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by gregjor 2y ago
Yubikey or equivalent. You don’t necessarily need a second phone . You may need a second phone number in your home country that you can get calls and SMS anywhere. VOIP services such as Google Voice, Hushed, Skype work, but test first be
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by gregjor 2y ago
I moved out of the USA partly because of health insurance and medical care costs. Something to consider.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Starting in high school age 14: BASIC, assembly language (HP2100), Fortran, Pascal, PDP-11 assembly, C, COBOL. in the first five years of programming.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I learned programming over 40 years ago, mainly from reading books and experimenting, and reading a lot of code. Studying code until you understand it takes time but rewards the effort. Jumping in and hacking until you get something to work
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don’t think that’s worth worrying about. No amount of worry will extend the life of the SSD. But you can backup your files to cloud storage or an external drive so if the SSD does wear out you don’t lose anything important.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don’t feel anxious about things like that. If I did I would find the large files on my Mac, check if I have multiple identical copies of any of them, then cp -c to make new copies. But disk space is cheap so mainly I wouldn’t worry about
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by gregjor 2y ago
If it bothers you that much make an alias. In your .profile or .bashrc (or whatever your shell reads at startup): alias cp=“cp -c” Or give it another name if you like.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Consider the growing number of people who don't or won't use X/Twitter. Can you host demos on your own web site? I can't hear or see what Musk says so I have no basis to judge the translation. Explain how your translator
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by gregjor 2y ago
Type "how does google image search work" into Google search or your favorite LLM. You probably can't implement anything close to it by yourself with a desktop or laptop PC. A significant amount of training data and machine le
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by gregjor 2y ago
All of them.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Because for a lot of English speakers "trans" means "transgender." It doesn't get used as a short version of "translate."
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by gregjor 2y ago
You might want to reconsider the product/company name.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think you haven’t considered the luxury goods aspect of higher-end phones. The majority of people buying new phones every year or two don’t carefully study specs, and don’t need to use a PC or laptop at all, or only need a “real” computer
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by gregjor 2y ago
> This is meant primarily for Thai people I didn't get that impression. Not written in or translated to Thai for one thing. > there is also a history of foreigners making it very large in Thailand. Many Chinese, Japanese, Koreans
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by gregjor 2y ago
Seems like a silly question. “Programmer” doesn’t describe an identity or type of person. It describes an activity or profession. People can show different interests and aptitude without observable differences in brain structure. Anecdotall
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by gregjor 2y ago
PowerPoint on the back-end. Patagonia and Allbirds for front-end.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Multiple layers of complex abstractions and sloppy coding account for a lot of it. We write code as if it had no hardware constraints, so we get megabytes-size web pages running a slow interpreted language in a browser built on multiple lay
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can't trust LLMs at this point. Too much garbage training, too many hallucinations. Since all of the "AI" companies currently operate with significant losses, it stands to reason they will have to either charge a lot more eve
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by gregjor 2y ago
Do you mean browse, search, and read? "Consume content" sounds like training an LLM or loading a database. Besides HN I look at a couple of news site, AL Daily, subscribe to some newsletters, follow links, watch YouTube. No social
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by gregjor 2y ago
I began my programming career on machines with performance, memory, and storage constraints no one today can imagine. Some of the necessary hacks and shortcuts from back then look like premature optimization and stupid coding today. The Y2K
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by gregjor 2y ago
Proves that pigs can fly?
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by gregjor 2y ago
"English" does not describe a single ethnicity. It may describe the origin of one's ancestors. England experienced multiple waves of immigrants in the past, before the discovery of the New World. Romans (not all of whom had I
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can you give more specific criteria than “best?” Visual Studio seems very popular and has everything one needs for writing and debugging C code, but only runs on Windows and costs money. vim + git + gcc + make + gdb another popular set of t
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by gregjor 2y ago
Work-life balance describes personal and situational priorities, a property of your needs and circumstances. It does not describe a property of a company. Figure out what you need, specifically, to get to the work-life balance you want. W
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good luck with that. Fortunately few CTOs/CEOs share your faith in a company already guilty of rampant IP theft, run by a serial liar.
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.12.01-125713/https://www.bloomberg.c...
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by gregjor 2y ago
Yeah I think everyone noticed that a dodgy site selling questionable products has some dark patterns. Everyone in Asia, for a start.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Possible impediments: AirBnb and all short-term rentals illegal in Thailand unless you can get a hotel license. Foreigners cannot own land in Thailand (some exceptions exist). I won't even get into the rampant graft and corruption, and
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by gregjor 2y ago
I would discuss with HR. Their job to understand and comply with the laws.
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by gregjor 2y ago
> then I am also free to decide that those views are absurd and extreme, and reflect a deep misunderstanding of medical outcomes. I don't agree. You can decide that another person's expressed opinions don't align with your

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