elros

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by elros 1mo ago
Alright, buddy :-)
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by elros 1mo ago
That being said I'll gladly accept Jamaican restaurant recommendations in Taiwan or close to Berlin.
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by elros 1mo ago
If we're going by anecdotes, let's add mine: I've lived in 4 continents, about 15 countries, I speak 6 languages, I hold a few citizenships, I consider myself fairly cultured and not only I've never eaten a Jamaican meat
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by elros 2mo ago
I moved to Bulgaria last year, and while I love the country and its... rugged and quaint people, let me assure you, tarnishing their driver's reputation is impossible. On an unrelated note, studying Bulgarian brought me a lot of joy.
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by elros 2mo ago
> Ive learned leaving soup out and reboiling is fairly common in some cultures which is unfortunate. I know next to nothing about chemistry or biology but I do cook a lot of food, and quite often have leftovers. After many years in Germa
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by elros 4mo ago
On a stressful day full of short deadlines and somewhat overwhelming work, thank you for the chuckle :-)
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by elros 4mo ago
Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...
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by elros 5mo ago
I stopped paying attention when the major browsers started to act somewhat against the interests of ad-blocking add-ons, some years ago. Would anyone who has kept up let me know what would be the 2026 "industry standard" in terms
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by elros 5mo ago
> The Internet-circulating quote comes to mind: Planet Earth is pretty much a vacation resort for around 500 rich people, and the remaining 8 billion of us are just their staff. The Relative Few have got the system set up perfectly so th
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by elros 7mo ago
> Even javascript would have been better for me than Lua. Why?
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by elros 9mo ago
On a certain level, it’s also a question of different parenting philosophy. > Stuff like online communications will come at a later age. Absolutely no reason to start explaining that to a 5 year old. I agree, but I also see absolutely no
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by elros 1y ago
In my experience, if you get a dog you go to the government and pay the dog tax. The dog needs to have id, be chipped, and comes with a token you put on the leash. Part of the process is enforcing vaccination. If a dog has no such token, it
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by elros 1y ago
Whenever I need some sort of quick data pipeline to modify some sort of file into another format, or do some batch transformation, or transform some sort of interface description into another syntax, or things like that, that would normally
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by elros 1y ago
What I’ve seen being done before, not only by lefties but actually by quite a few people, is to shift your paper 45~90°, so that you’re effectively writing bottom up (right handed) or top to bottom (left handed). It can get a moment to get
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by elros 1y ago
Well it's not magic, you still need to learn the skill of how to use the pen properly to write cursive. My argument is simply that it's significantly easier to learn to have good handwriting with the right tool than with the wrong
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by elros 1y ago
PSA for people with "bad cursive handwriting" but who would like to improve it: Write with FOUNTAIN PENS. Ideally on thicker paper, with something soft below (like more paper for example). Different writing systems evolved alongsi
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by elros 1y ago
> I’ve made my decisions, leave me alone! Perhaps you and GP aren't really the target market for their products. Part of why, after many years of Slackware and Arch Linux on desktops I assembled myself, compiling kernel modules, etc
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by elros 1y ago
Next year marks 20 years that I started to code for money. I've been working from home for about 5 or 6 years of those. I'm in my mid 30's so this industry is all I've ever known, but if it ever shifts such that the expe
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by elros 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo
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by elros 1y ago
I believe Portuguese got there looking for a shorter route to India (money) and eventually settled the land for gold, silver, brazilwood, diamonds and sugarcane (money).
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by elros 1y ago
It's been decades and instantly in my head I could hear Cid Moreira's voice. I'm sure I'm not the only one :-) Watching that on Sundays, with my father, as a child. Good memories. https://www.youtube.com/
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by elros 1y ago
Oh, I see, you'd like to immigrate to Europe. In that case, I'd suggest looking at the multiple options for immigrant visas, the rules for which vary country by country. I believe, as others have stated, that the educational way i
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by elros 1y ago
What do you mean with expat? You'd like to get an employer in the US that sends you to work in the EU on their behalf?
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by elros 1y ago
In software engineering there's rarely an objective way to answer "better" or "worse", it's more often a question of trade-offs. An ORM is the choice to trade some performance and a little complexity in exchang
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by elros 1y ago
When storing data, particularly when stored in a relational model, it's quite often better to make sure the data is properly normalized[0]. However, normalized data in the way that suits the data model might not be the more convenient
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by elros 1y ago
You don’t eat plants? That’s interesting, could you share more?
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by elros 1y ago
I thought the apple thing was understood to be a Latin pun between “malum” (evil) and “mālum” (apple). Isn’t it so?
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by elros 1y ago
In any case sounds like you dodged a bullet :-)
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by elros 2y ago
It's 2025, I've used PHP professionally maybe for a few months out of the last 20 years, the languages I use mostly don't have `::` as a token, and still, I find it really hard to refer to it as anything other than Paamayim N
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by elros 2y ago
For those of us who weren’t around at the time, could you d on what made it good? Thanks!

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