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by jbstack 7mo ago
See my sibling comment to yours. I have no reason to lie.
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I'm not sure I can answer the first question, because I can reach the T just fine with my other finger on A and without contorting my wrist. Also, not that it changes my point, but I don't conform to a rigid version of the home-ro
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by jbstack 7mo ago
See my reply on the other sub-comment. There's no need to accuse me of deliberately contorting the truth. We can keep the discussion civilised. And yes, I would call at least the second point (GDPR) indirect censorship, because it&#x27
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Italy. Examples of sites I can't access without VPN: torrent sites (including legal uses), betfair.com (which I use as a more accurate political predictor than polls), and various non-EU sites which block access because they've de
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by jbstack 7mo ago
If you don't already know about it, I recommend https://www.keybr.com/ for learning new keyboard layouts. It introduces letters one at a time and waits until you hit a threshold speed before introducing the next one. I
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I'm not at your stage yet, but my gut feeling is that I'll reach the same conclusion. I've bought a Glove 80 and figured that since I'm learning something new I may as well go all in and also switch to a a more modern ke
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by jbstack 7mo ago
> All typing guides I’ve seen recommend keeping fingers on home row. If you do that you end up pretty close to what that drawing shows. I type at 130 - 135 wpm with my fingers on the home row. I don't have a posture anything like th
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by jbstack 7mo ago
As someone living in an EU state who has to regularly turn my VPN on and off to have full internet access, I can't agree with you that it's a "hoax". It's inconvenient enough for me that I'm looking into having
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by jbstack 7mo ago
" Please write me some documentation for this code. Don't just give me a list of bullet points. Make sure you include some context. Don't include any icons. Make sure the text flows well and that there's actual reasoning
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Where human performances are staged, the human still needs be capable of learning the choreography. There's a difference between a robot learning the routine vs having it hardwired.
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Humans have a similar weight and can also fall, so would you be satisfied with a fall rate the same or better than an average human?
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Why are they mutually exclusive? Can't you hang out with and chat with other programmers ... about food, hiking, travelling, culture, or relationships? In the same way that lawyers don't have to talk about law, and doctors don&#x2
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by jbstack 7mo ago
One way to solve this it to use a configuration management tool (Puppet / Chef / Salt / Ansible etc.). Alternatively, run NixOS. You apply the setting once and then it's applied to all your machines from that point onwar
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I don't understand your point. We're talking about ways to reduce dependence on big corp products. Some people object on the basis that it's not always feasible. I've responded that it doesn't have to be all or noth
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I don't see any contradiction here with what I said. If you feel that using Google for email is unavoidable, that can be the part that you keep using. You can still easily ditch a lot of other things. E.g. Pixel phone, Google Docs, Goo
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by jbstack 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be a binary choice between "don't use it ever" and "continue using it as much as you are now". If people stopped using these services 50% of the time, it would have a huge impact.
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by jbstack 7mo ago
There's nothing wrong at all with charging for your product. What I do take issue with, however, is convincing everyone that your product is FOSS, waiting until people undertake a lot of work to integrate your product into their infras
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I wasn't referring to you specifically. It's a general thing. Often the only thing I have for someone is their email address.
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by jbstack 7mo ago
> If you work for a company that uses them, you ought to have them installed on your work machine. This is not unreasonable. I covered that with " It might be fine in certain contexts (e.g. team members... " and " it break
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Where's the boundary between "natural" and "artificial"? If we're allowing processing in the definition of "natural" (e.g. extracting a chemical from a plant using a solvent) then everything is natu
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Even if they communicate visibly it doesn't always work. I don't use slack / pagerduty (not even sure what that is) and I'm not going to install or set up an account on some random proprietary service just to meet the de
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Replace normal with common, and my original comment stands. In many cultures people often casually say "how is it going?" when they don't mean it literally and they are just expecting a token "good, you?" in respons
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by jbstack 7mo ago
You're taking my comment out of context. This isn't about neurodivergents, it's about someone who thinks everyone should conform to his highly detailed rules (the article isn't only about not apologising - he has other d
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by jbstack 7mo ago
(1) I don't have Jira, (2) I don't want to fill out a SLA ticket, (3) I don't use Teams, (4) I don't know your phone number and/or prefer to deal with things in writing. Email works because: (a) it is ubiquitous, (b
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by jbstack 7mo ago
For me the point is that if you feel uncomfortable over something that is widespread and considered normal social etiquette, it's on you to deal with feeling uncomfortable, and you can't really expect everyone else to change the
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Are you really inspecting every app you install, including all its dependencies, and the dependencies of those dependencies, to a level of detail sufficient to identify sophisticated and obfuscated backdoors? In the real world, nobody does
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Now there's a related problem in the premise: it pre-supposes that the company has an unlimited amount of valuable work to be done. If that were the case, all companies would simply expand their workforce as much as possible all the ti
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Ok, but this ultimately just comes down to a debate over the amount of the cost. The principle is the same. Even if we double or triple the cost, it's a drop in the ocean for a company like AMD.
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by jbstack 7mo ago
> The calculation is "what could that engineer be doing instead and what is that worth vs fixing this issue?" I don't agree with this, because it pre-supposes that there's a limited number of engineers available. The
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by jbstack 7mo ago
I didn't say I don't believe it happens. I'm saying I don't believe it's a based on a cost benefit analysis. I.e. that in a multi-billion dollar company someone consciously ran the numbers and decided "it'

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