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by habosa 3y ago
Wow this is a timely post. Literally two days ago I thought "there should be an easier way to use git" and I went out and bought gitless.io ... I didn't even check what was on the .com! To the author: I think I'll need a
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by habosa 3y ago
Fitzcarraldo is one of the better movies I’ve ever seen and the production was so famously difficult they made a documentary about it.
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by habosa 3y ago
Why is nearly every comment here downplaying this? I don’t know if this is great cinema but it’s definitely original and a stunning achievement. It’s like climbing a mountain or running a marathon: the difficulty is the point.
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by habosa 3y ago
I think you may be interested in something like this: https://www.getclearspace.com/
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by habosa 3y ago
But yet, it’s full steam ahead. Many if not all of the signatories are going to do their part to advance AI even as they truly believe it may destroy us. I’ve never seen such destructive curiosity. The desire to make cool new toys (and yes,
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by habosa 3y ago
Pixel 3 photos continue to be my favorite of any phone I’ve ever owned (had iPhones since then) I thought I was the only one
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by habosa 3y ago
For those thinking this is some sort of banned book, it's not. Asturias won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967. This book is almost definitely available in your language in your nearest book store. And it's a great book, exhil
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by habosa 3y ago
It's been translated and is widely available in English. It's an excellent book and one of the most important Latin American novels of the mid-1900s.
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by habosa 3y ago
This. The HMRC system is excellent and should be in the realm of possibility for America. The UK economy is very similar to ours. And as an American who lived in the UK for a few years I did have to file a self assessment, which had me pret
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by habosa 3y ago
And yet the VCs profited. So … who paid?
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by habosa 3y ago
I have taken hundreds of Ubers and Lyfts. They’re both pretty essential to my mobility because I live in a city and don’t own a car. I’m so furious that neither of them really had a plan all along. They were just selling $1.00 for $0.50 and
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by habosa 3y ago
> Weather situation is the same as walking; you need to dress properly. I love my ebike but that's not really true. Weather feels much more extreme on a bike, IMO. In the rain I get much wetter on my bike than walking. In the cold t
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by habosa 3y ago
I’d assume one. The “one version policy” is one of the strictest codebase rules at Google. But the Chrome codebase is generally the giant exception to everything due to the major open source components (Android too).
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by habosa 3y ago
Google has more TVCs (temps, vendors, and contractors) than FTEs. By a good margin. Most of these people work 40 hours a week at Google. They do everything from kitchen work to program management to software engineering. They are often embe
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by habosa 4y ago
I strongly believe that going to college in the US is a good financial investment and that this will become increasingly true over time. I don’t believe that it’s just, but there are fewer decent jobs for people without a degree every day.
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by habosa 4y ago
Americans are friendly but when it comes to the decisions that matter (voting and the votes with our wallets) the preference is for the private over the public. People are scared to depend on each other or to be forced to interact with stra
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by habosa 4y ago
I’m also quite bearish on all the AI hype but part of my skepticism means I don’t trust that the AI experts actually know everything. I believe there’s a possibility that their invention this time is actually more interesting (in some dimen
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by habosa 4y ago
Is it possible that we don’t truly know how it works? That there is some emergent behavior inside these models that we’ve created but not yet properly described? I’ve read a few of these articles but I’m still not completely satisfied.
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by habosa 4y ago
Wired headphones. I’ve never had to start a meeting by trying to mess with my audio settings, or had to think about charging another battery.
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by habosa 4y ago
I wonder if the US tech hiring slowdown is big enough to have an effect here? Most of my friends do not own a personal laptop anymore but every job they get comes with a shiny new corporate MacBook.
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by habosa 4y ago
I've said it before but: everyone knew this. In 2017 when the first monster crypto run happened it seemed like everyone's onboarding/KYC protocols were blocking new US users besides Binance. I had an account with them purely
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by habosa 4y ago
San Franciscans seems to have just collectively abandoned downtown. Empty offices, empty retail, empty streets, seemingly no attempt to do anything new down there. It’s mostly fine with me, I don’t really need to go there and I’m lucky to b
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by habosa 4y ago
Same thing happened to me as a seller. I sold a single Nintendo Switch game for a very normal price ($30, used). I delivered the item on-time and with tracking. My account was suspended forever with no chance for review.
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by habosa 4y ago
Google (and maybe some of the others) does let some employees do a 4-day work week for 80% pay. I’ve met more than one such person, but they are rare.
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by habosa 4y ago
> Should non-profits be allowed to "invest" their tax-exempt donations? Almost definitely yes because so many uses of funds are also investments. Ex: a church buys valuable real estate to use as their main site of worship. Howe
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by habosa 4y ago
I get what you're trying to say but this comment made it seem like Fidelity (or Fidelity Charitable) was somehow funneling money to those organizations. To clarify for others reading: that's not the case. Fidelity's customers
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by habosa 4y ago
I can afford a car but I really don't want one and I haven't had one in 10 years. I don't think most people in American can really comprehend how much we'd benefit from more reliable public transit. As others have mentio
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by habosa 4y ago
Within the genre of “Xoogler complains about Google” this is one of the better posts I’ve ever read. They really hit the nail on the head in most areas without overstating their points or reducing any of the complex systems to trivial hot t
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by habosa 4y ago
Yeah I’m surprised they’ve let him go so far. He’s not generally wrong but the level of bias and snark in the articles is fairly unprofessional for a site like Ars.
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by habosa 4y ago
I think because individual tech workers are so highly paid relative to other industries, we fail to see how low our pay is relative to what the people at the top are making. A high performing Google engineer may make 500k+ in total comp, Su

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