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by xtracto 4y ago
Mexico has some strong unions, one of them is the SINDICATO NACIONAL DE TRABAJADORES DE LA INDUSTRIA. AUTOMOTRIZ (auto maker/manufactring union). Still, there are lots of cars manufactured in Mexico which are of quite high quality[1]:
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by xtracto 4y ago
Related question: any of these podcasts that is available to download In mp3 format on a pc? I want a podcast I can copy to an mp3 player for swimming. But most platforms dont provide mp3 downloads
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by xtracto 4y ago
I was just thinking that it would be great to do something like seti@home but for an open libre super LLM: Install a client that would help run / train the huge llm and you get Access to the network to do queries. Kind of how napster
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by xtracto 4y ago
I blame this to political correctness. Someone who is fat is only that. She/he is overweight, unhealthy and got a problem. They should get help and get treated. That's it. If someone tells them that, they should take it as an ox
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by xtracto 4y ago
DAI also depegged. Apparently DAI has 40% of its reserves in USDC... stupid kids.
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by xtracto 4y ago
Deploying more capital, steady lads!
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by xtracto 4y ago
I dont agree with Copyright and also dont think the punishment was deserved. I also did some cracking and keygens in the 90s (for fun, never released anything). Nevertheless, my making argument against doing and condoning what this guy di
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by xtracto 4y ago
That's the kind of info that I loved that was circulated at that time. I remember playing with TSRs and Mode-X. I made some stupid virus-like program and played extensively with graphics as well... Nowadays, I am sad it is not as easy
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by xtracto 4y ago
You just brought me great memories of me and my dad setting up those hand-operated black and white logitech scanners. Having to connect custom ISA cards and manually configuring IRQ ports and DMA channels in the cards. Normally done throug
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by xtracto 4y ago
It is sad that you are being downvoted. The comments are generally the tipical knee jerk rage reaction HN has after they decided to feel "betrayed" by a company, and yours is one of the few not following the groupthink. I dont ha
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by xtracto 4y ago
Thanks for this. I was a heavy NNTP user back in the early 90s and will have a look at your recommendations. I've got a lot of spare disk space ,(several TB)... maybe I could setup a mirror. Also, with current BTRFS compression, it sh
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by xtracto 4y ago
What about monk fruit? I've heard good things about it.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I agree... it's just attractive in a morbid way but really boring and the type of conversation that it can bring is either circlejerk or flanebait.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I was thinking of something like this. Maybe have a bot that automatically archives and uploads everything to some site? To archive.org maybe?
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by xtracto 4y ago
Ive had tinnitus for 20 years. I follow possible cures quite close. Right now the closest to a scientifically proven cure is Susan Shore's device (combination of vague nerve stimuli and sound). There are other possible treatments but t
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by xtracto 4y ago
>retaining David Boies to represent us, That name!!! I followed the SCO lawsuit closely through Groklaw and /. back in the day.
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This has a lot of potential. It becomes a bit repetitive after the 3rd or 4th article. But overall I think I could listen to it every day for 20 mins.
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by xtracto 4y ago
Location: Remote (US central time) Remote: Yes. Only remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node, TypeScript, React, Ionic, Python, Pandas, Docker, SQL (Postgres), AWS. I've done a lot of stuff that wont fit here. Resume: https
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by xtracto 4y ago
I just read the wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit Chilling. And I found this part extremely sad: >In November 2015, Levison said that work on DIME was still progressing, although slower than he woul
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by xtracto 4y ago
Imagine the time when you get an app like that does this effect, and then tells you: it will cost you $2500 to have the required procedures to permanently look like this in real life. Referring you to your closest plastic surgeon. The futur
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Do you remember crackstore? That was my goto place to find software for cracking.
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I remember serials.ws with its frame based we site... had all the keys you'd need. Also there was a windows program that was basically a database of keys and serials.
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by xtracto 4y ago
Ha! That reminded me of a time in my teens (25 years ago). I have always been extremely shy, and thus was the one in my (male) friend group without a girlfriend. Two times, a friend of mine fixed a meeting with a girl (different girl each
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by xtracto 4y ago
Ha! I just wrote a very similar reply to another comment. I use Linux in my personal laptop and about 6 months ago moved from vanilla Chrome to Edge because of the vertical tabs. The UI is really neat with the grouping and coloring. I als
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by xtracto 4y ago
Actually, I've been using Edge as my main browser in Linux for the last couple of months. The main reason is that it is the only Chrome based browser that has a good vertical tabs interface integrated. They are pretty good, with groupi
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by xtracto 4y ago
What's up with those pricing plans? it goes from $0 (3 users) to $80 ($20 per user for 4+ users) per month.
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by xtracto 4y ago
There's an AMAZING managing podcast that I never get tired of recommending called Managers Tools [1], where in one of their episodes they talk about hiring/firing: They correctly mention that, as a manager, you should be able&#x2F
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by xtracto 4y ago
By that structure, the maximum number of people that such a company should have is 7×7×7×7×7 = 16807 Given the best practices of number of direct reports [1]. How would you deal with the rest 30,000+ Full time employees that Facebook has? [
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by xtracto 4y ago
Mhmm I disagree. A couple of months ago someone in a city subreddit I frequent came asking for help. I wanted to give him some money anonymously, so I used a cryptocurrency to do it. Any other methods available in my country could trace d
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At this point, Microsoft should do whatever it can to make a deal with Apple to place a ChatGPT powered platform in the iPhone/i Devices. Most of the people using "computers" nowadays do it through mobile phones, and Google h

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