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staz··on Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
Remember that Zoom falsify claimed to have E2E encryption that would have prevented it's employee to snoop in on such conversation...
staz··on Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles
Sturgeon's law: "ninety percent of everything is crap." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
staz··on AirPods Max
they sell wheels for $700...
staz··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
Install another OS? *

There are some work around in this thread but in reality you don't know how and when Apple may choose to automatically re-enable it without your consent.

* You should probably just smack you Mac with a rock just to be sure ;)

staz··on 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
was not a fan of the gameplay modification they made in the remake, but with the addition of the fan made mod "The Authentic Colonization" it's much close to the original.
staz··on Facebook Container for Firefox
afaik profiles in chrome work for the whole instance (like in firefox) but Container work on a per tab basis
staz··on 'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake'
Famous article about that by the cofounder of ycombinator http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
staz··on Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
same for me
staz··on Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
thanks it helps
staz··on Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
> 2. By default mouse selection with double click + drag to select multiple lines is not normal. I believe this could be fixed but I haven't figured out how yet. (I could not re-create this right now, maybe it was fixed in some recent upgrade)

double click do word selection, triple click do line selection , don't know if this is configurable

staz··on Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
it seems to break on sudo. Haven't found a fix for that yet
staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
so it's only really political and forbidden when it's a problem for you
staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
I will not do a repeat of the discussion on how supporting the status quo is in itself a political statement.

But you must be very naive if you think how a company is run has no effect on how a country is run.

Fifty year ago in the US whether your company had segregated bathroom or not was a proselyting of their views on how the country should be run.

Now it whether trans should be allowed to use the bathroom they want.

Why? Because they are political decision taken from the people working there.

staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
> I never said this. What does this have to do with anything?

You said "Corporations can set rules" and I wanted to punctuate the point that theses rules don't come from the nether.

> I don't. That's what no political discussion means and it applies to everyone. Why do you assume people can't follow their own rules?

I meant no insult to your character. The point is you think everyone agree with your list on what is political is political or not and I don't.

To give examples:

You might say "I arrived late again, I wish they would build a new highway" and I'm thinking it's political because really they should build more subway

I might say "I have a cat it's nice, I recommend it to everyone" and you might think it's political because you think cats are decimating the bird wild life and should be banned"

> Talking about weather

Not the example I would have used in your place with climate change...

> or our tech stack

Open source/ closed source is a political debate for example. But they are also some who dismiss technologies based on their country of origin.

So again you might think you follow the rule because for you it's not a political statement but for me it might be and inversely.

staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
Corporations may be people to you but their rules are written by actual humans, using their existing political biases. And it usually the people at the top choosing them

You might think that a discussion you are having is not political because for you it's "common sense", "obvious" and "surely everyone reasonable agree" but that's not forcibly the case.

If an employee says a thing you don't agree with, for you it is a political statement and you shut it as such.

If you make a political statement an employee don't agree with they shut up and don't contradict you because they don't want to lose their job.

staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
I didn't intend to instill fear, sorry that there is a comprehensions.

I don't believe that apolitical workplaces actually exist. That you can view workplaces as apolitical is either ignorance or privilege

staz··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
> Since you consider everything to be political, then everything is politics and there is no discussion without it. It's a tautological inevitability.

but that's kind of the point. Pretty much any human discussion (or interaction for that matter) _can_ be viewed through a political lens by someone.

Thus by declaring to forbid political discussion, you are just declaring a blanket right to ban any discussions that inconvenience you by judging them political.

staz··on Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
GAFAM is often used in the french speaking world
staz··on Fairphone 3 review: ethical smartphone gets camera upgrades
it's nice to have different groups working on both, it hopefully paves the way for a phone which will have both.
staz··on Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
most likely from French "distance à vol d'oiseau" (or "distance d'oiseau" in short)
staz··on Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)
I, for one, would like to hear more about your opinion on the social aspect.
staz··on How many pieces can a puzzle have?
just realised if you want "squarish" piece you can't really have a rectangular puzzle with a prime number of pieces without resorting to tricks
staz··on 1-Euro Houses
I you stop at the attention grabbing headline, sure it's too good to be true.

It's probably clear to everyone that the cost in the end is going to be bigger. If you watch Raed667's video, the municipalities involved are quite upfront about it and not really trying to scam anyone.

But basically you can see that as a subside or a promotion. The fact that there is going to be other costs associated doesn't means the market ruled it as a bad deal as bobwernstein claimed

staz··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
I works with the same laptop I live with and I also had some trouble separating life from works. What helped me, is to, at the end of the day:

* Write a quick note of what I did, eventually what I learned and hints on what I could do next.

* Close all work related programs. IDE, emulator, etc...

* Close all browser tabs. I was previously on the hundred of open tab camp, now I close all of them. It prevents me from reading doc during my off time. When I write my note at the end of the day, I review all my open tabs, copy paste those that may still be interesting afterwards either as a ref or for future reading and then close them.

* (this is also mean I have better documentation now)

What also helped was to learn no to take the business success to heart so much.

staz··on 1-Euro Houses
> There's an old joke that has two economists coming across a $20 bill on the sidewalk, which goes:

> The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, "Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!"

> Without even looking, his older and wiser colleague replies, "Nonsense. If there had been a twenty-dollar lying on the street, someone would have already picked it up by now."

staz··on A New Chapter for PyPy
Someone responded anonymously in the comments :

> @intgr the wind-down with the SFC hasn't been smooth and this is the politically-neutral, agreed-by-both-parties post. PyPy remains the same free and open-source project. Essentially we just switched to a different money-handler. We're announcing it in the next blog post.

staz··on Riot is now Element
If it was already discussed I guess that's fine then my bad.

edit: btw in the footer of your site, the links under service s are broken

staz··on Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
and a iRobot Create 2 is $0.2k
staz··on Music Grid
I really like it. https://music-grid.surge.sh/#192-16-1024-1024-1-160-192-128-...

Now I need to find a way to export the sound and use it as my ring tone

edit: found how to do it via audacity https://askubuntu.com/questions/229352/how-to-record-output-...

staz··on Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife
Squad totally abused the original dev see the other comments in the thread. Take Two have some Linux games (mainly Civ, Borderland and X-Com)
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