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by uhtred 4y ago
It seems to me people get tempted into management rather than promoted. It's a shitty job that they agree to do because the money is better and they like having power over others.
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by uhtred 4y ago
I'm not sure what to make of this. Does it mean Google, Amazon, whatever companies do all this leetcode stuff in interviews are just full of people who have superhuman motivation to memorize stuff but perhaps don't really understa
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by uhtred 4y ago
I always feel a bit of a fraud because I am not at all into things like woodworking, tinkering, fixing, making. I don't even enjoy solving puzzles much tbh.
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by uhtred 4y ago
> Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee. Those who drank unsweetened coffee were 16 to 21 per
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by uhtred 4y ago
Guatemalan coffee is one of my faves too. And Colombian.
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by uhtred 4y ago
Good for you. Personally I prefer my coffee to taste of berries or golden raisins or milk chocolate. I'm willing to pay a bit more it. I guess that makes me a hipster.
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by uhtred 4y ago
DuckDuckGo's infrastructure is owned by Microsoft? The servers that serve duckduckgo.com are owned by Microsoft? This is news to me.
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by uhtred 4y ago
I had no idea exiftool was writen in Perl!
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by uhtred 4y ago
Do you use google only in private browsing mode and via a vpn? Because although DDG are using Bing as a backend, presumably they are not forwarding on cookie data or my ip address to Bing.
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by uhtred 4y ago
> On an unrelated note, it would be pretty cool to have extremely slowly moving and stable languages, projects and tooling out there. To see maybe 3 or 4 releases in my entire lifetime and to have the next generation take over the burden
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by uhtred 4y ago
Go should have died?! didn't Go come out like yesterday? This is why I am hesitant to invest time in new hot thing languages. I swear in 20 years everything important will still be written in C, PHP, Perl, C#, Java, Python (how could I
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by uhtred 4y ago
Cue all the "Perl was my first real programming language but I moved to Python years ago" comments. I wish there were more comments about interesting stuff people are doing NOW in Perl. I'm actually new to Perl and I really e
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by uhtred 4y ago
Something like Darksouls but set on a space station or massive spaceship (abandoned?). Gloomy, dark, creepy, atmospheric, similar approach to level layout/design. Battling aliens and robots or just other humans.
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by uhtred 4y ago
Why are you asking hackernews? Not everything in life can be hacked by techies on the internet even though a lot of them think otherwise. Speak to your doctor and try to see a therapist.
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by uhtred 4y ago
Why not use FPAT: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting...
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by uhtred 5y ago
I've been thinking about tax payer funded public technology infrastructure recently with all the posts about the next google / improving web search. Why couldn't we have a tax payer funded but fully independent office that cr
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by uhtred 5y ago
How is DuckDuckGo a worse version of Google? I get less ads, more privacy, and pretty much the same or better results. Plus I can use my down arrows to traverse the results list!
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by uhtred 5y ago
I don't want my terminal to look and feel like a react app. My terminal is where I go to escape from the modern world.
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by uhtred 5y ago
I'll entertain your idea that god can't / shouldn't stop humans being cruel because of free will blah blah. Ok, god was powerful enough to create the world, why did they feel the need to also create mosquitos? or cancer?
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by uhtred 5y ago
I don't think I suggested ease of use was the number 1 priority? Who are you looking for privacy from? Unless you use gpg/pgp it doesn't matter who you are using for email hosting, a state actor will get in. (Btw, proton etc
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by uhtred 5y ago
If I was going to send truly sensitive information I wouldn't use email anyway, or I would but with gpg encryption, so I'm not too worried about the fact that fastmail might allow some government agency access. What fastmail will
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by uhtred 5y ago
I know you said based in the EU and Fastmail are based in Australia I think, but they are great. Integrates easily with email, calendar, and contacts clients using imap/caldav/carddav. What makes you consider google to be privacy
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by uhtred 5y ago
I really like the new Masked Email feature.
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by uhtred 5y ago
You can install /e/os on a lot of android phones. I've been happy with it. https://e.foundation/
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by uhtred 5y ago
I use Fedora+Gnome, and I haven't ever felt that I am being told what to do. Plus you can totally just install Fedora with a different desktop if that is the case.
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by uhtred 5y ago
I find working as a software engineer very boring. But my interest in computers is still big. Personally I like to ignore all the "YOU MUST LEARN <trendy language/framework etc>" and instead learn the older but very pow
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by uhtred 5y ago
Have you tried using a Linux desktop? I personally find that it doesn't have all the negative things you mention.
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by uhtred 5y ago
Problem is most people don't care. Most people couldn't give a flying f** if their data is being collected, as long as they get all these free services. They don't know or care how much it costs to build/run/maintai
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by uhtred 5y ago
Composition matters more than the quality of the camera. Sure his shot of the gardens sucked because it had half a moving car, some traffic lights, a zebra crossing, etc.
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by uhtred 5y ago
Syncthing, baby.

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