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by mosburger 1y ago
That's my (admittedly extremely limited) understanding. The Mozilla/Firefox people de-prioritized making Gecko a separate linkable library years ago, and it's no longer a straightforward thing to do. Which is a real bummer.
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by mosburger 1y ago
Oh I get it. I tried to convince him of the same thing. I figured the skills would be transferable to something less brutal once he inevitably burned out on the games industry. He started looking at less game-oriented programming jobs but h
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by mosburger 1y ago
My son has been looking for an entry level position ever since graduating (last year, in 2024) with a Game Development degree at a pretty decent school. Right now he's teaching kids programming in an after-school program to keep from g
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by mosburger 1y ago
The UK seemed generally slightly less strict than, say, Germany, France, or Poland. It sorta felt like it was splitting the difference between the US and the EU.
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by mosburger 1y ago
Oh it absolutely was a terrible employer.
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by mosburger 1y ago
My previous employer stopped hiring in the EU (except for the UK, where they were based, and South Africa, where the CTO was from) because the labor laws there made it too difficult for them to fire people, which was a particularly troubl
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by mosburger 1y ago
> Who restarts their IDE all the time? Xcode users laugh nervously.
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by mosburger 1y ago
Queue the old adage ... "Emacs is a great operating system, what it needs is a good editor." I'm not sure there is a rigid enough definition of IDE to say whether Emacs qualifies or not. I think it does by virtue of its exten
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by mosburger 1y ago
Nicolae Ceaușescu comes to mind? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death EDIT: One could argue whether the United Healthcare CEO assassination meets the criteria, too.
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by mosburger 1y ago
i love frivolous stuff like this. it's art that reminds me of the internet's early days, well done.
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by mosburger 1y ago
Last year I underwent treatments for my treatment-resistant major depression using Ketamine. It was a clinical setting, where you'd get wired up to blood pressure, pulse-ox, and other monitors while you were monitored by an RN via vide
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by mosburger 1y ago
I'm a moonshiner with delusions of someday opening a micro distillery.
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by mosburger 1y ago
I think it'll be someone pushing the boundaries of hip hop/rap/etc., it feels like there's still a lot more experimentation and unexplored stuff that can happen there. And most of the people on HN probably won't rea
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by mosburger 1y ago
I did something similar recently, trying to describe a piece of art that I couldn't remember the name of (it ended up being Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli) ... it really struggles with that sort of thing, but honestly so do most h
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by mosburger 1y ago
There are plenty of countries in East Africa ripe for this, unfortunately China is beating us there, too. Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania ... all are pretty well positioned right now for development, but rn China is mostly the one doing it. (Source
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by mosburger 2y ago
The title says HYBRID 2-3 days, but the text says "No remote work." Can you clarify your remote working policy please? Thanks! I might be interested, but would need to "commute" from Portland Maine, so it's an impor
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by mosburger 2y ago
I find repository pattern useful for testing ... it's a lot easier to mock a repository than to mock stuff that SQLalchemy might need to do.
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by mosburger 2y ago
Until very recently I worked for an international remittances company. It's remarkable how far behind the U.S. is, and I always tell people the first countries to go (mostly) cashless with mobile wallets are in East Africa... e.g. Keny
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by mosburger 2y ago
Good coaches and managers adjust their style to the person they're coaching. I learned that from Bill Belichick. XD
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by mosburger 2y ago
It doesn't matter. If it's not our (I'm from the U.S.) fault, then whose fault is it? We all, collectively, are ultimately responsible for the outcome of the election. It was our job to convince everyone, including those who
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by mosburger 2y ago
Yeah, similarly I've heard people say that the Maine accent, particularly "down east" islanders, is similar to an English accent in some ways - I think specifically some region of England, like Yorkshire maybe??
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by mosburger 2y ago
Almost no one uses FedNow (which would theoretically bring the U.S. almost on-par with European Open Banking) because the banks really don't have much incentive to integrate with it, especially if they're the ones making money by
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by mosburger 2y ago
I wonder if anyone has ever made an ORM adapter that works with Google Sheets as its "Database"?
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by mosburger 2y ago
I'm in Maine and say it all the time, but I'm definitely unusual in that regard.
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by mosburger 2y ago
I live in Maine, one of the most northy north U.S. states, and I now use y'all all the time. It's totally fit for purpose. Edit: In fact I use it so often at work that my very prim-and-proper British colleague now uses it often an
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by mosburger 2y ago
In the U.S. we have the concept of "piercing the corporate veil" whereby if you can prove that a LLC (effectively a corporate entity created to shield owner's liability) is a flimsy legal device whose only intent is to skirt
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by mosburger 2y ago
Is anyone else getting a "“Pragtical.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash" error when attempting to run the arm64 build on macOS? Really wanted to try it out! I suppose it could just be some securit
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by mosburger 2y ago
IIRC Print Master supported lowercase letters whereas Print Shop did not. I didn't see any mention of that in the article link above (admittedly I scanned it pretty quickly). I was also a Print Master person because I had a PC Clone (T
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by mosburger 2y ago
> SQL Server team continues to push hard for Linux compatibility with every release. It's kinda funny that the DB that was once a fork of Sybase that was ported to Windows is trying to make its way back to Unix.
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by mosburger 2y ago
Aware that this comment is wading dangerously into U.S. politics - will the recent Supreme Court decisions w/r/t the powers of executive branch agencies like the FCC make it impossible to enforce this? Edit - this from the article

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