mr_isomies

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by mr_isomies 1y ago
Location: Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends Technologies: Elixir Phoenix, nodejs, Linux DevOps, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB Résumé/CV: https://kuzyn.info/scousin_resume_2025.pdf Email: [see resume]
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Blinkenlights(catb.org)
2 points by mr_isomies 6y ago|0 comments
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
Once I bought a Casper mattress, king size, something like $800. Got in touch a few weeks later to return it, it was too big for me. They said here's your RMA, print it and send it back no question asked & you get a refund. Well, t
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
Not buying into this sort of conspiracy theory myself, but since I'm reading some Cixin Liu I'll indulge in some creative thinking. - This is pure fiction: Seeing this as an offensive weapon, if it were indeed man-made, is a mista
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
Interesting. Maybe it's a demographic blind spot? I do all of my UK banking on Transferwise, and so have heard of or researched Revolut, N26, Monzo... In fact, I think that both Monzo and Transferwise are UK based, and I've defini
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
Not on a personal note (and maybe there are details missing) but this comment makes me sad: it's like we've internalized the codes of capitalism to the point where we, as individuals, feel obligated to fulfill our marketplace comm
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
While I approve with the general direction of your comment, I think that characterizing Google merely as "a company" is disingenuous. Obviously it was not "just a job" for those who resigned. There is nothing that I do a
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Pan-American_Highway(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mr_isomies 7y ago|0 comments
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
When I saw that it required more than a 5m fix on my Lenovo I just accepted this as my new setup and committed to only using the trackpoint instead. Ironically, as a programmer the trackpoint has now become crucial to my setup (easier on th
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Government Cheese(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mr_isomies 7y ago|0 comments
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
You should really check out https://greatescape.co/ I'm not sure if it's a startup or an MVP or a student project at this point, but it's the closest that I've come across
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by mr_isomies 7y ago
I have one with rutorrent that acts our house seedbox / file server. I also added droppy as a simple, user friendly file browser for my flatmates. Obviously, this all runs on docker-compose, because I'm a very weak man (but also,
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
Big tobacco had "benefits to society" w/r/t the number of jobs it created, and the aggregated money that it re-invested in other businesses. Rationalizing around individual experience buries the fact that the consumer we
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
This is most likely from QLOCKTWO, who is a German company with a similar product https://qlocktwo.com/en/
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
There was a long form article in the New Yorker two years ago about the Sackler family and Oxycotin. Quite a good read, in depth history of the drug, well researched: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10&#x2F
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Ask HN: Where to Look When Hiring Hardware / Embedded System Engineer?
1 points by mr_isomies 8y ago|0 comments
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
And subsequently loosing everyone's investment when the mine's head engineer gets thrown out of an helicopter
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe "In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the &quot
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by mr_isomies 8y ago
Funny enough, the national press is covering the other-side of this issue (in French). That is, the displacement of artists & creatives: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1130346/305-bellechasse... What use