AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Same for me, I used to travel for work earlier (2002-2006) and I loved it. The only problem at that time was the language barrier, almost nobody was speaking English in the eastern part and just a few people in Tirana or Dures. In 2009 I tr
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You don't need a web server, for small stuff "php -S 8000" runs it for you.
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A few lines of PHP can solve that. The difference to other solutions is you don't have to compile/build/CI-CD it, just copy the PHP files in a folder, change a few things in the ini and you are ready to go.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
HTML has built in validation, but the behavior and control over it is not great. I am using it in my projects to some extent, but it does not cover 100% of the needs. Because of that , some people skip it completely and almost forget it do
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My 4 year old personal desktop PC agrees with him in full. My shitty work laptop that the big corpo paid less than $400 for, it screams every second for an upgrade: it takes 10 seconds to open VSCode without any project vs less than 2 secon
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
You don't have to use Laravel. If you want more advanced stuff to be built in, go for it, but I can write reasonably complex apps with plain PHP. How simple is it? I showed a DBA with no programming experience (other than SQL) to make
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
My brother build something quick and dirty in Delphi for his company in 4 hours, back in 2016. It was supposed to be a stopgap for 3 months until the real developers (he is in infrastructure, but used to write in Delphi 25 years ago) will w
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
PHP is extremely simple to use. That makes it extremely simple to onboard new people and also to support. Complexity brings associated costs, sometimes bigger than the development itself.
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For me: I can quickly build a small thing and run it directly. It is interpreted, no build/CI/CD/whatever. It's not just a more powerful PowerShell, but also something that I can use to build a web page with a data sourc
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
It depends on the company, some are faking it, some are taking hard lines. For example, my company (>100,000 employees, American company, in top 100 Fortune 500) has a 60% women in IT in Europe (targets are by region or country). We exce
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Because probability and logic says it is the best way.
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Many DEI programs are hit hard by reality: there are only so many people of race X, gender Y or whatever metric Z interested and qualified for a job. The more difficult the job, the less diversity of candidates you have. I did around 1000 i
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Your logic is all a false dilemma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma For example, people willing to take high risks should can try working for startups, people that cannot take risks (ex: single income for a
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
The US healthcare system is insanely expensive. Socialized healthcare is not the solution to this particular problem. Spending the most $ amount in the world with not the best results raises the question about efficiency. Solve that first,
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Link: https://www.reginamaria.ro/ - one of the biggest networks in the country. I have to use it for most of the regular stuff and I pay a subscription plus out of pocket for some consultations. This is on top of paying 10%
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> "Olympians" representing their countries. Maybe. But they don't represent the people in their countries. Paying them is not a matter of taxation, I don't care about watching sports (but I do sports) and I never watc
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People are aware of this, but the regular sockets are connected to 120V only. You can (easily) hack an electrical circuit ("consumer unit" in UK) to deliver 240V on an existing plug, but that would be a very serious code violation
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You are right, but diminishing returns technically start around 60.
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As long as you can still disable DLSS from the game menu, it is good enough for me. I don't care about fake frames, I disable fake frames.
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Even 4k monitors are relatively rare and most monitors today are still 1080p, 60 Hz. Yes, you don't need a 5090 to play games on that, but 5090 is a very niche product, while x060 cards are the overwhelming majority. 8k rendering is ne
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It was quite obvious to everyone for a long time that commodity steel production will be outcompeted by countries with lower wages, lower energy costs or both. US is not competitive on wages for commodity products, so investing in mass prod
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The article feels more like satire than encyclopedic. It does not discuss at all the reasons some people consider meritocracy "a myth" that is not happening, but it lists many negative takes from different people. That makes it su
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I gave up and went to Excel. I track the utilities separately, for everything else I import the monthly reports from the banks and do the analysis every quarter. Initially I was spending more time with this, but I am disciplined enough that
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You just confirmed that you don't need to be a powerful black woman to program an AI bot pretending to be one, you can be a green Martian dwarf with the right skills and knowledge. Residency brings knowledge about sick people, being
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I worked in the Balkans with a team that covered 9 countries (except Greece), I was doing trips all over the place on a weekly basis for several years. Currently living in Romania. Can you provide some examples of racism? I am aware of some
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Terribly. I know from my grandparents and their Jew friends (40% of their small town were Jews), most did not survive (<5% after war), I met one in the '80. How are they treated now? Asking my past 2 managers, both Jews, Israeli cit
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I was in Sarajevo during those times for a couple of days, so I remember. Also in Pristina. Yes, many people in Eastern Europe used to dislike gypsies, when I was a kid it was widespread, but I never heard anything about this in the past 10
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Most probably the bot does not know the identity of the programmers. How would it?
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I believe that many people in US are just pyromaniac firefighters that start fired to play hero extinguishing it. Racism is just one of the fires. In my country (Eastern Europe) racism is approximately non-existent, but nobody was putting g
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You know that the Constitution limits the powers of the Federal government versus State powers. If this is what is the problem with the net neutrality, then you need an amendment. Several states have net neutrality laws, that suggests there

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