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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’

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  • Compared to software developer compensation in California, Germany is waaaay cheaper.

    Heck, Munich is cheaper for Google than literally any of their US offices. You would make more by working for Google in Raleigh, North Carolina than in Munich.

    The only European city that pays as well as the US is Zürich. The pay is really good there, about the same as Seattle.

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  • The entire TotT series is pretty good.

    • To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?

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  • The Internet.

    Computers do a lot of things. But the Internet specifically is the aspect of the computer that revolutionized the world.

    • Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?

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  • Damn. I never knew that these were mammals...

    • The Quest to Beat Trackmania's Hardest Tower Map

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    • The Quest to Beat Trackmania's Hardest Tower Map

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  • Wirtual makes great videos.

    Glad to see him releasing more to his main channel.

    • Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US

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  • Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

    But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

    • Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US

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  • The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

    Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one...

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  • Good poet, terrible vocals?

    That's like every Dylan track...

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  • Agreed. He's like a Canadian Bob Dylan in that sense.

    • Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra

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  • Cheating is such a hard problem.

    Like, this is what leads to invasive client-side anti-cheat. Which also happens to be one of the main blockers for OS portability.

    But if you make it so that the server has to constantly validate the game state, you get terrible lag.

    You really have to design your game well to deter cheaters. And you have to empower server moderators to ban cheaters. This sorta implies releasing the servers so that communities can run their own instances, because these studios don't have the resources to handle moderation themselves.

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  • All Star got radio play where I grew up.

    Hallelujah didn't.

    At least in 2001. No idea if Hallelujah got air play in the 80s; I wasn't there.

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  • I'm 31, and Shrek was where I first heard this song. I would have been 9 years old.

    Obviously it's an amazing song with a rich history and many covers. But I'll bet that most folks my age heard it first in Shrek.

    Gen Z probably (hopefully) doesn't associate the song with Shrek as strongly as millennials.

    My favorite cover is the one by Jeff Buckley. Though the John Cale (Shrek film) and Rufus Wainwright (Shrek soundtrack) covers are both great. Honestly, I think the original by Leonard Cohen is the least good (but still good).

    • US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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  • Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

    Surely Putin thinks that. It's not true, but I'm sure he thinks Russia is that powerful.

    • US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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  • Does that make this a proxy war?

    Weird to think of Russia as a puppet in a proxy war. They used to be puppet masters but oh how the mighty have fallen.

    • The U.S. has more ‘million-dollar’ cities than ever, record 550 cities

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  • Retirement is in the ballpark of $2 million...

    • Android 15 may make it even harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions

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  • I assume it will still be possible to enable the APIs with adb.

    So this will mostly affect users in that in-between skill level where they know how to use a third-party app store (or how to download and install apps from a file browser) but don't know how to use adb. I'm not so sure how big that segment is. Probably pretty small.

    For the group of users who are tech-illiterate (the common case), this is actually a very welcome change for malware prevention.

    • Taiwan will tear down all remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces

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  • I think 20 to 30 thousand deaths is a bit more than a couple...

    • Taiwan will tear down all remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident

    The February 28 incident (also called the February 28 massacre, the 228 incident, or the 228 massacre) was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan in 1947 that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang–led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC). Directed by provincial governor Chen Yi and president Chiang Kai-shek, thousands of civilians were killed beginning on February 28. The incident is considered to be one of the most important events in Taiwan's modern history and was a critical impetus for the Taiwan independence movement.

    Between 18,000 and 28,000 deaths...

    • California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines

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  • Clear doesn't bypass TSA. It just skips you to the front of the line.