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There's no healthy social media. Please focus your resources on Firefox.

Isn't that what we've been doing for a while now. Invent problems that don't exist, give it a cool name and propose a new "solution" :p

Instead of searching the Web for hours, I think it's more effective to request help in a mailing list or their IRC channel if a few minutes of web search doesn't get you anywhere.

I'm not an expert (sigh...) but the hardest work I had to do was implementing a computational geometry library. For the first time in my career I had to buy text books. Looks like the closer you are to the hardware, harder it is. If I could go back in time and pick a field I'd choose from OS/runtime development, HPC, CAD, graphics, compilers, scientific computing (this feels a bit dry and too hard, so, perhaps not \0/), network security/protocols.

Same here. Nowadays, I check out CLI applications before committing to a GUI version. All those seconds I shave off by not waiting for things to load for too long, hardly having to leave the keyboard have a lot of advantage. It just takes more time to get used to initially.

Kind of similar, but I was thinking of replacing them with team assistants (a kin to PAs or secretaries) for teams. This is nothing but just renaming the current roles except that it takes the connotation of a manager being better, more experienced or more jiggly valued than rest of the team. Perhaps that'd work?

I've switched email to Runbox after trying out Fastmail, protonmail, mailbox.org. So far so good. Reasons I chose Runbox over the rest

- they let me try all the features during the trial period unlike others whose free trial period is very restricted (I actually paid other providers to try things like using my own domain, sending mail out to external mailboxes)

- Runbox was cheaper

- liked their stance on privacy better than say fastmail

- good customer support in English

- can easily use email clients like mutt and mu own PGP keys without doing any weird stuff like uploading them to a server or using a proprietary protocol for encryption

In 2022, I highly recommend Runbox. But use your own domain so that if they decide to do mean things in the future you can just lift and shift elsewhere.

This sounds true. Could you point out some features of a hiring process we can look out for for signs of good teams/leaders? Number of interviews, time it takes to complete the process, kind of questions they ask, etc?

1-2 years can happen due to changes like your manager changes, large number of your team mates leave, company gets acquired. Such circumstances can bring about major changes to culture/environment/scope.

Thanks for sharing. Thats indeed broken. I see people complain about Linux breaking on updates (not just about pop but almost about every distro), I was wondering what it means for the OS to actually break.

What kind of break is this? Is it like you can't even boot into the tty, can't get from tty to graphical environment or just your user applications stopped working?

Same here. Since I started using tiling window managers I stopped using external monitors. This is one place Linux helped me cut expenses...

No, as long as you respect the original authors' terms of use of that "knowledge"

Exactly. The features OP described are IDE like features that many vim users like myself don't want in my basic text editor. Adding extra features via plugins is not an afterthought but design. He clearly doesn't understand the vim/neovim crowd and the design philosophy.

Small correction though, vi is available on every machine, not vim. But indeed this is big reason why I use vim for my own stuff.

Not sure why you're down voted but this is what I thought as well. What I mainly heard was that thus was aimed at casual gamers. But this felt like an over-engineered solution for casual gamers to make enough money from them while too underpowered to appeal to the hard-core gamers (PC,console gamers).

I'm a firefox user and have no love for Google, but I disagree with this. No one is forcing you to use Chrome. This is also a good test for Mozilla/Brave to show if they truly stand by the principles they profess to defend. If Chrome did everything right we would not have needed Firefox/Brave for the reasons they currently exist. And if they follow suit, I hope the community will take a long hard look at the state of the browsers and try to fork Firefox or build something new.

There are many of those. Runbox, fastmail, mailbox.org,...

Just like with web over something like gopher or modern messengers over IRCs, I think the major problem is that too many fancy features are attached to email like html, calendars, calendar invites. Once you stop using them, emails are very pleasant to use. But becomes less convenient as you have to manually intervene to use a calendar invite or view a link or manage contacts. I'm happy with the "less convenient" way of using it.

That's a lot of excessive code to write just to avoid using exceptions though.

With C I rarely use libs outside of stdlib and when I do I pay attention to performance more than convenience.

I think even if it's dominated by libs and data types I think it has value as it might reflect what actually happens out there in the wild rather than a purely academic exercise.

Or you can just use Firefox.

Yes, I agree with you. It's more of a matter of principles because otherwise there's no point to using a paid, private email service at all since most of the market share is with Gmail and outlook free emails and most people don't use PGP. But I don't think that should be a reason for governments to pass bills that are hostile to privacy while adding nothing to national security compared to similar laws in, say Europe.

Not sure how it was when your first signed up, but right now these extra stuff comes with the paid subscription. You can't buy just the email service and you can't use even the basic features like emailing an external domain on a free mailbox.org account. Their Web interface has all these features so I'm not sure how you'd miss them...

I recently switched to Runbox and so far so good. Before switching I tried out the following

1. Fastmail: tried and stopped using because of Australian law that is relatively more hostile to privacy and is more expensive that Runbox when adjusted to features (e.g. alias count limit for personal domains)

2. Mailbox.org: Tried and stopped using because firstly they made a payment routing mistake when I upgraded to a paid account during the trial and blocked sending of emails. Took a few days to get it cleared. Also, there are important features you can't try on a free trial like sensing emails to non-mailbox.org domains, configuring your own domains, etc. They quote alleviating spam account risk but it doesn't feel right when runbox allows you to try these features for free before signing up. Also, mailbox.org forces cloud drive, video calls, etc on you. I don't need that crap. Just need a solid mail service. If you want encryption, you have to upload/let them generate the private key for you. While this is technically necessary to encrypt your mail box using pgp, I don't think this is a good idea. I think entrusting the key and the lock to the same people defeats the purpose of encryption.

3. Posteo: doesn't allow personal domains. This is a deal breaker for me.

4. Soverin: I ran into some issue with Soverin. Can't remember what that was. I really wanted to use them otherwise since they seem like a small team and I like supporting small businesses.

Finally I settled for runbox because they show a decent level of commitment to privacy, cheaper for the set of features they offer (unlimited aliases on your own domain, catch all, etc), let you try all their features on free account which I think is a very good sales posture, there's a fantastic deal right now that gives you a two year subscription for the price of one.

I do not have any affiliation with runbox btw. I highly recommend using your own domain in case you need to lift and shift at some point, use pgp keys for privacy whenever possible and take a principled stand against bullshit laws like those in Australia if you care about privacy. Overall, right now, runbox will give you the best set of features and comparable privacy guarantees to their competitors for a better price.

Nice analogy there comparing it to a linked list.

I think what he is saying is that if they get the user to agree through TOS then they always have permission via the first subclause you omitted.

That and to keep the open source community pacified. If Firefox wasn't around it's very likely that the community will develop something much better which may be completely out of control for corporations.

Einstein's work in photoelectric effect and quantum mechanics paved the way to modern electronics, transistors, sensors, semiconductor tech. The revolution he brought about could eventually give us quantum computers, his general relativity for interstellar, inter-galactic travel...

Code looks pristine. Very nice!

If you had to pick one, I'd say the single most important high level math topic that'd be useful for computer science is Graph theory. There are so many applications of graphs in computer science.

The thing about math is that regardless of which field you work in the treatment is the same. You start by stating a set of axioms. Based on these axioms you set up definitions and then prove lemmas, corrolaries and theorems. This approach isn't really necessary or directly useful for computer science though. But it is very beautiful. For example, if you truly want to appreciate, in it's full force, why a player playing a fair game against a casino will always eventually lose (theorem called Gambler's ruin) you can study stochastic processes with full rigour (this is also a very useful area). But that full rigour isn't necessary to not blow your savings on games of chance :)