bialpio

I'm in the camp of liking Windows and having had to put up with Linux and MacOS for work. Inertia and familiarity does play a role, but as a dev there are things I really like (ETW + WinDbg immediately come to mind) & really miss on other OSes. I'm not there yet to join an enthusiast group though. ;)

> Seen from within the meeting, it does not really matter if you start 5 minutes late or end 5 minutes early.

It matters because there sometimes are meeting where it is very important to know how much time you have to prepare appropriately. As long as the expectations are set beforehand, it matters less.

I roughly agree with the rest of your post. "Just be punctual" is a cop out that ignores the fact that I need to have enough breaks between meetings before I can even think about being punctual. Make space for breaks and enforce the time allocated is imo the solution, it matters less where exactly the 5-minute break fits (but I tend to agree that people would more likely end on the full hour, so that would mean we need to start 5 past).

I'd rather have a 5-minute break built-in for everyone by starting 5-past and actually enforce meeting end-times. Behaviors would change if people knew they had 25 or 55 minutes for a meeting and that folks would just leave when the time is up.

How do you plan to show up on time if one of your meetings ends at 2pm, the next one starts at 2pm, the meeting rooms are 3 floors apart, and you need to go to the restroom because you've been in meetings since lunch and need to pee? You're going to clone yourself?

> In what way do you think it worked as intended?

If I recall correctly, just my base was 20-30% higher than the prevailing wage that the government publishes (big tech bubble people forget how wages look like outside of big tech). In exchange, my employer hired someone with a graduate degree that knew C/C++ well enough to contribute immediately (I also did an internship with them a year prior).

> 13 years ago you should have been ineligible by both base salary and scarcity

I disagree. I don't believe my wage was lower than what a US candidate would get (from what I've seen at big tech, HR dictates wage brackets so same position translates to roughly same wage) and it is more expensive for a company to hire internationally. To me this means that they were unable to fill the position domestically. Later in my career I was involved in interviewing and the candidates were barely able to code (small sample size though) so either I was unlucky (after all, a lot of people apply even when they maybe shouldn't; some may have had a bad day), or the talent pool is indeed pretty small. I guess systems programming is a specific enough niche?

> I’m not saying you aren’t supposed to be here, I’m saying fix that program. The US shouldn’t be training talent and kicking them out. We should be training and keeping talent.

H1B was the only option available to me that allowed me to kick off the naturalization process so no issues there for me as well.

For reference, I was an H-1B holder. My starting salary (straight out of college after finishing my master's) in one of the big tech companies was $95k base pay, this was 13 years ago. From my perspective, the visa program worked as intended.

FIFA Peace Prize laureate is the person responsible for giving the order to attack, assuming that those are caused by the US military.

I am a dual citizen of Poland and USA and haven't had any problems using mBank so far. I even opened 2 foreign currency accounts (USD, EUR) there after they had been made aware of my newly obtained US citizenship. Not sure why you're having issues with them.

> He has very strong opinions on a lot of things he knows little about (and belittles those who disagree with his uninformed opinion) (...)

I'm impressed with how well you summarized my thoughts about him. I vaguely recall having this impression about him after I read his technical article (can't remember the topic) and decided that I don't think I need to read more from someone that comes through as an asshole. This was around the time The Witness came out, I'm quite happy that I didn't have to witness (hah!) what sounds like his further slide into the madness.

Yes, this is how I make decisions, but it also depends on the category of decision. E.g. in entertainment, there's too much content available to care about one specific author / creator / etc (this also applies to "console exclusive" games and platform-exclusive TV shows). In this particular case, I vaguely recall Blow making some comments (pre-COVID era IIRC) that sounded too asshole-y / high-horse-y that I no longer seek his opinions on things and try to stay away from his content. I still have bazillion technical articles available to read and plenty of video games to play.

Out of curiosity, what's the name of this tool? Your comment made me wonder if it's possible to reimplement it as FOSS.

I've only played with using 7900XT for locally hosting LLMs via ollama (this is on Windows, mind you) and things worked fine - e.g. devstral:24b was decently fast. I haven't had time to use it for anything even semi-serious though so cannot comment on how useful it actually is.

