jitix

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by jitix 1mo ago
It was big news a few months back. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2k1dgz142o
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by jitix 2mo ago
In all honesty, I first found out about LineageOS while looking for “pure Android”, then GrapheneOS when I wanted more sane privacy defaults and only then I learned about Fairphone when I started looking for devices to run GrapheneOS and di
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by jitix 2mo ago
Wow I didn’t expect you guys to reply to my comment. Really appreciate you sharing the insights about Murena! I don’t like EU’s stance on privacy at all, it’s a ticking time bomb that WILL be used by malicious political parties as they come
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by jitix 2mo ago
They could partner with Fairphone and each can bring their complementary competencies.
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by jitix 2mo ago
Me too. It was my first Linux back in 2003 and I was immediately hooked. Back then codecs weren't as much of an issue as they were in the late 2000s to early 2010s so everything worked out of the box and the performance on Pentium 4 wi
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by jitix 2mo ago
It depends on your goal. If you want to just work, pay taxes and save money and move back after retirement then maintain your home culture all you want. But don’t complain about PR then. Especially on the basis of how much money you make. B
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by jitix 2mo ago
Then why are you complaining about the language requirement for permanent residency? You knew the tradeoffs and chose them willingly, enjoy your income, invest in your home country and move back once you retire. Simply making higher-than-me
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by jitix 2mo ago
Its a market positioning thing. I will pay platforms that reduce my daily friction over those that don’t. You may not. The overall market sentiment will determine which companies win. I’m saying this as someone who moved 100% off of public
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by jitix 3mo ago
How is it eliminating market competition? Uber, etc don’t compete with google voice and similar services. And its a valid reason for preventing scammers. I am literally tired of scammers on every single app. I still want an open internet bu
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by jitix 3mo ago
As per their financials it’s roughly 50-50. I personally buy groceries and household consumables for the most part apart from the occasional electronics purchase. IMO Costco’s food hits the sweet spot between high end grocery store quality
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by jitix 3mo ago
I think the equivalent of various native tribes would be Romans, Etruscans, Samnites, Greeks etc. The core "Italian" Romans were themselves a mix of various Italian populations and they even fought the social wars to gain equal ri
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by jitix 3mo ago
If your diffs are too large to review your project structure needs change. I go by the broad statement that EVERY line should be read, understood and explainable by the developer. For critical files like package-lock.json I'd also expe
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by jitix 3mo ago
What you are describing is not Google’s alturism but keeping competition in check. If Google didn’t “allow” GrapheneOS it opens up a new market segment for other smartphone manufacturers. Apple really cashed in on privacy for a few years so
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by jitix 3mo ago
Is the solution that global wages are normalized? I’m not an economist but it seems that a lot of things boil down to “X is cheaper in country A” or “Y is more costly in country B” creating arbitrage opportunities for players operating in g
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by jitix 8mo ago
Please.. no more UI frameworks. Can we just agree to make react native to the browser, get rid of redux, and simplify things?
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by jitix 10mo ago
I hope you understand the concept of relative prosperity - The current equivalent would be a factory worker at Boeing. In 60s cars were innovative in US, now Nigeria can outcompete China in cars. Times change, standards rise, competition in
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by jitix 10mo ago
> How were they supposed to predict things would change and agitate for something different without the hindsight you enjoy? By comparing themselves to their counterparts in other countries. By 1955 there should have been alarm bells rin
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by jitix 10mo ago
Europe is quite innovative on per-capita basis. Not like US but the workers there have much happier lives and their societies don't have extreme inequality and resulting violence like the US. China is arguably more innovative than all
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by jitix 10mo ago
A common maxim across all cultures is to "manage expectations" for happiness. And while comparing societal standards expand the time horizon to 100 years, not nitpick one specific unnatural era of history. An automotive engineer i
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by jitix 10mo ago
> Except for free/subsidized healthcare, didn't the US already have those things during the post-war boom? Yes, but education system is being dismantled piece by piece at all levels. I work in edutech and our goal is to cut cos
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by jitix 10mo ago
Cheaper education, free/subsidized healthcare, free/subsidized childcare, cultural norms around family support, etc. Things that let workers focus on innovation. IT workers in cheaper countries have it much easier while we have to
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by jitix 10mo ago
Thanks for pointing out this skewed view of economic history common in North America. The short period of boom in 50s/60s US and Canada was driven by WW2 devastation everywhere else. We can see the economic crisis' in the US first
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by jitix 11mo ago
This could be because of developer fatigue and the trend of forcing backend devs to do fullstack. Its very hard to keep up with the frequent changes to programming models, new frameworks, CSS libraries (why the heck are they soo many?!) whe
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by jitix 1y ago
Agree with mid level talent part, not the middle class part. H1B holders by large don't hold typical "middle class" jobs like accountants, office admins, marketing, sales, teachers, etc: https://www.cnbc.com/2
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by jitix 1y ago
CS grads everywhere are finding it tough, including India - and it wont improve until the AI hype is over.
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by jitix 1y ago
Google does - Google search and maps have gotten objectively worse over the past 2 years. At least in Canada. I have 38 locations in my (huge) city saved in Google maps and it breaks when I ask it to find a way from point A to point B. Work
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by jitix 1y ago
It IS unreasonable to trust individual humans across the globe in 100+ different jurisdictions pushing code that gets bundled into my application. How can you guarantee a long trusted developer doesn't have a gun pointed to their head
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by jitix 1y ago
I like this idea. Do you have any middleware in your current setup that added the contents of this directory to the agent prompt?
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by jitix 2y ago
I meant the “grind”, short term profit mentality of SWE market has become similar to professionals in those fields, not that any of these fields are similar.
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by jitix 2y ago
I used to love getting to know the interviewer and doing things like that but IMO the market has shifted fundamentally on both ends for this to be effective anymore for most SaaS roles. This is anecdotal for US/Canada tech market over

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