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by avh02 6y ago
You can suggest "where next" on the source product site, I did that for where I live
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Alarm over 'invasive' Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps(bbc.com)
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by avh02 6y ago
I found this funny because the opposite thought also exists by Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce), lifted straight from wikiquotes: >I have only one regret … that I have not worked harder. >Deathbed assertion, as quoted in Outlook Business,
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by avh02 6y ago
One thing i found interesting while living in Dubai was that (from what I heard) the water authorities provided potable water to buildings, but most buildings had dubious storage/distribution. I always bought bottled water there, that
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by avh02 7y ago
> but within a few hours I just stopped noticing it, and stopped caring > there's no point worrying about it So continuing that logic, people should not care about, or notice about something mozilla spent time and resources on, a
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by avh02 7y ago
speech recognition's probably good enough if you pick your dictionary well
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by avh02 7y ago
i guess how I take things personally vs how an org takes it, but I don't think it would be productive to berate someone for mistakes made while they're trying to fix/respond to it. At that point what's done is done and a
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by avh02 7y ago
counter-anecdote: i pay 40 euros for 200 Mbit edit:misspelling
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by avh02 7y ago
I think it's times like this where the government should just sigh and once this is over, come back to have a very stern conversation with ISPs. Unfortunately internet is critical infrastructure, and kicking and screaming "this is
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by avh02 7y ago
my experience with A350 vs 787 (both Qatar) is that the A350's are some of quietest planes I've flown.
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by avh02 7y ago
I was with hsbc for a year in the uk, I'd definitely not call it "generally very good" (ridiculous app and login infrastructure), but I have a sample size of one.
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by avh02 7y ago
The snark is warranted if you call yourself (generic yourself, not you in particular) a software "engineer" - but yeah, if your ego's content with "developer" then the snark's not warranted.
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by avh02 7y ago
They take space for anything at reasonable size I'd guess. Strangely enough though it's one of the few things I miss about the city I grew up in (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) - lots of outdoor art and sculptures because they had lots of
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by avh02 7y ago
I don't think that'd really be true, since they'd just have it stored in the background without you having a FB account (and wouldn't have the ability to see how bad it is) not saying that's worth having an account
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by avh02 7y ago
probably for checking various compliance tickboxes
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by avh02 7y ago
average is the key part here. When I was looking for jobs in London, the average salary was just over 50k GBP. I would not take a job for that money in London. But good companies, with good developers and good hiring bars, will pay good sal
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by avh02 7y ago
air force one and some El Al planes were/are fitted with countermeasures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al#Onboard_missile_defense_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_VC-25 >All wi
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by avh02 7y ago
IIRC engine cowling is supposed to contain most catastrophic failures, obviously there have been situations where this doesn't happen so no idea how stringent those requirements are
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by avh02 7y ago
thanks for bringing this to my attention, sent a small donation their way
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by avh02 7y ago
And when part of your team's responsibility is fighting to keep pornography off your website? Snicker like a child when it inevitably comes up and go "so unprofessional!"? Or act like an adult?
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by avh02 7y ago
that's a fair question. I'd say the way it's been used so far (unless you have a private account) that it's a public forum. If you want your backyard-privacy treatment then turn down your megaphone and make your profile
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by avh02 7y ago
slightly off topic, but had no idea you could hide replies to your tweet on twitter. It's amazing how many inconvenient counterpoints (and trolls) we can now bury under an extra layer (the view hidden tweets button) because we don&#x27
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by avh02 7y ago
finished it a few months back - goes in to a lot of detail you may have missed in whatever history you may have read yourself. Nothing revolutionary but a lot of "oh, huh, never realised/knew that!" moments I find people in o
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by avh02 7y ago
attempting to use nextcloudpi on a pine64 rock64 with a mounted data directory (NFS share from my NAS). The data directory must be brtfs and I can't resize down / add in a partition on my NAS software. So i'm stuck for the mo
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by avh02 7y ago
what annoys me is the password part used to be a plus feature[1]. This is why I've started to try to move things to be self-hosted. Unfortunately I've been struggling with nextcloud + my NAS due to filesystem constraints. And it&#
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by avh02 7y ago
being fed anonymized vs with full details is where I'd draw a line
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by avh02 7y ago
And in turn, ~30% of tencent is owned by prosus/naspers (dutch/south african listed). So you can pressure "close to home" in a way.
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by avh02 7y ago
I'm in the min range of the offers you'd accept for Berlin, no wife/kids - 50% tax is not the greatest, but it's easy to live on the other half plus save. I'm not the most savvy/concerned about investing and&#x
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by avh02 7y ago
The problem with sideloading is the threat of compromised/modified version of an app being unknowingly installed. I believe the Saudis did this with the help of an Italian company whose name escapes me right now. Edit: looked it up, he
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by avh02 7y ago
Wasn't about you in particular to be honest (but I like how you owned it). Personally, my official position is "software engineer" and I hate it. We have nowhere near the culpability engineers in other disciplines do.

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