ronjakoi

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by ronjakoi 6d ago
I live in Finland, where in "product companies" developers don't always speak great English. Or they might not speak Finnish if they're immigrants. So the employer wants to pick and choose product managers that they thin
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by ronjakoi 6d ago
I don't like that they have that data in the first place. But then again I don't use Chrome.
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by ronjakoi 16d ago
I've been happy with Qobuz as well. I use the third party open source QBZ client on Linux desktop.
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by ronjakoi 2mo ago
I don't speak Korean, but I'm a language nerd. Sometimes for fun I write Finnish in the Hangul alphabet in my journal (requires some approximation/adaptation).
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by ronjakoi 2mo ago
I think it's best for universities to train their own future researchers. Research, science, and the university's own core goals should be the focus of teaching. Anything that spills over from that can be jobs, industry, innovatio
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by ronjakoi 2mo ago
Similar situation in Finland. There have only recently been some consequences for the berry companies and reforms are underway. The pickers would come mainly from Thailand with tourist visas. This year a majority of the visas have been deni
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by ronjakoi 3mo ago
Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.
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by ronjakoi 3mo ago
I have one stashed away. Bought it from a Dutch importer in the late 2000s. I also ran OpenBSD on it for a while.
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by ronjakoi 5mo ago
They are deliberately not looking at coreutils code because the Rust versions are released as MIT and they don't want the project contaminated by GPL. I am not fond of this, personally.
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by ronjakoi 5mo ago
What's wrong with typing 2:1?
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by ronjakoi 5mo ago
In Finland, we make an independent computer magazine called Skrolli that comes out 4 times per year. Our issues are about 120 pages each, but with hardly any ads.
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by ronjakoi 5mo ago
You should start a xanthina where you serve various xanthinated beverages.
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by ronjakoi 5mo ago
I've been growing bonsai trees for about 13 years. It doesn't have anything to do with computers, so it's a nice counterbalance to my software job. I don't really even take pictures or videos of my trees, I want to keep
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by ronjakoi 6mo ago
Are you sure?
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by ronjakoi 7mo ago
The question is more about the hardware. Back then, TLS existed but was used sparingly for things like banking, because of the computational overhead, at both the server and client end. Today's computers are so much faster that we don&
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by ronjakoi 7mo ago
I work with PHP, where classes are supposedly a lot slower than strings and arrays (PHP calls dictionaries "associative arrays").
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
I used to have alias rm='rm -i' for a few years to be careful, but I took it out once I realised that I had just begun adding -f all the time
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
I used to run Gnome on 8 MB in the late 90s
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
That's an unreasonable ask. I'm not gonna fiddle with the brightness of my monitor throughout the day, thanks
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
Finnish case markers vary a lot from word to word, because of not only vowel harmony but other features of the word stem, and consonant gradation which is a weird feature of Uralic languages. For the subtraction example, some numbers would
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
Essentially you could write equivalent code as (vähennä 5:ttä 3:lla) in Finnish
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
I haven't had any meat in about 20 years. But I also don't live in the US.
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by ronjakoi 8mo ago
But that's what Linux distros are for, package maintainers watch the CVEs for you, and all you have to do is "apt upgrade"
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by ronjakoi 9mo ago
On mine, I don't. Any interactivity is too much hassle for me to worry about wrt moderation etc. I also don't particularly care what random people have to say. If my friends like what I wrote, they can tell me on Signal or comment
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by ronjakoi 9mo ago
Or even just a microsecond emergency.
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by ronjakoi 9mo ago
Will the time it takes you to answer depend on the mass of the person asking?
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by ronjakoi 10mo ago
Cool band name, too.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
I'm 40 years old and have lived in the Helsinki metropolitan area my whole life. I have a licence, but I have never owned a car because I don't need it. I drive maybe twice a year when I need to go somewhere I can't reach by
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
For those who speak strong English, yes

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