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by roel_v 7y ago
Is this a stylistic choice, or a statement about 'speed of living' or so, or why do you do this?
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by roel_v 7y ago
Loved that. This quote just sums up customer support in 2020 (and, apparently, also in 2014): Me 'Hi- I just called about a 12 foot balance beam delivered to me – along with my toilet – in error. Are you the one I talked
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by roel_v 7y ago
Similarly, I've been hoping for a few people to pick up 'BlenderCAD' to add accurate sizing/positioning and dimensions to Blender. For this sort of thing, Sketchup is still (a lot) better.
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by roel_v 7y ago
There are entire master's degrees in 'GIS', which are essentially a whole year of learning how to use ArcGIS, from different points of view.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Thank you, that clears it up for me.
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by roel_v 7y ago
He's two, he doesn't know better. Post again when he's been in school for 3 months.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"(Note there are reasons to use EBITDA" What are those reasons? I've taken several accounting and "business from legal pov" classes in my life, and still I don't really understand why it's such a prominent
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Is there some way authorative source that I can use to verify which company owns which?" What do you mean by 'owns'? When answering, please keep into account that this is about Chinese companies, where 'corporate
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by roel_v 7y ago
Who says the hardware doesn't have a separate IC overriding the ostensibly clean firmware? So you need not only verified hardware schematics, but also verification that the hardware you're running is actually based on that verifie
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by roel_v 7y ago
No they don't, that's what being a warlord means. Private property protection is not 'whoever I like or pays me gets to keep their goats', private property protection means protection under the rule of law .
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by roel_v 7y ago
Peak HN right here.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yeah that's the one that stuck out to me. An apartment as nice as the one described wouldn't allow pets, at least not if they're as experienced as they claimed to be here.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Large parts of this can be automated (scraping profiles, setting up ads based on that scraped info, templates for responses etc), CRM system to track interactions, for which you have 'white collar' staff. The rest you farm out to
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by roel_v 7y ago
*shoo-in (sorry)
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by roel_v 7y ago
Whatsapp has been the default choice for 10 years. From other people's pov, Signal and Telegram are the 'fashion' apps.
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by roel_v 7y ago
People often say this, but I wonder if they've actually used those apps. For example Signal, try to back up your chat history. The hoops you have to jump through are not feasible for non-technical users. There were many more relatively
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by roel_v 7y ago
To save those who, like me, were going to comment 'that would violate the standard because std::string::size is required to be O(1) complexity' a Google - the standard recommends but doesn't require that.
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by roel_v 7y ago
That is again another argument than the original one under discussion. Of course prices converge to an equilibrium in a perfectly efficient market. But wages are sticky, and labor is a lemon market the the employer's pov. Amd those are
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by roel_v 7y ago
Of course, but that's not what the original claim was. The original claim was that software engineers, on average, can demand a wage proportional to the value they create. Which is simply not true. They can command a higher wage be
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by roel_v 7y ago
There are lots of software jobs where the 'skills' are equally interchangeable. Most programmers aren't in a position to negotiate a rate based on the scarcity of their skills; they have to negotiate based on the market rate,
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by roel_v 7y ago
That number is the ceiling. The floor is what someone else with the skills to make those particular changes will accept as a wage. Do you think a toll booth operator can say 'I do 10k in revenue a day, pay me half of that and we'l
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by roel_v 7y ago
Good libraries will let you define custom units that let you express things like this. Boost.Units does.
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by roel_v 7y ago
As all the others say, just use the right key fob. It's in the manual how all this works (it is in mine, at least).
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by roel_v 7y ago
The $10 a month I pay for Youtube Premium improves my life a lot more than some other things I pay that or more for.
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by roel_v 7y ago
How many of those companies are there?
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by roel_v 7y ago
For the occasional presentation I either use whoevers laptop that is already plugged into the projector, or the dedicated machine that's already in the room. For day(s) long meetings, I take a dedicated ultrabook.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Not to be snarky, but do you know what a 'franchise' is? I mean it seems from your comments in this thread that that would take away a lot of the confusion. This man is not an 'employee'.
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by roel_v 7y ago
I've thought about making (well, more about 'having' it to be honest) a 'semi-portable' computer for people like us. Basically a briefcase that when folded open would 'swing out' two screens. Maybe you wou
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by roel_v 7y ago
I had the exact same thing, so I bought a Dell xps 15 then swapped out the ssd for a 1tb one that was faster, too.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Seems like this project uses sphinx as the actual recognition engine. This is just a wrapper.

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