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by sotix 2y ago
> Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down. As a software engineer with a CPA, it’s been brutal. I was laid off in January and have received zero interviews in 100 applications. I’ve received 3 re
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I switched back to an iPhone SE, and it’s so much better at UX. There’s a single home button that removes you from any app. Swiping down from the top anywhere brings up your notifications. Swiping up from the bottom anywhere brings up contr
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It’s identical.
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I tried it. I was impressed by the demos for soccer and baseball. But the soccer was a short clip of MLS, so I doubt I could use it to watch premier league or champions league. For baseball, I can’t even watch my local team that plays in a
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by sotix 2y ago
> This is why domain knowledge is key. > Lawyers and accountants are another profession where you have a language gap. I fully agree with you. However, my experience as a software engineer with a CPA is that, generally speaking, compa
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Meta: What is the purpose of hacker news? This really doesn’t seem relevant at all, yet I am seeing more and more posts like these that are not related to hacking or startups and only relevant to a portion of the community. Should they be f
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I wish NPR would follow the BBC model. Multiple radio stations devoted to different topics with high quality hosts and a completely ad-free experience for those living in the host country. Instead, it’s quite political and pretty small in s
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Kobo Libra Colour(us.kobobooks.com)
4 points by sotix 3y ago|0 comments
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by sotix 3y ago
There’s an old joke about the hotels in a beach town nearby that are owned by a Vegas casino owner and how he has them wired up and ready to go the day the state legalizes gambling. Not having Firefox built on Gecko ready to go is an absolu
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> It is available only for Google Chrome, Chromium or compatiable browsers (e.g. Edge) because it uses WebHID, a javascript extension that can be used to send commands to a HID device. I didn’t know about WebHID, but it’s interesting Fir
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> Simracing: getting faster doesn't make you win races. Getting more consistent does. I think this is absolutely true at the lower levels, but once you hit a baseline of consistency, the faster drivers do win races by simply being f
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For what it’s worth, I’d be much more interested in working for your company using Rust and Svelte compared to python and react. If you need someone with experience working with Rust and Svelte, I’m looking for work and value making quality
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I was laid off in January and have been regularly applying every week as a requirement for unemployment. So far zero responses, which is hard because it sounds like more experienced devs are on the market and will land jobs before me. I did
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> It's not just PMs though: developers are forced into resume driven development by hiring practices I was laid off from my last gig in January because the company was running out of money. Last week I saw a former coworker share ho
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I was laid off in January due to my job being outsourced overseas after I built the product. My job search has been terrible. Unfortunately my network is very small since I was in my first job after switching from a previous career in accou
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Picotron 0.1 Released(picotron.net)
4 points by sotix 3y ago|0 comments
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Is there source code available for the system?
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I think it might be that English isn’t very expressive. It’s much more technical and to the point. I find Greek and Spanish significantly more expressive when I speak them and particularly when I hear natives speak the languages.
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This blog post is the death of the internet. As you scroll down, it suddenly forces a pop up to subscribe to the blog via email. There is no respect to the reader at all and makes the internet a worse place to use. Perhaps the message wou
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by sotix 3y ago
I switched from MacOS to Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 3 years ago and couldn’t be happier. It’s so nice to have Pacman (and the AUR) as a built-in package manager. My experience with multiple monitors is better than on MacOS. My experience wi
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And here I am spending $700 to take the Amtrak with a sleeper room one-way as a mini vacation! I admire his adventurous spirit. I’m a bit nervous to travel by myself. Particularly once I arrive in SF where I don’t know anyone, but I’ll figu
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Yuzu got me to start buying Nintendo games again. Two weeks ago I coincidentally decided to mod my Switch and extract all of my games to play on my steam deck because I hadn't touched my switch since getting a steam deck. Everything I
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I used these when studying in the library for the CPA exam, and they were remarkably effective. The joke with my friends was if the library had caught on fire and the fire alarms had gone off, I wouldn’t have been aware and would have remai
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Thinkpad X1 Nano with an intel CPU because I needed Thunderbolt for my setup. I got a matte screen to reduce reflection and added a 5G modem for only $100 more. Highly recommend as a lightweight travel laptop.
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When I worked in public accounting, the idea was that you slaved away as an associate making relatively nothing but would reap the fruits of your labor at the senior level (and increasingly more so as you promoted higher). Most wouldn’t mak
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Does anyone have advice on contributing code to the project? I’d love to give back, but it’s a bit daunting, and I’m not the most familiar with c++. Would love to find a smaller place to start.
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KDE has reinvigorated my love for the desktop after years on Mac. I use it on my PC, laptop, and steam deck! I’m a big fan of their apps including Konsole, Kate, and KDEConnect. It’s an all around impressive project and surpasses MacOS and
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by sotix 3y ago
I was under the impression that archive.org doesn’t respect robots.txt, so in this case they’re the evil ones.
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People overthink language learning. Use Language Transfer[0] for lessons and Anki[1] for flashcards. Both are completely free. You'll be at a passable level within 3 months, which is an amazing rate of growth. [0]: https://w
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I tried to do this, but vaultwarden wouldn’t let me set it up because I wasn’t using https even though it’s a local network only accessed via WireGuard. Any tips on how to set that up?

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