marc_abonce

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by marc_abonce 12d ago
> best to do it as part of a non profit or other organization I've always thought that universities would be a great safe haven for exit nodes, probably managed by a student club but using campus's infra (with their fully infor
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by marc_abonce 6mo ago
One thing we can do to slightly mitigate this as devs is to use Firefox ourselves while working on our job's front-end. Even if the company doesn't prioritize Firefox, we can make sure it works in the browser while doing our norma
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by marc_abonce 9mo ago
How does copyright work with recorded music? The article mentions that Charlie (Bird) Parker's music is now public domain in most of the world (life + 70 years), but most of his records are collaborations with other artists like Dizzy
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by marc_abonce 9mo ago
> The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests [...] > The dbsqlfuzz engine is a proprietary fuzz tester. It's interesting that an open-source (actually public domain) software uses some proprietary tests. It never occurred
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by marc_abonce 9mo ago
Case in point: @testing-library (the JS one for React, Vue, etc.) Besides, this type of overly generic names makes it harder to search relevant stuff, which makes them more annoying to me than silly names.
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by marc_abonce 10mo ago
Oh yeah, "creerse" and "creérsela" definitely have different connotations from "creer" even if they're technically conjugations of the same verb. I found an article that offers "fall for it" as a
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by marc_abonce 10mo ago
Intuitively, I agree with the thesis. But the example for Spanish confuses me. One of the illustrations says: "Absence of negatively biased mental verbs in English slows down the development of Theory of Mind. Children acquiring Spanis
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by marc_abonce 11mo ago
It's true that learning an alphabet shouldn't take as long as learning the entire language. However, there's still a difference with cuneiform: All of the examples you mentioned are derivatives of the Phoenician alphabet, whi
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I just read "I've locked myself out of my digital life"[1] and it explains a concern that I have and sometimes struggle to explain. > In the boring analogue world - I am pretty sure that I'd be able to convince a hum
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
> F-Droid is different. It distributes apps that have been validated to work for the user’s interests, rather than for the interests of the app’s distributors. F-Droid's curation saved me at least once when I wanted to upgrade my Si
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Yes, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream are mentioned under "Krautrock", as it's usually the case with music databases that lump every 1970's German "progressive" music under the same genre. https://music
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I'm glad that the "new" (post-Flash) version keeps some of the sarcasm from before, even if he toned down the level of spite that he had against some subgenres. There's too many websites trying to be neutral and respectf
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The article has a paywall for me and I was curious about their methodology. Fortunately, Wikipedia has some information: "Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I assume that they mean sending either a direct Linkedin message or an email to the recruiter or hiring manager. When I was recently unemployed I started doing that after months of getting ignored by most companies and, in my experience, th
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I'm surprised with how most of the people that felt worse after the conversation seem to be paired with someone that felt better after the same conversation. I would expect any negative feelings to be reciprocal so I wonder what happen
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Does it? It doesn't seem reasonable to me to effectively ban a non-criminal citizen from the economy and from civic life, not even for "just" six months, no matter how "irresponsible" the citizen is.
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Some banks require an app for pretty much everything other than retrieving cash from an ATM, because they don't have a web app anymore: 1. Transfer money to another account. The alternative is to waste half a PTO to go to the actual ba
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The most important advice for people in this situation, from the article: > I’d say my overarching advice, based on how difficult tech recruitment is right now, is to sadly play along. But — and I cannot stress this enough — make sure yo
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The border is a river. But rivers slightly change their course over time. Croatia claims their original pre-Yugoslavia border, based on the historical course of the river. That's because some of its municipalities follow that old line.
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! Yeah, I'm running ESR 128 right now so when I upgrade to the next ESR I'll keep an eye on these settings.
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I didn't know about this 2 settings but they were already disabled in my about:config. I wonder if Debian distributes a non-default about:config with Firefox.
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
In over 6 years of using Mailbox, I only remember one website that rejected the domain. It's a government website and they only started rejecting "invalid" (non-duopoly) domains sometime this year. I do occasionally get email
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Yes, even OP admits it in a comment down the thread: > Commenter: Sounds like you have no product managers [...] > OP: haha we don't :) we pride ourselves in not hiring any product folks until after we raised our series A. this h
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
In this context, literacy would probably be constrained to accounting or similar forms of record keeping, rather than literature as we know it nowadays. Or at least that's the mainstream theory about quipus today, although their conten
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
> the team took a small sample from the cord’s loose end and used an instrument called a mass spectrometer to measure tiny variations in the hair’s isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. Those isotopes hold clues to a person’s diet, s
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Based on the title I thought that the article was going to include the Mexican Revolution, which also started in 1910.
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Actually, I often find that old Slack conversations can be the most helpful representation of how a program works in real life and how to troubleshoot it and workaround its shortcomings. The official documentation is often too concerned to
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
I know that the article is a joke, but the last one is (or was?) actually used by Facebook as a forced mfa when it suspected a correct login to be "suspicious". Of course, it's also a way to force users to tag their contact&#
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
The article doesn't explicitly mention the IPA but the illustration with the character set compares each character with its IPA equivalent. Same chart, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching
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by marc_abonce 1y ago
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: marc

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