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by bartvk 6y ago
A buddy of mine got divorced and found himself in a tiny apartment with ethernet and not a router. I dug up my WRT54G but yeah, G wifi... In the end, we found an unused TP-Link Archer C7 for him, but that WRT54G brought back some memories.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I had the same experience with a local webshop here (bol.com). I needed two types of batteries but these webshops are more like marketplaces. They don't have a feature to search for items from a particular vendor. But I was able to sim
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by bartvk 6y ago
That seems an easy one to me. In your case, you maintain software that provides you a budget sheet. In the case of the OP, the app does that for you.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I live in The Netherlands as a freelancer, and thus there's no employer in between that obscures taxes somehow. It's all visible to me, and I pay roughly 8% of my income on health insurance. The Netherlands is just this tiny littl
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by bartvk 6y ago
Here in The Netherlands, we say "I will app you the details". In certain sentences, it does get a bit confusing.
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by bartvk 6y ago
> It's their solution for high-risk users (think: journalists, whistleblowers, and similar) Or people with bitcoin wallets, of which I assume there's going to be more and more.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Well then, join the Patreon. Or am I misreading your comment somehow? https://www.patreon.com/marcan I'm not going to use it myself, but I still joined, just to get the updates.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Sometimes, it's difficult to get paid extra due to organizational barriers. Then a reasonable option is to get time off. For each hour you lost on sleep, perhaps that day you stop working earlier 2 hours. This need not be discussed, yo
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by bartvk 6y ago
Microsoft Teams does the same, on iOS at least.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Indeed, this looks extremely outdated. The build instructions for the Mac client mention: "Before using it, you need to install XCode. I'm using XCode 4.3.3 for Lion". That's 8 years ago.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Indeed. A couple of months ago, a junior developer mentioned he'd need a library for a bar chart, and asked for directions how to use it in an Xcode project. It turned out to be easier to draw the chart with a few rectangles, and the d
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by bartvk 6y ago
> I maintain dual sims in my iphone That's a very good idea, thanks for this.
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by bartvk 6y ago
He's a pretty good writer. To me, it read as a feel-good programmer story. I loved reading it.
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by bartvk 6y ago
That is cool. I don't see iPhone there, does it mean notifications aren't supported there?
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by bartvk 6y ago
> And now they are releasing a smartwatch with a 64 MHz core and 64 KB of RAM - some specs you would have expected from a very cheap smartwatch released 7-8 years ago My Xiaomi Mi Band probably has similar specs. I bought it last year. Y
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by bartvk 6y ago
Does it support notifications?
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by bartvk 6y ago
So to recap: party Foo tries to take over the developer account of party Bar, using trademark law. Google makes this not possible. How is this a problem?
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by bartvk 6y ago
Think of it this way. I really like donating to free software. But sometimes I have to actively hunt for a donation link. So in my opinion, it would be good to low-key advertise it whenever appropriate. Also, while we're on the subje
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by bartvk 6y ago
Arq does this really good, I know exactly what you mean. It's more or less fire and forget. And unfortunately it looks like you're not getting an answer.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Have you looked at other challenges in Computer Science? Think embedded software, or maybe FPGA work? Maybe a position as a scientific programmer, or software that's very close to custom electronics?
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by bartvk 6y ago
Totally agree with you. Bureaucracy/red tape at its worst. It also seems to go against disability/accessibility laws. There must be more people that don't have fingerprints, like people with missing limbs.
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by bartvk 6y ago
This. That's why I prefer to buy devices that have known compatibility with OpenWRT.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I didn't know about this utility/protocol, very interesting. It sounds like offline rsync. It seems maintained, too. Tarballs have been dropped for the last three years: http://www.nncpgo.org/Tarballs.html#Tarballs
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by bartvk 6y ago
For the decently paid people, that may still be true. I'm not so sure for the common retail folks, or the freelancers that Apple used to hire to categorize and correct Siri recordings.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I use the No, Thanks extension to remove this crap. It's a paid extension, but to me, that's worth it. The usual ad blockers remove a lot of this stuff, but this extension even removes all sorts of annoying newsletter popups. htt
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by bartvk 6y ago
Does anyone know why the Google Pixel 4 series isn't in there? Interesting to sort on the column "Init. € / Geekb.". I take this to mean, how much performance do you get for your Euro. Turns out the 2020 iPhone SE is the
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by bartvk 6y ago
Can you expand om that? The way I send something to myself on Telegram is by posting something in a group, of which I'm the only member.
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by bartvk 6y ago
> if it's not working, there's absolutely no information about why not Sounds like my experience with Apple's regular Airdrop :) but to be honest, it's been quite some time since it failed me.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I second this. The Caldigit TB3+ is rock solid for me. I don't start my work day in clamshell mode, though.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I second Pocket Earth.

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