mvanbaak

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by mvanbaak 2y ago
Separate your work location from the house life. Best thing i did was putting a desk in the guestroom and turn it into a home office. If im there im working, if im in any other part of the house im not
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
Amazons RTO is a hidden layoff round. They are overstaffed because they hired like crazy during the pandemic, now they need to slimmdown and will simply wait for people to quit because of the RTO and fire those that dont comply. And they do
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
the 'secret' is not that you turn them off. it's simply luck. I have 4TB HGST drives running 24/7 for over a decade. ok, not 24 but 8, and also 0 failures. But I'm also lucky, like you. Some of the people I know hav
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
And where was this against the law?
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
As a eu citizen, what is the impact of this to me? Will this money be used for us? Nope. Some club of politicians will have a nice bonus, FAANG will be more aggressive against the EU. Look, if rules are broken ppl will have to be held resp
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
ah yeah, since I play on playstation I dont have anything to do with that.
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
And here I am, a 45 year old husband, developer and everything and have over 3k hors in Destiny ;)
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
Not their fault. They are forced by EU law
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
This is answered. They only looked at projects that actually implement machine learning etc, and they did not look at projects that use ready to use models (the so called prompt engineering projects)
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
I won't bore you with the details of my home setup, and I do host from home with both static IPv4 and IPv6 and everything (ok ok, two details: it's all freebsd on enterprise hardware) I will repeat: it is an option for some. and i
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
Yes, self/home hosting is an option for some. but maintaining a server is not as easy as you make it sound. Power, cooling, noise, spare hardware, network etc are all factors that are taken care of by a provider, that are not easy to r
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
this is also how AWS started. amazon created a setup they needed and found out that they can sell it to others as well.
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
While 'for free' is something we all want (who wants to spend their money right) it is not a sustainable business case. And with prices of it/server/hosting in the EU being a lot higher then in other parts of the world,
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
I came here to state exactly this. As a dutch individual that has 'cloud' high on his CV, I would like to create an account and test this to see if it is something I should invest my time in to make it part of my cv. But ... they
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
I have experience with mobile operators in Brazil and western Europe, and all providers support esim there. So I'm not 100% sure where you get the 'fact' that outside the USA it's not supported on most networks. Besides
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
Vim has netrw. No need for a remote shell
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
hype, marketing, investors spent millions so lets make it happen. It feels a lot like the whole crypto thing
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
This was exactly what I was thinking as well. Let's see!
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
> It effectively geofences the development team. Anyone tried to think a bit back and see where this comes from? it's the EU laws that are demanding this. Since their laws are different (note: I'm not taking sides. I'm not
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by mvanbaak 2y ago
'decent' yes. But true, if you get a bike that's not full of electronics and motors and gps and what not, you dont have to spend a fortune. between 100 and 200 euro you ride a solid bike that does not fall apart with every bu
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
and this is both nice and horrible. Most audio streams are 'direct stream' when you use plex/jf/emby as backend, but your receiver/soundbar only gets the PCM stream, without any object data (yes, you loose atmos, no
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
If you want to run a non-default os, an iPhone is not for you. There are several other options out there for you to choose from.
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
> Why should those be lonely, isolated, unsocial hours? This can easily be fixed with one of the many available video platforms out there. You are only lonely and isolated if you dont use the tools available to you (or your employer does
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
> The people making the decisions don’t have jobs that require this level of focus Most of the time they either have their own office, or work from home. Thus not feeling the pain of the open floorplan setup.
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
I have the same experience. Where I worked the offices were 2-person offices, and this worked very good for mentor-student environment, or when 2 ppl had to crack a really tough nut. The doors were also mostly open, and the corridors were q
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
You clearly never used an IBM model M keyboard
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
There’s a huge difference between virtual Reality like the vive and augmented reality like the vision pro
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
Same
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
This is exactly what i felt when i saw the date and remembered doom turned 30
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by mvanbaak 3y ago
> A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example

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