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by techcode 8mo ago
While 100K itself is indeed impressive - the order of magnitude difference between 100K and 1M makes a lot of room for interpretations, rationalizations, spins ...etc. The "publishing the set of tools and criteria used to generate esti
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by techcode 8mo ago
The tring that Ukraine and Arab Spring have in common - is that same folks that managed to bring Milošević down in Serbia (known as Resistance/Otpor), later went on to talk/teach protestors in Ukraine, Egypt ...etc. Check out #Pos
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by techcode 8mo ago
Of course you can fake a small/large crowd in a protest. From the top of my head I can think of news reporting both "few (tens of) thousands" vs "hundreds of thousands" (different news reporting different numbers&#x
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by techcode 8mo ago
In the age of centralized broadcasting where everyone watched the same TV channels ... Those TV channels were virtually always (and to this day still are) controlled by "the government". Meanwhile other TV channels, if there even
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by techcode 8mo ago
I haven't gotten around to experimenting with https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/templates and https://old.calculate-linux.org/main/en/calculate-assemble TL;DR: you can pre-configure and keep u
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by techcode 8mo ago
When you say "There are precompiled versions of big popular binaries" - were you thinking of "firefox-bin" and such? I think that for some years already - Gentoo has been providing binaries for "normal" package
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by techcode 8mo ago
This "I'm using the most basic from the available profiles and tweak everything manually in package.use" sounds like me 10-15 years ago. Then one day at work I wanted to print something and I think I needed to add LDAP and CU
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by techcode 8mo ago
Yes it does. AFAIK Calculate provides more profiles (predefined set of use flags) - instead of just Gnome or KDE/Plasma - it also has Cinnamon, LXQt, MATE and Xfce, as well as one for server(s). And Calculate also provides binaries for
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by techcode 8mo ago
Download image from https://www.calculate-linux.org/ - put it on USB flashdrive. And it's literally yes, yes, next, next - the defaults are pretty good. 1) Calculate Linux is 100% Gentoo with more profiles (e.g. server
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by techcode 8mo ago
Try https://www.calculate-linux.org/ - it's 100% Gentoo, with prebuilt binaries ;)
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by techcode 8mo ago
For those that don't want to wait compiling for everything - https://www.calculate-linux.org/ It's still 100% pure Gentoo (and actually these days even vanilla Gentoo itself offers precompiled binaries) so you sti
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by techcode 8mo ago
I've had quite the opposite experience with Microsoft. One time their support just give me a licence for a newer version of Windows - I've replaced the HDD/SSD, cloned/copied it and it was not activated. I contacted thei
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by techcode 9mo ago
Any idea if some (perhaps many) of those enrolled students were from Udemy's corporate clients? When we used to have access to (not all, but a lot of) Udemy through work - I could enroll into seemingly unlimited number of courses. And
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by techcode 11mo ago
Depends on what you mean by this in "been doing this"? While work now mandates "If you want to use Linux, it has to be Ubuntu" (and I complied). On personal front - about a decade ago I've moved from "vanilla&q
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by techcode 1y ago
"too dumb to get a FAANG job"? As a diagnosed ADHD person myself - I think you should spend time to get that ADHD diagnosis Even without meds, stuff like CBT helps. Anyway - not sure if they are downplaying FAANG salary, or its m
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by techcode 1y ago
I think that salaried devs (and related tech folks) are in the top x% locally - basically everywhere. There could be a big spread from smaller tech companies, and governments/police/military/etc that pay low even for tech pos
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by techcode 1y ago
Waste of time you say? Were never life changing? I'm curious to hear what's your definition of "life changing"? Salaried tech compensation in Europe grew quite a lot over the last 10+ years. Still behind US, but no longe
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by techcode 1y ago
Our house in The Netherlands is now 3x more expensive than 13 years ago - from ~€200k to ~€600k. We got lucky to move to NL and then buy house just around the time when post 2008 crisis was at the lowest point. Some houses are only 2x more
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by techcode 1y ago
I didn't get the scam feeling in restaurants in Croatia. Might be due to us (wife born in Croatia, myself in Serbia) being "effectively local". The only unusual (though turns out it's the new norm) thing was brown skinne
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by techcode 1y ago
We're mostly agreeing. And while digital nomads and expats are indeed apples and oranges. It seems you're missing the parts where they are the same? Both digital nomads and expats didn't cost the country anything while those
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by techcode 1y ago
While I agree that appeals to authority are suspicious - no idea how "I know a thing or two about tourism" could be interpreted as claiming "authority on the economic impact of tourism". So far your views/opinions s
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by techcode 1y ago
I'm not C-suite - I gave up on management track long time ago. I'm still waiting to see how/why my order of who's using public infrastructure is wrong/opposite. Care to explain?
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by techcode 1y ago
That's something for regulators, politicians and society overall to figure out. Personally - I'm happy for my taxes money to be used for police or firefighters (and other things) and I still hope I never really use/need them.
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by techcode 1y ago
It's not clear to me. Perhaps we have different ideas about what "taxpayer resources" and/or "public infrastructure" is? I was highly skilled migrant/expat, now "naturalized Dutch", and work for
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by techcode 1y ago
I'm not saying that digital nomads should be completely exempt from contributions. I am saying that over their lifetime - they use much less of the societal services in their "remote/nomadic" locations compared to lifeti
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by techcode 1y ago
IMHO it's not really good comparison? What would be ultra touristic places in Poland? Both Split and Dubrovnik are ultra touristic, and say Amsterdam is similar. Also the part of really old streets/buildings that are UNESCO and su
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by techcode 1y ago
Nomads and even more permanent expats use less of the infrastructure and amenities. Not just for periods before and after they are living there - also during their stay. For example. If they (nomads) lose their (remote) job - they won'
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by techcode 1y ago
"Locals are subsidizing their lifestyles" Same feelings towards non-nomadic Expats in The Netherlands - because of the "30% tax free for Expats". Meanwhile the truth is that some 15-20 years ago - Dutch government introd
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by techcode 1y ago
For FIRE - maybe check out Serbia (IIRC >1 year no CGT) as well as Greece, Malta, Cyprus ...etc.
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by techcode 1y ago
Can you share more specific place(s) in Poland and Croatia for your "infrastructure and quality of life" being 2x different? And what infra and what are you looking at for QOL? And the weather - well personally I haven't been

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