jlarocco

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by jlarocco 3y ago
That sounds fair to me. On the other hand, pre-COVID I quit a job and took a pay cut to get a fully remote one, so it's a trade-off I'd personally be willing to make.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
If they were the "tiniest bit decent" they wouldn't be ransoming exfiltrated data.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Does that matter, though? The message I get is that Okta isn't good with security, and they're not good at choosing vendors who are good with security.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
NetFlix, Hulu, and HBO aren't trying to spy on everything I do online, and there's no evidence that paying for YouTube stops Google from doing that.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I think that's what I don't like about it, also. It seems like it gives me recommendations too similar to what I'm already listening to.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
That hasn't helped any. I have almost 1100 liked songs, several dozen liked albums, and several years of near daily listening. The recommendations are still less good (for me) than what YouTube recommended without an account, just ba
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by jlarocco 3y ago
There's a ton of stuff like this, where the original artist isn't on Spotify, but these "covers" are: https://open.spotify.com/track/6t6VE10ixs4wyyIgAbJzvz https://open.spotify.com/a
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by jlarocco 3y ago
That's interesting - I usually don't like Spotify's recommendations. Youtube was much better at that IMO, but I've tried to stop using it due to the Google connection. I don't really know where Bandcamp stands - I&#
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Depends on the situation. My current job is primarily using a new-to-me language (C#) on a platform I hadn't used in 10 years (Windows), and though I have some buyers remorse (Windows is still terrible), everybody was on the same page
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but not everybody is bothered by that. Most languages popular nowadays (C#, Javascript/Typescrip
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Do people really facetime their therapist? Why not Facetime?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I've always said the same thing about Ubuntu. At the end of the day, it's just how they decided to do it.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I could be missing the gist here, but don't StumpWM, EXWM, and possibly others do this?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Looking at it from the otherside, what incentive is there for them to pay teams developers to build Unreal Engine, and then let you use the technology for free and get nothing when your product takes off? By all means, if you don't lik
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Meh. People knew when they bought in that the platforms were closed. If they wanted "open platforms" they should've bought PC games.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I know this is personal preference, but in the past 10 years I've used Google Chat, HipChat, Slack, and Teams, at 3 different companies, and I honestly feel they're all "good enough" to collaborate and get work done. No
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by jlarocco 3y ago
The workers are not always there. A lot of resort companies, like Vail Resorts, will bring in H2B and J1 visa workers [0] and put them up in employee housing for the winter. They could hire plenty of US workers if they'd pay enough, b
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by jlarocco 3y ago
How do people even come up with claims like these? Any evidence besides you just decided it?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Development in VB6 was basically dragging and dropping controls onto a window or dialog box, setting properties on them, and then filling in snippets of code to tie things together. And "control" here means anything from simple la
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I still miss the original Opera browser. It was lightweight and fast, but still managed to have a built-in mail client, RSS reader, and IRC client. All with a consistent and clean UI that treated the user like an adult. Maybe I'm just
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by jlarocco 3y ago
FWIW a lot (most?, all?) of Emacs features work transparently with Tramp, including dired, eshell, and magit.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Among other reasons: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/15/hold-ive-lost-count... It's also just shitty to mandate a middle-man for transactions.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
How to ride a motorcycle.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
That's BS. Intel needs spyware to know people are visiting YouTube? Give me a break.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
First of all, I don't know that would happen - it looks like the maintainers are open to the patches. And second, it's still not wasted effort if you get the fix that you need.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
And??? Sometimes a bug just doesn't have the same importance to the maintainers as it does to you. If it's that important, fix it yourself.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
It seems pretty optimistic to say it's "stabilized over the past decade". If I'm reading correctly, between 2011 and 2021 (the last year in the graph) there was an increase of 5 billion tons, and that was certainly helpe
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I was just telling a co-worker literally yesterday that a few years of Slackware was the single most effective thing I did to learn Linux well. I ran it on my desktop and an old (old in the early 2000s!) laptop with 32 MB of RAM, and learne
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by jlarocco 3y ago
It's not too weird... If it offers up "dallas" for "dal", but the user keeps typing, then it's reasonable to assume "dallas" wasn't what they were looking for, or they'd have picked it after
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Walking across the street is a risk. Should I be required to discuss it with my doctor first? If you're concerned, you can talk to your doctor first. No need for everybody to live their lives by your whims.

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