benterix

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by benterix 2y ago
Can you tell me your experience? Any bad points? The bigger one looks really nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QRVHSexJQ But it seems something one would better test in person especially regarding the contrast/cr
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by benterix 2y ago
The device is called Dogee T20 Ultra 12", I bought it from a local vendor for ca. 230 euro to avoid dealing with a Chinese vendor. Works without any problems and the battery lasts for many days with my usage pattern (that is only readi
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by benterix 2y ago
Thank you for the site. After reading a few headlines I started to have the impression the world is waiting for Putin to die, we could have at least a chance for at least one war to stop (there is no chance he will stop it while being alive
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by benterix 2y ago
I was hoping for a greater size - the standard Kindle sizes are totally unusable for users like me who mainly read PDFs. After experimenting with larger e-ink screen sizes from other vendors I realized I also miss the snappiness of reading
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by benterix 2y ago
Although there is no God, there are many gods (lha, sometimes translated as deity). To add to the confusion, the same word is used for the so-called mundane gods like elementals and supramundane gods, i.e. beings who transcended subject-obj
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by benterix 2y ago
While I agree to some extent, it's good to have a discussion on this from time to time as it's an important social topic. Especially when young girls became acquainted with history of women's rights and so on, they immediatel
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by benterix 2y ago
> Women experience more sexual violence than men. Women experience more instances of genital mutilation, are more often sex trafficked and enslaved, and experience more instances of domestic abuse. I believe the parent meant Western soci
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by benterix 2y ago
> Would that it were so simple! But are you saying this from your experience hiring for teams that execute well? I oversimplified it not to stray away from the main topic but actually they need to have very specific features like the wil
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by benterix 2y ago
> As a business owner however, the question is: what is best for the business? It is very simple: you need best people. In tech industry, people are smart, they know how to optimize things, and they rarely believe in "company values
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by benterix 2y ago
I'm reluctant to provide details as these days you can be doxxed by just one's writing style but I manage to save 85% of my salary and rent a private 50sqm office with all amenities just for myself.
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by benterix 2y ago
> I'm sorry you've had bad experiences. No, actually I haven't. I just have many colleagues who share their feelings with me. In my niche, all best-paid positions are remote only, I basically cooperate with teams from diff
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by benterix 2y ago
QubesOS is so much better than a traditional OS but the separation is (at least in theory should be!) weaker than an air-gapped system as there is still a connection through software (and hardware) components. But the air-gapped system turn
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by benterix 2y ago
> I think a lot of people are talking past each other. Of course. Apart from the WFH majority there also vocal proponents of hybrid (and I believe some who believe in full RTO, although these seem to be very few). The solution to this co
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by benterix 2y ago
> Now if you have another company whose employees believe in the company's mission, prioritize company success, don't see a necessary trade-off between work and lifestyle, and enjoy working with their teams in person This is a
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by benterix 2y ago
How do you imagine this? The underlying infra depends on the API, and the API requires a valid CC to order. Even if you know the CC data of your employer that is being used for AWS, and you decided to specify it in the configuration of Domi
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by benterix 2y ago
> Real funny seeing a bunch of web devs on HN talk shit about Tesla's engineers too lmao It's not "talk shit about Tesla's engineers", it's just a very hard problem to solve. It's easy to get it "m
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by benterix 2y ago
> They had 2 dozen vehicles with no steering wheels taking attendees around the venue. To quote a participant[0]: > After over 10 years of Full Self-Driving development, @Tesla is limited to a 20-30 acre geofenced 5mph ride on a prep
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by benterix 2y ago
It's enough to think for a couple of seconds to realize it has nothing to do with population density, otherwise you could freely discuss politics in less populated areas of the States. The real reason is that politics, and especially t
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by benterix 2y ago
> informal "water cooler chat" which is missing at working from home scenarios. I have a lot of that. Actually, in each company I worked for, I made sure we have a channel for informal communication, it is a work life changer.
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by benterix 2y ago
Because it' still a highly contentious issue. It's as if you asked a hundred years ago, "Why are these free Saturday/40hour-work week so popular"? It is an enormous power struggle, and it can only be won through det
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by benterix 2y ago
> The whole point of work is that someone pays you money, so you donate your time. How exactly and what amount of time, that is the contract you negotiate with your employer. That's the point. The pandemic give employers worldwide a
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by benterix 2y ago
Frankly I don't understand why anybody would be surprised over this. They have been doing this stuff for over a decade? (I specifically mean quietly introducing privacy-hostile settings without user consent or knowledge, not other user
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by benterix 2y ago
> There is no such thing as an 'internal' email you communicate to other people outside your company with. It's just an email address. Someone at some point will leak it by accident or malice. Sure, so personally I never u
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by benterix 2y ago
This was a problem already before the generative AI era, it just got less expensive. The only way to reduce it is to have two work addresses: one that you rarely check and is exposed to the public, listed on your profile etc., and the real
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by benterix 2y ago
I'm not discussing the general situation as the topic is too vast, just this particular case of OS reaction when a device is connected.
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by benterix 2y ago
Yes, humans are in control, but in the case of Windows the humans that control the default behavior of the system when an USB device is connected are not the ones that are using it. Frankly, I wonder why implement an air gap if Windows is b
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by benterix 2y ago
> The person being dead just means their surviving family and heirs are the target instead. Which logically makes little sense TBH in this case in particular, but yeah thugs might not be particularly reasonable.
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by benterix 2y ago
> I already took some precautions re: security just in case... Shouldn't you be able to sue HBO for forcing you to take unnecessary expenses?
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by benterix 2y ago
No archive.ph link necessary, just disable JS (one click in uBlock Origin).
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by benterix 2y ago
Thank you for providing the video length, it is the factor that made me click.

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