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Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage
From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India.

Flipper - Album Generic (1982)
US reissue on Subterranean Records, 1986
The year I got into Flipper. My highschool buddies only tolerated “Sex Bomb” because it was funny and weird.
But I was and remain a big fan of this band. They were the essence of punk rock imho. And the way their songs emphasize the bass and utilize repetition is truly unique and mesmerizing.
#VinylRecords

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As might be expected, MS Recall is far worse than first imagined. An Sqlite database of OCR'd screenshots of all activity, only Edge can be filtered or content managed by the user.
That DB is in AppData and so available to anyone or any process started in user space whether local or remote.

Preface: unlike English where "you" forms can be used both to address people familiarly and respectfully, languages such as Polish or German use distinct forms for that. Direct "you" forms ("ty", "du") are used to address familiarly, while strangers are to be respectfully addressed by their title ("pan/pani/…") in Polish, or via "Sie" in German.
Since I was a little boy, hierarchy was hammered into my head. The children are supposed to address adults respectfully, as "Mr./Mrs." The adults talk to children familiarly, using "you" forms.
Then, in the middle school, we were taught to address our teachers as "professors" (which is used to indicate the scientific title in Polish, which they didn't have). That said, it was a custom specific to a few schools, perhaps historical in origin.
At the university, we were expected to address people according to their actual scientific titles. In return, we ourselves finally started to be addressed as "Mr./Mrs."
And then I went to my first free software meeting, and it came as a cultural shock to me. Suddenly, I was surrounded by people who addressed one another familiarly, irrespectively of their age differences.
And it wasn't a lack of respect. It all about abandoning that vicious circle where every generation successively is bullied and then becomes a bully, just to have a taste of being on the other side, finally.
By the way, my parents taught me to address themselves familiarly, through "you". I haven't had to use the earlier forms of explicitly saying "would mom…?" like it was customary earlier. On the other hand, it was unthinkable for my generation to address their parents by their first name.

This article is rambling and diverges into pomo critical theory: https://theluddite.org/#!post/ai-hype
But these two paragraphs hit me hard.

🧬 Research shows that 'softer' proteins can cross into the nucleus quicker
#biology

Research shows that 'softer' proteins can cross into the nucleus quicker
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London have discovered that how soft or rigid proteins are in certain regions can dictate how fast or slow they enter the nucleus.

Las Vegas Raiders Rumors: Maxx Crosby Gets Raised on Reworked Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_rumors_maxx_crosby_gets_raised_on_reworked_deal/s1_17355_40398403

Las Vegas Raiders Rumors: Maxx Crosby Gets Raised on Reworked Deal
Las Vegas Raiders rumors have been relatively quiet heading into the team’s OTAs. But, the most recent one involves star defensive end Maxx Crosby and will make him a very happy man in 2024. According to Adam Schefter, via Paul Gutierrez of ESPN, Maxx Crosby is having his contract reworked by the Raiders. On Thursday afternoon they gave him a $6 million raise for the 2024 season without adding any years to the contract. In addition to the raise this year, Maxx Crosby is having $1.2 million of…

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As might be expected, MS Recall is far worse than first imagined. An Sqlite database of OCR'd screenshots of all activity, only Edge can be filtered or content managed by the user.
That DB is in AppData and so available to anyone or any process started in user space whether local or remote.

This article is rambling and diverges into pomo critical theory: https://theluddite.org/#!post/ai-hype
But these two paragraphs hit me hard.

Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage
From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India.