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by otagekki 4y ago
Sort of. If remote is efficient, they'll outsource the position to a low-income country. If remote is not efficient, they'll urge people to go back to office and whoever fails to comply will be let go.
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by otagekki 4y ago
Fascinating story. I wonder what other dirty secrets state agencies have in stock for us tech stack-wise. This being said, Excel is most likely the most widespread tool for anything that involves office work. I've seen entire financial
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by otagekki 4y ago
I had worked at a bank as an IT professional and it works wonders, until the browser tries to be smart and attempts a Google search
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by otagekki 4y ago
^ This. Not so long ago, I had worked in the finance department of a $350M company as one of the five IT guys and we had just begun implementing Step 2, after OriginalOneBigServer had shown its limits. DBOneBigServer was really big though,
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by otagekki 4y ago
I have also known both albeit on a lesser scale. At a company we as a dev team had to maintain a constellation of desktop applications and homemade ETL Airflow-like software that scaled really badly. For the time I'd been there I had m
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by otagekki 4y ago
Seen on https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/china-preparing-wor... : > "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California," War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and
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by otagekki 4y ago
Wow Americans really have tough bones don't they. In drivers ed, here in Europe students are still being taught that the fatality rate for pedestrians hit by a car at a speed of 70 kph or more is 100 percent, and people here drive fast
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by otagekki 4y ago
Don't forget toll roads. They rake in billions in profits every year and keep making excuses not to decrease the toll fees. Worse, they have roadworks with decreased speed limits on really busy roads at the worst possible time, which i
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by otagekki 4y ago
> Some of them might be under their low cost branding but that’s still SNCF and a one-way trip is 37€ provided you book it one month in advance. This is exactly their problem: over-the-counter tickets are prohibitively expensive, making
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by otagekki 4y ago
So, Minority Report is getting real... Automatic face identification was banned in U.S. police not so long ago due to racial bias, so I guess this is going the same way. There is a lot of possible bias and a risk of "oracle effect&quot
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Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time (2007)(scientificamerican.com)
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by otagekki 4y ago
They want to turn a city into a car-free one but regulation ties their hands. As long as the city transitions, its citizens have two problems that lead to them being driven further and further away from the city proper.
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by otagekki 4y ago
Culture is harder to shift, and I was mostly talking about France, but your points on increased density neighborhoods are valid nonetheless. French cities are currently not getting denser because of perceived social problems such as poorer
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by otagekki 4y ago
It's all fun and games until you have to transport 2 weeks worth of groceries with joint pain, or Ikea furniture in the street because the deliveryman couldn't access your street. It's all fun and games until you find out tha
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by otagekki 4y ago
Previous discussion: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343572 (562 comments, 440 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569654 (34 comments, 43 points)
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by otagekki 4y ago
I am not sure about the house, but on used cars replacing a broken engine/transmission/hybrid battery is more expensive than the car itself (or even better: a car value if sold whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts).
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by otagekki 4y ago
> Your printer example is the first I had heard about a printer designed to stop after 'n' prints. That sounds ripe for a class-action lawsuit. AFAIK the printer manufacturer hasn't been affected by any class-action lawsui
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by otagekki 4y ago
Legality indeed varies, but even if it's illegal hardware vendors easily away with it, and will still bill you the repairs if they want to repair it at all.
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by otagekki 4y ago
Looks like a top-down directive to me. Just look at the lightbulb cartel. From an engineering perspective, some designs simply don't make any sense if not for planned obsolescence: on a quite famous printer brand, the printer stops wor
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by otagekki 4y ago
From what I can see, the right to repair suffers when "buying brand new" becomes significantly less expensive than "buying only the parts you need and spend some time fixing it". The former is always cheaper in developed
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by otagekki 4y ago
There definitely has to be, on the other end of the commit count spectrum I've seen people being reprimanded for having too few commits. Looks like they had bad management anyway, he might have dodged a bullet there
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by otagekki 4y ago
Removing the GIL is surely a breaking change although not exactly a syntactic one. Putting it as Python 4.0 should clear the doubts and allow for widespread release without breaking existing code
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by otagekki 4y ago
If not for the massive aid and influx of weapons from NATO, It would have fallen in days. Ukrainian airforce got quickly overwhelmed in the first days of war and it was the shipment of NATO anti-aircraft missiles that allowed them to challe
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by otagekki 4y ago
Still better to google translate the meaning of 学习率 than do the same on eta...
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by otagekki 4y ago
Ill-advised indeed. I'm paid €46k before taxes and social security (ie. very average income) with at take home of €27k after taxes. Most of my (frugal) living expenses for the year can be paid are on my first €16k. Which leaves me with
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by otagekki 4y ago
Not so long ago I learned that my contracting company's been billing my presence €800 day to my client (or €100-125/h), as I was looking for further explanations on a "you cost too much" remark that I've got. (for n
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by otagekki 4y ago
Go to Paris, I have 5 years of experience but not exactly outstanding and yet I get 1 or 2 offers every year without pushing too much. 10% income tax is on your take-home salary. From a different perspective my take-home salary after ta
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by otagekki 4y ago
I live in Paris. My take-home salary before taxes as a software engineer is slightly less than that, it's considered "high" salary as I pay 10% income tax on it. I'm seriously looking to moving to the U.S. by the end of
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by otagekki 4y ago
Still better than getting zilch though, it's up to you to see if it's worth it (returns > legal fees). I'd keep the algorithm, tune it and earn money from it myself. Maybe. They can't sue you for using your brain to m
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by otagekki 4y ago
Not a lawyer, but I'd rather sue them at least for the $500k "deferred income".

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