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breakfastquarkon Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout

I see your point and I somewhat agree. But this is based on the assumption that only upper-middle-class engineers work for Apple. However, the people in factories producing these products for Apple definitely deserve a raise. Income inequality should be fixed throughout the supply chain and not only benefit the upper-middle-class.

breakfastquarkon Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

For anyone complaining that there is no nice GUI for dd on Linux and macOS, I recently discovered Fedora Media Writer [1] which works great for this job. Despite it’s name, it can be used with any ISO just like dd.

[1] https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter

breakfastquarkon NumPy – Matrix Library

Wait, so this provides the same API as "normal" numpy but returns python lists? Sounds neat, but what is it actually used for?

breakfastquarkon Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

Regarding an alternative for fever, I'd recommend https://www.freshrss.org/. I use it myself in combination with reeder on all my devices.

breakfastquarkon Firefox push[ing] irrelevant notifications

What do you consider bloatware in that regard?

breakfastquarkon Ask HN: Do you maintain a log of what you learn? How often do you go over them?

What do you mean by learnings? Actual skills or facts like TIL?