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by catdog 5y ago
> TBH, reading this as a manager, I have to admit I feel like asking my engineers to take on SOME of these beyond-just-the-code duties... is a good thing? Obviously there are a bunch of caveats, and nuances to whether you want an IC engi
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by catdog 5y ago
Those 10 year old Thinkpads are still surprisingly capable. I still didn't completely stop using my X220 (also with some HW upgrades like 16GB RAM and ac Wifi) although I bought a Thinkpad P14s Gen 2 (AMD) this year. Some remarks for r
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by catdog 5y ago
Intel has its custom driver for years now anyways https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/admin-guide/pm/intel_p...
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by catdog 5y ago
Yes it's way too early to draw conclusions. Think currently mRNA vaccines still stand strong compared to what else is on the market. Also one of the big promises of the mRNA technology is increased development speed so it might especia
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by catdog 5y ago
Agree it seems likely that dosing plays a fundamental role. Moderna while still seeming to suffer from this problem seems to be suffering less than Biontech, they are very similar in general, biggest difference is Moderna having already a l
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by catdog 5y ago
> I also don't understand how k3s, microkube and others claim to be "lightweight". Lightweight compared to what? For k3s, they explain what they do in their README: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#how-is
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by catdog 5y ago
Freelancers in Germany also have a problem which is called "Scheinselbstständigkeit". If you do too much work for only one client (there are no clear rules to follow) the public social security system might decide you are to be tr
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by catdog 5y ago
> This is as crazy as it gets and shows how incapable they are of controlling this pandemic, even how little they care to seriously work on it, and I wonder how much this represents what they have been doing over the last decade in gener
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by catdog 5y ago
> (BTW the public health offices are notoriously overworked during the pandemic, so it's not clear to me if they'd even manage to do anything with this data). Anecdotally most of them are completely overwhelmed because of the c
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by catdog 5y ago
> CCC is a club of security experts No. It happens that a lot of members are security experts but it is far far broader than that. The CCC is a very decentralized organization. A lot of hacker spaces are in fact operated by local subdivi
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by catdog 5y ago
> I wasn't a big fan of the Covid tracing app in the beginning, but in retrospect the concept of that app seems miles ahead of the current situation with the Luca app. I think the concept behind is really solid and a great example f
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by catdog 6y ago
On Android you could use Shelter [1]. Might no be as good as as second phone but it heavily limits the data you expose. You can also freeze the app if you don't use it actively. The biggest annoyance is that Android only allows having
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by catdog 6y ago
> Every bullet point says "Missing...", but I feel like the main issue about Jira is that it has waaay to many It says "missing" but it mostly talks about those existing features lacking any polish. > and that it&#
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by catdog 6y ago
> So far, evidence of reinfection with Covid-19 seems limited to a handful of people. Is there even enough evidence in those few cases that it was really a reinfection? RT-PCR based tests are good but are not perfect after all, false pos
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by catdog 6y ago
I agree to disagree which that headline. IF helps you to loose weight because it helps you to actually take in less calories. I think it's basically a combination of two things: 1. It's really difficult to break out of that viscou
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by catdog 6y ago
Even if direct USB boot does not work out you can just use the SD card to boot the kernel and have the root fs on USB. With the PI4 you probably can even get better performance from using a USB storage device as it has USB 3.0 Ports.
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by catdog 6y ago
> I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation. Yep not great but still better than that confusing mess called asoundrc.
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by catdog 6y ago
On top of that PulseAudio appeared to be quite buggy at the beginning for quite some amount time, even after distributions started defaulting to it. I have read that most of those issues were actually driver bugs but that did not stop it ge
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by catdog 6y ago
> I'm always confronted with ALSA as if it were the default audio system on Linux. Because it is as far as the kernel drivers for audio devices are concerned. You have to distinguish between that and the userspace part called libals
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by catdog 6y ago
> Used to be able to just drop commands into rc.local but now it's not as simple. Why not? Also you can try https://linrunner.de/tlp/
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by catdog 6y ago
> I wish it would be possible to have better studies for that. I believe that static typing has huge benefits as software scales. I also believe that, especially after it outscales what one person is able to (fully) overview. Static type
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by catdog 6y ago
Unit tests have their place but in my experience there are also a lot of places in most codebases where they don't deliver enough value compared to the effort put into both writing and maintaining them (they can be a huge PITA while re
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by catdog 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug comes to mind
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by catdog 7y ago
True but on the other hand the technology they develop plays a central role in how they operate which sets them apart from the traditional taxi company/broadcaster. WeWork seems to just rent out real estate and at least on the surface
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by catdog 7y ago
I agree, there already were countless opportunities to buy the series for next to nothing during sales.
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by catdog 7y ago
> Do you find that you're able to do cognitively demanding tasks while fasting? Absolutely. > Even small fasts seem to sap my concentration and critical thinking. Once I eat again I feel like I think better. That's kind of n
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by catdog 7y ago
Wouldn't be too pessimistic on the UI side. Building decent desktop UIs isn't easier and still people managed to do it without a (single) organization in the background.
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by catdog 7y ago
I think the PinePhone can be different because 1. The thing is reasonably cheap with "good enough" specs which makes it far easier to just buy it and accept that it may be just a toy in the worst case. 2. It's likely that the
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by catdog 7y ago
> 80% boilerplate is a large exaggeration. If you restrict yourself fully to the standard library it's still not that largly exaggerated, even with Java 8. > The compiler has a well-defined custom processing interface (@annotatio
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by catdog 7y ago
They finally changed it to between 8 and 38 characters.

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