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If I'm alone, I read, sometimes with music or TV on in the background. If my wife is home at the same time and we eat together, we chat and be all lovey-dovey and maybe hold hands.

I repeat - are there any laptops that actually work this way? I have a pro and an air and as far as I know if the screen is open, it's turned on regardless of whether I have external monitors hooked up or not.

The original commenter was taking a dig at MacBooks, and I'm calling him on it - where does it say that the Pro will operate like this, and do any other laptops do it? Neither of mine seem to, and my work Dell doesn't either as far as I know.

If the lid is closed, you need to use an external keyboard (obviously). If the lid is open, you can choose to use either the built-in keyboard or an external one. No one ever said you couldn't use an external keyboard. The OP wants to use the built-in keyboard but not the built-in screen (i.e. the screen should be off). The commenter seems to think that it's an intentional anti-feature that is only available on the Pro model. I believe that there are no laptops that do this, and I wouldn't personally care to work that way even if they did.

So to answer your specific comment, the user is always free to use the built-in keyboard or an external keyboard. Unless, of course, the lid is closed - then you pretty much have to use an external keyboard.

Are there any laptops that work this way? Why would anyone even want the lid open if they're not using the screen? A stand-alone keyboard is a lot more convenient and you can get one you like instead of the partial one most laptops have.

...and that search engine is....

Well there's your answer. The app developers have decided - rightly or wrongly - that environments of a certain age (or more likely Android version) do not meet their security requirements. My bank app supports Android 9+ which is nearing 5 years old now I think, and it should still work on my Pixel XL :)

That said, the phone is definitely usable - as a phone and probably for texts and many other apps. But if the 2-4 year lifespan of your banking app is the issue, maybe just use it on the desktop or through a browser instead of the dedicated app. As long as you can get a recent-ish browser installed on your phone, you might be able to use the web banking interface (not all banks have mobile-friendly versions, admittedly).

And yes, I believe the official stance of Google with regards to updates is 2 years of updates followed by 2 more years of security-only updates. Other manufacturers may do less than that, which is one reason I get the Pixel phones.

Prime Video has quite a lot of these kinds of movies too, but now that there are ads, you might as well go with Tubi :)

I get Pixel phones and keep them until the battery goes. I've owned the original, the 5, and now the 7. None of the in-betweens because I didn't need to upgrade (the battery in the 5 went a bit earlier than expected, but I still got 3 or so years out of it, which is okay). Technically my original Pixel still works, but the screen is cracked pretty good so it's my backup phone.

Why do you feel you need to change phones every 2 years? The hardware is probably fine unless your carrier of choice completely changes their network. The software will still work, although security fixes might be less frequent (it seems those are done for about 4 years, though 3rd-party distributors like Motorola might not honour that).

Are you sure your perception that you need a new phone every couple years isn't being driven by marketing and contracts?

It's called user-antagonistic design, and while it is sometimes inadvertent (like menu links that have a large hover effect but only the text in the middle is clickable), it is often intentional - especially on sites that measure eyeball engagement instead of emotional engagement. There is no technical reason for it other than some suit somewhere in management felt that there's no reason you would ever want to see the same thing on the screen if you happen to walk away for a few minutes (like to get your spouse to see something interesting) - as soon as you interact with the site again, it refreshes and you have to scroll and scroll again, viewing more ads and "engaging" with more content.

Well, sticking with it until you find something new is a positive since it shows you're willing to put in the work, BUT do not do so at the expense of your health. It's okay to quit early if you can afford to and can't afford not to. Don't look loyal if it's killing your life.

As for "spin," something like learning what you dislike in a position or company, or how your current position has reinforced your passion for the position you're applying to - things with intent between the lines are fine. Avoid saying anything like "I needed the money" or "that place sucks so bad."

Above all, learn from this (of course). Was anything weird during the interview and hiring process that you can see in retrospect was suspicious or misleading? If they had said one extra sentence in the job description, would it have tipped you off that the role was a bad fit? Is it really the job or is it the people that are a bad fit?

I wouldn't trust a company charging that much that couldn't run a spell-checker on their own website copy. It shows an alarming lack of attention to details which are generally very important to start-ups.

It's worse when the requirements are impossible. I was told recently that one reason I wasn't shortlisted was because I didn't have 10+ years of experience with Angular 12+.

