draklor40

Work doesn't offer a M1 Mac. Not everyone can afford to by an M1 mac.

I already invested some money in a laptop last year. not gonna write off a big chunk of that and spend MORE on top of that.

Most of my work is on Linux based OSes. Theoretically I can use a Mac, but I hate Macs. I hate Apple's approach to software (all locked down, but beautiful).

Really like hacking stuff with my OS and I want to be able to replace, atleast basic parts of my computer.

With my current work and personal laptops, I can open the back, replace the RAM, SSDs and even the keyboards (at a stretch).

I never get work done at the couch. Youtube, surfing, browsing, yes. Work ? No.

I like a work desk. Keeps work and other stuff separate. Got a height adjustable desk. keeps my back from going bad before I hit 40.

There exists a good solution. It is called a desktop.

I turned my company provided laptop into an almost full desktop with external monitor, keyboard and mouse, speakers, a USB microphone, USB camera. At this point I am wondering why do I even have a wimpy ULV processor to write code 8 hrs a day. The sheer amount of time I could save by switching to even a basic 4 core 45-65w Desktop class CPU.

Saving pennies on the dollar.

> Despite serialized parts, soldered/glued components, and no available schematics, the MacBook Pro got a pretty good repair-ability score (7/10) because it was easy to open the chassis. Meanwhile, Apple certified repair partners (repair professionals, in theory) are so handicapped by the company that they can basically only replace screens and batteries.

This is precisely my point. It has a 7/10 rating yet, serialized parts (probably locked down firmware as well) no availability of parts GLUE.

How dafuq is this exactly repairable, by you or I ?

Adtech did not get bogged down. It just got consolidated into fewer, more invasive hands (google, instagram, amazon, etc), that have far more data and most importantly can mine and analyze it better than the 1000s of small ad tech firms.

On the contrary this is a praise of how good Internet in India actually is.

Used to work for a small Ad-Tech firm in Germany. GDPR massively dented the business WITH NO BENEFITS to privacy. Advertisers still collect shit tons of data, your website performance is still crappy and the end result was that EU users now have to navigate MBs of Javascript popups, that try to trick me into selling data using dark patterns (blue highlight on accept all instead of Reject all).

All it succeeded was in consolidating the ad-tech space into a few big players and resulted in acquisitions of many small ad-tech firms.

An acquaintance of mine started a medical Tech firm and is now a consultant for dealing with govt. rules on medical stuff. Not sure why he quit , but I believe that consulting for dealing with German/EU bureaucracy maybe far more lucrative than having a medical startup in the EU.

Not to mention, despite the first world status, internet is Germany is Dog-shit. I mean worse than 3rd world crap. I was in Bangalore and I had way better internet 3 years ago.

Only a matter of time before they modify the Law to introduce a catch that makes it practically worthless.

A - A classification system that makes defines how "easy" it is to repair something, but necessarily doesn't mean that you or I can repair it at home.It will be "easy" IF you have the right 50,000 GBP tool.

B - Modify right to repair as good for the environment rule. There will be an escape clause that says that right to repair can be suspended, if the product is very eco-friendly (or needs specialized, exotic materials for construction). Manufacturers will take this route by claiming that they use "exotic" materials and therefoere cannot allow users to repair it at home.

Given how much of EU innovation is bogged down by regulatory capture, I am extremely skeptical of this (note, I know EU/UK are separated, but nevertheless, lobbying is lobbying, universally)

So is Bill Gates' mega-mansion.

I like UBI, but before we implement UBI, we should stop the Central Banks and the governments from pumping money and pushing asset inflation, or otherwise, it will simply end up being a giant spiral of more inflation, more UBI , just as shitty unaffordability of things in general.

Indian living in Berlin. Can confirm. Finding a new apartment is almost impossible and the rents on unregulated apartments is now through the roof. An apartment that would cost ~800 EUR for rent is now atleast 1100-1200 (even for a good developer salary, this is insane).

Berlin is the SF of Europe at the moment. Unless you want to spend 6 months at a minimum hunting apartments I would avoid this city.

Once I get comfortable with German, I am thinking of moving to cheaper, smaller cities , probably in the south and working full time remote.

Its easy. You deliver the feature and then optimize its performance.

What they dont say is that there is never an end to set of feature requests you will get. No matter how many crappy, unusable features you throw in, there will always be a request to tweak this , tweak that.....

