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madboston··on I turned an old phone into a NAS
Google Pixel is one of the easiest. Usually carries a lot of dev support even after Google themselves EOLs it.
madboston··on Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
I'm sure the C-suites will use the AI to come up with reasons why this is OK..
madboston··on Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
Maybe in past decades some employers were willing to give it a shot? I can't imagine anyone who just does this camp getting into "Big Tech" immediately. Maybe they actually were clever, had some relevant experience before, strong interest in technology already.

I know someone who did a bootcamp to move from sales to something they described sales engineer.

madboston··on Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
https://archive.is/39Wfh
madboston··on Okta lays off 400 employees – almost a year after last staff cuts
close to 0 interest rate is not something that will happen for a long time now. But as someone else has pointed out, empire building will never stop once companies open up hiring and budget freezes.
madboston··on IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
I have seen some people on reddit admit that they are bad at managing finances month to month and would rather have that big refund come back that they can use to pay off debt or something. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but whatever works for individuals man.
madboston··on IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
Well most people are just not literate when it comes to finances. They are not aware of what withholding means, how to calculate things. I'm sure it's not simple to do when you are working multiple jobs, or temp jobs in between (well these won't be those simple W 2 scenarios we are talking about).

We are know that the tax codes are intentionally complicated and big firms don't want government to fix them. Rules being complected allows having loopholes for certain people.

madboston··on IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
This is true. The thing that most people won't appreciate is that taxes that are not done online are processed at a very slow pace. Most people don't try to optimize their withholding in a way to get close to 0 tax returns and won't be willing to wait long times to get any kind of returns. We all are paying cost of capitalism.
madboston··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
https://archive.ph/XhSEE
madboston··on China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It
https://archive.ph/fbt1A
madboston··on Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
Probably because Google doesn't have a good reputation at keeping products alive for long time?
madboston··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
Its funny that the tools that actually allow you to work remotely are pushing their own employees to come back. The leadership sure has some vision right there (vision for more money and nothing else but that's not shocking).
madboston··on Before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,executives sold a lot of their shares
And if history has taught us anything, they will walk away without any consequences.
madboston··on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
Many corporate landlords will likely increase rents because they know people renting can't buy as well. So they sure are stuck with what they currently have.
madboston··on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
https://archive.is/4ltaO
madboston··on Amsterdam supermarket offers free groceries, life coach to struggling families
even the most liberal parts of US will not go anywhere near doing such thing. As the name might suggest, I live in such area and the attitude towards such things will not get any backing anywhere (government or private businesses)
madboston··on Amsterdam supermarket offers free groceries, life coach to struggling families
Hey we can help everyone out there. Just not in my backyard bro and definitely not with my tax $$ /s.
madboston··on Levels.fyi 2022 Pay Report
Also wouldn't the dataset being from different number of people affect this? During 2021 probably much more people with higher pay self reported their pay on the website and 2022 just didn't see that much contribution?
madboston··on Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to antitrust order
They have market share of ~95% in India. They practically have a giant monopoly there.
madboston··on Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime
Can't believe reddit hasn't had outage. They sure go down randomly.. Maybe that's micro outage that this doesn't consider?
madboston··on Silicon Valley bets on new transport to counter the rise of remote work
Can I put some ads on it to subsidize everything the same time?
madboston··on Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
But everyone will die with happy thoughts of making those few rich.
madboston··on Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent
Yesterday I saw this video on YouTube from ColdFusion about Sri Lanka's situation. I wonder how many countries are on the verge of such collapse due to rising inflation. Most of the "rich" countries will survive this situation but at what cost really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zxYDHwf-Y
madboston··on Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
because you want to settle down and stop moving? maybe have a family? have a place for your own that you can actually configure to your own liking? not get kicked liked a football because rent was increased for lease renewal because new corporate landlord doesn't give a shit? give next generation a fair/reasonable chance of making it on their own and not because they were not lucky enough to be born with family money?

I laugh when I see people have BLM signs on their property because those are the exact people who don't want to care about it.

madboston··on Self-host your fonts for better performance
I'm glad pihole now blocks CNAMEs as well for known hosts :)
madboston··on US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees
Work visa after school is also messed up for international students. They are expected to spend full tuitions and it doesn't get easier to get a job which is willing to sponsor visa and then go through a literal lottery.
madboston··on Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
So I guess lying was one of the skill he really wanted in a marketing guy?
madboston··on GTK 3.99
There are not enough words I can write for this.
madboston··on Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
Oh no! You can view nude images and porn videos on Chrome. Should scrape the whole project. /s