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New comment by ashconnor in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

ashconnor — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:12:01 +0000

Apologies if I implied that it was. I think it's fine to discuss these things in a reasonable and rational way. My point is that was not happened over on X.

New comment by ashconnor in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

ashconnor — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:30:06 +0000

This is from yesterday's X discourse regarding the H1B program. The amount of mistruths and racism on the platform was staggering.

New comment by ashconnor in "Aegisub 3.4 – Open-Source Subtitle Editor"

ashconnor — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:17:43 +0000

Aegis is great for authoring new subtitles but if you're just looking to sync then take a look at https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync

Plex also recently added auto-sync subtitles to the Plex Pass

https://support.plex.tv/articles/auto-sync-subtitles/

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:07:24 +0000

Anti-immigration rhetoric always descends into fiction.

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:36:43 +0000

I think you're assuming that everyone has a price.

Also H1Bs can't also start their own businesses (at least before this rule). So that was another restriction.

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:16:28 +0000

Read the RAISE Act if you think that the incoming administration is going to be easier on legal migrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:14:56 +0000

Erm they can. They are looking at passport numbers now.

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:11:40 +0000

This would be a great way to starve every industry outside of tech of H1B workers.

New comment by ashconnor in "Updates to H-1B"

ashconnor — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:47:36 +0000

As a non-immigrant to the United States, I don't really buy into the idea that companies prefer H1B candidates purely for financial reasons. The H1B process is frankly a rigid, unreliable and time-consuming process.

It's hard for even Canadians and Mexicans to find jobs in the US and we have access to the supposedly easy to obtain TN visa. Australians too with E3.

I'm more inclined to believe that H1B workers have other benefits to employers such as longer tenure due to the restrictions of moving jobs.

Which in itself should be an argument for further liberalization say by giving I140 approved petitioners access to EADs.

New comment by ashconnor in "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19"

ashconnor — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:29:38 +0000

Will it be available in the EU appstore?

New comment by ashconnor in "Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins"

ashconnor — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:53:02 +0000

This was my initial thought.

Is the month of Ramadan enough have an effect on Alzheimer's or is more frequent fasting required?

New comment by ashconnor in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

ashconnor — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:05:44 +0000

Considering Labour's connection to gambling companies [0] probably not.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/28/tory...

New comment by ashconnor in "Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here"

ashconnor — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:22:08 +0000

Mise also has support

https://mise.jdx.dev/

New comment by ashconnor in "Django: Fix a view using a debugger with breakpoint()"

ashconnor — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:16:56 +0000

Can you set breakpoints within templates using PyCharm?

New comment by ashconnor in "TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains"

ashconnor — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:25:38 +0000

No doubt the RMT will take the blame for this but as the article points out:

> It’s now been confirmed that the study reached the same conclusion that every other study into the issue has already reported — it’ll cost an awful lot of money for very little benefit.

New comment by ashconnor in "Russia's rouble plunges to lowest rate since early weeks of Ukraine war"

ashconnor — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:52:44 +0000

"The borscht index, an online cost of living tracker monitoring the prices of four ingredients needed to make the traditional soup, reports a 20% rise compared with 2023."

New comment by ashconnor in "Evolution of Shells in Linux (2011)"

ashconnor — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:48:03 +0000

It has a pretty vocal user-base.

New comment by ashconnor in "What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps"

ashconnor — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:44:13 +0000

That's what the book Evicted by Matthew Desmond taught me. People end up in these situations for a variety of reasons.

New comment by ashconnor in "What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps"

ashconnor — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:07:27 +0000

Well there are no inheritance taxes in Canada so think of this as an indirect one.

New comment by ashconnor in "Evolution of Shells in Linux (2011)"

ashconnor — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:07:20 +0000

Still I would expect for Fish to be mentioned in an article published today.