"never hand your phone over the counter" - do people actually hand over their phones to random strangers? I'd never do that unless I really know the person

Occasionally restaurants to pay for something if you don't have a credit card. But never had them go take it somewhere.

Yeah I've seen younger people hand it over to railway workers, airport gate agents, event employees etc whenever something does not immediately work or the worker has a query. Very reckless and pretty common

Incredibly concerning, but it's just another outcome of anxiety disorders

Blogger in question here, Taiwan is so utterly app dependent it's a pretty common thing at banks, hospitals etc. And the apps here have so atrocious UX that nobody bothers to teach you how to use them, staff are used to just doing things for e.g. old people that can't figure it out.

I live in Romania. 90% of the buildings sport this brutalist look, not to mention there are rows after rows having the same design. You get bored and depressed very quickly if you live in such environment. I'm always amazed at the diversity of the facades when I visit other european cities.

At the company I work for we actually hard-delete all user/tenant data, when requested. The column you mention is used for soft-deletion, which is a transient state. Even when not explicitly requested by the customer, we still hard-delete soft-deleted data that has been stale for at least X months (6?). So yeah, some companies really delete customer data, by request or by policy.

You have a very submissive attitude. Do you do the same when a thug threatens your family? Or when bullies at school ask for your lunch? You just give it to them? Sorry, but your comment is pathetic.

Your rhetoric is meaningless. Plenty of people have died for honor that would answer in the affirmative if not dead. That you have a blindspot to that sort of self sacrifice means nothing on behalf of the people fighting for Ukraine.

Most of them are being forced to fight since it's illegal for men to leave the country. Listen this is exactly the dixie chicks moment.

They got death threats, pulled off radio, cds burnt. Its impossible for me to explain anything rational over the din of rabid nationalistic flag waving and posturing to support this proxy war.

Zelensky 100% has the option to end the war. Just accept the terms and live another day to fight the bully

>Most of them are being forced to fight since it's illegal for men to leave the country. Listen this is exactly the dixie chicks moment.

illegal to leave country - yes. Forced to fight - no. You need to have a really good connections inside military in order to join military in combat role those days.

> Just accept the terms and live another day to fight the bully

Of course, when that “another day” comes you’ll again argue that they should lie down in the dirt and soil themselves.

You should study some history of the second World War and learn how appeasement went with Hitler.

I don't think that's super conclusive. As others have mentioned, Californians are awake and during their workday right now, other timezones may be sleeping, and some might not see the post at all because they tend do read HN less on the weekend, for example.

I would not be surprised at all if California has a big share, but I don't think this poll is a sure enough way to gauge that. It would have been more insightful if California wasn't one of the top answers right now.

> and some might not see the post at all because they tend do read HN less on the weekend

True. This poll may have been better posted on any other weekday.

Not all companies, maybe some. I've never worked for such a company, I've always been provided with decent/powerful desktops and laptops as extra (for meetings). Last two jobs I got powerful machines (Xeon/9900KF, 32/64GB RAM, SSD + HDD, 2 monitors, etc.)

The LED strips are replaceable (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003706329242.html?spm=a2...)

I had my TV (similar to yours) fixed by replacing those bars, check with a TV repair shop in your area.

Always ON. Off only for large meetings where I'm only listening.

I too am disappointed at the amount of "off" responses.

Node takes advantage of multiple cores.

The code is all async by default and that is easy to load onto green threads.

This used to be implemented with callback hell, now it's Promises which is actually really cosy (and what Rust is adopting).

Random article I found on it: https://medium.com/better-programming/is-node-js-really-sing...

Sure, but you're also running a browser at the same time probably with a ton of tabs open as separate processes. Our computers do quite a lot these days, in parallel, and more cores help.

Both AMD and Intel are ridiculously fast! You can't really go wrong with either.

which then shard out to multi processes, still benefitting from more cores being available. I know of at least a few build processes that support that model for node.

That's because USA is way behind in card payment infrastructure (technologically speaking).

Like way behind. I remember visiting from Canada and being surprised when cashiers had no idea what chip and pin was. We had chip and pin in Canada for years already, but the US was still relying on signatures.