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This is Trump’s legacy in the Gulf: >The debate about the strait is becoming a wider one about security in the Gulf. Writing in Le Monde, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, the Oman foreign mi…

Hi Fredrik I’m a long time Mullvad customer, likely paid Mullvad upward of 400€ in the past number of years, as well as recommended it to friends and family members. What you seem …

Oh the irony. A YouTube video.

I think I was lucky enough to start out in the 80’s. But seriously, didn’t really start making big money until about 25 years ago, and bailed heavily into my pension fund. The tech…

It was being pushed hard by mgmt. Constant pushing, emails with “league tables” of most active users, “why is this taking so long?”. Hard to not use it

You’re right - it’s me. I used to code at home - chess engines mostly. Maybe once the novelty of retirement wears off (and the autumn approaches), I’ll start coding again

Thanks! I’m one of the lucky ones who really loved my career. I was lucky enough to avoid roles or companies that would suck the life out of me:-) 5/5 would recommend :-)

I just retired after 40 years writing code. The last year or so wasn’t fun - battling with AI, trying to get it do what I wanted. For a long time, I thought I’d do a lot of hobby o…

It’s more than that. I lived in Boston for a few years back in the 90’s (legal, green card holder) but moved back to Ireland. My kids wanted to visit NYC this year, but it was a ha…

Have been using FF since early 2000's. Tried using Pocket but never really got the hang of it. Just never felt that it fixed a problem was having. Still a FF fanboi, but fully behi…

> In the proposal, the company proposed to ban AI models and equipment produced in China that “endanger user privacy and pose security threats, including the risk of intellectual p…

There’s a fantastic book about this - The Yompers [1] Follows the troops, covers the night battles, the blisters, the soggy terrain…a great read. [1] https://amzn.eu/d/gArUDh0

It varies, as you’d expect but the number is about right Here are 2 recent reports https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/24/people-br... https://encompass-europe.com/comm…

Agreed. I’ve tried Ecosia and this was the first thing that hit me. Pity.

I had similar challenges in my past (see my comment history for details). In summary, I found myself in senior management positions twice in my career, and hated the role. It was a…

A non-US citizen, I have so many questions but the article lacks details: >>Asked what could be causing the adult literacy decline in the U.S., Carr said, “It is difficult to say.”…

This takes me back to my days in college. I studied Electrical Engineering in Dublin, and in 1983, we organised a tour of the facility. My hazy memories of it were it being just an…

IMO these are top-notch, no BS podcasts. I regularly listen to The Rest is History, The Rest is Politics (U.K. and US) and The Rest is Money. Very informative and very entertaining…

In no particular order: Unhedged The Rest is Politics Witness History (BBC) The Rachman Review Late Night Linux The Foreign Desk (Monocle) Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell [edit …

This takes me back to the mid 1990’s. Glad to see it’s still going. Back then, I worked on porting it to some proprietary hardware. Was definitely an adventure! I’d previously port…

It’s not just a U.K. thing. Many European countries have something similar, although it might be called something else. It’s a form of tax that pays for public service broadcasting…

Scotland and Ireland are intimately linked by a common language (Gaelic). As an Irish person who speaks English (for obvious historical reasons), visiting Scotland blew my mind bec…

Not quite the same thing, but some industries use 4 state “booleans” to describe the state of machinery. For example, in power stations, the position of switch gear would use 10 an…

This isn’t an answer to the questions posed.