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by vertis 5y ago
I've been doing remote contract work since I became a digital nomad in 2018. Before the pandemic it was absolutely a minority of companies that were comfortable with the concept. A lot of them from the Basecamp school of thinking. Sinc
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by vertis 5y ago
It takes effort. Presumably all of the people involved in Gentoo are already busy people and running your own IRC server is just another task they don't have time for. Add to this that potential users then have to discover YOUR server
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by vertis 5y ago
They certainly have the ability to decide on the route their planes take, if not others.
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by vertis 5y ago
I don't disagree with you but I do wonder whether for sanctions to be successful relies a lot on the way the population is feeling about the regime at the start. If they population decides to dig in, then the sanctions start to have a
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by vertis 5y ago
If you're going to use the term statistically you should probably back it up with a source citation.
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by vertis 5y ago
This[0] youtube video has good explanation with the air traffic control audio. The metroliner pilot was cool as a cucumber after being hit. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ph7OR6C90w
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by vertis 5y ago
I can't see how they're still protected really. If you're in organized crime in Washington DC then surely you get in contact with the ransomware gang and offer to pay for any relevant names. Even if they pay the ransom those
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by vertis 5y ago
I know people that feel that way about it. I can't argue, I also had some really great pairing sessions where I learned a lot. On balance though, it was not what I wanted out of programming. I have no problem with people that want to d
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by vertis 5y ago
I had so many negative experience pair programming that I started to find ways to avoid it. There were the pairs the insisted on using vim[1]. There were the pairs that hogged the keyboard. I'm sure there were other things that frustra
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by vertis 6y ago
I was not even remotely convinced that I would find a mechanical keyboard to be a superior option 6 months ago. But I was frustrated after my Apple Magic Keyboard 2 died. It was probably even under warranty, but mid-pandemic that was unappr
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by vertis 6y ago
I want to commend you both for having a civilized conversation about something that can get very heated. Speaking from my own (ex-Christian) upbringing, I got only the vaguest references to people being gay as a child/teen except that
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by vertis 6y ago
What I got from this article was "Person using WiFi complains about another person using WiFi". I agree with your sentiment. It requires communication. De-authing is not going to solve the problem just make enemies if they work ou
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by vertis 6y ago
Programmers have, for the most part, been immune to the negative effects of the way capitalism applies technology. Indeed, we're responsible at times as enablers. If I do an exercise where I pretend that one of the FANG has managed to
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by vertis 6y ago
It's true that a lot of entry-level technology(T) positions look for a university degree as minimum. Unlike some other parts of STEM it's not a regulatory requirement. There are also movements like https://www.nocsdegre
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by vertis 6y ago
I really wish something like this existed at a University level. I started and never finished a university degree in Australia (circa 2000), because I ran out of money and my home life was in a state of disarray (parents mid divorce). 20 ye
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by vertis 6y ago
I wrote a bunch of articles for a community blog/magazine a while back that had a lot of others in the community doing the same thing. Then the "owner" turned around and sold it to some nameless person that wanted to profit f
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by vertis 6y ago
It's more likely that we'll end up in a hybrid environment. Previous companies I've worked for already had clean-desk policies. No-one, not even the CEO had a fixed desk. Teams were assigned areas so they knew where in the bu
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by vertis 6y ago
There are definitely jurisdictions where this has been found not to be the case. In Australia the protection of databases is incredibly murky[1]. Telstra, the privatized government telecom company, failed to protect the White Pages data fro
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by vertis 6y ago
At the risk of a me too thread. I've added it to Firefox as well. I think the final nail in the coffin for Chrome for me was the decision to hobble uBlock Origin several year back. Firefox is far from perfect, but at least it's no
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by vertis 6y ago
Having owned and used the device I can attest to that. It was hard to get it to work reliably, and it certainly couldn't handle either small finely detailed items or bigger spaces like whole rooms. It would do part of a room fine and t
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by vertis 6y ago
The repository readme actually includes a link to a notebook[1] that helps getting started on Google colab. It's as good a place to start as any: [1]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/EleutherAI/GPTNeo
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by vertis 6y ago
I find it strange that these big companies aren't testing across a broad range of devices. I'm a solo freelancer, but the last app I built for a client, I actually went out and bought an iPhone SE, because that was the minimum spe
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by vertis 6y ago
Slightly off-topic: A few years ago I wanted to renovate an apartment. I dutifully applied for the plans from the local council. Only to be told they no longer existed. I had this, "Well then, it was always like that" moment. Didn
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by vertis 6y ago
startpage.com as well.
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by vertis 6y ago
Definite "alternative" as well :) Pretty sure Brave is built on Chromium which might not have Google embedded, but it's still Google owned.
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by vertis 6y ago
This was my first response as well (and posted a sibling that said the same).
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by vertis 6y ago
This is just false though. There are several privacy preserving search engines out there. The fact that they're not owned by a browser vendor is irrelevant. It's also annoying suggesting that it's even necessary for the searc
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by vertis 6y ago
Forbes has ads?
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by vertis 6y ago
This is so true. I was playing with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to create artworks a few weeks ago. It seemed like a fun side-project even if I'm not likely to get rich producing something. That died right about the time when it was goi
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by vertis 6y ago
The use of the term "Jacquard" in this context is really annoying. Jacquard is already a fashion/textiles device[1]. I get that it's trying to 'pay homage' or something, but Jacquard machines are still used tod

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