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by tlamponi 4y ago
I don't think there's a single answer to that, but I got a few points that may be the more prominent ones, in no particular order: a) Their (now changing) stance against unfree firmware files. This made the default adverdised inst
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> Probably 15 times, people lectured me under the guise of a question "Why did you rent a car? Why not just take trains?", and maybe 10 times "That's so American". As a European (Italian) myself I find that odd,
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Meh, can be blocked from starting at all due to: 1. Pretty easy to detect for most cases, especially as blunt in your (exaggerated, I know) example. Agencies should have a rough idea about realistic time frames for mission times in near ear
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> I doubt a whole team would agree to use this tool though. Definitively, but it could work if was just one of the possible frontends and create another, for example, web based frontend. That naturally adds quite a bit of complexity as y
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Writing FreeBSD Kernel Modules in Rust(research.nccgroup.com)
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by tlamponi 4y ago
It's for a family of four though, so 5% of annual income on average, meaning for 50% of people it's still worse. I'd also think that the GDP doesn't factor in international aid, so 25$ per year for the poorest could be s
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Note that Crucial also belongs to Micron and some other vendors may also use their controllers and/or chips, there aren't that many companies that actually can make those high-end NAND chips end-to-end (Micron, Samsung, WD and Int
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> And as noted inside the article 100+ layer per stack isn't exactly new. Per deck, not stack. The current prevalent 176 (total) Layer consists also of two 88 Layer decks, as the same article mentions (check the table) so 116 layer
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Yeah, it definitively should! Sorry, not a native speaker, and that went under my typo radar.
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by tlamponi 4y ago
What do you mean by that comment? I _am_ Italian.
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Thanks for that! The speculation against the pound and lira I heard of, but that was before my time and the retroactive tax wasn't ever thought in school, at least I'd like to think that I had remembered such things. Not sure how
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> even resorted to effectively expropriating their own citizens overnight rather than missing payments. source on that one?
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> - Countries with broken economy like Italy win Check out this Twitter thread from an Austrian Economist PhD for some data points against that old and outdated stereotype: https://twitter.com/heimbergecon/st
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Like I posted in another comment, the Asset purchase programme (APP) and pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) will continue for some time, so I'd think they plan to use those as lever for such things, iow. the lending rates are
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by tlamponi 4y ago
"The Governing Council decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 50 basis points. Accordingly, the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit faci
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European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%(ecb.europa.eu)
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> However, I do think that one should not arrive at the belief that this kind of > optimisation is warranted everywhere and that code simplicity can also be a goal Definitively not warranted everywhere, especial if premature
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Third party cookies are far from being required by spam or scams and that's actually an example how one can make platforms safer while keeping them open and exchangeable, as for that 3rd party cookies ain't needed at all and it&#x
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by tlamponi 4y ago
1. Who talked about Linux? 2. Who said spam isn't a problem or that this act allows or even enforce to circumvent the strong privacy rules that the EU (not Apple) actually guarantees for their biggest single market in the world? News f
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> Just check out the Rust newsletter - the open positions for each release can be counted on one hand. IMO there's only a tiny selection on that newsletter, it's just not a canonical source for rust jobs. E.g. and again anecdot
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by tlamponi 4y ago
> but there's no job in That's just not true. Rust got already adopted by lot of either big or interesting to work at players (Amazon, Microsoft, DropBox, ...?) and, while anecdotal, I myself get also paid to program rust. >
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by tlamponi 4y ago
The same vector is applicable for Microsofts loader, so not really one that only the externals are susceptible and again no benefit in security. Microsoft doesn't signs arbitrary bootloaders, normally just the shim from RH that needs t
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Note, this is about not booting from signed and verified bootloaders, using the 3rd party Microsoft CA, which need to go through quite some hoops already to get verified, not some unverified and/or unsigned loader. Debian, Fedora, ..
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Data-based summary thread debunking “profligate, reform-lazy Italy” claims(twitter.com)
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by tlamponi 4y ago
If one is somewhat flexible then flying really isn't expensive in Europe too. Just checked Google Flights, and starting from Vienna it would cost 29€ to either Rome or London, 50€ to Malta and ~60€ to some Greek places, return flight i
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by tlamponi 4y ago
I'm a senior engineer in a leadership role and don't agree, so what? Contractors are there to provide value for the company, not to please some managers personal feelings. Their benefit to both, meaning to them and the company, is
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by tlamponi 4y ago
I'm working currently in Vienna, and 5k is a wonderful salary for Vienna living standards, don't get me wrong, but it's also really not unheard of if you're good and/or working in a senior role. In Austria, the &quo
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by tlamponi 4y ago
No I don't, I'm employed in Europe in a leadership role and thus talk with the CEO about salaries and general money flow, and I'm also able to read my pay slip, which is quite detailed and also lists all "Lohnnebenkosten
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by tlamponi 4y ago
no idea of $ but say they'd get 5000€ a month (quite OK for most places europe), the company would need to pay out a bit more here (for some tax/social benefit things), 7000€ would be pretty realistic, so 4 developers could be hir
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by tlamponi 4y ago
Well I most of the time either split the screen into two halves, which is really nice if one needs to work with more than one application, searching some info on the right, pasting/writing it on the left) or for shells often use tmux a

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