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by wink 1y ago
This actually took a while to grasp the concept of. Where I'm living (so far from the coast that it might as well be landlocked) it took a while of eyeballing on a map, but I did find one angle where it's not kinda common sense wh
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by wink 1y ago
OK, that mental overhead of "last used browser" would drive me nuts. My solution is: The system has a default browser that opens default links. On my work machine I have a different browser where I am for example logged in to my p
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by wink 1y ago
As an ESL, both jerk and cheers are 100% words I only learned by interacting with people of unknown or questionable language skills online in the last 20 years, so yeah, make of that what you will. Probably being part of the problem :) (Usu
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by wink 1y ago
The last time the company I worked for was hosting code on Github, Actions did not exist yet and for personal stuff copying some 3 liners was fine, I'd hardly call that "using". "Github Actions might be over, so not wort
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by wink 1y ago
Also if for some reason you get DDoSed you can probably switch that VPS a lot quicker than getting a new static IP at home, if at all.
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by wink 1y ago
Interesting, we had something similar in Germany in the late 90s. Had to dial in with a client and they had a chat, newsgroups/forums and internal mail. - RivalNet http://web.archive.org/web/19980515163616/htt
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by wink 1y ago
Back when you couldn't buy most idSoftware games here I had to go out of my way to let an online buddy of mine with a non-German Steam account buy and gift the collection to me. So it does happen. And I even got quite some duplicates a
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by wink 1y ago
Scala unfortunately feels a lot like Perl. Three people write in four different styles. I mean, that was my beginner impression and at least half of the Scala developers I asked about this agreed. Also I just never found the improvement ove
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by wink 1y ago
My experience for smaller companies is more like: - if you have GMail, people(esp engineering) use docs and 1-n people have Excel on top - if you are all in on MS, then of course no one will use GDocs
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by wink 1y ago
I think you might be biased by where you live. In Germany an electrician's apprenticeship is ~3.5 years (and can sometimes be shortened). So while I am not an electrician and have no deeper insight than what friends who are told me, I
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by wink 1y ago
I have been using https://github.com/tmfink/i3-wk-switch on i3 for years and I just noticed the README also lists sway - maybe it helps.
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by wink 1y ago
But that doesn't make it necessarily untrue for the person you replied to. People have different requirements and I heard tons of stories of "this doesn't work, that doesn't work". It's been slowly improving, b
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by wink 1y ago
Costs in the US have always puzzled me, so the cost/use factor is completely off. Here in Germany I would still recommend getting a BSc in CS if you're interested in the topic.
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by wink 1y ago
If it's doing 10% of chore work, I am not worried. I don't think I'm being paid to 1:1 convert a dumb crud app or rest api from one language to another, although of course you do that once a decade in a typical job.
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by wink 1y ago
Just make the urls a little longer and then you can tell people the posts are generally shorter than the urls.
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by wink 1y ago
I know I'm the complete majority here but I kinda don't go to cafes on my own - so the only chance I'm a customer at all (unless with company) is if I have to kill an hour waiting for something when I also have work to do. It
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by wink 1y ago
Is "endorsing nazi content" a drama that can die down?
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by wink 1y ago
yeah that sounds weird. defaulting to the first (or only) parameter would have made sense.
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by wink 1y ago
I very recently did the math and with my CS job (and my wife's salary) in our early 40s (so both full time for at least 15 years) we could about now have bought the kind of house my parents bought when I was a kid - if it were the same
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by wink 1y ago
Don't worry, every single one of these discussion is a dozen fanboys trying to convince us that our problems back then weren't real :/ (JFTR, was a relatively happy user amongst fellow nerds & family until everyone just s
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by wink 1y ago
Kinda, but if there is only a limited subset of clients and everyone is basically on the one default per platform, it simply doesn't help.
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by wink 1y ago
I mean, different platforms exist just the same as back then. Windows, Linux, Android, iOS (and let's say some nerds will make it work on osx and the BSDs from the linux version). That was a problem back then and it's a problem ri
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by wink 1y ago
I am constantly wondering if we're just the outliers here in my German city (I don't think I know anyone who has ever mentioned a diamond ring in my presence, no matter which generation) or if it's just an American thing. Als
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by wink 1y ago
I've not used cursor but if it's one where every request costs token where do you draw the line? 1 retry? 3 retries? Configurable? Bases on what? I mean, I'm 90% with you but this is at least one where I could imagine a good
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by wink 1y ago
It all depends what libraries you are using and if they are properly documented and thought through. I half remember a recent problem in the AWS TypeScript CDK. I don't know what exactly the Type was, but it was like: You get a SomeFoo
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by wink 1y ago
No, I don't really accept that in the discussion about phones re: size and keyboard. People do ask the wrong questions. Yes, I would buy the phone with the keyboard, but the keyboard is not the single most important feature. After the
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by wink 1y ago
Assuming you had your math education in English. I've only studied CS, but I've had my fair share of math at university and yet most of the names are not recognizable (the concepts are, but it takes a moment to grasp it) because m
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by wink 1y ago
Interestingly I've only ever ran into this problem (as being a problem) in Advent of Code - you need a certain (more exotic) graph algorithm and you only find an example that goes contrarian to your current model. At work I don't
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by wink 1y ago
> Gradle is too ant-like Kinda fascinated by this opinion, I was never a fan of either ant or maven, but I find Gradle perfectly fine for Kotlin, maybe there is either a little difference between Java/Kotlin, or I was mostly spendin
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by wink 1y ago
One exception: sometimes it counts the launcher running (and downloading more stuff), but it's rare for some games, mostly MMOs. So I have personally seen how people did not manage to log in before the 2h were up.

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