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by lucumo 4y ago
Not entirely the same situation, but when companies have full salary transparency (i.e. the salaries of all are known to all), then there will be fewer outliers. So, there are fewer "underpaid" people, but also fewer "overpai
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by lucumo 4y ago
Unlikely. Phone support was one of those things that was driving people insane before. Remember jokes about hold music, foreign accents and phone menus? I personally can't stand phone support. It always takes way longer than it needs t
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by lucumo 4y ago
Bit of an underwhelming answer to a headline question. You'd think there were some deeper insight. Is that really the most interesting tidbit the headline writer could tease from the article?
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Happens to me once in a while on the Macbook. It doesn't happen as often as it used to with Linux laptops a decade ago, but it still happens every few weeks. I'm still not sure if I prefer large touchpads or smaller ones because o
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by lucumo 4y ago
The good code will be changed after it has ceased to be good code too. And bad code can become good code in the process of changing it. There is nothing that makes good code more or less likely to change than bad code.
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It's really not. Software solves business problems. Code that meets its requirements needs to be left alone. Developers just changing code because they feel like it need some coaching. They're wasting everybody's time for rea
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by lucumo 4y ago
> The sad thing is we may loose the history that came from dejanews, I'm actually quite happy with that. I was on Usenet as an imprudent teenager. I'm sure there's stuff I posted that I don't want associated with me n
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by lucumo 4y ago
I live in The Netherlands. I'm called approximately 3 times a week by numbers I don't recognize. Recruiters, telemarketeers and scams. All alike. I've just stopped answering numbers I don't recognize, because it's p
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by lucumo 4y ago
One thing you learn from reading many books, even at 2x, is that many people prefer lots of things differently, and that that works well for them. If listening at 2x is not your thing, I suggest you find another way to learn that lesson. Ba
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> software engineering's tendency to create systems that require constant active upkeep Nearly everything requires active upkeep, especially if it interacts with a changing environment. Software is no exception there.
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This is not really surprising to locals. The joke was always that if your bike is stolen when you get back, you'd just steal another one and keep the circulation going. During the 90s the stories were about heroin junkies selling bikes
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I had to look up what a kill fee is. From https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-a-kill-fee-1360477 : > A kill fee is a payment on a magazine or newspaper article that a publisher makes to a freelance writer when their assign
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by lucumo 4y ago
Every year I'm surprised at how badly maintained both ULB and Brussels as a whole is. Everything is filthy, vandalized and broken. Is it like that everywhere in Belgium? Or is just Brussels?
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by lucumo 4y ago
There's a book in Dutch literature, The Assault by Harry Mulisch. It's a great read if you're interested in multi-faceted morality. It deals with guilt and responsibility when there's a chain of things that need to happe
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by lucumo 4y ago
Oh god. I recently landed on a Docker issue that exactly described my problem. Many reproductions, all questions answered and then maintainers stopped engaging. So the stale issue bot took over. Somebody untagged it, but a while later it re
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Torx is what you find on most fasteners that aren't Phipps or slotted. Torx is also FAR better than Pozidriv. Pz cams out very easily. Once Tx is slotted properly it just won't slip. I'm very happy that Torx is getting m
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by lucumo 4y ago
I used to create my resume in LaTeX. Very over-engineered and a lot of work to make. And not even that easy to update. Over the years I moved on to a simple Word document that I just copy-and-edit when I search for something new. Far less e
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> Did you read it? Obviously I did, or I wouldn't have said what I said. I think that quote fits "a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends" pretty well. It's pretty dumb to select some trends
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by lucumo 4y ago
You should read past the headline. The article contains more quotes you can use! It's also a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends. But not an evil plot to change the world into her utopia.
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The speaker agrees with you: https://twitter.com/NitaFarahany/status/1616461568509710337 > 1) I advocate a right to #cognitiveliberty over our brains and mental experiences
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> Ooooh "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories"... also often (but not always!) known as "spoiler warnings" Yes, by people with an agenda of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. > The sour
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> "You will own nothing and you will be happy." This is not a goal and not a plan. It was a prediction, a possible scenario of where we could be headed. An extrapolation of current trends. Using the full quote would make it far
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by lucumo 4y ago
Could simply be false or misleading reporting. LifeSite doesn't seem to be a very reliable news site. According to Wikipedia: > LifeSiteNews (or simply LifeSite) is a Canadian Catholic conservative anti-abortion advocacy website and
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Good call. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSiteNews : > LifeSiteNews (or simply LifeSite) is a Canadian Catholic conservative anti-abortion advocacy website and news publication. LifeSiteNews has pub
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> This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter where you are on earth, even with the poorest of educational systems, we could know what you naturally 'master' with this tech. That means know
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> Also the metric system is European in origin. As is quite a lot of American culture. Lots of good European ideas got improved on by America. Do one more ;-)
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Wouldn't a password prompt before sending the message effectively put an end to that as well?
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> On desktop, you use pin, type code, then scan. I find the flow quite smooth. I find the constant back and forth between devices annoying. 2FA is already annoying because you have to switch from desktop to mobile and back, but that can&
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> That's a bad comparison, as you're comparing a full authentication process against just one step: with Office 365 (and SMS verification for DigiD) you additionally need to provide a username and password, which you don't
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I find the DigiD app to be one of the most annoying implementations of 2FA out there. You have to unlock the app with a pin code, then enter an app-generated code on the site, then scan a QR with the app, and then grant permission to login

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