Thanks AlDante, the examples are helpful.

Thanks and I do generally agree with your sentiment.

I read through the wikipedia but it didn't really click with me and I felt it definitely wasn't written for a five year old :-)

In my defence I wanted to hear how others would state the problem and was afraid of biasing the response by leading too much with what I may or may not correctly know. Though I had tried to provide some direction with my questions that I hoped would be addressed by others.

I thought the question was in line with the general HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Interesting will have a look, thanks!

being unfair to other’s family members didn’t stop the layoffs.

OTOH, the people laid off are notoriously competent and will easily find new well paying jobs.

The CEO's yacht won't pay itself.

sad but true

how did you derive 38%?

0.9^9

thanks

If you don’t mind me asking, how long do you expect it will take you to go through that text?

I'm not sure! There's a good amount of material that I've never dealt with before, so I'm sure there will be parts where I go relatively slowly. I also have a day job, so I only spend time with the book when I feel up for it. It's kind of an open-ended thing for me right now.

Entirely understand, enjoy and good luck with it!

the password management[1] and GCP support (likely Google doing something non-standard) was lacking last I tried. I hope it got better.

[1] I use a password manager, but avoid browser add-ons or extensions to limit the surface I expose my manager such as on work machines. Besides there being the occasional exploit targeting those browser add-ons or extensions.

What do you all do?

I'm using KeePass, also avoiding any plugins. Most websites remember my credentials, so I don't need to log in every day and it's not a big hassle to press few more keys.