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Re:Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:23AM (#32921095)
Being banned from Mozilla is actually sort of endorsement for me :)

I was worried this project is just repacked Thunderbird, with malware. This makes it more legit.

Also some people do not like politics in Mozilla Corp. Firefox is supposed to be privacy focused, yet it uses Google for search, CEO salaries, scraping promising tech etc...

I use Brave browser, created by a guy who was also banned from Mozilla, it works great.

Re:In 2019 RX470 were $70, RX580 $100 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#32912985)
Older kernels may not work with newest AMD cards. Some old Debian stable, CentOS and so on. RX 480 is sure bet!
I just download content locally. If I see interesting channel, I grab it all, and watch latter on my phone. Easy with termux, ytbdl and 1TB sd card :)
Re:In 2019 RX470 were $70, RX580 $100 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:27AM (#32912091)
RX470 and RX480 are quite nice cards for Linux workstation. Support for 5 displays, and most importantly great opensource drivers. I am buying couple...
I think OP meant problems with setting up payment method, dealing with credit card etc.. Most of the world population can not even pay with usual visa card.
Re:Ask HN: How do you switch between programming languages? on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:26AM (#32909523)
I program in Java, C++, Go, PHP and Ruby. For me Intellij Idea (and related products) is a lifesaver. Without it, I would lost most energy on slightly different ways to compile, test, deploy... With Idea most things are uniform, and programming language is just slightly different flavour.
Re:Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:27PM (#32902763)
》It's got nothing to do with that correlation

Are you serious?

It got everything to do with it! If degree does not give high salary, there is no reason to invest into university education!

Nobody wants to stay poor, just to support American universities!

American education makes a sense for professions with certification like medical doctor, otherwise it is just a scam!

Re:Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:43PM (#32900689)
Is there actually a correlation between university education, intelligence and high income?

Or is it just a scam on young people?

Last time I checked most lessons were freely available on internet, without paying $200000 gate keeping fee!

Re:Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:31PM (#32900535)
Good! They will not get 40 years into unpaidable loans! If university education is such a goldmine, any bank will loan them, it must be like 20% per annum profit!!!
Re:Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:58AM (#32900088)
I never understood why children should be able to give a consent to such loans. There is a young and naive person, that can not legally drink, but somehow is able to understand complicated legal contracts!

Make student loans part of personal bankruptcy, and see what happens!

Fair enough, I mixed up with Latvia, sorry
Good for him he got Lithuanian citizenship. Many "Russians" born in Lithuania never got that privilege!

Edit: not true, see comments bellow

You could propably return it as defective. At least in EU there is a regulation about maximal standby power usage.
Re:Gen Z never learned to read cursive on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:55AM (#32887145)
About 10% of Americans are functionaly iliterate, like they have troubles to understand and form long sentences in writting. Learning second method seems wasteful in that case.

And yes, I know only one way to add, multiply and so on. Also I can only program in one way (in very specific language and heavy IDE support).

Re:Attractive female students get better grades on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:49PM (#32880867)
Attractive people are more likely to be intelligent. Obesity and other "unattractive" traits have negative impact on cognitive functions and IQ. And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
Re:Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:53PM (#32858950)
It depends on lens and perception.

Sweden in past and US today are gynocentric societies. They take "women have always been the primary victims of war" quite literally. No enterprise can be good, if it leaves widows and orphans behind.

Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:13PM (#32857862)
You could rape someone with a dildo, it is basically a gun and should be banned as such!
Re:Some WFH employees now live in another country on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:07PM (#32857008)
Skilled people will always be hard to find.

But why not hire some "manager of diversity" or "HR cook" in Jamaica?

Even better, let's lock everyone at their homes with 3 hour notice at 2 AM...
Re:Unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:22PM (#32793795)
Make food and energy expensive, forbid agriculture, release genetically designed disseases...
Re:Unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:51PM (#32793470)
If we reduce global population to 100M, most of those problems would be solved.
》as more renewable energy comes online.

Maybe better name is "unstable" energy. Some types of renewables are stable (water dams, geothermal).

iOS update bricked devices before. Sometimes Apple removes features and reduces performance. Avoiding software update is totally valid strategy!
This is so true. Try to bank in Switzerland, it is so 1980ties...
Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe? on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:58PM (#32757568)
Maybe it is just Germans own stupidity. 3 nuclear power plants are going to be shutdown this January!
Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:38PM (#32752901)
There were other embedded databases; Firebird, Foxpro etc..
Re:The death of the PCIe expansion card on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:52AM (#32737865)
First batch of AM5 mobos are high-added value, makers want to make most money on selling buzzwords. Normal consumer grade mobos (with many PCIe slots) will propably follow latter.
Cardio problems are officially listed as possible side effects for Moderna, Pfizer etc... I really do not understand why we even have this discussion!
Re:Don't ignore the janitor on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:44AM (#32733325)
Perceived power imbalance? Many workers are in country on semi legal basis, ex prison... any false accusation could literally destroy their life.
Several vaccines were pulled from market for causing heart problems.

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