dyingkneepad

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by dyingkneepad 10mo ago
I'm quite the opposite: the more light, the better I am (especially now in the northern hemisphere December!). After painting my office walls with a reflective white and putting additional lamps on it, my productivity increased signifi
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by dyingkneepad 10mo ago
It's been like this for more than 10 years, there's a good chance it won't change in 10 years.
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by dyingkneepad 10mo ago
If WhatsApp does something really bad tomorrow, the population will probably migrate to Telegram very quickly, as it seems to be the 2nd most popular app for the category there.
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by dyingkneepad 10mo ago
While WhatsApp is not very much used in the US, in some other countries such as Brazil it is basically the primary form of "phone" communication. It is everyone's default text, voice and video message platform. People don&#x2
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
When it kills one of the Oligarchs' daughters.
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
Besides the arguments other people gave, delegating the 'everyday tasks' to this other person takes time. You'll have to invest some hours to save some hours. If they wanna do stuff for you, you have to give them the informat
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
Perhaps it's just that xbox is irrelevant, when you have PC and Playstation? To me, Xbox is that video-game you get when you ask for a Playstation and your parents don't understand video-games. Their versioning scheme even helps m
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
I am. C is still highly used for low-level system software development: OS stuff like drivers, libraries, compilers, databases, software that runs in specialized small hardware, etc. C++ is for those slightly-higher abstractions that still
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
Getting a check every 2 weeks (and other benefits, like Health Insurance) is what motivates me. I spend about 8 hours per day Mon-Fri contributing to open source projects. (I mean, I don't do it only because of these reasons, I'm
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
Well, my local library has not only books, but also video-games, movies, series, board games, toys, pressure washers, popcorn machines, parachutes (!!!) and even a chess club.
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by dyingkneepad 1y ago
Well, I can vote so that the thing my government does to me is something I want. The foreign corporation will always be exclusively interested in doing things to me that generate revenue for them.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
What happens if I print the same page in multiple printers? Like, have the first printer print the actual contents, and then have the other printers add just a little bit of stuff in still-white areas. Does one printer mess the dots of the
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Off-topic, but here it goes since you put the links: Man, I love and use Debian, but the thing I hate the most about it are these ancient email-based bug-reporting systems and package trackers, like the ones linked in your message. This shi
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Just Intel laptops with integrated Intel graphics. Dell, ASUS and Thinkpad are the ones I've been using between work and personal during the last 20 years.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I didn't want to r/hailcorporate the thread, but it's Intel.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
As much as people love to have this romantic view of Open Source that it is composed of brilliant volunteers working out of their basements, the reality is that most of the Open Source work, especially the low-level systems programming (OS,
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
On the technical side, if you have actually worked with certain stuff you will have gone through certain experiences that everybody else has gone through. Some tools are absolutely necessary but horrible to work with in certain ways. Some l
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Okay, so he got the interviews, but did he pass them? In the place I work for, when engineers are going to conduct technical interviews, the only preparation material they are given is the candidate's resume. So we try to ask questions
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
It is better, but still hard to make sense of. As you progress in the game, all squares are somewhat contested so everything is colored, which makes everything hard to evaluate. I like the idea of making a square brighter once it has more p
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
False advertisement. I played a single match and the AI very very quickly blundered their queen to my bishop, and later a bunch of other pieces. This bot way is worse than Martin (250) form chess.com. Also, those colors are horrible to see.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> It’s all open source and therefore mostly unpaid volunteer driven The vast vast vast majority of Kernel development (and, I would guess, low-level open source software development) is paid for by companies. Here's an example. Scro
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
There's probably a compiler somewhere for some language that is monetized.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
"Relyks is an employee of ACME corp. He works in the Hell, MI office." Something like that?
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
The one I heard was: "Dad, can you show me Minecraft? All my friends keep talking about Minecraft, but I don't understand it. I want to know more about Minecraft". If you don't give the stuff to your kids, they get socia
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
100% of the times I search for something and click on a stackoverflow link for the answer, it gives me a captcha. I hate this, so now I actively avoid clicking stackoverflow results. I've been slowly replacing those searches with quest
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
The important stuff gets auto uploaded to my NAS via the NAS app, whenever I'm home.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
People would create companies that do nothing else besides posting job offers and collecting fees.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> hard things How about consistently competing at fighting video-games at the highest level in the world for more than 30 years? "The Will to Keep Winning", by Daigo Umehara. He was the first Street Fighter 2 player to reach th
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I'm planning to learn how to find time to learn anything at all. Just normal work and family stuff consumes 100% of my energies, whenever it's 9pm and I have time to actually try to learn anything or do anything productive, I&#x27
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Thanks a lot for the link! That solves my questions! Maybe I'll join.... (but still: which server!?)

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