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by dotdi 1y ago
When Gruber mentions that he never uses Markdown outside of his blog, and hinting at the fact that it was not intended for text editors (and other apps), there's one important point I want to make. Yes, Markdown has disadvantages, and
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by dotdi 1y ago
> I had become the go-to person for making things run smoothly, for fixing urgent problems, for delivering. But every time I pushed toward more strategic and ambitious directions, there was a lot of can-kicking and “let’s think about it”
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by dotdi 1y ago
I haven't been on slashdot in a long time, and boy is it a shitty experience. Using Orion browser with uBlock Origin, initially the site loads fine. Then it tries to load ads. It detects that the ads don't load, so it displays an
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by dotdi 2y ago
https://archive.ph/pZGLb
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by dotdi 2y ago
I feel like this is a huge load of crap. These are highly intelligent people. They got to be very high up in the food chain. They are driven. They are smart. Yet, the claim is that they can't imagine there exist people not like themsel
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by dotdi 2y ago
I studied molecular biology 15 years ago. Recently I realized that I started to forget more and more about it, like how the rooms looked, names of professors, (obviously) a lot of the material I learned, etc. But I can't forget about o
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by dotdi 2y ago
I came here to ask "how is this better than StoryGraph", but before I could hit send, it occurred to me: This doesn't need to be better than StoryGraph. This just needs to be different, cater to different persons, needs. Mayb
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by dotdi 2y ago
That's why it's important to push for "public money - open source" initiatives like some countries in the EU are trying to implement. Off the top of my head, I think the last (now failed) German coalition had this in the
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by dotdi 2y ago
Maybe this is too tin-hatty, but sending the unpublished manuscript from (or to) a free Gmail account gives Google the right to use it, and therefore also to train whatever AI model they want with it. Sounds like all of those claims where C
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by dotdi 2y ago
I think you got this wrong. Laws against Scheinselbständigkeit are protecting individuals from being exploited, and it's one of the things that characterizes the EU. Don't forget that outside of Europe, most big economies were bui
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by dotdi 2y ago
It's worse than that. Romania is #43 by GDP in the global ranking. There's faster internet compared to Germany in: Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Jordan, Panama, Ecuador, Moldova, etc. Source: https://worldpopulationrev
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by dotdi 2y ago
the answer is simple (not easy). It works just like in any other non-trivial field: internships, connections, luck, true entry-level positions, etc.
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by dotdi 2y ago
I think one point about 100k being a large sum is that we've been talking about "six figures" since the early 2000s, and adjusted for inflation we'd be talking about roughly 180k, i.e. approaching a factor of 2. And the
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by dotdi 2y ago
Cybersecurity is not full, software engineering is not full, practicing law is not full, etc. Just because there was a wave of tech layoffs doesn't mean the industry was "full" it just means money was fast and loose and you c
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by dotdi 2y ago
More anecdotal evidence: while writing my Master's thesis it became clear that my advisor (the dept. head) was quite interested in the subject matter, and repeatedly asked me to shelve it, do a quick-and-dirty thesis to graduate and re
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by dotdi 2y ago
Can't wait to see the factory in Germany also starting to pump out chips.
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by dotdi 2y ago
Same. I use Firefox on all my devices. Actually, I am now experimenting with Zen Browser (FF-based fork prettier than Firefox, and even more privacy-focused). My wife and my kids get no say in it: it's Firefox in the whole household.
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by dotdi 2y ago
> LinkedIn's algorithmic feed heavily favors short-form "broetry" over substantive technical content - Twitter/X has become a battleground of AI-generated hot takes - Medium is drowning in SEO-optimized tutorials that
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by dotdi 2y ago
Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were. I usually didn't intend to use them straight up commercially, but I felt like I should pay for somebodies work to produce these images. The prices were too s
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by dotdi 2y ago
My org has been using ULID[0] extensively for a few years, and generally we've been quite happy with it. After initially dabbing with a few implementations, I reimplemented the spec in Kotlin, and this has been working out quite well f
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by dotdi 2y ago
Engineering Software as a Service (pt. 1 and 2)[0] had some of the all-time best ROI regarding time and effort. This is the same course that they taught at Berkeley (recordings from the classroom). It was excellent. It was exceptionally wel
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Advent of Cyber 2024(tryhackme.com)
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by dotdi 2y ago
Dive into the wonderful world of cyber security by engaging in festive beginner-friendly exercises every day in the lead-up to Christmas!
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by dotdi 2y ago
I love onigiri, but over here in Europe they are still pretty niche, and by niche I mean expensive. It's basically a sandwhich, right? Only that it costs 5-10x more.
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by dotdi 2y ago
There have been many documented cases where tech giants have outright refused to pay out, employing practices like: changing the rules of engagement post-factum, silently banning security researchers from active bounties, escalating good-fa
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by dotdi 2y ago
Well, in contrast to other situations, this appears to be a zero-sum game. A company has a certain revenue, which is used to pay employees, invest back into the business, etc. If you pay the CEO an exorbitant amount of money, it means it ta
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by dotdi 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Cwtq3
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by dotdi 2y ago
https://archive.ph/WrZ5L
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by dotdi 2y ago
I started working with Microcontrollers when 80C51s were still somewhat modern, and I remember how frustrating the toolchain and the general experience was. When AVR came out with their ATmegas, it was a revelation. Not having to use shitty
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by dotdi 2y ago
I agree. I've been using Copilot for several months now, and the only thing it (almost) consistently helps me with is predicting relatively trivial snippets. Anecdotally, I've had it mispredict from very simple contexts, such as s

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