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Would go FastAPI for new projects. Either is good if what you are building is something small and very focused or if you already know exactly what you want to build and want to have freedom making decisions about most aspects of the applica
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I don't disagree with you, and I should have written better that I use them as part of an overall evaluation process. As an example how I use them. Some time ago I was looking into buying a audio hardware unit for music production (adv
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What has helped me a lot making better purchasing decisions on sites with a ranking system ala Amazon is only reading the 3 star reviews (or whatever is in the middle) The 5 stars are somewhere between suspicious and just not that useful be
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I think the other hard truth that citizens don't get entrusted with, is that we don't really know how to deal with a pandemic in the modern globalized world. Sure, some countries had plans and scenarios made before, but nonetheles
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I'm in regular contact with people from almost every job I had in the last 15 years. Turns out, coworkers are humans and can have the same outside work interest as me. Be that music, board games, cooking, reading, hiking, etc. Sure, mo
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I think there is a difference between defending in person work, and defending going back to exactly how it was before. I'm back to the office most days of the week although I don't have to. Big difference being that there are no l
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It seems web development devolves more and more from "use the right tool for the job" and KISS (not that it ever fully was either) to "use all the tools you can find for the job" and focus on process instead of product.
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And regards the bureaucracy. Yes, it is still very convoluted and unnecessary complex. But digitalization has advanced significantly in recent years. The entire visa process was done online, I just had to go to the offices in the end to ta
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Agreed. It is a very noisy country, wherever there are humans. There are neighborhoods / streets that are on average nicer, but you are as you mentioned not in control of it. The street I live in is actually almost dead quiet at night.
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So compared to Switzerland many day to day things you want get done are just less convenient, less straight forward, less predictable. Getting from A to B, buying exactly what you want vs. what is available, making contracts, lack of consum
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Bill Bryson reflecting on this quote https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/br... "So, on balance, I was wrong. You can go home again. Just bring extra money for road maps and rem
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Swiss living in Colombia for a bit over 5 years. There is not that much of a path or sophisticated plan to it. I was tired of Switzerland/Europe and wanted to try different things for at least a while. I have travelled Latin America ex
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If your website/blog is primarily a website/blog I think Wordpress is a perfectly fine choice (maybe overkill for personal use, solid for teams of authors). For me the problem starts once one wants to start adding more web applica
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Would you never use the 24h format when speaking? E.g I’m Swiss and I would often say 16:04 when referring to a precise time like a train departure. But four, quarter past four, half five and quarter to five.
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Are people that fuzzy? Of course I know my share of people that really obsess over it, own all the gear and everything in the process is strictly weighted, timed and temperature controlled. But most people seem to primarily care about it ta
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In news organizations fact-checkers are separate roles or department to independently check the statements made by journalists in their work. It's an additional layer. Same as there are grammar and style checkers although journalist ca
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Agreed. But even on HN I don't follow the news items that much. I enjoy the more timeless topics much more. But I like the aggregator style because with a quick glance over the title I become aware of things. For example, oh, Python 3.
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I'm aware of ongoing issues with it, bit given that the impact of it on my life since beginning of pandemic has been practically zero (e.g. there were no toilet paper shortages were I live), I'm not terribly worried. I think I cou
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I stopped reading news somewhere in 2011 while working at a news site. I was already jaded but the medias handling of the Breivik attacks in Norway pushed me over the edge. From my experience over the years, if something is important enough
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From what I have seen, it is more the hobby/semi professional range that has all the possible connectors built in whereas in the high end it is more modular and you buy different modules dependent on the connectivity you need. Especial
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Completely agree. There are many different lifestyles, none inherently better than the other. I just disagree with the sentiment that the only reason to live in a big city is because of work. At least for the kind of positions people on HN
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Because I get bored. It lacks the cultural diversity and and offerings the big cities have, which is the reason I live in one in the first place, not because of the job. Also most of my friends are here. I love the countryside for weekend o
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I work in Latin America and with the kind of low end phones and flakey mobile connections that a lot of people use here, 5-15MB is a pretty big issue. E.g. what I have seen from metrics is phones spending seconds just parsing/compiling
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Switzerlands guns culture and history is very different. Quite the opposite actually. Civilians were armed, required to own guns for a long time, so local lords and later governments could send them to conflicts quicker. The argument that y
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In most places I worked that used translation systems, all languages where translations including the default one. Within code using message keys like "thing.title", "thing.add_action", "thing.on_save_error", e
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I stopped following news back in 2011 while previously being "addicted" to it. Whether about about tech, music releases, world news, etc. Turns out, if something is important enough for me to know, it will reach me eventually one
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From my perspective HN is big enough that you can shape your own experience by what links you are clicking. E.g. I feel I haven't seen that much of the "entrepreneur" aspect, because I don't frequent the typical startup
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I don't need to hope, I know from experience.
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I'd absolutely make sacrifices for friends and vice versa. Much more so than any relative that is not my direct family with whom I don't have any relationship beyond happening to be somewhat close on a family tree. It just seems,
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Pretty much the same is what has worked for me. To add to it, the other thing besides being more explicit about the schedule for me was doing things in the morning before work. Even tough I was never a morning person, this helped me a lot w

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