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by mkl95 4y ago
> The time is 4:45 AM. I pull it together to realize it’s a call from a number I do not know - never a good sign. I answer and it is a coworker - my peer who runs our support team that is engaged in nearly all production issues for our c
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by mkl95 4y ago
IGN redirects you to a translated site based on your location, which is pretty unpleasant. Please give all your users the choice to read the original article.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Public repos have brought me some great gigs. No luck involved, it just makes some people want to hire you. Ironically, the quality of the work I've produced -and had to deal with- at those gigs has not been as good as my personal proj
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by mkl95 4y ago
The EU's prediction is that population is about to reach its peak and will then decline slowly until the 22nd century or so. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D... Imo there
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by mkl95 4y ago
That's not going to shrink your target demographic too much in the Western world. Birth rates are low and declining.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Is it a recent phenomenon in the US? My country has a pretty straightforward pay-to-win scheme, which leads to degrees with a higher barrier of entry (mostly STEM) having a disproportionate amount of middle-upper class students. Even univer
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by mkl95 4y ago
TikTok is the most successful espionage operation of the 21st century so far, and it is based on a simple idea - people will happily give away their data and privacy if you consistently entertain them. In my opinion the application should b
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Notation for Differentiation(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by mkl95 4y ago|2 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
It may be a business opportunity. Order a bunch of Linux-unfriendly Lenovos, install Linux distro of choice, sell for a few <insert currency here> more.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Most Linux users are savvy enough to tinker with the BIOS for a couple of minutes and get rid of this thing. All this feature does is feed some MS / Lenovo exec power fantasy.
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by mkl95 4y ago
You can be SOC2 compliant and let your employees store passwords in plain text on Slack, Confluence, etc. and those passwords can be things like "password" and be shared with your partners. No 2FA / SSO by the way. And that&#
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days Unstable people were driving recklessly and with homicidal intentions decades before t
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'm not saying it's a bad or good thing, but FastAPI is run like a personal project. Most issues are ignored into oblivion.
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Self-Surgery(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
On the other hand, not signalling your status will make some people feel entitled to disrespect you or treat you in a patronising way, due to their skewed social perception. Try attending some business dinner with regular clothes, to name a
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Stoplight Studio(stoplight.io)
1 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
Interesting, although I'm way more excited about the inverse (code as diagram).
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by mkl95 4y ago
> donate to losing political candidates Is donating to political candidates that common? It sounds pretty odd.
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Q&A: Migrant Worker Abuses in Qatar and FIFA World Cup 2022 (2021)(hrw.org)
1 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Flogging is used in Qatar as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations. According to Amnesty International, in 2012 at least six foreign nationals were sentenced to floggings of either 40 or 100 lashes. https:&#
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by mkl95 4y ago
Whether you consider it an outage or not seems to be a political / PR thing these days. I used to work on a SaaS that relied on a handful of big customers to make payroll. If their favourite stuff stopped working, hell ensued. On the o
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by mkl95 4y ago
> The worst thing is, developers are embracing this AWS trend and seem to love it. No one seems to mind. Software engineers are cursed. Just when we've established a best practice and it's a solved problem, we throw it out and
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by mkl95 4y ago
At my previous gig I observed a few worrying things that were not fixed with security training: - People still stored passwords on Slack channels, emails, Confluence, etc. - People still used simple passwords such as "password". -
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by mkl95 4y ago
Git submodules aren't so bad, but they are a pretty leaky abstraction.
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by mkl95 4y ago
In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn't make a big difference.
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by mkl95 4y ago
At the places I've lived, construction is a symptom of chronic architectural / civil engineering problems caused by lack of vision and poor maintenance. At those places construction is also life, but it is life that would have bee
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by mkl95 4y ago
If I feed my talented monkey 1/100 of the bananas he grabs for me, some hungrier monkeys will argue I'm overfeeding him. I may be greedy and replace him, or keep him because I'm rich enough that it makes a negligible differen
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by mkl95 4y ago
A nightmare as in "my job will likely be boring until the day I retire". A nightmare many dream of.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Django stack with MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Celery MySQL is a weird if not slightly disturbing choice. Other than that it's a boring, battle-tested stack that is relatively easy to scale. I agree that Go is nicer, but I'm b
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by mkl95 4y ago
> If you start talking about your religious beliefs at a social event people treat you like you just farted in their face Let's say someone brought up BDSM at a social event. How would the average religious person feel? Exactly how

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