giantandroids

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by giantandroids 5y ago
After years of dynamically typed / interpreted languages, I decided I wanted to learn a statically typed language and so I to set out to trial both Go and Rust. Rust was a painful experience. I kept trying to pass around simple types
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by giantandroids 5y ago
US tech appears rife in this right now. I follow lots of engineers on twitter and some folks seem to spend more time enrolled in their own victimhood or the victimhood of others who cause they love to rally to (because they get to point vic
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by giantandroids 5y ago
I am very much working class / (blue collar) in my upbringing. Raised by single parent in a very run down area with a fair amount of poverty. I luckily found an early love and curiosity for computers and eventually found my way into s
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by giantandroids 5y ago
I would much rather use this, a nice secluded statically compiled blob instead of letting node.js unspool a spaghetti of dependencies.
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by giantandroids 5y ago
This is still playing out in the UK
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by giantandroids 6y ago
Glad to hear you got yourself back on track bruv and happy birthday!
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by giantandroids 6y ago
I very rarely go on linkedin now as it's just a shell of its former self with very little value compared to when I first joined up. In past years I got headhunted twice through linkedin and landed some good roles and built up a really
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by giantandroids 6y ago
> but in my estimation in-person collaboration is far better than online-only. Being able to talk to others in person and quickly is certainly useful, but its a double edged sword as that quite often results in your stream of thoughts b
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by giantandroids 6y ago
You could easily argue they are doing the opposite, in that they close down potential weapons and responsibly disclose them so that they are fixed and patched. Add to that, a majority of computer security work is revolved around improving i
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by giantandroids 6y ago
You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life's a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recor
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by giantandroids 6y ago
I wonder if this might be implemented to encourage individuals who convert cryptocurrency to fiat , to also easily pay tax at the same time.
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by giantandroids 6y ago
https://www.keycloak.org/
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by giantandroids 6y ago
The B12 in off the shelf beef , chicken is from it being injected by farmers (along with all manner of other stuff such as antibiotics). The truth is that every living being is low on B12 due to soil erosion / over farming. So in a way
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by giantandroids 6y ago
This really is a vague statement without defining what you mean by 'nutrition'. If you're referring protein, well sort of, however some non meat based products carry plenty, nuts, black beans (15g of protein per cup).. At the
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by giantandroids 6y ago
if you use a bash shebang in your scripts, does it not matter (honest question, I never have used fish)?
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by giantandroids 6y ago
The gist of the article for anyone who wants to spare few minutes from having to read it themselves (honestly, spare yourself. Google, facebook etc used open source and cashed out and are now driving sports cars, and Linux Desktop is dead,
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by giantandroids 6y ago
That is possible, but it's also possible for any store of value , gold , fiat, stocks..
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by giantandroids 6y ago
> …where my request was left to rot, without any response. Hey, I am involved in the OpenSSF and happy to take at least a look. I maintain a popular python OSS project in the security area so we have that in common. Did your email actual
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by giantandroids 6y ago
lets encrypt are under the ISRG
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by giantandroids 6y ago
This really is unsolicited advice. You really cannot assume your situation and circumstance is identical to OPs. He may well love his family dearly and already feel resolute its right for him to care for them. To walk away from family (unle
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by giantandroids 6y ago
There are often arguments (with merit) over Bitcoins wasteful use of energy, but I expect a lot of it is from hindight of 'why the hell did I not buy some'.
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by giantandroids 6y ago
Used this awhile ago for a large Python project, was very useful. I would love to use it still, but most of my work is now on rust / golang.
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by giantandroids 6y ago
> There are some world class developers in Spain, Italy or France that are paid ~30K€ to 50K€ per year I seriously question that. I hire a lot from EMEA and world class developers don't accept a pay of 30 to 50k, especially in Franc
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by giantandroids 6y ago
Ironic in how it has parallels to physical rental stores (aka blockbusters) being a necessity.
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by giantandroids 6y ago
This is simply false. There have been plenty of companies running 100% remote based teams successfully for a while now. Further to that, some of the worlds best open source projects are all coded as a type of remote team. Any problems that
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by giantandroids 6y ago
It's always been a no brainer for my team to hire remote and we were majority remote before COVID. There is simple reason for this; The hiring pool is much much wider when you remove geographical restrictions. Trying to hire within the