angular, Docker, JetBrains IDEs)

I've been looking for a good SFF home server system but every one I find has an external PSU. It's surprising to me. I'd love an Intel NUC but I don't want a power brick the size of the computer itself.

My issue with these is they still use MicroSD cards. I basically want a Raspberry Pi with a SATA connector so I can use an actual hard drive or SSD.

I was looking for a comment similar to this before I commented my own. Going public means you give up a ton of control and incur a recurring cost. Being public has its own costs.

I did too, but the fact that they limit it to touchbar models means I'm out.

If anything, Facebook is the “one big cash cow” of the big 5 tech companies. Microsoft is actually relatively diversified in terms of income sources.

I'm with you. I use Firefox as my daily driver, but it really makes my dual-core processor struggle (2015 MBP for home, 2017 for work). It's a great browser in every way except performance. They really need to prioritize that.