leonroy

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by leonroy 1y ago
You could say the same about Apple or any company over 20 years old which has had time to go through a few department leads and culture shifts. I’ve had the Dyson DC02 (1995) - great machine, rubbish plastic in the handle which always crack
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by leonroy 2y ago
> Do you guys require security clearances (in USA locations)? We certainly appreciate applicants with clearances but it is not a requirement. > Can you do visa sponsorship for the German location for Americans? We do not do visa spons
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by leonroy 2y ago
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by leonroy 2y ago
Could it be the language and framework determines the industry and planning/release cadence too? I’ve worked in Java most of my career and anecdotally the Java projects were the most well run and unexciting. The PHP/Laravel and Ja
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by leonroy 2y ago
Didn’t Andrew Carnegie, the very definition of rich and difficult to work for spend a huge chunk of his fortune funding 3000+ libraries? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
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by leonroy 2y ago
> Other than power user distros (arch, gentoo, etc) Linux has been one click install and ready to go just like windows for a decade (Ubuntu, fedora, etc) and provides a very good OOBE nowadays. So my experience with Ubuntu and Fedora on
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by leonroy 3y ago
A lot of downers on AI and I can understand it, part of it is the response to things invented when we're older - new music, new movies, new technologies. I guess most of our brains are less plastic as we age and we resist incorporating
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by leonroy 3y ago
Having had one for years they are fairly expensive, require some not insignificant maintenance and cleaning to keep them running optimally and are made almost entirely of plastic and are not recyclable. A better option would be a carbon + s
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by leonroy 3y ago
That’s disingenuous - part of your compensation at many companies involves the expectation that the work is rewarding or its outcome has some non-monetary compensation. This is especially true in entertainment and media industries where wor
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by leonroy 3y ago
I just bought a Thinkpad T14S Gen3 after evaluating a bunch of notebooks. Compared to my Macbook Air the Mac excels in a couple of areas which Thinkpad is lacking in. Like ambient light sensor, port quality (ie. how recessed the USB-C port
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by leonroy 3y ago
Upgraded from a maxed out 2015 Macbook Pro 15" to a Macbook Air M1 with 16GB of RAM. The new silent laptop is literally twice as fast in every metric. Air: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-2022 vs h
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by leonroy 3y ago
> In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself. I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctive style but from the early 00s onwards there appears to b
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by leonroy 3y ago
Sure - it sucks doing self-learning and working in your own time but when else are you supposed to polish your skills beyond what work projects give you latitude to do? For example I was in a tech company where XMPP was the core of every on
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by leonroy 3y ago
Yeah there are at least two known issues with it under Linux: Display flickering if you have the low power LCD: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Fedora/Random-screen-flickering... Microphone is very quiet: https:&#x2
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by leonroy 3y ago
Is that under Windows or Linux?
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by leonroy 3y ago
I have a T14s Gen 3 and whilst it's a fine laptop it has minor quirks which make it a compromised experience vs a Macbook Air. Screen resolution caps out at 1920x1200 which feels blurry coming from the 2560x1600 a Macbook provides. Its
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by leonroy 3y ago
For context running Slack with a medium sized company workspace: * Slack takes 6.5s to load on my 2021 Macbook. * Slack consumes 366MB of RAM - if I browse around that rises to 744MB of RAM. For the longest time Slack would kill my machine
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by leonroy 3y ago
> It doesn't help that they went full-Brexit, that sort of thing is bound to be offputting to foreign capital. WDYM? Virgin Orbital Inc. are incorporated in the US and listed on the NASDAQ.
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by leonroy 4y ago
I was curious to see if the UK had a similar rise, nope a 14% fall in the same period of pedestrian deaths (slight rise in deaths of cyclists and car occupants though): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/repo
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by leonroy 4y ago
Out of curiosity I looked up cancer rates in Islamic countries (which typically) have far lower rates of alcohol consumption. Seems there is a significantly lower rate of cancer there by as much as 2-3x compared to countries in which alco
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by leonroy 4y ago
AFAIK only the founder of Ubiquiti worked on Apple's Airport product and quit (2003 according to Ubiquiti's incorporation date) well before the Airport lineup was cancelled (2018).
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by leonroy 4y ago
I did the same - ripped all my albums to iTunes but after it slowly became more unpleasant to use for my use case I moved to Roon. It’s expensive but Roon does this at a level far beyond iTunes: https://roonlabs.com/
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by leonroy 4y ago
I last saw Lawnmower Man in the 90s and rewatched it recently with my partner who hadn’t seen it. It seems in 2017 a new director’s cut was made which seems to be the default version you get on Amazon Prime at least. As a result of the re-a
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by leonroy 4y ago
Uh-oh, did you have to call it Leon?
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by leonroy 4y ago
The video is literally Trump in 2018 calling out Germany on their dependence on Russian gas whilst they smirk at him. His words: > “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in
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by leonroy 4y ago
I think as software is growing increasingly complex (and it only grows more complex) it's reaching the level where it will become difficult for a human brain to fully grasp the system. We can only keep going back to the drawing board s
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by leonroy 4y ago
I wonder if it's because coffee as an appetite suppressant causes colorific reduction in people - effectively, they eat less. Fasting has recently been proven to also lower mortality risk by a large amount. > Coffee suppresses your
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by leonroy 4y ago
A few years back a comparitive analysis was made of past president's vocabularies and their grade level: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-ob... Politics aside it does seem that presidents have
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by leonroy 4y ago
AFAIK it's closed source, it's a perpetual license for $10. You can run it on 5 servers and it offers unlimited updates. I was wary initially but it's a solid, very well made and reliable product. Surprising how much function
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Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant(theverge.com)
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