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> section 21

For any other Americans who were shocked British landlords could evict with 2 months' notice for any reason, I did some googling and it turns out section 21 _does not apply during your lease term_. It seems like a section 21-eligible lease in the UK is just like a US a month-to-month lease that requires 2 months' notice for the landlord to end. (For the Brits reading this unfamiliar with US leases, this is an eminently normal thing to have happen to a lease in the US at the end of its fixed term.)

Source: https://www.gov.uk/evicting-tenants/section-21-and-section-8... ("You cannot use a Section 21 notice if... the fixed term has not ended")

Yeah: How is it possible that "she's been unable to work for the better half of the year" is a direct consequence of Dell customer service being bad?

If the job isn't important enough to merit buying another laptop to do it, maybe that complaint is exaggerating the impact just a tad?

Tiny quibble that I wouldn’t normally post but I think illustrates the readability issues here:

Should that be “Result set type was expected”, not “list”?

Ex-Chrome engineer here. Chrome doesn’t “collect” this information about you. It optionally syncs it across devices. Take a look at the privacy policy: data like autofill, your browsing history, and your password manager does not get used for ad targeting. Apple basically blackmailed Google into putting all of that stuff in the “privacy nutrition label” with absolutely no nuance, under threat of having to take Chrome out of the App Store.

> Highly talented developers don't need this structure and process, but if given the freedom, they are also more likely to create software that only they understand, using flavor-of-the-month languages or frameworks that they have personally selected.

I think you might be using a slightly incomplete definition of “highly talented.” My highly talented colleagues take maintainability and minimizing tech debt into account when making technical contributions.

Do you mean “30 security vulnerabilities, 1 of which was critical”? Because that seems to be the reality: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/05/stable-channel...

> that 2018 scenario

It’s a little hard to believe if you haven’t lived there recently, but basically the entire US west coast now has an annual fire season where you can expect at least several days of air quality in the “unhealthy” to “hazardous” range. AC (which does ~the same thing for air quality as a purifier) or a purifier is pretty much mandatory.

Sticking a keyboard on an iPad does not a laptop make. Being limited to mobile app versions of web browsers is itself a big enough quality-of-life downgrade to make the setup much less convenient than a laptop for leisure-time media consumption, not to mention professional work.

As a Google employee, you almost never need to store anything on Drive, do you? I'm struggling to think of a "sync my files" workflow where corp Drive would have been the best solution if only there had been a Linux client.

The blog post mentions:

> This update meant we needed to re-engineer the way cookies work on Google sites, and to make deep, coordinated changes to critical Google infrastructure.

The idea of "funding" is just a rough proxy for what people really want (or don't): more police presence. Garden-variety "defund the police" advocates think that, due to police violence, bias, and so on, the police should be a smaller part of how we address crime. The people in areas affected heavily by crime think that the police should be _more_ involved. That's the disagreement.

The combination of high and very low prices also stuck out to me. I agree it’s interesting, but I personally don’t mind it. It’s not a bad progressive model to have people who aren’t price-sensitive subsidize people who are.

Including the indispensable https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A7%D9%84%D9...

Regulators are responsible for maintaining sets of rules that are just as comprehensive as they need to be and no more. Part of the job description is updating or removing old rules, just like part of it is creating new ones.

Unfortunately, you can’t get out of a noncompete with an employer in state A that allows noncompetes by taking a job with a competitor in a different state B that doesn’t allow noncompetes.

There might be more to the privacy characteristics of an API like this than meets the eye. For instance, if a user grants camera permissions scoped to http://insecure.website in order to scan a QR code and get it detected, it might be surprising to the user that on-path attackers would be able to see the user’s camera snaps. Making the API work in a degraded mode in insecure contexts (e.g. by disabling particularly privacy-sensitive data sources) might be a plausible alternative, but at this point it’s arguably cleaner and less risky to just make the interface HTTPS-only in order to avoid making developers and users reason through these nuances.

Pro tip in case you decide to go into quantitative finance: your computers don’t need to be in the same state as your programmers.

"(Rule of law)-based justice" not "rule of (law-based) justice"

I agree it's a tad hard to parse

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

Guessing: it’s an old legal system (not in relative terms, perhaps, but 250 years is a decent chunk of time) and a bunch of the language has stayed pretty similar over time.

Chrome as well. (The zdnet article above is about Chrome, which shipped this last year.)

The title is really misleading. Bezos isn’t sailing through the bridge and having it dismantled to get it out of his way. A Rotterdam shipbuilder _assembling_ the yacht has specialized requirements and needs to do part of the assembly on one side of the bridge.

> enter an RCS enabled cellphone number, in order to disable Chat features… including end-to-end encryption

This is _really_ misleadingly worded. The website asks for a confirmation code, which you presumably need access to the device in order to obtain, right?

It actually provides a pretty good interface for choosing files from a directory. Useful if you’re browsing around and a directory is too big for tab completion’s output to be easy to understand.

Strong disagree. As a candidate I want to make sure everyone’s time is being used effectively, and I’m perfectly happy to offer up information that can be used to make sure it’s a good match. It’s not “jerky” to want to know a candidate can hold a conversation: it’s (in my opinion) eminently reasonable due diligence.

Find an interesting open source project with active and friendly maintainers (this might take a bit of looking). Figure out how to check out and build the code, then choose an open bug and fix it (or find a small open feature request and implement it). This will require learning how to read code in a bigger codebase and make targeted changes, which is basically the first thing you need to be able to do as a software professional.

> digital equivalent

In fact, many are literally mercenary soldiers!

> useless goal

Is bringing peace, civil rights, and good governance to a corrupt, poor, and violent country useless? (Obviously, we ended up failing in large part.)

Did you see the other parts in the article about building their own containers and delivering to ports in Houston and Washington state?

Alternate interpretation assuming incompetence instead of malice: they _do_ ban thousands of bots a week, but their security staff isn’t aware of this particular attack vector and so they haven’t banned these particular ones (or the attackers have some way of evading analysis, honeypots, …).

Read a book?