thawawaycold

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by thawawaycold 2y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this. As a matter of fact it's my fourth work experience, I basically spent 2y per company, spending the first year at the first one doing something not related to embedded coding, but your point
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
True that, also the notice period I'm contractually obliged to follow is in the phase where I could leave at any moment, whereas waiting for the trial phase to be over would force me to wait 6 months to leave. My fear is that, coming f
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
that is something that is already being taken care of in other projects, and it will indeed be necessary especially for this one, but that does not seem to tip the scale in favor of keeping development in-house; on the contrary, plans to ou
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Ask HN: Pigeonholed into role with no coding, what do I do?
7 points by thawawaycold 2y ago|17 comments
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
one way to put them would be on a list of PRC funded startups, for instance. also I have no idea whether you worked with their hardware before and at which level; I have, and their concept of "open" source HW is very different fro
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
It really doesn't imho. It does by no mean follow the kind of "sleekness" that you expect from contemporary UIs, but it's perfectly functional and takes the least amount of effort of getting used to, at least from the po
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
I'm looking up Thorium right now, I initially assumed you were referring to the homonymous browser (also their website feels organized a bit weirdly to me). Seems a solid option for epubs, admittedly the builtin calibre reader is a bit
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
nice to know! would be great to have some similar degree of support for boox devices but I gather it would be much more fiddly
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
I'm repeatedly telling myself to do that because I've ended up having multiple copies of the same documents scattered over different devices instead of centralizing my calibre instance. When I considered doing that on fated weeken
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
sounds more like a W10 issue?
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Calibre 8.0(calibre-ebook.com)
284 points by thawawaycold 2y ago|146 comments
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
none at all - this would be the first pebble-y device I could own
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
their stated reason [0] for that is "It’s almost exactly a Pebble 2, upgraded with modern chips and new tricks. Duo is short for ‘Do-over’." [0] https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
got myself the Core 2 Duo - other one was a tad too big for my taste, also I enjoyed the idea of having a compass and barometer for hiking. pity about the lack of HR sensor on it, though.
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
has been under my radar for a while. I will, thank you.
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
Many thanks for your words. > Are they at least supportive or are their expectations too much without giving you anything in return ? Focus on that. If you have a good supportive environment with people you like working with, think twice
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by thawawaycold 2y ago
Thank you for your compliments; I don't really think myself as either, especially not particularly smart, anyhow I think you really hit the nail on the head with your last point - I should maybe just accept the situation and forget abo
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Ask HN: New job but feel burnout and disappointed
13 points by thawawaycold 2y ago|14 comments