mbeex

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by mbeex 4y ago
> Wireless headsets are something I understand because I'm someone who never wants to go back to wired headsets. That's also true for me. Ultimately, I think it's a matter of using good judgment. All my major devices - eve
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by mbeex 4y ago
It hasn't to be the 'best' work. The actual value comes from the conversation.
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by mbeex 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by mbeex 4y ago
I think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _thing
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by mbeex 5y ago
This is not a binary "the people who don't want" / "the people who do". The old Google was able to do an exact search using Boolean expressions. Man, I miss that all the time.... It's not rocket science to
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by mbeex 5y ago
But he also mentioned in one of his popular books about his own experiments in this regard that he stopped playing with these things because he considered the health of his brain too valuable for that.
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by mbeex 5y ago
An example of digital dementia in my opinion. Just test which list entries you still remember after two hours (or in many cases, after 10 minutes)
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by mbeex 5y ago
I'm using "Zoo for Zotero". Works for me as a more or less r/o synchronizer. My data are webdav-accessible hosted.
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by mbeex 5y ago
Will this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-for... work?
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by mbeex 5y ago
> It’s well-known among developer tools creators, for example, that integrating with GitHub and GitLab will help make your tool much more useful and appealing. Certainly not for me personally, nor for the 10 or so companies I've wor
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by mbeex 5y ago
Sometimes a cigar Is just a cigar. I'm a mathematician, I love numbers. But believe me, many do not. And even in a considerably insistent way, they define themselves literally about it.
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by mbeex 5y ago
> So I type single quotes and let black do its thing on save. It is the one small grip, I have with black. C&P for example some string-indexed dict element as argument into a f-string sometimes produces duplicate double quotes if it
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by mbeex 5y ago
As a mathematician by training - even with a now almost full career in professional software development - it's simply one of the handful of levels of abstraction I like to switch between. Much more concise then than usual code. I did
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by mbeex 5y ago
Indeed it is (slight improvements not excluded). I would love to be able to write things like M<sup>T</sup>A (w/o the HTML rubbish seen here - flavour of the same problem) for two matrices directly as code (can Julia d
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by mbeex 5y ago
> Though I think the biggest benefit of JSON is that it is so simple Still, I wish there was an option to insert comments.
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by mbeex 5y ago
To me, this is simply a rant against technical qualification - more bluntly, an excuse of the own inproficiency. Something whose significant increase as a trait of software development in this age is in my opinion undeniable. And this is
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by mbeex 5y ago
> low-context I understand where you're coming from, a lot of freelance work these days is just code grinding for a short or maybe longer period of time. My projects are not of this type. Most of the time they are a mixture of speci
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by mbeex 5y ago
I was there when Agile was invented. In my opinion, Scrum has always been the worst embodiment of a good idea. In terms of content, teams of experienced developers have always worked in the spirit of Agile (of course there are exceptions).
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by mbeex 5y ago
It depends. The general shortage implied a relatively high average level of knowledge. I grew up in Eastern Germany. At the time I started my studies, the country routinely created clones of the early 8086 PC. As a common user, you got a ma
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by mbeex 5y ago
I like this kind of meandering.
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by mbeex 5y ago
A little gem of language history. Quite interesting, even for me as a German who already knew a few things about it.
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by mbeex 5y ago
You should probably re-read the quote I was referring to.
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by mbeex 5y ago
> Am I alone in not jumping on the Visual Studio [Code] These are at least 3 different questions: 1) Why should I use VS Code in general? 2) Why should I use VS Code online? (the articles topic) 3) Why should I use VS? The answers might
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by mbeex 5y ago
> and have more than one customer long-term. This is rather a counter criterion. Government finally found out several years ago, that there is a new non-significant class of well-earning people - IT contractors - that can be legally milk
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by mbeex 5y ago
The same in Germany. The people can be easily classified as bogus self-employed (scheinselbststaendig). The company would have to pay social security contributions retroactively up to 4 years. Furthermore, the 'contractors' could
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by mbeex 5y ago
Proof? https://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/umwelt/infosysteme/ida/q/eg
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by mbeex 5y ago
Same here, not looking back.
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by mbeex 5y ago
In Germany you can find both variants. My local market switched from refrigerated to non-refrigerated a year ago. Personally I (and probably most people?) have them in the fridge.
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by mbeex 5y ago
Some time ago, I - a seasoned C++ and Python developer - became part of a team, redesigning build and deployment aspects of a complete embedded code landscape, embracing a lot of developmental activities, projects, whole product lines etc..
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by mbeex 5y ago
Buyed the real thing from his site ( https://www.kleinbottle.com/ as mentioned) 1.5 years ago. Much more to enjoy there anyway. Thanks Cliff & Greetings from Germany

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