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by mdekkers 3y ago
> This tiny detail makes the difference why employer-mandated drug tests are not a thing in Germany like it is in the US. Not really. The business of employer-mandated drug testing in the EU is generally tricky, and employees enjoy wide
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Many years ago, I was sent in to, incidentally, a major car-parts reseller - almost all car parts in the EU and UK pass through this firm. This was a family business, dad had built the business, retired, and the kids were running the place.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> French intelligence What a great idea!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
My work headset is DECT, I always buy callcenter-grade headsets. DECT allows me to wander around the house as much as I like or need to during calls - kitchen, bathroom, balcony, whatever - with high fidelity audio. Bluetooth and other wire
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Autosave is table stakes for good editors
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I love when <works ridiculous hours> is presented as some kind of flex. It isn’t. It is a reliable indicator of chronic mismanagement, not only of their own time, but of the time and capability of everyone else around them. Guaranteed
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation". They can also look at the market and Adobe and go “yeah, they have no alternatives, everyone is a subscriber now”
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Yeah, that one. Where those people then go on with their stupid, petty, political infighting and senseless scheming thereby nearly bringing about the end of human species anyway. You’ve clearly read the book, I am curious what would drive y
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Have you seen how much they all bend over backwards for China?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I look forward to an EU wide ban on smartphones in all schools, and hopefully a more general prohibition on kids having them at all. Yeah, absolutely!! Prohibition on all manner of vices has such an excellent track record!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Why do you assume we distroy ourselves? Seveneves, by Neil Stephenson, discusses the human penchant for self-destruction much better then I can in an HN comment, it is worth a read. In short, though, we cannot, unfortunately, escape ou
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by mdekkers 3y ago
If you find this interesting, I can thoroughly recommend the “King of Kings” series of podcasts by Dan Carlin.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Most dev teams I work with are actively reducing their actual managed server and replace it with either Lambda, or docker images running in K8. There are plenty of services that don’t fit on k8s or Lambda. Not all pegs fit in those hol
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Pretty much everywhere in Europe it is a legal right to be able to do so.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I have rented my entire life, and “change all the locks” has always been the very first thing I do. I have a couple of different size high security cylinder locks, and whilst no cylinder lock is unpickable, I’m pretty happy with mine.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
My issue is with their “we will pay you according to where you live” policy which I find an unacceptable overreach. Pay me for the value I deliver to the business, not “this is the standard of living we believe you should enjoy”
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Canonical and Gitlab are both on my “ignore until the end of time” list due to their dehumanising recruitment approaches. Some companies design their recruitment processes around the “let’s see how much nonsense they will put up with” appro
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Who owns the songs I generate using Suno? > If you are a paying subscriber to Suno, then you own the songs you generate while subscribed to Pro or Premier. So, as soon as I stop subscribing, I no longer “own” the songs? What if they
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I have also been in places where vast majority think the issue points at one team. They are silent on comms despite being present. Then miraculously the issue is gone. The response to the question of what changed? "Nothing."
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by mdekkers 3y ago
These folks don’t get paid enough
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by mdekkers 3y ago
ACARS is pretty cool https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-radio-scanner-tutorial-recei...
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Given the ongoing issues with ChatGPT (slow and _incredibly_ lazy) and all the copilot nonsense, as well as my growing aversion of how MS are muscling in on this space, I’m about to make a wholesale switch to Claude for my API and chat acce
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Especially in the internet, so people can learn. Have you been on the internet?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
+1 for cyc, genuinely awesome and overlooked
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comment
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> How is taking 15% or 30% of all revenue better than €0.50 per first annual install? I think for free apps that’s a bit of a big deal?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Thank you. I am unable to find a therapist, and I was unable to manage with antidepressants. My mechanism right now is "see if you still feel this way a week from now" which - so far - helps. It isn't so much that I changed m
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I've had my own (thankfully brief) moments where I've thought about suicide just from the perception that my coworkers, my bosses, the entire world, just does not care about doing the right thing. Please share how you managed
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by mdekkers 3y ago
This is very much “You are holding it wrong” territory. There is nothing wrong with wanting the same ease of use and integration that iCloud affords, but extended to other clouds. Requiring additional steps (back up to machine, then upload
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I’m sorry. As a machine model, I cannot condone acts of violence against disks. Have you tried discussing your differences between you, perhaps with the assistance of some professional mediator?

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