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by marc_abonce 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote (Mexico, UTC-6) Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc-abonce @ mailb
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I wouldn't consider a GitHub full of "tutorial apps" as a red flag because it's very easy to underestimate the work behind a project when looking at it from an outsider's perspective. This is especially true for cod
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
> A Collection of Unusual Pedantry [...] ACoUP Tangential comment but only after reading your post I realised that acoup is an acronym for the blog's full name. All this time I thought it was "a coup" (like a coup d&#x27
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
> The company is still standing and seems to be doing well financially, so I guess things turned out well enough, or maybe some of the technical decisions started trending more reasonable. Perhaps I've been lucky or I haven't b
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Tangential comment, about this "background check" tools that the article briefly mentions: > Latin America, where labor laws are less strictly enforced [...] > in Mexico, provides identity verification tools that do various
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I assume that they mean that an LLM is better at translating than a high-rotation, contracted (i.e. not employed, no benefits, no stability) team of MTurk-like translators who are paid cents per translated token, are given little to no cont
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The random kid that compiled the LineageOS version that runs in my phone. I still don't understand why is making LineageOS compatible with more phone models so hard compared to Linux distros in desktop, so I really appreciate all the w
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Despite the title, I found most of the advice to be just as useful to me from the other side of the pond. In particular something that I've been struggling with, that I didn't know how to phrase before, is this idea of simultaneou
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
For anyone else wondering: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root#Usage_notes
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Unlike the parent post, I don't think that Wikipedia will end soon. However, Wikipedia has definitely handicapped itself for the sake of submitting to the the law in the last couple of years. Specifically, this has been the case with t
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
It's worth mentioning that earlier this year the Vatican published a far longer document about AI. It's a very long read, but it's actually very interesting and worth reading. Antiqua et Nova. Note on the Relationship Between
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Just to clarify, the article is from 2015, but the actual movie is from 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
> people do not have the time to deeply research this topic. [...] There are some people on YT who talk about this stuff [linguistics/pedagogy] That's true, but the opposite extreme can be even worse. In YouTube and Reddit I se
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
This reminds me of a related quote from Ursula K. Le Guin: "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil int
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I faced the same issue with locations inside Crimea and Kashmir. The Google Places API wouldn't return a country code for those regions. At the time I couldn't find any documentation from Google specifying which inhabited location
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The LinkedIn feed would actually be very useful if it only showed my contact's milestones such as job updates, their own product/service launches and events like conferences or conventions that involve them. Of course, such a feed
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
For some cathedrals that visible mismatch in the materials might be a feature, not a bug. At least that's the case for the co-cathedral in Zamora, Michoacán which had its construction interrupted for almost a century due to the Mexican
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
That's pretty much what futurist Luigi Russolo predicted back in the 1910's: > This musical evolution is paralleled by the multipication of machines, which collaborate with man on every front. Not only in the roaring atmosphere
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I found it interesting to notice that a couple of politicians made it to the list, all 3 of them from Pirate parties it seems. But I think one of these entries needs to be updated, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fel
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I always use trash-cli and alias rm to 'echo NO! #'. Only if the file is too big to fit into the garbage bin, I can unalias rm, rm the thing and then reset the alias immediately after.
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> When do you think chickens started to be reared for meat? Since you aren't answering your own question, this is what I could find: "A find in Israel shows evidence of chicken consumption from as early as 400 B.C.E." [1]
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I don't know if there's any benefit for the end user, but I think it helps with the reliability of the Tor network because onion sites are accessed by normal Tor nodes, not exit nodes[1]. This means that if you access the onion ve
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Kind of, it depends. In my experience so far, Reddit blocks Tor nodes about 20% of the times or so. More specifically, it seems to return a 429, probably because someone tried to abuse Reddit from the same node and Reddit banned the IP. In
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Apparently the minimum karma to downvote is 501: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... I recently got to 300 and I saw no change in the UI.
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Me too, but I was able to access the article through the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250219202428/https://cloud.goo...
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I just want to add a potential gotcha that bit me in the past: At least with curl (or any library that uses curl under the hood) you have to be very careful to specify the scheme as socks5h:// with a letter h at the end, not just
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> You've probably heard Rachael’s voice. Her effusive reaction on a stacking YouTube video meant for her small group of friends is behind the iconic "YES, OH MY GOSH!" scream, sampled in one of EDM's most mainstream h
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I assume that they mean that the identity of the people running the Tor relays can be known. For example, if you run a relay from your own physical server, then your ISP knows who pays for that static IP. If you run it from a VPS or cloud,

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