miroljub

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by miroljub 4y ago
The difference is, at the office it's part of your job, at home it is not. Helping your teammates is part of your job, helping your wife is not. And I bet you don't clock out to make a quick 5-minute break to help your wife 10 tim
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by miroljub 4y ago
This is the wrong example. The fact is that there is a whole industry in Germany that whose only purpose is to find out something illegal you did and then sue you doesn't change the fact that piracy is still illegal in Germany. Accordi
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by miroljub 4y ago
Is thin an American thing? Can they just pool money at will? In the EU, if you revoke their SEPA direct debit permission, they are committing a fraud if they try to pull money, and 99.9999% of companies will not even try. If someone still d
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by miroljub 4y ago
No, energy costs started raising before the war. Once war started, the sanctions made sure they stayed high.
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by miroljub 4y ago
> They are now no longer exporting, and many countries in the world are getting 50% or more of their calories from import. Things will get better before they get worse. It's not like they wouldn't like to export when they could
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by miroljub 4y ago
> Have we tried blaming climate change yet? You would be surprised, but German press is full of such stories.
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by miroljub 4y ago
Brexit plus sanctions. War has nothing to do with that, at least not war in a classical sense. Economic or total war that some countries are involved in can be considered as a major reason.
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by miroljub 4y ago
> This is a bold statement for someone who left Iraq fourteen years ago and never went back. Probably the current regime is better than Saddam. Is it so much better it was worth two trillion dollars and half a million lives? Is it so muc
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by miroljub 4y ago
I write my blog for me. I put stuff there, so I can have easy online access to it, and so that I don't forget it, or have to google it again. It varies from pretty basic stuff, to some step-by-step tutorials. The benefit for me is that
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by miroljub 4y ago
In this case, their interest is aligned with the public interest, so nothing wrong.
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by miroljub 4y ago
It's not an overkill. He spent 12 minutes developing the solution and then 5 more minutes for actual sending of 125 emails. That's 17 minutes in total. I assume doing the same task manually would take him at least a day or two, wi
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by miroljub 4y ago
> It's downvoted because the propaganda suggests that "it's different when we do it". Isn't it how it always works? When we[1] do it, it's a "humanitarian intervention" or "special military in
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by miroljub 4y ago
Good for you if you don't see your telecom provider as a shady company.
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by miroljub 4y ago
As much as I don't like WhatsApp for other reasons, at least it's honest in a way that you know that messages sent over WhatsApp will be sent and received using WhatsApp, and not some confusing half-backed combination of SMS and a
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by miroljub 4y ago
Glad to read a balanced opinion on the internets :) Unfortunately, the loudest are people arguing for the extremes, both "lock down everything or we'll all die" or "you should not enforce any measure under any circumstan
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by miroljub 4y ago
Why is this downvoted? Isn't the UK government one of the prone to look at everyone else from the high horse and criticize the shit out of any "authoritarian regime" while doing the same thing in some of the areas? Heck, the
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by miroljub 4y ago
If Signal were a truly open distributed system, instead of relying on a centralized almost closed source server, it would not be possible for any government to block it. And the only thing worse than being blocked, is their "leaving&qu
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by miroljub 4y ago
Many companies allow or even encourage using work phones privately. That way, they motivate their employees to not just switch the phone off and leave it on the desk locker in the office after finishing work. This gives them a nice "si
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by miroljub 4y ago
> I think he couldn't do GitHub? Down near the end of the article he wrote: It's not that he couldn't, it's more of an arbitrary self-imposed limitation. I fail to understand why he needs to use any code generator o
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by miroljub 4y ago
The app is needed, since there are no third-party clients that can connect to Tutanota. They use their own secure protocol, and don't support any of SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, POP3 or similar. You are only left with web access, which is not rea
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by miroljub 4y ago
I am already very close to the ceiling available to a tech person. On the continent I'm on, 2x reward die 2x productivity doesn't exist, and I'm not ready to move to another. Instead, I chose to optimize other things that mak
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by miroljub 4y ago
> At the same time, honoring the fairly recent trend of increasing human productivity that has allowed us to have SIGNIFICANTLY better quality of life than our distant and not so distant ancestors. According to actual data, increased pro
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by miroljub 4y ago
Why? Would my salary be higher if I become more productive? No. My salary is fixed. I get my bonus even with a minimal effort. Will I work less if I become more productive? No. I still have to spend 8 hours par day at work. Will I get more
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by miroljub 4y ago
No, it's just slow. Every command triggers 1 to 2 seconds waiting. It's enough to break any workflow or any desire to use it. Git command line responds in 100 to 200 ms, which is not a noticeable delay. Is it because of slow git p
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by miroljub 4y ago
I liked magit on Linux, but on Windows it's so slow that it's unusable. Yes, I know it's because git is slower on Windows, but when using git CLI I don't feel the speed difference, while on magit I feel like constantly w
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by miroljub 4y ago
Honestly, I'm surprised only half of Americans thinks that the media misleads them. That's the whole purpose of those media.
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by miroljub 4y ago
WhatsApp is closed source. For what it's worth, the protocol itself might be impenetrable, but the client itself has access to your decrypted messages and can still decide to send them back to Facebook without your knowledge. The syste
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by miroljub 4y ago
Title moderation on HN is very misleading, implemented as is. I don't have an issue with changing title, but the problem is that the name of the original submitter still stays next to the modified title, without any sign that title has
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You can't call it "early ecosystem" after 15 years.
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Do you realize it was an arbitrary status based on arbitrary decision by arbitrary politicians based on opinions of arbitrary scientists? You may also analyse the currently available arbitrary data. Then you may realize that the status was

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