grisBeik

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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   Screw promotion. I just want a job that provides intrinsic motivation (meaningful, inspiring work; Flow), and pays enough for me to make ends meet and to save reasonably. There are three problems: - many companies pay like crap, so if (
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   > in English - a word is a word, and the individual letters that it's composed of are almost always pronounced the same way Some context-dependent examples: "read": /ɹid/ vs. /ɹɛd/; "lead": &#
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   Sorry for being a party pooper, but it didn't take me 5 minutes to find an integer overflow in this code (which I've never seen before), as of commit 2443ff581ccd. The public function nsfb_set_geometry() takes "width" an
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   There's this diagram, and there's David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs. "What you love" and "What you are good at" certainly have a non-empty intersection, but that's mostly a distinct set from "wh
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   UEFI is required on (a subset of) ARM(64) hardware. https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   Thanks; this is a great thought! Let me try to refine it: "create irreplaceable complexity for others".
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   > The problem is that vendors of hardware [...] do not want the OS to have full control over the hardware I agree. At least the first half of the presentation blames the sordid status quo on Linux, all the while it is actually the respon
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   by grisBeik 2y ago

   > So what does all the IT optimization bring? Just more wealth for the owners [...] It is time people in IT got to understand this I understand it alright, but I'm trapped. Closer to 50 than to 40, I've got a family to run. I c