The author doesn't mention this as an improvement to git, just showcases that an equivalent feature exists in jj. This is useful to me, a jj noob that was not aware it's possible.

This is only a selling point in places like USA. Even before moving to the USA 13 years ago I was able to send money via wire transfer domestically for free, and it settled within 1 business day (to me that's fast enough). IIUC nowadays intra-EU wire transfers also are free (but I kinda view them as "domestic"), however I'm not sure how quickly they settle. The way how banking worked in the US was definitely one of the biggest culture shocks I've experienced when moving (and not in a positive way).

I seem to remember that it was mostly adding various accent marks / umlauts / etc. to English words so things were indeed readable but I'm not going to bet any money on that as I didn't have to actually log in onto those machines super frequently.

When I was at Microsoft, one test pass used pseudolocale (ps-PS IIRC) to catch all different weird things so this should have Just Worked (TM), but I was in Windows Server team so client SKUs may have been tested differently. Unfortunately I don't remember how Program Files were called in that locale and my Google-fu is failing me now.

God mode shortcut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Master_Control_Panel_s...

I have 2 free-roaming rabbits in one room of the house, we've been using Eufy camera to access live feed and found no issues with it, definitely would buy again. And the SD card recording allows us to seek a couple days into the past - it is pretty fun to watch the rabbits scramble to the automatic feeder at the set time.

How come? I'd expect that efficiency gains would lower power and thus cooling demands - are we packing more servers into the same space now or losing those gains elsewhere?

Anyone that worked at those companies would tell you that there is little discretion in how salaries are set for rank-and-file employees. There is certainly abuse, but I don't believe it happens in FAANG companies.

Source: I worked for a FAANG company as an H-1B worker. They "mistreated" me so much that they sponsored a green card for me. Quotes mean sarcasm, just to be clear - it was a chill job with very good work-life balance and I have never felt mistreated.

I hope your next potential employer rescinds the job offer 2 days before your start date, maybe that will make it clear to you why some of us think this is unfair.

No; UK has roughly double GDP per capita of Poland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

Not sure if it applies to H-1B but if a company does mass layoffs, it automatically makes it so that the PERM applications (required for green card, which you need to keep the employee past the visa validity period + extensions; up to 7 years iirc) will be automatically rejected for some time. So it screws over your existing H-1B holders, making your company way less attractive.

Source: I came to the US on H-1B in 2012. I may be misremembering which stage of the process the mass layoffs affect.

"In practice, the two visa categories are usually combined and issued as a "B-1/B-2 visa" valid for a temporary visit for either business or pleasure, or a combination of the two."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visa

There's also a picture of such a visa.

> I know you are meaning well, but while the economy growing can be a nice side effect of this (and probably is), I always find it a bit sad when economic profit is used as a reason to justify to create a more fair and equal society.

Unfortunately, this is how some people think, so phrasing things in this manner is a way to win them over ("paying a bit more in taxes is actually going to benefit you").

> What's the tangible financial impact to someone who's been deemed undesirable by Google?

Depends how deep you got. I for one would lose access to my mobile phone (Google Fi) and email, so it would be very hard for me to get access to anything that uses my phone number for 2FA. Or the email address for any kind of account recovery. Huge nuisance but maybe no financial consequences, except maybe an involuntary trip to the bank's branch to access the account.

Per capita is a better metric but it's worth noting that China is world's factory - it's easy to reduce emissions if you offshore a lot of your production elsewhere...

I like it - do you know if the space added for the camera extends past the bottom half of the laptop when it's closed? If yes, it feels like it would make it easier to open the laptop by grabbing it.

Brilliant example of Poe's law, I seriously don't know if this article is sincere or not. I tip my hat to the author.

Yes. Chrome has multi-process architecture, with renderer processes running in a sandbox. They are the ones that deal with untrusted stuff coming from the Internet and so it is safe to assume that they can be compromised (relatively) easily. The puppet master for all those processes is the browser process, and it is Really Bad if you could exploit it. The described bug presumably does it (note how "sandbox escape" was used in one of the comments), but I'm not competent enough to say exactly how. ;)

Edit: just wanted to riff on your analogy. It is relatively simple to crash/shoot down a rocket, but this exploit gets into the control room and could allow the attacker to see where all other rockets are going & maybe redirect/crash them.