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by shasts 2y ago
stat command gets the detail of when the OS was installed on the machine. uptime doesn't give that. I wanted to say that I have been using the same development machine at work for 4.5 years. "running" was not the right word f
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by shasts 2y ago
Current work machine. Running fine for 4.5 years. $ stat / | grep "Birth" | sed 's/Birth: //g' | cut -b 2-11 2020-06-20 $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources #
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by shasts 2y ago
If you configure apt sources to use testing or unstable upstream of Debian you can get latest kernel. This way, you can also have a rolling distro. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
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by shasts 3y ago
This is quite possible, right? For eg: if you work for a Swiss or US employer and make more than 69k(?), say 100k, as a freelancer, and have a family, you have to pay around 14%(upper limit somewhere around 1000) of the income as health ins
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by shasts 3y ago
Thank you for taking the effort, and for the wishes. Hopefully she find something soon.
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by shasts 3y ago
Bayern. 4 years bachelor's degree in civil engineering, hydro science and engineering Master's.
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by shasts 3y ago
Well I have acquaintances employed here too. And my wife's case is not a single one. I have a friend who migrated from India and his wife used to work for a pharma/biotech firm back in India and had some temporary work here in Ger
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by shasts 3y ago
"TU9 German Universities of Technology e. V. is the alliance of nine leading Technical Universities in Germany" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9 And I have a remote job and we almost have no location restr
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by shasts 3y ago
Can confirm this. My wife has a master's degree in engineering from a TU9(top 9 universities in Germany).And a B2 language certificate. She has not found a job so far. Been more than a year and half since she started actively applying.
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by shasts 3y ago
There is https://www.dns0.eu and https://nextdns.io . I like the 300K requests per month free tier that nextdns.io has. Comes with plenty of filters.
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Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups(world.hey.com)
10 points by shasts 3y ago|2 comments
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by shasts 3y ago
You got sources for this claim? If he has done anything wrong, why is he not in jail for that?
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by shasts 3y ago
Interesting, because Indian Government recently jailed an independent fact checker for a tweet he made 4 years ago. This new body seems to be a tool to suppress dissent and promote the fake news machinery Government and the ruling party is
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by shasts 4y ago
So how would fraud prevention be interpreted? For eg: denying service from a German retailer depending on the ML prediction result of the transaction being classified as fraud probable(Germany has pay by invoice), would also be constitutio
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by shasts 4y ago
If I choose their DNS, the website shows a text at the bottom that says "You are using dns0.eu" How does the website know I'm using their DNS? I couldn't find anything in the HTTP header that would help them with this.
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The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives(world.hey.com)
7 points by shasts 4y ago|2 comments
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by shasts 4y ago
I can understand if it was a small subset of companies that made it difficult for the user. I can show multiple government websites where the UX is broken. There is no profit motive there. But if you live in the EU, you probably have seen
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by shasts 4y ago
The websites make it so hard to reject cookies or selectively accept to make the website work for your benefit. Quick google search about the effects of the law shows various studies done so far to assess the positive impact it brought. ht
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by shasts 4y ago
I fail to understand why politicians thought the cookie dialogue was a good idea. Adds almost nothing to benefit user and huge annoyance from the UX perspective.
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by shasts 4y ago
Fun fact. DHL owns an electric vehicle company, StreetScooter, that produces DHL last kilometer delivery vehicles. https://www.dpdhl.com/en/media-relations/specials/electro-mo...
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by shasts 4y ago
I was concerned with the power draw. But as per the article, it looks like the difference is negligible. I assumed being ARM, pi was supposed to draw lower power. Looks like not the case. Found another study confirming the same. https:&#x2
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by shasts 4y ago
There are privately held companies that has 100B+ revenue per year. Cargill to Ikea
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by shasts 4y ago
Live in a cold country. Hesitant to touch an aluminium laptop. Static electricity and cold metal.
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by shasts 4y ago
The problem I have with tools like this is the latency. Even the git helper info packaged with Oh My ZSH is slow. It is useful. But I really don't like waiting for cursor to appear when I want to type the next command. Haven't fou
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by shasts 4y ago
I fondly remember the days in 2010 in Zurich, and cablecom had good functional internet, don't remember the speed. Then I moved to Germany in 2013, and it surprised me that I can't have internet in my apartment for the next two mo
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by shasts 4y ago
The Wikipedia link is correct, but you are only seeing one side. Getting into engineering schools requires coaching, which majority can't afford. Second, surviving there requires additional skills that state board educated Dalits and l
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by shasts 4y ago
Still remember in 2006, went to a local internet cafe in rural India to fill out the form for requesting Ubuntu on a CD, and weeks or months later postman delivered it. It worked perfectly on the cheap laptop I had, in the first attempt. Th
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by shasts 4y ago
Would there be a backlash from the local community? I think unless the said tech community makes a positive impact to the native society live there, the reception is not going to be welcoming, I think. Majority of the places I have seen tec
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by shasts 4y ago
Majority of Indians IT professionals or majority who has attended college in India are upper caste folks, the main supporters of current ruling party. So the trend is not surprising. Many of them migrated to West and continue to do the same
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by shasts 4y ago
Oh, please. Sadhguru is a politician who talk pseudoscience and a tool of current Indian Government. https://scroll.in/article/927625/opinion-the-disturbing-irra...

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