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humanwhosits··on Is 400k/yr overpaid for a SWE?
People need to afford a house. If they can't do that they'll go do something else, pushing the price back up
humanwhosits··on IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers
They could flip the relationship with Red Hat and let them run the show
humanwhosits··on Show HN: Tuc – When cut doesn’t cut it
I guess it's just up to someone to set up the package on debian that contains all of these
humanwhosits··on iPadOS 16
What you suggest are not what people are actually complaining about. Those suggested dev environments are very constrained
humanwhosits··on HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
How do we define 'current network'?
humanwhosits··on Wafer shortage improvement in sight for 300mm, but not 200mm
the airport
humanwhosits··on Using a "proper" camera as a webcam
I've been using the 'thecentercam' the last few days, and I get good comments on the "eye contact" that I now have with people
humanwhosits··on Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner, a single file (C)Python distribution
Can I embed other venv libraries in this? Being able to ship a single file python+venv would be amazing!
humanwhosits··on Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
You want things to be 'upstreamable' as they can be included in the default upstream kernel. If it gets included in Linus' git tree then keeping it working on future version of the kernel is much less hassle
humanwhosits··on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
It's not rocket science, plenty of other countries manage to provide healthcare.

Just remove the age limit on Medicare.

humanwhosits··on Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
also https://nohello.net/en/
humanwhosits··on Please stop disabling zoom
Why does the web browser allow this?
humanwhosits··on Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
They might be worried that it would fragment their app store, as plenty of apps use native ARM code
humanwhosits··on Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
This is a pretty big deal for all the other companies working on RISC-V too, raises all the boats
humanwhosits··on Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product updates after Elon Musk deal
What happens to comp in a large private company like this? Do they just pay lots of cash netflix-style?
humanwhosits··on NEORV32: A tiny, embedded and free-of-charge open-source RISC-V SoC
It's really about who invests money. Say if you're a large country that wants an independent supply of CPUs that can't be sanctioned, ARM/x86 isn't going to be where you invest
humanwhosits··on People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
It seems like a bizarre stance to treat 'agree' as a default.
humanwhosits··on IRS details strategy for replacing its most ancient computer code (2020)
Is it possible for a taxpayer to get a copy and dry-run it themselves?
humanwhosits··on Exit interviews are a trap
I've used an exit interview to explain that commute time is a huge problem and that they need to open a $location office rather than providing so many shuttle buses
humanwhosits··on 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
> Unexpected things occur in the office. Maybe you overhear a conversation

The office rumor-mill produced a lot of bad politics in my experience

humanwhosits··on 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
Hybrid has all the downsides of office work, it's just less hours of it
humanwhosits··on Royal Mint to build ‘world first’ plant to turn UK’s electronic waste into gold
> but also quite a few other nations

That's a surprising amount of trust

humanwhosits··on If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
I've started using DDG for most searches, and a private email provider instead of gmail
humanwhosits··on Sen. Warren Announces Sanctions Compliance Bill for Crypto Companies
> There is no way to know a transaction is forbidden

Then you can't do it without having a law enforcement issue coming your way. It'll be like distributing copyrighted content but worse

humanwhosits··on NASA’s megarocket, the Space Launch System, rolls out to its launchpad
I guess we wait for Starship to go orbitial for the 'emperor has no clothes' moment
humanwhosits··on How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
> If so, why should anyone care?

It's not about 'why' care, it's about the fact that they already do care enough to have caused regulation.

humanwhosits··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
Are we accidentally avoiding this when the firefox is provided pre-installed by ubuntu/fedora?
humanwhosits··on TUIs
TUIs are GUIs, just different tech.

Many times you don't have graphical access to the machine. As an example, `htop` is very useful when I don't have access to `gnome-system-monitor`.

humanwhosits··on Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people
Bill Of Materials.

ARM will have to lower prices, as if you can save even just 1 cent per-device by using RISC-V in your microcontroller..

humanwhosits··on Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people
"If they can't afford those other people, I'm probably not getting paid enough to stay"
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