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by jakub_g 6y ago
Not sure why this marked as dupe. The previous link was from 3 days ago and was a short Twitter message. Today's link is a full NYTimes article full of information.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Must-have extension to use before printing anything: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aardvark-duex... (based on https://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/ which is a bookmarklet
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by jakub_g 6y ago
See also a photostory of same author from Fukushima: https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima/
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Just a few months ago, Beirut port blew up after a series of events that started with an abandoned ship. The way the world's maritime shipping system works is really screwed up. https://www.stableseas.org/blue-economy&#
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Thx for the reply. It's always difficult to evaluate things from the outside without having full context. Re: housing + medical costs, yep, the quick math says that unless things go really terribly wrong, in a few years one should buil
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I exaggerated in my post, but the general difference is: in US to access high paying jobs, you can either live in city centres where rent is sky high, or suburbs which are very car-centric. This is not compelling to many Europeans. I might
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Brilliant advice, favorited. Thanks for writing that.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Since it got points, it means other missed it too :) No worries.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
1) In Europe you don't get unexpected medical bills for tens/hundreds thousands of dollars when you have some medical issue. 2) Your kids won't get shot in the school. 3) You don't have to drive 20 minutes to the closest
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This was already on HN yesterday (108 points, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889281
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Talking mission critical software on Windows, I encountered two bugs in mspaint lately: 1) when resizing an image in >100% zoom from edge of the screen, it would cut more pixels than you tried to cut (although I don't repro anymore,
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Dev in France, sounds very familiar, except the force-quit bit. As a fresh graduate in bigcorp world, especially foreigner who doesn't know on arrival how this works: You get hired by SSII (Société de services et d'ingénierie en i
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Also skipping your manager and going straight to VPs when you're a new employee sounds like a risky move in many places.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
0) Google, FB and other bigtech are extremely competitive, they get 100s of resumes per each opening. Without strong referral / top college graduation / significant exp (AND great interviewing skills) it's like lottery ticket
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Yep pharmacies are everywhere in FR just behind a corner (as well as immobiliers ). I was in shock when I went to Amsterdam and after walking around for half an hour didn't come across any and had to look up on Google Maps. Unlike oth
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by jakub_g 6y ago
> the most French of French foods is a ham and butter sandwich on white bread with nothing else on it 100% correct. It's not even any fancy bread with grains etc like you'd get in most of EU; just a poor piece of (often so-so)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Often they are cheap because airlines open their bases in exotic places and the regional local govs, who invested heavily in an airport as part of muscle flexing, subsidize the carriers to avoid having a ghost airport. Modus operandi or Rya
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by jakub_g 6y ago
It highly depends on manufacturer and phone settings. Some manufacturers have very aggressive battery optimizations by default to claim "look how awesome our battery life is!"
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by jakub_g 6y ago
AFAIU each Android manufacturer has their own ad-hoc battery optimizations and opts-in most apps to it by default and users need to opt out. It's a wild west. I think stuff might work for a while when screen is off but if the phone lie
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Signal has a mega-FAQ article on troubleshooting notifications per Android version and vendor: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318711-Tr...
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by jakub_g 6y ago
It's 2021 and I'm in Europe, and I still use missed calls for calling my family abroad. Typically goes like this: - I call them on Whatsapp, but their Android phone is sleeping so they don't receive the call notif on Whatsapp
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This. It's also really difficult to build a mastery of things when you're constantly moving from one piece of code to another according to shifting priorities. And once you build mastery of $fwk/$lib/$tool, it's dep
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Windows user, still using hibernation. My corpo-Dell has abysmal battery and I definitely don't want to not-hibernate it, nor restart all programs, browsers, terminals etc each time. It works mostly well. Once every few years I come a
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I remember ATI Catalyst Control Center (GPU settings panel) infamously binding Alt+Ctrl+C systemwide to launch itself. So when you wanted to type 'ć' in any program in Windows, it would not work, and launch CCC instead. Luckily th
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by jakub_g 6y ago
My favorite recent WTF: On French keyboard, the numbers 0-9 and special chars (#$&@...) are swapped, so you need "shift+<num>" to type in a number. Effect on the web compat: A phone number validator on French lowcost rai
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Have the same in $current_job and yeah it's annoying to come up with something that makes sense, is measurable and attainable but not too easy etc. Part of the goals exercise is not the goals in themselves but to let you reflect "
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by jakub_g 6y ago
TIL, thanks!
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Hmm never experienced that. Do you have some PWAs installed by any chance? I know that Opera does stuff like that (some "speed launcher") though.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
BTW: new cold connection latency over HTTPS is brutal, takes 4 RTT. Over high-latency connection, it can take much longer than server download time of the resource. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/
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by jakub_g 6y ago
What I mean is: when you have n>1 windows, and close one of them, it's a non-event (unless it was last window / last incognito window). You can even revive the closed tab/window (in Firefox even an incognito tab). By def

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