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by curiousguy 7mo ago
Wouldn’t this be a side effect of everyone buying only indexes funds or ETFs? Me and other millions of people are investing in our pensions every month and buying ETF (S&P500 or global) and indirectly buying Tesla stocks even if we don’
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by curiousguy 11mo ago
I tried that, but this completely removes the transparency, and some apps look even worse and harder to visualise as it’s not designed to not have the transparency on iOS 26. This could be significant improvement if Apple let us choose the
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by curiousguy 1y ago
The point 2 is an important one, I used RSS for years but had to stop using it as I was way too anxious trying to read everything. I started using again, but I have a few rules: all the feeds only refresh once week; and any news feed (like
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by curiousguy 1y ago
The lack of devs that understand the domain knowledge and the codebase will be the main issue. I would say that the current capabilities of genAI is like a junior dev, sometimes even a mid-level. But one main difference is that a dev is slo
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by curiousguy 1y ago
Minor annoyance, but just a few limitations and restrictions, after all you need a smartphone and internet connection. So.. when paying in a store, you need to open your banking app in your smartphone, and if you’re in an area with bad cell
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by curiousguy 1y ago
When people say that Google Search is broken because the internet changed and it’s not google fault, I point them to YouTube search. With YouTube, Google has full control of the platform and its data, there is no excuse for why the search i
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by curiousguy 2y ago
I don’t think this is the correct comparison. The iphone doesn’t just die after 5 years. I still have a 10 year iPhone 6 and a 8 years old iPhone 7 both still working just fine. Apple stopped releasing OS upgrades with NEW features, but the
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by curiousguy 2y ago
Great post. I was also raised by the internet. I have loving parents, but grew up poor in a developing country, surrounded by people that only care about football and soap opera. If it wasn’t the internet and forums like slashdot or Hackers
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by curiousguy 2y ago
I requested deletion of all my data to 23andme, but they said they keep “Genetic Information”. Does that mean 23andme still has my “SNPs”? (I’m based in Europe) Message I received by email: > 23andMe and the contracted genotyping laborat
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by curiousguy 2y ago
The modern immigration is a lot different than in the past. Amsterdam, London or New York offered no support to immigrants, more like the opposite, where immigrants worked themselves to death in factories, plantation, mining, etc. And moder
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by curiousguy 3y ago
> I personally have known several people. They are not narcissists. They are literally 100x talent. I guess this can varies per company. It’s not difficult to be a super star in a dinosaur company. After all, “In The Land of The Blind, T
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by curiousguy 3y ago
You can easily put money in your pension and avoid the tax. So if you’re making 125k and put 25k in your pension, you will only pay taxes on 100k. Take advantage of tax wrappers and UK tax is kind of okay when comparing with other countries
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by curiousguy 3y ago
> capable of running all games My solution for this is to have 2 computers. I have a macbook as main computer, with all my documents, study, etc. And I have a desktop computer with Windows for gaming only. I treat this pc as a console, i
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by curiousguy 3y ago
My comment was about entry level programming job. AI/automation will help more seniors developer to a point that most basic tasks can be done instantly and you don’t need to ask a junior dev to do it.
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by curiousguy 3y ago
> makes programming harder, not easier That’s exactly my point. The current scenario where someone can just go into a 3 months javascript bootcamp won’t be enough. In my team, there is a grad dev doing bare minimum work. He has no initia
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by curiousguy 3y ago
> Most people I've worked with go home and watch football after 5pm. Unfortunately, the job market is getting more and more competitive. Software engineers had easy in the last 10 years due to high demand, but things are changing no
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by curiousguy 4y ago
> Because if you do a solid good job that's a 2, but a couple 2s fairly quickly gets you on the RIF train to getting fired. This definitely seems bad, but it’s not common in every tech company. Maybe is something in your company or
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by curiousguy 4y ago
Why do you think you need to achieve 4 or 5? Or even 3? Salary in tech are so high that even with a mediocre bonus, it’s still a good life. For the last two years, I aimed for just meet expectations. Easy job, no stress, just taking some ti
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by curiousguy 4y ago
This varies a lot depending on where you live and your routine. If you’re middle class, lives in a nice neighbourhood and go out into posh areas, the risk is really really low. This is why this Tinder scam is extra dangerous, as it’s baitin
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by curiousguy 4y ago
True, as a man, I want love, belonging, family, etc. But many women, specially in their early 20s, have completely unrealistic and entitled mentality. They don’t offer love and support, but only drama e constant criticism. Going to a prosti
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by curiousguy 4y ago
Latency nowadays isn’t bad or even noticeable. I worked for a company during Covid where I had to remotely connect to a Windows machine, and from there, connect to a Linux machine. The only issue I had was keyboard mapping, specially becaus
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by curiousguy 4y ago
This makes sense, but this should had ask the account password to confirm, which Jeff’s daughter may know and typed. IMO, The main issue in here is BigTech obsession with a single login. One single credentials give you access to everything,
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by curiousguy 4y ago
> I don't like all of it, but it gives one coherent top-to-bottom model. Completely agree. Bob Martin “Clean” has some really good recommendations, and some subjective advices. Normally the dev team can use this mental model as base
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by curiousguy 4y ago
> I call them “twitchy smart”, I call them “cowboy developers“, and product owners and non tech manager sometime call them “10x developers” because they can delivery anything quickly. In my experience, they are the worst people to work w
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by curiousguy 4y ago
James’s mistake was to want to discuss taboo topics in _public_ and in a _working environment_. One of the best pg articles imo: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by curiousguy 4y ago
I guess it’s different use case. With my work laptop, I shutdown by 5pm, as I don’t mind booting and opening everything in the next day. But for my personal laptop, there isn’t a defined use time. Sometimes I just want to check something fo
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by curiousguy 4y ago
Same. Amazon is just another ebay at this point. Both have everything you can ever want and more, but way to much hassle to know if what I buying is legit and if it’s from a legit seller. Amazon used to be my first option for years and now
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by curiousguy 4y ago
IMO, overemployment discussion in IT is related to what is the expectations for a software engineer vs a programmer; and full time vs freelancing. I expected for a senior software engineer to not only know the tech stack, but to have initia
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by curiousguy 4y ago
I once read that Sweden has a “huge” subletting blackmarket because of the strict rent control, maybe OP friend was subletting?
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by curiousguy 4y ago
In my case it really helped me too. When using the Apple Watch, I can happily keep my iPhone in my bedroom the whole day. I don’t feel the need to get my phone cause my watch will notify any calendar appointment or important messages (I blo

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