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by viceconsole 15d ago
Academics' primary external recompense is in credit, attribution, and recognition. AI has effectively ended attribution, so I'm not at all surprised people are less interested in sharing and publishing. Especially when anything yo
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by viceconsole 2mo ago
Your three examples historically were successful in achieving widespread usage, and in the case of SQL, shows no sign of disappearing.
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by viceconsole 2mo ago
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 vertical integration, they manufacture many of the produc
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by viceconsole 2mo ago
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 stealing or popups or notifications to tell you when you
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by viceconsole 3mo ago
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 will help dig them out of their funding ratio hole. Many
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by viceconsole 4mo ago
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 want something cheap and cheaply made, you can find that as
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by viceconsole 4mo ago
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.
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by viceconsole 4mo ago
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 ran on SWIPL's web offering. Users simply had to cha
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by viceconsole 4mo ago
> 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 the same finite complexity budget as always. This is a
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by viceconsole 4mo ago
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) and it won't notify about a required update until I
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by viceconsole 6mo ago
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 the delivery driver how to reach their apartment. I never met
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by viceconsole 6mo ago
Even with the minimum of 1280 for IPv6, nothing improved.
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by viceconsole 6mo ago
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 suspect it's due to my mobile operator doing traffi
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by viceconsole 7mo ago
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 well. When I finally bought a house I installed STAS minirail
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by viceconsole 8mo ago
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 connection has been very reliable since ditching the SFR bo
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Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100k Fee for Skilled Worker Visas(nytimes.com)
9 points by viceconsole 1y ago|0 comments
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 responsibility to abide by the law. A US visa i
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 what they "believe" the workers were doing
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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/default/files/document
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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, but it sounds like Hyundai/LG/subcontractors b
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 person at the French embassy for a student visa, in in
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 fraud unit well-versed in authenticating local documents, and
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 mean "standing physically in front of". Having don
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 decisions made by a US visa officer outside the US. Another reason
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 true, the State Department already made the same change to immi
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by viceconsole 1y ago
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 consulate in India, we would have loved to have lowered the
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by viceconsole 1y ago
There's no staff in Haiti to process visas at all, the embassy is on ordered depature. There are staff in Nassau, including people trained in Haitian Creole, and there are many Haitian applicants who apply for visas in Nassau. Where do
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by viceconsole 1y ago
It's common for countries to require you to apply from your country of nationality or residence, and to prove lawful residence if you're not a national of the country you're applying in. I'm in the middle of a French vis
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by viceconsole 1y ago
I was a US diplomat in India for 2 years and processed tens of thousands of visas. While this change will cause some inconvenience for, e.g., current H-1B visa holders from India who can no longer travel to Canada or Mexio to apply for new
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by viceconsole 2y ago
This was my immediate thought. Just because Airflow is written in Python doesn't mean the tasks you're running need to be in Python. Separate the concerns: migrate the task orchestration to Airflow (or whatever) while keeping the

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