slykar

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by slykar 6y ago
> turn to the person next to you and whisper a question or look at their notes? Person next to you has the same low quality notes you do. In my group we designated a single person to take notes and after the class you just snapped a phot
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by slykar 6y ago
> You need to find a new university Chances are you will have a similar experience. I'm not speaking about a single professor. I'm speaking about 9 out of 10. I'm not blaming professors tough. My friends have similar exper
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by slykar 6y ago
Education is "free" (paid by taxes) where I come from (Poland). Private universities are not very popular. > People shouldn't just accept this sort of thing as normal It's not "normal", but it's the nor
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by slykar 6y ago
Coming from a different country I don't really know why remote is not the default option. Listening to a professor speaking to himself from a distance of 10 meters is an awful experience compared to a video recording that you can stop&
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by slykar 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by the universal availability of the email. It has the same deploy/configure/security issues any other tool has. It's even worse, because you can send email to "outsiders" unless cert
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by slykar 6y ago
What company I work for did: start a desktop app on a VPS and make it accessible over a web based remote desktop. The app was supposed to run 24/7, so it was additional plus for the customer, because now they could have a computer runn
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by slykar 6y ago
What is considered "working hours" if you have flex time? This sounds utterly ridiculous. It's not like people have Alexa hooked up to company email screaming and flashing their lights at night when they receive a new company
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by slykar 6y ago
I kind of feel you, but those people are new to this (employers and employees). They have no idea what they are doing, they are scared and they want someone to resolve this issue for them. Any experienced person just turns off their phone o
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by slykar 6y ago
Lol. Less transport = less wear on the extra expensive roads. Less pollution, less crowd, less money for oil industry. If anything, people should be blessed and get tax returns for WFH.
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by slykar 6y ago
There's https://brand24.com/ that might do something similar
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by slykar 6y ago
There seem to be an option in Windows that let you specify you are on a metered connection. Probably one could check if the "saveData" option is selected to disable p2p.
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by slykar 6y ago
LTE routers with GB limits. You are connected via Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable. If I've found out some website is using my upload bandwidth without my consent I would just quit using it. It's a dick move to utilize user's resource
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by slykar 6y ago
It somehow works with dedicated USB dongles that are size of a penny. Look at Jabra Evolve 65T. From my perspective as a customer it's an issue with Bluetooth standard, not hardware. The latency problems are somehow solved when using U
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by slykar 6y ago
Did your in-person meetings ever had this many participants? If this many people needs to be involved, then I'll argue a meeting is a nonsense anyway. It would be extremely hard even in-person.
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by slykar 6y ago
You are trying to replace in-person meetings without using cameras? It scales pretty well to a reasonable amount of people. How many people do you need in a meeting? If you have meetings with more than 12 people, then you are probably holdi
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by slykar 6y ago
> By talking to people on a regular basis? So it's like keeping data in a RAM instead of a persistent storage. Does not sound like a good practice. I would also say it does not scale. The advice I usually hear from people running so
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by slykar 6y ago
You can also use the hand you are born with. It will be even more visible. It didn't feel that awkward in school, so we can use it now too.
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by slykar 6y ago
Just raise your hand on the web cam. Move it closer to make it visible.
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by slykar 6y ago
The image I get from this article is that their work is very unorganized? They complain about issued with discussing stuff online, yet they don't use video? > Engineers who worked remotely with the engineers in the U.S. said, “We mi
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by slykar 6y ago
There are already emission limits implemented in EU. A next step would be to make them smaller and more expensive. This would of course harm the economic growth of some countries. UK wants to ban conventional cars sales by 2030. We could go
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by slykar 6y ago
> If you make nuclear available, but it is not competitive with fossil fuel energy, then we will continue to use fossil fuel energy I'll make kind of absurd argument, but how is nuclear not competitive with dying? You could always t
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by slykar 6y ago
Where do you want to go? Living in a city center right now. It's hard for me to find a thing I DON'T have in a radius of 4km, which is a reasonable walking distance.
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by slykar 6y ago
Who says you can't take a walk or ride a train just for the fun of it while you WFH? It will be as pointels as before or maybe more fun, who knows.
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by slykar 6y ago
Or if you still want to pay, then there's MacOS. Never got an unwanted update.
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by slykar 6y ago
> let’s be honest, its actual purpose—is that workers get a lot less out of their jobs than they used to. Do you really belive there is a collective of business owners who thought "yeah, let's outsource everything, because f..k
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by slykar 6y ago
He better hopes no one will start using it. The biggest cost factor is the bandwidth. 30 people can easily generate a steady 100 Mbps usage. A conference for 15 people is about $3/h on any cloud provider
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by slykar 6y ago
"But you wouldn't use XLS. Nobody would start with that." Oh. "Every" sales and business person probably would. Probably.
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by slykar 6y ago
You forget about the culture, work culture, mentality and education in those countries. I don't see a reason why should I make less for the same job just because I'm from a different country. What if you are a digital nomad? In th
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by slykar 6y ago
I've picked PHP as my first language instead of Python when I was a kid, because in Python I saw things like `something[3:5]`. In PHP I could see `array_slice` and I knew what it would do without any prior programming experience. Some
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by slykar 6y ago
Not everyone is English speaking. Mac shortcuts are very easy to remember because they are consistent. I'm not sure what weird symbols are we speaking about? Cmd and Option buttons? They have both a symbol and a name. What about Ctrl a

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