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Re:Salesforce CEO goes back to being remote on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:09PM (#37536027)
No. Just, no.

It's really arrogant how you assume you understand GP's situation better than themselves.

Re:UPI Payments: 10B Transactions a Month Done, Next Stop 100B on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:43PM (#37371816)
Swift is slow and expensive as hell, the fees can run into 10s of dollars per transaction. SEPA is limited to the EU, not even the official candidate countries have it.
Re:Fusion Foolery on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:45AM (#37174889)
Ancient Romans did enough pollution to affect the climate. https://www.earth.com/news/roman-activities-cooled-climate/
The original "sick man of the East" was Ottoman Turkey.
Re:Toward a More Useful Keyboard on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:26PM (#36331239)
Caps Lock makes for a wonderful layout switcher key.
He agreed to stop sending bombs in exchange for publication of his manifesto.
Re:Russia killed its tech industry on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:05AM (#35676332)
Russia isn't known as welcoming to Central Asians either, yet they still (used to?) come there to work. Money talks.
Nitpick: he is a Labour member but not a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, so he sits in the Commons as an independent.
Azerbaijan has closed its land borders for Covid. Still hasn't reopened, three years later.
(off-topic question: do you come from Murmansk, by any chance? That username sounds familiar :)
This is mostly but not entirely coincidental. The name München is derived from the word for monk, which would be "monaco" in Italian. Both "monaco" (monk) and "Monaco" (city) ultimately descend from μόνος (Greek for "solitary").
Re:Concorde ‘B’ (2014) on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:27PM (#23772796)
We generally don't, most of the passengers on these trains only go part of the route. Train trips taking 2-3 days (like Moscow to Urals) used to be more common, but flying has become cheaper years ago.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout? on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:10PM (#23621000)
Not just you. I have to use Google search at 80% magnification tops, otherwise the results don't really fit on the screen.
Re:Running Linux on My MacBook on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:01PM (#23458976)
At a previous job, a coworker got a new Mac but still wanted to use Linux. He spent several days setting the system up, and eventually got it up and running smoothly.

Except that the calendar on the lock screen somehow was in Romanian, it resisted all attempts to change the language, and he never got around to fixing it. :)

Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:42PM (#19996749)
Python does actually have an abstract type for numbers, and it is called Number: https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html.
Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:54PM (#17863265)
> I got the impression that I could continue riding to Amsterdam in the same fashion if wanted to.

You definitely could. A couple of years ago I've actually done a trip like that, Rotterdam to The Hague to Amsterdam (then onwards to Amersfoort) — it was about 150 km long, and all of that was on designated bike paths and lanes.