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by tadzik_ 8mo ago
Deel is one of the reasons why my policy for working for foreign companies is "B2B or I'm fucking off". Everyone I know (employees/contractors using it, not the other side) who went for it hated and regretted it. Singlin
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by tadzik_ 2y ago
Curious. I opened it in chromium to see what it looks like without the adblocker, I declined all the tracking it asked for (violating the GDPR by the way), and I see no ads of any sort. Still way easier to have an adblock/consent-o-mat
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by tadzik_ 2y ago
28 hours (note the date), but still
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by tadzik_ 2y ago
That only gives you the client component though, which isn't very useful when the game servers shut down. Most games these days don't have a self-hostable dedicated server. In case of Steam/Valve specifically it happened a wh
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by tadzik_ 2y ago
Have you tried https://www.funkwhale.audio/ ? It can be used effectively as a "private spotify". Labeling is a solved problem thanks to https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ , and the fact that a lot of t
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by tadzik_ 3y ago
Yep. I recently serviced a Tissot from the late 1930s – it was running fine, it was just a reasonable thing to do after all these years to prolong its lifespan. You wouldn't be able to tell that it needs a service without looking at t
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
I couldn't help myself while reading the other comments, so I asked ChatGPT the following prompt, in an attempt to fit in: > write a reply to the following comment, in a style of a stuck up hacker news commenter. Ridicule the idea t
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
Wow, people are so bad at reading sarcasm that I feel like they've been replaced by LLMs already.
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
This has more details: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-ga...
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
> Imagine spending your whole afternoon trying to dig what "($fc) = /^(.)/" does; a maintainer's nightmare Why are you maintaining Perl code without knowing any Perl though? This syntax is obvious to anyone who w
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
Oh, I absolutely agree – there is an overhead to hiring remotely (especially if you need to operate another business there, like Google does in Warsaw), so if you have to pay someone the same and cover that overhead then it's a bad b
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
If you're struggling to find talent anywhere, why not hire in Poland? As a Polish engineer, we all know that companies are struggling to hire anyone . If you think you can hire a local instead of me for the same money, good luck. From
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
It advertises itself as "Great for all the tech-savy bosses who want to have a quick view of person's git/github activity, before the interview". I guess the tech-savy bosses are savy enough to run this locally with the
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by tadzik_ 4y ago
They don't call it that. "21 jewels" just describes the amount of rubies in the watch movement.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
Ha, I knew it! A20 Lagavulin on Silent always seems like it's down to whether you managed to get enough poison cards for it.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
Better than it used to be is not a very high bar to clear. As a reader, I actively seek the threadreaderapp posters and follow these links to improve the reading experience. Or just go to nitter since I discovered that it's a thing.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
> but as a reader I have no idea if it's going to render correctly on mobile (...). At minimum there'll be a braindead cookie banner taking up 1/3 of the screen This is the reality of reading twitter on mobile if you aren&
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
I'd prefer if twitter just made its interface not terrible so that there'd be no need for threadreaderapp.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
No, not everyone I like passes my purity test, you're right. I try not to judge them too much for it, they have their reasons (largely economical), and it's their call. I wouldn't do it, but I don't condemn them for it
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
Talk is cheap, but so is switching jobs. The broader you go on this the harder it is to avoid, I still pay my taxes even though my government does terrible things with the money, but I don't have much of a choice. I have refused job of
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
If I worked at Norton and this happened I'd be handing in my resignation on the same day because I wouldn't want to be associated with these practices and for anyone, including future employers, to assume that I was involved in th
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
It was renamed as others mentioned, but 6.c (for Christmas) came out almost 6 years ago, on December 24, 2015. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-he...
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
> Turns out Rust was the wrong choice for this particular project Curious. What made it a bad choice for this?
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
Curious – I run my own pleroma instance for myself on a tiny VPS and I'm seeing no problems at all, with remote follows or any other interactions.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
Independent as in: closed off? Servers that don't federate are extremely rare ime, except for the likes of Gab that most people just choose not to federate with.
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
> I'd also love a YouTube Premium style twitter where I could pay $10/month for no ads tweetdeck.twitter.com is their first-party client that doesn't have ads (and also gives you an actual chronological feed and some other
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
> If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash. This isn't that different If $SPY was 40% up since last month, would that be normal? ETH is still currently higher than its value from April 19th. Cryptocurrency market is extreme
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by tadzik_ 5y ago
In Poland it scales over time: you start off with 2 weeks notice (for both sides), after a year or so this jumps to one month, and after 3 years it jumps to 3 months, or something like that. I've seen people quit right before their 3 y
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by tadzik_ 6y ago
Hell, booking.com will even tell you that "your address looks incorrect" (sometimes, I got it once out of two bookings made on a single day), if you dare to use your own domain .com. They used to nag me about "ohh, are you su
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by tadzik_ 6y ago
> Energy that could supply other uses is now not available Could, but often isn't. I don't have a good source other than an obviously biased one ( https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co... )

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