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by ido 2y ago
But “not as well paid as it used to be” is relative to other wage earner, not to cost of living. Two uneducated polish factory workers today won’t be able to buy your parents’ house either.
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by ido 2y ago
> It doesn't even pay that well anymore, and AI is just another huge excuse to drop wages by management. Can you expand on this? I haven’t noticed salaries going down where I’m at (only fewer open positions the last ~1.5 years due t
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by ido 2y ago
Have you ever been to India? I have, and have also visited the bad part of downtown San Francisco many times. Homelessness in major Indian cities is on a whole different scale - I remember taking a taxi ride through New Delhi at night, on s
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by ido 2y ago
> Non-fungible goods: alcohol, cigarettes and coffee. Aren’t all of these fungible?
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by ido 2y ago
What do either of these comments have to do with Seattle?
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by ido 2y ago
You were definitely a very early adopter if you had broadband in 1994. It wasn’t until the late 90s that most people started switching away from dialup.
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by ido 2y ago
There's loads of alcoholism in Germany and Austria, but its generally frowned upon to get drunk at work (or at work events).
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by ido 2y ago
I’m curious - are you American? I’ve had some former coworkers (non-Americans) who used to work in San Francisco and it sounded like they encountered a culture of drinking at work that I’ve never seen in Germany or Austria. I remember one s
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by ido 2y ago
You’re not but it already reduces the sample size by a lot. There is no 100% effective way to detect liars. I’ve been a hiring manager in multiple companies (including currently) and fortunately for me they were so far rare (maybe because G
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by ido 2y ago
I believe it’s matter/anti-matter reaction that provides the energy and the dilithium simply regulates the process.
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by ido 2y ago
Definitely not 2Mhz, maybe 20 or 25Mhz? 33mhz was also common in that time frame. Even the original PC from 1981 ran at 4.77mhz.
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by ido 2y ago
My experience with 3.5” diskettes was too that they were unreliable- however the older 5.25” ones seemed a lot more durable. I suspect it has to do with the fact that by the end of their market-life 3.5” had to be made super cheap as nobody
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by ido 2y ago
A PC in 1987 was more likely to have max 640kb of RAM, the "AT compatibles" (286 or better) were expensive still. We had an XT clone (by the company that later rebranded at Acer) bought in 1987 with 512kb RAM.
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by ido 2y ago
You can use GitHub actions to build to mac (and I assume iOS as well).
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by ido 2y ago
there is nowhere you can self-promote stuff if you do not have social media Isn't the solution (I know it's not that easy) to have social media?
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by ido 2y ago
Is 40 an unusually young age to become CTO? I’m pretty sure most CTOs I worked under took the position first around that age or younger.
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by ido 2y ago
AP news?
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by ido 2y ago
These rules exist in conservatives religious countries, like some of the more fundamentalist muslim countries.
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by ido 2y ago
Department of Transport? Surely the DoD (the ones supervising actual murder) are at the top.
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by ido 2y ago
How much of that due to sms historically being free in the US but cost per-message elsewhere?
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by ido 2y ago
I’m not imposing anything, I’m suggesting you’re (probably) suffering from a specific shitty healthcare system rather than your implied conclusion that universal health care systems are inherently shitty . In fact I immigrated to Germany
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by ido 2y ago
I live in Germany, and had cancer, and my experience with the public health system is completely different from yours. I got prompt treatment and asked for second and third opinions (which I also got at short notice, from different doctors
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by ido 2y ago
Yeah I agree we actually agree! Another complicating factor is that there’s a significant subjective component to it - I have an acquaintance that works at Cyan (after growing up with Myst and Riven) and is extremely happy working on their
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by ido 2y ago
They did make new games tho, most recently Obduction and Firmament (the latter released in 2023). I think their style of games just fell off the zeitgeist. Anyway I do empathise - my favorite games are fallout and fallout 2 and I was lookin
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by ido 2y ago
The sad truth is that capturing lightning in a bottle is exceedingly rare, let alone twice or more. Cyan made at least 2 massive hits, which is 2 more than almost all game studios manage. Even their contemporaries Id Software didn't ma
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by ido 2y ago
Cyan are still around and still making games[0]! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan_Worlds#Games_developed
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by ido 2y ago
Aren't all these things ± still what's considered bad in 2024?
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by ido 2y ago
This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say as a European how crazy it is to keep finding out the US is so large that even some third-tier city I ± never heard of is big enough to have a downtown full of outright skyscrapers[0]! It reminds
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by ido 2y ago
That 99% guess seems high considering calculus is generally a required subject when studying computer science (or software engineering) at most universities I know of.
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by ido 2y ago
True, as is explicitly mentioned in the article.

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