jarcane

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by jarcane 5y ago
> In the past 5 years there’s been 1 rust job in my region of Denmark. It listed rust as a “nice to have”. I think it fares better in the Copenhagen region, but not by much. This is pretty much what killed me on it, and I think the lead
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by jarcane 5y ago
> Editing your Cargo site is not yet supported for this browser; please use a recent version of Chrome or Safari. Yes, that certainly was surprising.
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by jarcane 5y ago
> Real-time collaboration produces better software. Why does every commercial editor seem to desperately believe we all want this? Why would I, as an actual developer, want "pair programming but now there's lag"? I didn&#x
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by jarcane 5y ago
I don't buy TVs anymore, I buy monitors. There's no reason to own a television with a shitty computer built-in, when I can just buy a screen and plug it into my actually good computer. Right now I have a 27" ThinkVision displ
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by jarcane 5y ago
I've started using it as my main browser both in daily use and dev. In the past I had trouble with client projects or dev tools only working in chrome, but I decided that the only way things get freer is to make myself fix those pain
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by jarcane 5y ago
I think you’re rather over exaggerating. For a few emergency boot disk or very low spec, like LOAF or uLinux, sure. But even late 90s, for anything actually practical, 50mb would’ve been quite the achievement. DragonLinux was my go to “ligh
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by jarcane 5y ago
Well, when 4chan started it was basically just a porn board. The idea of actually hanging around was akin to being someone who’s really dedicated to their pornhub comments. It took a few years of those few dedicated weirdos bouncing off eac
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by jarcane 5y ago
My father-in-law was a Finn, born and raised, and had to pay for everything out of pocket because he owned his own home business fabricating HVAC ductwork, and of course got no sick leave if he did get injured and couldn't work. It&#x2
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by jarcane 5y ago
Yeah, I used "retail sector" quite carefully there. The breadth of the conglomerates here is vast . It's sort of surreal to me, even by American standards, that this level of market capture is even allowed.
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by jarcane 5y ago
Finland is historically not especially concerned with monopoly issues in any case. Nearly the entire retail sector is controlled by only two companies.
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by jarcane 5y ago
You don't even get paid more. The apps have been circulating this myth in the press, but it's based on obfuscating of the numbers at best, and outright lies at worst. There's a reason most of their couriers are immigrants: an
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by jarcane 5y ago
Correct. The labor board has issued its opinion that they should be considered employees but it hasn't yet been enforced by the courts. Instead, all Wolt couriers in Finland have been "independent contractors" and had to have
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by jarcane 5y ago
I know some of those people with 6+ hi-res monitors and a huge part of the appeal has to do with how much screen space you get out of that many screens, and I see nothing of this tech that gets anywhere close to what any of their setups can
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by jarcane 5y ago
I have to ask: Who the hell is any of this for? Simula, Facebook's virtual office meetings, all of this virtual office stuff ... ISTR we loudly declared the death of skeumorphism and yet here we are. "Put this dumb thing on your h
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by jarcane 5y ago
Not to mention that going with a third-party host is still relying on someone else's computer being trusted with your data. It's like saying we don't need physical drives anymore because Dropbox and Google Drive exist. And ye
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by jarcane 5y ago
> Start a site on Neocities, share photos on Pixelfed, or write your thoughts on Write.as — to name a few. This would be a more convincing pitch if it didn't end with "now just use different centralized services that nobody use
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by jarcane 5y ago
Yes, physical storage is so much more secure. That's why I bury all my gold in the backyard.
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by jarcane 5y ago
Technically, this includes the people who gave them the Bitcoin. Bitcoin != USD. In fact I seem to recall being told that was rather the point.
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by jarcane 5y ago
I worked at a job once where this was deliberate . Certain voices in the team were terrified of "siloing", and so it was a matter of policy that everyone had to jump tasks and teams every two weeks, unless they had a solid case f
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by jarcane 5y ago
Are you Facebook?
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by jarcane 5y ago
Natural Language Processing is literally a major wing of AI development and data science, but even that isn't really necessary. Matching text on ad-based keywords has been going on since fucking About.com.
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by jarcane 5y ago
I've begun to recognize "unnecessary GraphQL" as a code smell, and one usually indicative of wider architectural problems in a project. I have yet to be wrong in immediately steeling myself for the worst the second I see the
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by jarcane 5y ago
I have at this point lost count of the number of times I or someone else I know on Discord has described getting Youtube recs or ads directly referencing shit they'd just talked about. I started getting blasted with YT recs for weeks f
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by jarcane 5y ago
unfortunately, as I discovered with a recent fresh Manjaro install, VSCodium cannot access the standard MS extension repo, which makes it next to worthless as a production tool because no one is uploading anything to their own repo. I can&#
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by jarcane 5y ago
Yup. And there's exceptions galore too. You can just claim that free roaming will cause "financial hardship" and still get away with charging roaming fees anyway. Nearly every provider in Finland immediately applied the exemp
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by jarcane 5y ago
> In Spain, a Foundation is a very strong legal entity scrutinized by the Ministry of Justice. And US corporations are also "legal entities scrutinized by" the DOJ and the SEC. Look how well that works. The fact that people c
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by jarcane 5y ago
Yes, and it was a shit thing when Ubuntu did it too. Literally drove the creator of Kubuntu out of the project on trumped up bullshit when he wouldn't play along (and also kept asking questions about the 120k of donations that went mis
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by jarcane 5y ago
It's not entirely just because of the NYT article, but the article was the big PR victory for a massive and almost entirely fabricated campaign against Pornhub run by a religious wingnut masquerading as a human rights activist. Krist
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by jarcane 5y ago
Yes. Fundamentally, the problem is cultural, not mathematical. A modern language like Racket with proper recursion optimizations will compile and optimize a recursive solution that is as fast or nearly (and even sometimes faster) than a mut
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by jarcane 5y ago
Blizzard have sued cheat makers outside Asia before.

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