simon83

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by simon83 3y ago
Does anyone know how the AMD consumer GPU support on Linux has been implemented? Must use something else than ROCm I assume? Because ROCm only supports the 7900 XTX on Linux[1], while on Windows[2] support is from RX 6600 and upwards. [1]:
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by simon83 3y ago
> I can't reason as well or as quickly. Things go over my head. My working memory is so much smaller. I get lost in code all the time. I forget what I'm working on. Is that while being high on THC, or being sober but having con
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by simon83 3y ago
I also don‘t think a customer facing chat bot brings much value, but an internal, employee only chat bot could be really useful, depending on the organzization of course. The company in my last position was a rather big one with an insanely
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by simon83 3y ago
As a Linux noob I decided to try Arch Linux 4 years ago because I wanted to actually learn how the various parts work that make out a whole Linux distro (things like the bootloader, systemd, various desktop environments etc). Other distros
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by simon83 4y ago
I understand that all of this is based on some fundamental mathematics, a couple of algorithms here, and some statistical analysis there. And I find it absolutely amazing that we can use all of that knowledge and encode it into something th
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by simon83 4y ago
Google: "confetti has left the cannon" > No results found for "confetti has left the cannon". I'm amazed that a "stochastic parrot" can come up with such a beautiful idiom.
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by simon83 4y ago
> maintain security? built-in firewall and DDoS protection? I have a Hetzner dedicated server (not the Cloud offering) and I setup OpnSense as an all-in-one routing and firewall solution in a separate VM. All incoming and outgoing traffi
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by simon83 4y ago
You, like many others, are basing your opinion on the current state of LLMs/GPT. And I totally agree with you, the current GTP-4 version might not replace programmers. But how about future iterations? Personally I can't fathom
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by simon83 4y ago
Oh wow and I thought I'm going crazy, because I also make so many typos when typing on my iPhone 11 (normal size)! On any other Android phone I don't make nearly as many typos, and it just feels so much better. I never understood
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by simon83 4y ago
I was a huge React fan myself but when I started to use Vue and its Composition API one year ago I had tears of joy in my eyes. You have a setup function that is executed exactly once. Inside this setup function you setup your life cycle ca
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by simon83 5y ago
I've been using React since around 2016 and when Hooks were introduced I played around with it but didn't like it at all exactly because of the reasons mentioned in this article. Sure it reduced quite a bit of boilerplate code tha
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by simon83 5y ago
For this reason I've setup a OpnSense VM on my dedicated Hetzner server where all inbound and outbound IPv4/IPv6 traffic has to go through, it acts as a gateway for the host itself and my other VMs. OpnSense itself is a pretty pow
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by simon83 9y ago
I wonder if you could get into legal trouble if you start to re-distribute calc.exe from older Windows version, as a free download. Probably yes, but it would look so ridiculous if MS lawyers would go after a random person doing that.
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by simon83 9y ago
I just wanted to add that Pinta 1.6 (which is the current stable version in the official Arch repos, for example) has awfully slow rectangle/selection tools on larger images. In my case, selecting something in a 2000x2000 image would f
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by simon83 9y ago
For me a range of 100 km would be good enough. I'm just not willing to pay 20.000€+ for that. And so I'm currently looking into a Renault Twizy, which has a range of up to 100 km, for around 8700€. Only problem I have with it is t
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by simon83 9y ago
> unless Tesla innovated far beyond those, it'll be a marginal car company You mean just like Apple became a marginal tech company? I find it fascinating how people make bold claims here in the comments, predicting the future like t
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by simon83 9y ago
I'm one of those hatin' cool kids, I guess. Coincidentally I'm also a millennial, one of those ignorant kinds who simply does not get what a Good Life™ we have, at this point in time, compared to the last decades and centurie
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by simon83 9y ago
Thanks! Maybe I'll give it a shot...
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by simon83 9y ago
Thanks, I'll take a closer look into those freelancer networks you mentioned, it looks quite interesting.
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by simon83 9y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. You are working purely remote, I assume? I'd be curious to see how I'd fare in their screening process. Can you tell me roughly how many hours in total the screening process takes? (exclud
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by simon83 9y ago
Thanks a lot! I saw toptal mentioned in another comment, and their "Why 3%" page is quite unnerving. I don't work at Wharton, MIT, CERN, or Google, and I'm not a Top 100 Django or Rails contributor. Or is this just the 3
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by simon83 9y ago
I'm not freelancing, but I'd love to hear advice from other freelancers. I have 11 years working experience as a full stack web developer and I think I'm pretty good at it by now. I'm currently employed and underpaid, an
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by simon83 9y ago
From their website[1]: The Top 3% "Everyone at Toptal has a proven track record and elite industry experience. There are Toptalers from Wharton, MIT, CERN, and Google, as well as Django committers, Top 100 Rails contributors, leading g
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by simon83 9y ago
Oh yes of course, I totally forgot about our rich Swiss friends. Salaries close to SF are possible there I heard.
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by simon83 9y ago
There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually. Just kidding... at least I don't know anyone personally. But maybe the Head of R&D of the company I work for could be close to that mark, at least he's driving a Porsche. Yeah.
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by simon83 9y ago
But this time it'll work, really!
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$7.5B “clean coal” power plant suspends coal gasification, now burns natural gas(arstechnica.com)
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by simon83 9y ago
I'd love to see the code of your vanilla js SPA :) Or does the server render the HTML, and JS just adds a little bit of interactions? Because then you are right, you may not necessarily need React (but it can also render on the server)
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by simon83 9y ago
I definitely also read that one back then (I keep stumbling upon this website every now and then, it contains some really interesting articles), but I remember that it was too vague for me to understand his point about why OOP sucks. I sear
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by simon83 9y ago
I knew this would trigger a remark ;) I'm absolutely aware of the importance of separation of concerns. And our SPA is not small. I just became less dogmatic about it. We all have been taught how important it is to separate HTML&#x2F

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