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by jlg23 4y ago
> Its not fair to mess with people's livings... Given that this is the status quo, employees should adopt the same attitude. When working for an ethical employer, I'll work 48h/day if the situation requires it, but for ev
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by jlg23 4y ago
I sincerely hope so because I get the pain a lot of Dutch people felt: Even as a liberal drug policy activist (formerly on EU level) I despised the smoking tourism: People not knowing their dose who will randomly fall in front of your bicyc
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by jlg23 4y ago
> not buy bottled water if it can be avoided. That goes against every advice I've ever heard for traveling developing countries. It's usually "yes, even for brushing your teeth, use bottled water!".
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by jlg23 4y ago
Some experienced, well trained, 1st world developer is not satisfied with $300 for 5 minutes of his oh-so-superior work on FOSS software? Please excuse me, while I try to parse your statement in some nice way...
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by jlg23 4y ago
Thanks, I think I finally understand why some friends of mine, who can implement this for any company in half a day, take $2000/day...
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by jlg23 4y ago
What worked for me: A radical "no", paired with a pre-paid IT service for parents. My mother now has a trusted guy in her town who'll fix up her IT devices twice a year instead of a son sitting a few thousand miles away and I
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by jlg23 4y ago
> The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close to a million per year. That's a big commitment to run anything and hi
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by jlg23 4y ago
Being fed up with people asking to use my laptop (some 20 years ago), I cleaned its keyboard and put the caps back on at random. "Yes, of course you can use it, here you are! Oh, sorry, I forgot the keyboard..." Peace and undistur
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by jlg23 4y ago
> pretend that any misuse was entirely separate to you is at best naive. No, it is naive to pretend facial recognition is worth anything when creating tools to defeat it is a mere academic exercise in reading papers and implementing alg
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Idk where this idea of repairability = good for the environment came from. > You’ll be hard pressed to find a laptop that is built with more recycled material than a MacBook. How is swapping one part built with "recycled mater
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by jlg23 4y ago
I bought my first Garmin device more than 20 years ago and already back then they were the go-to source for consumer handheld GPS location/mapping devices.
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by jlg23 4y ago
Is there any branch of engineering where "a couple days of not worrying" does not have the potential to be "lead to a spiral that quickly gets out of control"?
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by jlg23 4y ago
How you use or abuse that freedom is entirely your choice.
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by jlg23 4y ago
I smell a fellow survivor of the industry...
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by jlg23 4y ago
Have someone from accounting/legal work at least 50% in bizdev; don't let them talk to engineering until they have sorted out what they want and, much more important, whether it is legal.. But equally important is to cut back en
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by jlg23 4y ago
I've implemented a few billing systems and "the nightmares" were never related toengineering but always to specification: If bizdev does not know what they want, no outsourced imlementation will be able to help them.
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by jlg23 4y ago
So that kids can grow up and find role models (or just heros to identify with) of any gender, skin color or body image. No more "oh, really?" when a woman is introduced as a scientist, fire fighter, pilot or as working in any othe
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by jlg23 5y ago
If that app had a "support" link on every page that would pop up a form, pre-filled with recognizably sane defaults that provide the context of the support request, I'd wonder about that user to. If I had to hunt down "s
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by jlg23 5y ago
> This, in a very healthy way, runs counter to "updating software for no good reason," which of course is the cause of pretty much all the e-waste. You lost me there. Most "e-waste" is, IMHO, produced by inefficient s
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by jlg23 5y ago
Rear wheel in, lock through wheel and frame.
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by jlg23 5y ago
How does this lock to actual bike stands found in a lot of cities (at least in Europe)? Most provide a frame for a tire but no central metal bar this bike could be locked to. Examples: * http://c.tutti.ch/big/4724274679
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by jlg23 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer! Unfortunately FB is free on the major mobile operators and thus basically mandatory for communication, so my phone calls "home to Zuck" regularly anyways :/
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by jlg23 5y ago
> Earth observation satellites produce an even larger amount of data. Do they? I don't know and I am really curious: Do you have any source for this? > It is stored forever in publicly accessible places (a large amount of it, fo
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by jlg23 5y ago
Is there any other field that relies on multiple huge arrays of sensors, distributed around the world, that generate huge amounts of data non-stop? Data that is not only fed into processing pipelines but needs to be explored? Meteorology ma
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by jlg23 5y ago
HERE WeGo[0] works remarkably well here in the north of Africa, much better than google maps or TomTom. [0] https://wego.here.com/
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by jlg23 5y ago
> if you want more a "dumb" car (UX occurs primarily outside of a touchscreen, no internet, no geolocation) you lose all potential for any nice non-smart features. So no heated/powered seats, no power windows, You can hav
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by jlg23 5y ago
Where does the "100% purely functional" requirement come from? By some strict definition, this is impossible, because you'd not have any means of communicating the result of your computation. In pure OOP speak: A "final
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by jlg23 5y ago
Functional programmers argue that pure functions are easier to reason about than functions that drag in state (like methods in OOP tend to).
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by jlg23 5y ago
> If you keep a decent sleeping schedule The natural shift of the sleep cycle towards later hours during puberty is exactly the topic. I would consider myself to be the textbook example: zombiesque in school until 10am, now, 25 years lat
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by jlg23 5y ago
Before FOSS contributions looked good on résumés, people just solved problems and made their solutions freely available so others would not have to solve the same problem again. Once in a while you'd receive an email thanking you for t

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