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Your three examples historically were successful in achieving widespread usage, and in the case of SQL, shows no sign of disappearing.

Not just Eastern European stores, they do it in France (it's a a French company) and India too. First time I saw it was in India, it was very impressive. They also have a lot of ve…

Having actually worked with industrial machinery, the proper UI for this is 1) unimpeded view of machine and 2) big red physical emergency stop button. If you're relying on focus s…

In the US at least, many pension funds are not sophisticated, they're small, underfunded, and getting taken for a ride by expensive advisors who promise fantastical returns that wi…

I find that Chinese manufacturing offers the complete range of quality for every price point. At reasonable prices, the quality meets or exceeds that of other countries. But if you…

Probably true, but Trello just had a major multi-day outage that prevented commenting on or moving cards, so I would be hard pressed to recommended it to anyone at this point.

A few years ago I wrote a workforce scheduling program designed to be used by non-programmers. I worked in a restricted environment so couldn't install anything. The whole thing ra…

> Vibe-coding makes you feel like you have infinite implementation budget. You don't. You have infinite LINE budget (the AI will generate as much code as you want). But you have th…

I get irritated by Zoom saying I need to update right when I open the app and want to join a call. Or even worse, sometimes I'll have had the app open (checking video and sound) an…

The irony is that real FSI language courses generally produce graduates who can read the newspaper and deliver a press release but cannot order food in a restaurant or explain to t…

Even with the minimum of 1280 for IPv6, nothing improved.

The post mentions the deficiencies of TCP for mobile devices over unreliable links, but I've had nothing but trouble with Wireguard when connecting from phones via mobile data. I s…

Many people only think of picture rail as what you find in old Victorian homes, but modern picture rail can be much less obtrusive and lightweight. I have a lot of framed art as we…

Can confirm you can still replace the ISP provided router from SFR with your own, even if you're on IPv4 CGNAT in France. You do still need to configure the DHCP client ID. My conn…

It is the traveler's responsibility to know what activities are permissible given their visa, and to only engage in those activities. That's no different from everyone's general re…

I don't find the claims made by an immigration lawyer representing the workers to be particularly persuasive, just like I don't find the claims made by the local union rep about wh…

Like anything in law, it depends on the details, context, case law, and possibly future litigation. CPB's Q&A on permissible B-1 visa activities (PDF): https://www.cbp.gov/sites/de…

Having working in US immigration, most reporting on immigration issues leaves a lot to be desired. Because of the poor reporting, it's not possible to say for sure what happened, b…

I'm not aware of any other country besides the US that has a blanket policy of requiring at least one interview in almost all cases. That said, back in the 2000s I had to apply in …

99% or more of the visa applicants we interviewed in India were Indian. We interviewed them in India so that we had access to local staff who spoke all major Indian languages, a fr…

Because there is a statutory requirement that applicants who require an interview appear personally before a consular officer. So far, the State Department has interpreted this to …

If you want a real answer, a big part of it has to do with consular non-reviewability. Basically, there is far less ability for an applicant to make legal challenges to visa decisi…

Their point was that this change applies to non-immigrant visas (which in theory are only issued to people who do not intend to immigrate to the US), not immigrant visas. While tru…

Year or longer waits for B visas are common in India. Part of the problem is the statutory requirement that first-time applicants need an in-person interview. When I worked in a US…