Well, as a matter of fact it is quite easy to get close enough to a native Dutch pronunciation.

visdeurbel: that is the same v as in vision and venom
visdeurbel: almost like is, but shorter like in business
visdeurbel: like the d in door and daft
visdeurbel: a bit like Europe, but without the j-sound at the start; keep the r-sound short
visdeurbel: like bell, but with a short sounding l.

Perhaps so in Europe, but I don't think that's part of this. Check out the Amazon page about it. https://logistics.amazon.com/h...

They expect the business to physically deliver the packages. I assume if you have a van and a delivery driver on the payroll who is underutilized, it could work out well, but also it's Amazon, so I assume most participants will be doing so with slim to negative margins once all costs are accounted for.

> of non-Amazon goods delivered

I'm afraid you have it backwards. Amazon will be dropping off 30 *Amazon packages* a day at a florist, pizzeria or bodega, and the business owner will be in charge of employing drivers to deliver them. I think it's just an attempt to drive the existing contractor business model to new local entrepreneurs who may not have considered it. Clearly they're suggesting that if you already have delivery drivers, especially not fully utilized ones, this is an easy way to make an extra $7,500 in revenue per month, although I suppose even if your business was say, a coffee shop that had zero drivers today, you could lease a van or two and just do this as basically a business side hustle.

Reddit used to have principles that aligned with the open source model. Now they are removing mods that protested their API pricing. They have changed and that is how they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Everyone was cheering for them to succeed. Not anymore. The good will people had towards reddit is gone. They killed it.

It's going to cost $20mil a year to run Apollo with the current API pricing. It's not sustainable. Reddit is killing themselves like Digg did.

Mullvad doesn't use passwords, just a randomized account number. If you tell your closest 1,000 friends your account number they have unfettered access to the service so long as you keep paying. So far, Mullvad doesn't seem to have any issues with this arrangement.

Mullvad accepts payment in some crypto currencies and even cash in various currencies. Of course, if (like me) you are only using the service to overcome geofencing you can also use more traditional payment methods such as a credit card or PayPal.

Incidentally, Mullvad's service is first rate. They are one of the few VPN companies that does WireGuard correctly, and I've had no complaints about the speed in the four years I've been a customer.

Trump said that global warming is a Chinese hoax. Since this data is coming out of China it's obviously a hoax as well. /s

If Nvidia is price gouging why are their gross profit margins about the same as other semiconductor companies?

As someone who started coding professionally in the '60s (when "computer science" wasn't a subject in any university - if you were interested in computers you were pointed to the Math department) I agree with your comments about confusion of boolean and arithmetic uses of "=".

But the biggest problem I've seen with neophyte coders using C (and other languages) is memory management. While malloc and free provide everything needed, it's really easy for less practiced coders to end up with a complete mess (think use after free, double free, memory leakage), particularly pernicious in multi-thread situations.

That's the problem I would like to see fixed. Zig does help significantly with Allocator but Rust is better - the multiple memory models will allow you to drive off a cliff or alternatively hit the the guard rails at compile time.

I was given a Mac Pro 2010 by a friend who switched to the 2013 Mac Pro. It was my first Mac and I did upgrade it to 32 GB of RAM. It's built like a tank - huge power supply, a Xeon processor and ECC RAM as standard. I upgraded the system to Linux in 2017, added an SSD on a PCIe card and installed 4x10 TB drives - it's been running 24/7 as my NAS since then. I should replace the drives based on their age and sometime in the next year I'll probably switch to a home-built box with larger drives running ZFS.

When I was a teen (before the internet) I hunted in every local bookstore (and the library) for anything remotely akin to porn and rarely found any. Now it seems it's in every library, so much so that they all must be closed.

Ehhm, no. Losing say $25 per unit instead of $50 per unit is still a loss.

While evaluating the Medicare choices for a relative two years ago I looked at Medicare Advantage plans. In my relative's area in Northern California, standard Medicare lists around 2,800 doctors in a 25 mile radius while not stating their specialities..

Most advantage plans offered less than 200 hundred local doctors, while not stating their speciality either. Looking at the physicians most of them appeared to be young (read inexperienced) and I didn't come across any who were board certified in family medicine. My relative's current primary care doctor - who is board certified - was not on any of the numerous plans that I checked.

Needless to say, I recommended staying far away from Advantage plans. There are many TV adverts for these plans around December (usually around two minutes long and in the middle of the day) and a huge number of mail offers, so they must be very profitable for the health insurance industry. That, by itself, is a bit worrying as they are less expensive and generally offer additional services (such as dental, routine vision care and free transportation to doctor visits.)

My relative chose standard Medicare and has been happy with the care she has received. She hasn't had to change any of her doctors (family medicine, rheumatologist, neurologist, podiatrist and probably others I'm unaware of.)

First of all, EFI (now UEFI) was invented by Intel in 1999, not Microsoft. In fact, the first manufacturer to use it was Apple when they switched from PowerPC to Intel. The bug is in Microsoft's boot code, it's not an issue with UEFI. Based on the article, the exploit can be removed by simply wiping the ESP. It's not in SPI memory or anything like that.

Of course if the code that installed the exploit is executed again (with admin privs) you have the same problem - but that's the same as many other exploits. If the article describes the full picture, it should be possible to write an automated malware removal procedure to get rid of the problem.

While not excusing layoffs-by-email in any way, I think I have an understanding why it's done. Having had to lay off people years ago before I retired,I found it very painful on both sides of the table. Obviously painful for most employees, but painful for the manager also because of the effect you are having on the lives of the people being laid off.

I had people, both male and female, crying, not too unexpected because the layoffs were completely unexpected. I was only told about them and who was leaving the day before. What was worse, it wasn't anything they had done wrong; it was because the projects they were working on were cancelled. It was the worst day during my employment. I understand that mine was short term pain compared to the long term pain the layoffs were causing to most, but it was still painful and took some days to get over.

Even worse, a female manager I knew had to lay off two thirds of her staff, and was laid off herself the next day. That was just cruel.