dan @ dan @upvote.au

Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?

This is exactly what a Yubikey is for. They're phishing-resistant too, as opposed to TOTP codes.

Nice! Having power outlets at every parking spot would be useful for things other than EVs too.

This is in the county I live in (San Mateo County), near SFO airport. Peninsula Clean Energy has some good rebates for residential customers too, like $2500 off a heat pump water heater and $2500 off a heat pump HVAC. That's in addition to federal and state rebates.

Of course, the installers know this and charge more for San Mateo County customers than other nearby counties, but it still means you can get a heat pump water heater for minimal out-of-pocket cost.

might be rolling in it in a couple years

Doubtful given 70-90% of startups fail.

Make sure you've got a good mattress. You spend around 1/3 of your life in bed so it's worth getting a good one. I recently got a Tempur-pedic from Costco and it's a lot better than my old one.

A lot of people either don't want to pay, or can't pay (eg people in developing nations with very low income). I agree that UBI would help, but we're a long way off from that being a standard thing in one country, let alone worldwide.

Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.

The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you. The latter is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment, and the creator doesn't get money from you just watching the video.

It really depends on the company. I'm an immigrant myself - I was on an E3 work visa for six years, then got a green card. For me, workload and expectations weren't any different to a US citizen, and that's the case at my employer in general.

I plan projects for and and delegate work to junior employees, and I don't know or care if they're on a work visa or not. I've been in calibration meetings (to handle ratings and promotions) and the person's visa status is never discussed.

restarted the clock on his citizenship

You can't apply for citizenship from a H1-B. You have to get permanent residency (green card) first, then be a permanent resident for 5 years.

I'm not sure about other companies, but the big tech companies pay exactly the same regardless of whether you're on a work visa or not. At the company I work at, bonuses and raises are formulaic based on performance, and the performance discussions/calibrations for ratings and promotions don't take visa status into account at all (I've participated in them).

Smaller companies are less ethical, but they get a much smaller proportion of the H1-B visas.

underpaid relative to American citizens

The H1-B visa requires you to pay at least the prevailing wage, which is the average wage people are paid for the same position. At big companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, etc., people on H1-B and similar visas (E-3, H1B1, etc) have the exact same starting salary and are in the exact same salary bands as US citizens.

There's some companies that abuse H1-Bs by doing things like using weird obscure job titles and (contracting companies like Tata and Accenture come to mind), but just because some companies abuse a system doesn't mean every company should be punished.

VBScript did catch on originally, though. When IE had over 90% market share, it was nearly as popular as JavaScript was. It only dropped in popularity when other browsers became more common. Back then, most scripting was just to enhance the page, and the page still had full functionality without it, so a lot of developers just didn't care about making it fancy for the 5-10% of other browsers.

"AJAX" (XMLHttpRequest) was originally an IE-only, VBScript-only feature. It was originally implemented using ActiveX, which only VBScript supported originally.

I'm hoping that more DOM and BOM APIs become accessible in WebAssembly without having to go through JavaScript. There's a few frameworks that let you build web apps in other languages (like Blazor for C#) but they still need some JavaScript to interop with the browser, and going through a translation layer (WASM to JS to browser) adds some overhead.

Even visual basic for the web would make sense

This is exactly what I did for a few years before switching to JavaScript: VBScript. It was pretty common back in the early 2000s when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. The few remaining Netscape users would just get a page without scripts. There's a lot of features missing in VBScript that exist in JavaScript though, even basic things like closures and first-class functions.

I hope they win, but Oracle have a lot of money and a lot of lawyers.

Wow I've watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the past, but had never heard of this movie!

Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.

(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)

It's probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.