antoinevg

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by antoinevg 7y ago
I'm so sorry you are being downvoted. The current enthusiasm for psychedelics is making it very difficult to talk publicly about all the dimensions of a highly nuanced topic.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Oh believe you me, after decades of this kind of crap us non-Americans have become quite cautious about buying American products!
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by antoinevg 7y ago
It took me a decade of tackling no projects at all to get back on a (different) horse. Healing takes as long as it takes and you cannot predict the person you will be on the other side.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Buy one of these: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics... …and read this: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/ Highly recommended!
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by antoinevg 7y ago
You don't have to screw the engineers to safeguard your investment from fraud. Come up with a different mechanism if you ever want anyone competent to work at your startup.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Same thing on my 2018 MBP 13"
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by antoinevg 7y ago
My apologies.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Yes, you still get this UI.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Don't be a cunt. We have a load of mission critical software that is not supported under Catalina.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
The world he created was all around you by the time you were born so you probably wouldn't understand.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
No accident the article misses facts, it's a propaganda rag: https://spectator.org/about/
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by antoinevg 7y ago
1. Not making it clear to the client up front that I'm charging for the week whether they have enrolled me in their IT systems or not! 2. Not making it clear to the client up front that if they wanted me to do the work the following we
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Unless you are a founder or investor even a massive exit won't cover the money you would have made if you took the FAANG offer. Employees don't make money working for startups (anymore).
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by antoinevg 7y ago
At some point we may need to discuss the cumulative effect of all these ill-considered UI changes on system security.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
“Amazon could be a leader, and they have the resources,” Fagan said. “They could be a leader in providing good occupational health care to their employees. And they are not doing that.” BEZOS, YOU HAVE FAILED YOUR PROFESSION!
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by antoinevg 7y ago
We specifically invested in UI equipment because it respected the boundaries of our networks. If this is their final position we will no longer be purchasing UI hardware moving forward.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Please enhance your understanding, your world will be richer for it: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Privilege#Privilege_blindness
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by antoinevg 7y ago
You mistake my intent. I'm not trying to "go to the wall" because I want to win an argument with you. What I'm trying to do is use an example of another kind of discriminatory behaviour which is socially unacceptable to
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by antoinevg 7y ago
> Of course, I'm sure you'll find plenty of people who vehemently disagree with me ... and will make you a protected class soon enough. Not asking for special privileges or protections. Asking for the same privileges and protec
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by antoinevg 7y ago
> Let's face it: for neurotypical people, a lot of autists are very hard to get along with. Their behaviour is not always predictable in the way that we need behaviour to be in a workplace; and when more pronounced, their specific n
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by antoinevg 7y ago
…or has a sense of humour about it! ;-)
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by antoinevg 7y ago
...which really makes it worse: 1. Our programming language has an attribute called "autocomplete" with two possible values: "on" and "off" 2. We will now (without consultation or announcement) simply start ign
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by antoinevg 7y ago
How about we just stop generalising across each others projects, teams and environments? This stuff is always highly context dependent and the ongoing efforts of everyone to pretend it isn't makes it extremely difficult to have adult c
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by antoinevg 7y ago
You absolutely do not need free hardware to build free software. It was decades before the PC's we used to build FreeBSD, GNU, Linux etc. had even a free software BIOS available. Historically, free hardware availability has followed in
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Exactly. Everyone keeps bringing up this legendary "app store featuring safe curated content" keeping the "ordinary user" safe but the reality is both Google & Apple's stores are riddled with deceptive apps, sca
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by antoinevg 7y ago
If Apple banned it _without_ Chinese pressure it would be even worse!
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Self-compiled Android without Google services is not a bad place to start. That said, these single-vendor proprietary mobile platforms are all dumpster fires so it may be time to start developing a free software alternative.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
No one should get to decide is the point. You may be a bit young to remember this but it was once possible to install any software on hardware you owned without permission from the manufacturer.
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by antoinevg 7y ago
Antitrust moves slow but when it comes it hits like the proverbial hammer smashing a wall-sized tv screen. Remember when all the Microsofties were gloating about how it was never gonna happen to them? Pepperidge farm remembers…
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by antoinevg 7y ago
> What's wrong with 'to see how you program', though? * Dear dentist, can you please show me how you fill cavities? * Dear lawyer, can you please show me how you law? * Dear surgeon, can you please show me how you operate?

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