kace91

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by kace91 5y ago
Hats used to be protection. Either actual protection in old times (helmets) or protection of your identity as some can cover you. In old times, at least in Europe, discovering yourself was therefore a sign of respect, as it meant voluntari
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by kace91 5y ago
Given that he has the name of the album tattooed on his chest, and he agreed to remake the picture as an adult 6 years ago (even offering to be naked, which the photographer rejected) I'm gonna say this is just an attempt to cash in.
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by kace91 5y ago
I use it almost as a newsfeed for things like small artists I like releasing new albums. News that I wouldn't get otherwise. It's really not a social network I think. Communication is not really different to YouTube comment feeds,
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by kace91 5y ago
>I expect the eastern Turkish borders to become a mass migration flashpoint, with possible EU investments, too. That's been the EU's dirty laundry for years already. Plenty of groups here complain about it.
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by kace91 5y ago
Just semi related: I find it curious that 3 out of the 4 universities have the same percentage of minority students (12%). Is this figure a coincidence, or is it the result of some specific policy? ( I'm not American so I lack the cont
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by kace91 5y ago
I actually live in Europe, so cars aren't my problem, as I already use public transportation. My commute is caused by the stupidly high rents in any area close to the center of my city - which hopefully is another problem that can be p
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by kace91 5y ago
My case is pretty much the opposite. Remote work has given me almost two more hours of life a day (that I'd otherwise spend commuting), it made me realize how sleep deprived I used to be, and substantially improved my health - through
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by kace91 5y ago
>Baaackkk iiin myyy dayyyyy APIs were not nearly as common as they are now. This is due to the explosion in the popularity of Single Page Applications (SPAs). 10 years ago, web applications tended to follow a pattern where most of the ap
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by kace91 5y ago
On iOS you've got link previews on long press which might be similar to what your looking for. There's probably a way to do it on osx as well. That wouldn't solve my problem though, for me tabs are a way to queue other paths
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by kace91 5y ago
The reason I'm here and not in twitter is precisely because I don't want to be fed _everything_ in shallow bursts of content. Yes, engaging the audience is important, but we've come to a point where people can't keep the
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by kace91 5y ago
In my experience (not American, so your experience might vary) it's usually tied to toxic masculinity. Being the one who provides information, rather than the one who's corrected, has implications for some people in terms of ego
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by kace91 5y ago
Covid made me unable to smell body odor. I smell _something_, but it's very clearly not the same odors and it's completely flat - I can't tell the odor of different people apart for example, or tell apart the smell of a gym d
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by kace91 5y ago
I’m always surprised by how practically every single opinion regarding personal communication is the opposite in hacker news to the mainstream opinion of my “real life” circles. Use of social networks, slack, emojis, messaging apps, sync vs
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by kace91 5y ago
Wait, were those not universal? I’m from Spain and I remember those transaction books from my childhood (I was born in 1991). By the time I was old enough to get my first debit card they were long gone though.
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by kace91 5y ago
I can only see a two minute long highlights video by eurosport. Perhaps I’m really bad at searching, could you share a link? I’m not in the uk, but I’m in Spain, and it was mentioned that the sellout was europe-wide.
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by kace91 5y ago
Is this why I can't find the opening ceremony on YouTube? I've tried searching for a couple of days and couldn't find anything, just found some 5minute long summaries. I've stopped caring, I'm always curious to see
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by kace91 5y ago
It's hard to imagine an evaluation system that doesn't lead to the arms race, when there's a lot of competition for comparatively scarce positions. What's your idea?
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by kace91 5y ago
> but it's definitely not state of art nowadays. What would the better version be? I can only think of chronological order (the most active/noisy wins) or any kind of engagement metric like number of retweets/hearts/f
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by kace91 5y ago
I'm a western European programmer and my experience has been vastly different to yours. Of the 4 companies I've worked at, in 3 of them code reviews were there from the very start and the whole team engaged on them, reviewing and
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by kace91 5y ago
Perhaps it's a bit off topic, but do you mind sharing some recommendations? I'm always in the lookup for new stuff, but the one thing I think has become worse for me is finding sources of recommendations. The age of old forums is
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by kace91 5y ago
I get your point, but (also with a harsh perspective) the point isn't really to create engineers and doctors from the downtrodden. The point is that even if you get those kids even 10% of the way of others, that might be what buys you
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by kace91 5y ago
Yup, now that you mention it, aging strawberries is a nice description. Funny that it's universal. I wonder if we have special "wiring" for enhancing human-produced smells? Kinda like how the brain is capable of distinguishin
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by kace91 5y ago
>(sidebar: best name ever for a banker) That title belongs to Emilio Botín, who used to lead Spain’s largest bank and hid several hundred millions in a secret account in a Swiss bank. Botín is spanish for pirate booty :)
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by kace91 5y ago
I think numbers might lie a bit there. If the function of education is to provide an even starting point for kids regardless of their personal environment, it stands to reason that in places where those personal environments are worse you&#
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by kace91 5y ago
Don't lose hope. I got in October, similar effects, and I've been recovering a lot of my smell and taste, veery slowly and in "bursts". Nowadays I'm almost fully ok, the only smells I haven't recovered are body
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by kace91 5y ago
Honestly, I think viewing it as an exclusive choice is harmful. Schools need resources for both kinds of students, and if they have to choose who gets the attention they are simply underfunded.
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by kace91 5y ago
I think it has to do with culture, but not in the way you suggest. Up until the mid seventies, Spain suffered a dictatorship that followed a bloody civil war. That means that for decades society had very little social mobility and a lot of
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by kace91 5y ago
There is a subset of Spanish companies where this doesn't happen and it's actually frowned upon. But it's a specific network of (successful) companies, And you've got to know where to apply - if you choose a company at r
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by kace91 5y ago
>Those engineers are often selected at interview by posing them a coding challenge, but have you ever heard of candidates for a software engineering post being selected by or for their ability to document their code? This was part of the
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by kace91 5y ago
I don't think it's that bad. Being the chosen one is harder, but making connections is way easier. I am part of the generation that went through the change and saw both "systems", and I personally much prefer the current

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