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ciddon Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)

Many software engineers in the bay area from abroad pursued Master's or Ph.D. degrees in the US to qualify for the additional 20,000 cap-exempt H-1B visa slots.

ciddon Astra for Law

True, unless you're a surgeon.

ciddon Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

Funny first thing I did was to search 'arm' and I got 1 result at the bottom of the page.

ciddon MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

When will java sdk come out with latest changes from spec?

ciddon Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks

First time I heard about "AI-complete" and you mentioned it twice here.

ciddon Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

I feel most of the comments here are from bots

ciddon Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants

> The Riksdag voted in favour of the Government’s proposal which includes the abolition of permanent residence permits for people in need of protection and people who have been long-term residents in Sweden, as well as their relatives.

>The proposal is one component of the efforts to adapt Sweden’s regulatory framework for the granting of international protection and asylum procedures to the minimum guarantees set out in EU law. The purpose of the adaptation is to create better conditions for integration and to reduce social exclusion by reducing asylum-related immigration.

Not all route for permanent residence. Only for asylum seekers. Employment or academic based route are still there it seems.

ciddon Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

Nobody really uses the term in the Valley except probably C-level people talking to Wall street investors.

ciddon Why "200 OK" does not mean your system worked

Then probably do not use 200. Instead, use 202 - accepted. Then return a state that says PENDING.

ciddon Where did my taxes go?

If clinics and hospitals do not bill 1k dollars each visit, 100k+ for a simple surgery, and pharmacy does not sell medicine 10x the price, US gov't do not need that much allocation for healthcare.

ciddon Why senior engineers let bad projects fail

If you read his article he said he is from Google.

ciddon What Killed Perl?

This reminds me of the april fools email from Richard Stallman to rewrite Emacs with Perl https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.en.html

ciddon Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

AI/ML

ciddon Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died

I am going to delete this in 5min because I also can't find any public sources about this.

ciddon Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died

-deleted- might be fake news

ciddon The government ate my name

In Indonesia, many Javanese people traditionally have only one name. When they migrate to countries like Singapore, where a surname is required, they often use their given name as both their first and last name. As a result, you may see names such as Chandra Chandra or Supardi Supardi.

ciddon SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

The greatest programmer who ever lived. Gifted with divine intellect.

ciddon The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition

Rust has left the building

ciddon Analysis of distances between London's bus stops

Pretty common in the Philippines too

ciddon Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)

Swimming makes you stupid eh?