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by alkonaut 2y ago
My kids walked to school from about age 7 or so. Same as when I was young. When I do drop them off (because we are late or there is a blizzard or whatever) I'm a bit ashamed and hope no one sees me driving. Now we have 2 pedestrian cro
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Is that how "family income" in this context is calculated in the US? That until I'm married I count as being part of my parents' family but as soon as I marry I have my own? No age restriction or consideration whether I
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by alkonaut 2y ago
My student loan in Sweden (I maxed it out at over $30k total for 5 years) had an interest rate of below 2% for the whole period. Currently it's just above 1%. The student loan interest rate is fixed to a small amount above the interban
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I think there is a formula. From what I understand of the figures, $200k is just where the tuition reached zero?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
So it's a kind of electron apps, packaged for Arm Mac only? Hate to be that guy but that's the least cross platform thing I could imagine. I mean Windows Forms apps and VB6 apps are more cross platform than that (at least supporti
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What does "world" mean here? How does the spatiality fit into some latent space? Or what constitutes the "world"? If the answer is, there is none, the world is just frames of video and any consistency quickly blurs out
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The more important quality metric than “roughness” is infrastructure/safety. A multi lane road shouldn’t cross another one in a flat traffic light intersection. That risks T-collisions if someone runs a red light. It’s pretty cheap to
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by alkonaut 2y ago
But this is the equivalent of showing a picture of a car under a black cloth and the text "coming soon". It has the date 2dec 2024. It's a teaser. Obviously there will be cars. I somehow don't think all those angry youtu
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't understand the society model thing. What model? And does that model exist in reality? I guess my question put more simply is: is this about a car brand being perceived as being "woke" or not?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't understand. It's a colorful extremely short Ad. What are people upset about? Car manufacturers made weird branding since forever, what's special about this one? Are people being upset about a car ad featuring people i
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The Danish straits is European Waters. We fully control shipping in and out of the Baltic. International law dictates that Denmark cannot prohibit transit passage of foreign vessels unless the vessels appear to be violating the internationa
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> Google is a big player in many markets, but not a monopoly. Yes. The EU "dominant position" terminology is better because otherwise someone will do an "well achscually" about it being a 90% market position or whatev
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't understand, what really constitutes a "won't let me quit" scenario? If I hand in my resignation, I don't really care whether my employer rips it or not. I consider my contract terminated because it's a
704.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes that was my question: "why, do you want to do that when it sounds like a futile job to do?" If you have any kind of transformation (whatever trivial ROT or XOR) of the payload then there is no chance of detecting it via patter
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Black-on-black is a big problem. You can't make an app use a dark mode unless it's painstakingly crafted to support it. Only trivial apps would work by changing some system-wide palette. Also, if there is any artwork (button ico
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Why do scanners need to look inside compressed archives at all? If the malicious file is extracted, it can be detected then. If it’s not extracted and instead used directly from the archive, then the offending code that executes malicious p
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Because they aren't familiar with or enthusiastic about the code I give them, they could be about code they have written. It's the classic "describe one time you did something poorly/well"-question, but with code. I
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That's a great signal (that you have a hobby playing guitar). If the other half is also interesting, it sounds like a great portfolio.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If I'm interviewing for people to work in some specific tech stack or business, it's just as good to see completely different things they can show. Could be a php site for their book club or whatever. But the key is to have some c
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Mine too. Or 99.99% of it at least. But if I were to apply for a job, I'd focus more on having at least a little repo of something to show, than on polishing my CV or doing leetcode excercises. That 0.01% code I wrote which is my githu
711.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes exactly. The code IS the cv of a developer.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Neither did I. But I'd rather just "smuggle" out some past work and "rewrite it" to make it inconspicuous, if I didn't have my own personal work to show. The company I work for isn't well known so saying &
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Because for a senior role you need to hire a person with senior role skills, I suppose. Just N years of experience at X company doesn't provide that. I'd rather look at someone's github repo than talk to their reference tbh.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Code challenges are great if well made, and horrible if not. They have to be short enough not to be unpaid labor (few will go through the trouble of paying their victims to work on interview tasks, and if I have an existing job I don't
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Ok after reading that I'm still amazed by the mistake. Surely it must have shown up before Swift was even generally available? And surely having even ONE case take several seconds for a single expression should have sent it back to the
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If you make very little money, then you don't pay much taxes. If you sell a company it's income. If that sale is a low amount, it's a small amount of taxes. If you sell it for millions, it's a lot of taxes. If I buy a ho
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by alkonaut 2y ago
There are competing incentives: on one hand things like creating jobs and driving innovation, and on the other it's the incentive to avoid tax loopholes. I think most people in Europe (I hate generalizing "Europe" but let&#x2
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by alkonaut 2y ago
At the same time it's common to hear "how does this not support high DPI?" or "How does this app not have a dark mode, it's 2024!" etc. Modern toolkits just do a lot of stuff that older toolkits didn't. So
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The same could be said for the similar C# and .NET features. The practical use for many low level constructs is for library authors, which is perhaps 1 developer out of 1000, but those libraries are used by the 999 others which means the &q
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> sacrificing their entire user base's privacy for. I keep asking what the privacy issue is in anonymous usage statistics, but there are never any answers. Remember: The "anonymous" in "anonymous usage statistics&quot

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