tehCorner

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by tehCorner 3y ago
Salaries are specified in the "job grade" section, which it's linked salary it's public here: https://careers.cern/salary-conditions also, if I recall properly of my time there salary was free of taxes :
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by tehCorner 3y ago
Brazil has a similar system called “boleto”, you chose that option and the systems promts you a barcode you can use to pay with cash in ATMs, paharmacie and some other stores with no comission AFAIK. It has some limits (10000 BRL when i use
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by tehCorner 3y ago
What I never understood is: why tech conferences focus on everything but the skills we should care about? Every time I take a look on the talks section of a given conference seems like gathering the "quickstart" section of N techn
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by tehCorner 4y ago
- weekly meal plan: I let chat gpt decide almost all my meals for a week given specific macro distribution parameters and I made a small script that takes the ingredient list and automatically orders them from the supermarket - explore tech
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by tehCorner 4y ago
Cannot speak for the post above, but yes, you can work on a different country and still pay taxes on your origin country. Doesn't work for any country or any circumstance though. Typical case is when you work for a multi-national compa
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by tehCorner 4y ago
Not on the same scale but in my previous company we observed the same thing (though the other way around since we moved from self-hosted to cloud). He had a team of 4 managing the infra for an app (82 million users, 30 million DAU) and spen
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by tehCorner 4y ago
I made a small script to get weekly recipes with certain macronutrient composition from chatgpt, then i linked the ingredient list with my supermarket’s api so every monday I get delivered everything
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by tehCorner 4y ago
I would bet all my money on malarone
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by tehCorner 4y ago
> Doctors aren't paid when you are healthy Isn't it worst that doctors are paid if you are not healthy? Doesn't it create an incentive for them to prevent you from being completely healthy? Anyway, most countries in Europe
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by tehCorner 4y ago
The only time in my life i was satisified with my job was at the start of my career when I spent a couple of years at CERN, there was a lot of freedom to try new things and technologies, you could generate great imapct and the people around
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by tehCorner 4y ago
> Frugality inertia: a lifetime of good savings habits can’t be transitioned to a spending phase. Coming from a poor family and knowing the hard way the issues of not having money I've been obsessed with saving money since I got my
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by tehCorner 4y ago
I used to work for a carrier and yes, there are some settings that can be changed. If your phone is locked to a carrier it can even hot-replace applications without you noticing (useful for embedded carrier applications that donwload a full
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by tehCorner 4y ago
My first job was in a company fully dedicated to milk the European H2020 projects' cow. Their business model was to offer the lowest budget on a series of projects and then have a bunch of interns like me do all the work on their own w
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by tehCorner 4y ago
Totally agree, I'm not saying there is a right path. In my case, when I started in this industry 10 years ago I found most of my joy in coding, as time passed by I engaged into different hobbies that brought more joy to my life and end
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by tehCorner 4y ago
Because there are a great bunch of developers who just code for work and want to maximize leisure/family time (including me). Sometimes I also do that _fun script_ you were thinking about over the week, or play with some random program