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by achenet 2y ago
I bought a 300 euro ThinkPad that's going on 9 years now. It was my only computer for the entire time until about a week ago, when I bought another 300 euro ThinkPad. I also didn't have a smartphone, only a basic dumbphone for a l
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by achenet 2y ago
all two jobs I've worked, both as a backend dev using Go in data-storage companies, have offered Macs. The first one, a small, badly run startup, only offered Macs. This gig, a larger company, offers Mac, Linux and Windows. I starte
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by achenet 2y ago
France. You'll get a two hour lunch break too.
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by achenet 2y ago
<painfully earnest nerd> Well actually , I use FreeBSD as my daily driver (on a used ThinkPad I bought for 300 euros), and I love it. :D </painfully earnest nerd> okay, now you're going to tell me that FreeBSD is in t
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by achenet 2y ago
for note taking I've had best results with just markdown files and basic text editors (vi/vim/nvim, helix). At this point, actually one single notes.md file, and I can just lazily search through that to find what I'm loo
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by achenet 2y ago
Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes. Strongly prefer this way of working. Willing to relocate: Almost certainly not. Technologies: Go, Postgres, basic Linux/UNIX system administration, various other things (see CV). Résumé/CV: arie
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by achenet 2y ago
to be fair, I don't think yelling at someone for their flaws is very effective at fixing them. My reasoning can be summed up as "look at prison recidivism vs Skinner's work on positive reinforcement".
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by achenet 3y ago
the Helix text editor. the fish shell. atuin. Linux with Sway window manager.
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by achenet 3y ago
what about Calvinball? (best image I could find, apologies if it's not ideal) https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8a9efc9ebb63702cc0a26...
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by achenet 3y ago
disagree. Many other factors. For example, I believe the current rise in mental health issues is due to smartphone use. But I admit that's only a theory.
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by achenet 3y ago
I know a girl who did a lot of horse riding from a rather young age, even had her own horse, and she was bullied a lot as a kid.
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by achenet 3y ago
it's both I think. Lack of sex -> porn -> bad habits -> lack of sex... I've found personally that generally speaking, my sex life/ability to meet and pursue relationships with women is somewhat inversely correlated w
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by achenet 3y ago
The Romans had a contraceptive plant they used so much it became extinct. Not to mention there is evidence of infanticide in early human societies. Indeed, it's been postulated that post-partum depression evolved to make getting rid of
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by achenet 3y ago
I can find a small army of secular leftists who subdue their own desires and have devoted themselves to something more important than themselves - namely, overthrowing the capitalist system. They don't make many babies though, because
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by achenet 3y ago
I live in a mid-sized European city right now, which I'm sure explains a lot of the bias in my response but there do exist relatively affordable cities with a good quality of life, and I'd rather live in a place where I can walk t
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by achenet 3y ago
Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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by achenet 3y ago
eventually... the delay between manager doing stupid action chasing KPI and store burning down may be large enough that the average manager is likely to burn the store down. If your goal is long-term success, those incentives might be misal
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Show HN: An Ode to Linux(arielche.net)
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by achenet 3y ago
thanks for pointing that out ^_^ I would like to say that, having lived in a city that built very outwards (Houston, Texas), and several denser cities (most notably Paris, France which is very dense), I prefer the quality of life in dense
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by achenet 3y ago
while I agree that basically any news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch is heavily untrustworthy, I'd like to point out that property values are not necessarily correlated with quality of life. Within a given city, yes, the nicer bits are
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by achenet 3y ago
there was an article on the front page of HN recently about the flaws in the current drug policy in, if I'm not mistaken Portland. Basically, not throwing junkies in jail doesn't actually help them sober up if there isn't a p
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by achenet 3y ago
I think the key part of that is working on the same thing . I work in a large company, and team is spread out over multiple cities. We actually will often to group video calls to have a similar thing to what you describe - being able to as
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by achenet 3y ago
le Figaro would be more like the Wall Street Journal, it's right wing. Le Monde is more leftwing, maybe NYT, and WaPo would be like Liberation (very left)
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by achenet 3y ago
I often say the French is the C++ of natural languages.
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by achenet 3y ago
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by achenet 3y ago
not always. From personal experience, most large French cities (Toulouse, Lyon...) have higher QoL than Paris, for much lower prices. Would not be surprised if this is also true for London/rest of UK, perhaps other countries as well. H
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by achenet 3y ago
> virtually no one in America will complain about your accent or grammar. I grew up in Houston. I've heard enough rich Texans bitching about Mexicans not speaking English to disagree with that statement.
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by achenet 3y ago
ex-Parisian here (or perhaps Parisian in exile, I'll always be Parisian in my heart, but I refuse to live in the city while it's under the tyrannical mismanagement of Anne Hidalgo) We're nice to each other. The local social c
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I spent over a year working as a sales associate in an H&M in central Paris... I would say that there was no particular class bias that I noticed amongst customers. You had everything from rich American tourists to recent African immigr
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by achenet 3y ago
fast fashion is also not biodegradable: [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/11/8/chiles-desert-du...

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