For those who don't realize, Angular 12 was released in mid-2021, less than three years ago. Even if the company meant Angular2+, that was still only released in 2016, less than eight years ago. I asked if they meant AngularJS (originally from 2010), but no, their requirement was 10 years with "new" Angular. I informed them they would be looking for at least two more years, but good luck anyways :)

I've seen the same type of request for React as well, with one company somewhat ridiculously asking for 15+ years of React experience (it's less than eleven years old).

I think the quality of technical recruiters has taken a hit in the last half-decade or so.

What's the story on this? I have at least one site that sounds like it might be in danger if that's true.

If your religion requires you to kill people, start with yourself.

I believe that the patent for a coil-spring mattress is actually from the late 1800s, not the late 1900s as the article says :)

I've been looking for a job recently, and almost every applicant tracking system I've been shoved through requires an account. The ones that use "vanity" domains (like `companyname.superats.com`) require a unique account for each of those domains. I have something like 40 new accounts on services I'm never going to use regularly or consistently once I succeed, just in the last couple of months :( A few of those jobs actually required that I go through a specific resume-crafting-via-AI service with no other way to apply.

Now I get emails from at least a dozen services several times a week saying I'd be a perfect fit for positions that are in-office but not in my province (or even country sometimes), that are not things I'm interested in (retail lead in a piercing shop, for example), and are not things I'm even remotely qualified for (chemical engineer has popped up a couple of times, weirdly).

Not only do these systems suck, they're invasive, annoying, and counter-productive to the job searcher in many cases. If I could only have "guest" access to apply for that specific job....

For a long time as a youth this was one of my favourite and go-to sites for so many things.

As bmicraft said, I was calling out the use of the phrase "actual HNer" as being exclusionary, elitist, and toxic (harsh? Yes, intentionally so). Explaining the bar or posting a link to a relevant story or even just saying that it's a mourning band for someone impactful to the HN culture or history has passed away would have been a better approach than saying what amounts to "if you have to ask, then you don't deserve to know."

Someone who feels that gatekeeping is a positive force.

Not just turbo, but 3.5 is trubo :) Looks like you have a typo or two in your price blocks.

If you go for React, remember you're learning a UI library and not a framework. You'll need to learn a number of different libraries in order to use React in a framework, and with a multitude of choices for each portion of the framework functionality.

The problem with React - and to a lesser extent Vue - is that each project will likely use different libraries for similar functionality. There are some very popular defaults for many (like routers), but you'll still end up needing to be familiar with more than one.

You could look at Next.js which is a React-based framework.

Between Vue and React, I'd go with Vue. It has the same problems with multiple options for every framework aspect, but most of it is Vue-branded (so to speak) which means you're less likely to need to learn alternatives. I also think it makes more conceptual sense than React, but that's a personal opinion.

If your interest is to become employed, React is definitely more popular - but it's not better.

Cost compared to .com is the only concern I've ever had with it.

I may have missed it, but what is the difference between `@scope (.card) { img {} }` and `.card img {}`? From an implementation perspective, I can see that scope might be calculated beforehand, so only that tree is searched for `img` elements (which would be faster than the default right-to-left way it's normally don), but is that the only real difference between these two selectors?

Had it as my daily driver for the past few years because I used Chrome for work, and the multi-user Chrome functionality didn't work the way I wanted it to.

Newer versions of Chrome do a better job for me, so I recently switched to Chrome for daily usage, and Edge for testing.

I'm not against a return to the old style of HyperMedia :) But I think AsciiDoc would be a better human-readable/writeable choice than MarkDown.

This is a huge problem in the tech world I think. I think of myself as $30/hour against purchases and subscriptions - each hour something saves me is worth $30.

This boilerkit is worth $39 to me because it would definitely take me longer than a couple hours to build myself. Someone else has already put in the 100 to 1000 hours to make it a decent experience.

Check https://www.avalara.com/. You give them a list of products and/or services, the location of the buyer, and they tell you the taxable amounts for each item. It's all via API so can be built into your cart and checkout easily.

Angular v17+ can use Signals instead of RxJS in a lot of cases, reducing the need to learn RxJS in great detail. State management will probably rely on behaviours for another version or two, but expect that to change as well :)

Agreed, Firebase auth is pretty easy and well documented in my experience. Allows quick setup of phone, email/password, and oauth/sso (Facebook, Microsoft, etc.) based flows.

Why are classes and decorators idiotic? That seems pretty strong.

Well, I'm just letting you know that Angular works on all the major browsers, not just Chrome. And the new Angular website also works on all the major browsers, though the Playground is still under development and doesn't support Firefox yet.