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by doix 4y ago
> First, Apple is known to squeeze every penny from their suppliers to improve their bottom line. This is just unequivocally false. I used to work for a semiconductor company that was a supplier for Apple. Apple would pay a premium compa
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by doix 4y ago
I was the same, really pissed off when they made the change. Luckily, it's android, so you can install a custom launcher. I remember I had to play around with adb a bit, but after that, it's smooth sailing. I use FLauncher[0], but
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by doix 4y ago
Kubernetes doesn't answer any of the parents questions though, does it? You still need a Dockerfile for k8s and all those questions still apply.
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by doix 4y ago
Helix doesn't have tabs or folding, I find it really hard to use an editor without those features. The preconfigured LSP stuff is nice, but after you set it up in vim you usually don't have to mess with it unless you want too.
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by doix 4y ago
I mean, Arch has 4.4.1-12 in their repo right now [0]. I don't really get the argument, why is it the software developers fault that distros have old packages? Of course LTS versions of Ubuntu wouldn't have bleeding edge software,
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by doix 4y ago
> The purpose is not to do this however, the goal for a repl cli is usually to invoke a set of particular, already implemented commands, not on the fly python input and output. The implementation will be predefined and packaged, repl are
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by doix 4y ago
Slightly unrelated, but when I need to proof read something I listen to it being read aloud by TTS. It's immediately obvious when something doesn't sound right.
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by doix 4y ago
Come on, the internet has existed before the heavy reliance on JavaScript and npm. HN would be unaffected if core-js completely disappeared tomorrow. If someone had full control of BGP and demanded money, I guess you could say they are hold
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by doix 4y ago
You can use chrome with '--headless --print-to-pdf' instead of wkhtmltopdf, it worked better when I last looked into this around 2017-2018. Needed to generate a consistent pdf and couldn't rely on the users browser because th
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by doix 4y ago
> Part of me is tired of spending so much of my life in front of a computer. Sports/activities are great. I don't know how old you are, or if you have kids or not, but if you have little responsibility, I would pick an activity
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by doix 4y ago
Georgia is/was absolutely mad. I was in Tbilisi for a while and met _a lot_ of crypto bros. Probably highest concentration of crypto bros I've seen in a single city ever, or at least I struggled to find "expats" that wer
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by doix 4y ago
I was only active on IRC in later years (early 2000's onwards) and there was definitely a lot of casual homophobia. Using 'gay' as a synonym for bad was extremely common, I picked it up as well. Calling someone a fag was done
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by doix 4y ago
Don't even need AI, just count the number of LOLW per minute or whatever other emotes get spammed. I'm not sure how well generic sentiment analysis would work on twitch chat. You'd have to train a new model and it doesn'
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by doix 4y ago
I've got something called "Kimsufi 2G" which I've been paying for since 2013. It's only got 2GB of RAM and 500gb SSD, but it's been going strong since then. The same thing runs a small IRC and mumble server for
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by doix 4y ago
> Consumer lock-in is an incalculable risk. For a professional practitioner, adopting dependence on custom hardware gadgets from boutique hobby ventures is an incalculable risk. It's literally all open, you can build it yourself. If
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by doix 4y ago
I probably spent over a thousand hours playing 'surf_greatriver2_1'. Absolutely sucked at regular CS, but somehow got very good at shooting with the shotgun whilst in the air.
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by doix 4y ago
Back when I was forced to use windows, I used ClassicShell[0], but it looks like it's abandoned now. The spiritual successor seems to be OpenShell [1]. I can't remember if the shell was enough, but I remember that all the store ap
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by doix 4y ago
I can use uBlock on the web, I can't do that on iOS. I'm fairly confident that it gives me more privacy than what I can get on iOS. It's much easier for me to get a vague idea what a webapp is tracking and what it's doin
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by doix 4y ago
> If you do put a "skills cloud" on it, be ready to talk about them all. If someone had a skills cloud I would immediately look for the most esoteric skills and dive deep on it in the interview (after Googling it myself) to see
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by doix 4y ago
The problem is with the mega rich avoiding taxes while the rest of the plebs pay taxes. It's not moral to avoid taxes while the rest of the people pay taxes and you use public services. If the rich lobbied to abolish all taxes so it wa
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by doix 4y ago
They are not taxed at the same rate, income tax goes up to 45 where as dividends stop at 39ish according to the HMRC website. They are also not counted for NI contributions as far as I can tell. Admittedly, the difference isn't as much
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by doix 4y ago
When I read your comment, I assumed he actually had a 365 million salary, which would be amazing. He'd be paying 50% tax on the majority of that. I'd actually give him some respect for that, actually paying tax "fairly"
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by doix 4y ago
You're right, the definition of nation I had in my mind was wrong. Learn something new everyday :).
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by doix 4y ago
Edit: the definition I had for "nation" in my head was incorrect. My comment is based on an incorrect understanding, leaving it up since there are replies that won't make sense if I remove it. I find it very hard to make the
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by doix 4y ago
> Following a religion improves your daily actions, feels wonderful, and connects you to a worldwide community. These are better reasons than insisting it’s absolutely true. Religion terrifies me, I don't feel wonderful thinking abo
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by doix 4y ago
Breaking your leg in Thailand is much cheaper than breaking your leg in the USA. I strongly doubt insurance comes into it. It'll be tax and legal liability.
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by doix 4y ago
That's great, I truly wish you and your members all the best. Just to clarify, I am not anti-union and do not support union busting. I just think that right now, even in the current market, I have equal power in the employment relation
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by doix 4y ago
> Given the state of the market and how corporations are treating their human capital nowadays do you think an union for software developers is a viable thing? I mean, we/they are still getting treated better than majority of other
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by doix 4y ago
For work parties, COVID changed everything. The company I used to work for used to love parties. There were parties every month at a minimum (last Friday of the month) and for successful projects etc. With COVID, many people moved out of th
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by doix 4y ago
It's all about balance though, isn't it? Someone that doubts themselves to the point of never trying or doing anything, needs _something_ to get them out of that mode. Maybe they read this article and something resonates with them

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