Whenever I bring up the topic of performance and speed of software, I used to get "Pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil", but in reality, companies are spending billions just to squeeze an additional 1-2% improvement in compilers optimizations,browser engines, kernels and processors.

Speed matters. I CAN perceive the latency of using an SPA vs using a native application. I notice. the diff. between executing a GNU binary vs running a js based script.

Good riddance. I hate Big$G creepily tracking all of my internet search history from Chromium by default unless I explicitly turned it off.

But its cute that people still think that Big companies contribute to Open Source because they want to "give back". Hell no ! It has been about reaping free, complex technical labour, monopolies (chrome, kubernetes) and marketing for hiring devs.

Got it bro. Good luck with your F-35s.

No they are not. There are requirements for various configurations of planes (Single engine, Twin engine, stealth) and Tejas fills one of them. Besides they just ordered 83 from HAL. There is a Mark 2 also in the works , apart from newer twin engine designs.

I can't be extremely skeptical of the story, the way it is written, almost like reading a US version of Pravada.

BUT, as in the case of Scott Alexander from SlateStarCodex, people/personalities are just discardable pieces of stepping stones for media and journalists to seek attention and play politics. Maybe newsweek is wrong, but doesn't mean the other media portraying Amazon workers are right either.

Hmm, If I were the Indian govt. I'd atleast attempt to sell the Tejas to the US. Engine is American anyway (GE-404), Israeli radar and avionics compatible with a lot of Western block missiles. Would be an interesting reversal of fortunes.

It's sad that the F-35 is in this state. The whole "sensor fusion" (no doubt, overhyped) sounded interesting. I am curious as to how well implemented the same system is on the SAAB Gripens.

They simply cannot handle business that require long term support, lower margins, and communication overhead. As you said, given how effective Stats and Math have been for Search + Ads, they approach every problem with the same Hammer, which even Elon learnt the hard way, is not a great idea (Tesla's production issues with too much automation).

Reading Steve Yegge's posts (on Medium, IIRC), Android and Youtube are exceptions that the management leaves the teams to work indepedently instead of hosting the Google culture on top of them (he cites Android's API compatibility to this regard, which is in a way the opposite of how Google supports its products).

Not related to Stadia, but I had some issue with my Pixel 3a yesterday that it just stopped charging and had to get in touch with Google's support to try initiate a repair (turned out to be a software bug, thankfully). My learning is :NEVER , EVER, EVER fucking trust Google with your hard-earned money, ever FUCKING again. Even their customer support person did not know what is the link that you have click/form you have to fill to actually initiate a repair request and told me basically the process is not worth it.

Yes, but I find it to be too slow at times and IIRC, you cannot customize your domain, or can you ? (I can set a CNAME record , I guess)

You caught the writing vs tool part well :)

I am kind of ideologically motivated about site minimalism (no JS, minimal CSS), which is why I didn't go down the route of medium. Medium is probably the simplest, but as a reader I hate their UI, especially when I have a habit of highlights the para that I am reading and they bring up their annoying share function.

ghost.org is kinda outside my pricing for a trivial blog. 29 USD per month is not in my planned budget, atleast not with the content that I have in my mind now.

Sure, I can answer all of these questions later, once I get an audience, but I was hoping that someone here already might have found a solution that I can use immediately.

Guess I will resort to my backup plan then, have a basic HTML template and copy paste it for each article and edit the content.

Hugo is too complicated for me. It feels like a framework for setting up documentation websites, not blogs. I tried to make it work, but was put off by all the work I had to do.

What I want is basically need is `$script article.md > article.html` and then `git push` or even manually upload it on a form somewhere.

You are paid the minimum the company can get away with. No more, but a lot less.

It is tricky politics. It is hard to explain to HR why someone with such good ratings has to be fired (or the potential of lawsuits), but OTOH, they might think that you are overpaid and classic ageism (atleast what I hear is that if you aren't management by 40s, ICs are too expensive and can be replaced with cheaper 20 year olds to do the same tasks). It is sad that our industry sees programmers as pieces of meat to be replaced when necessary, but that is the hard reality, most of the times.

Partially been in that situation. Usually this is a sign that your Boss feels that your presence isn't wanted anymore and is doing his best to signal you that, without having to fire you.

You could confront him directly, ask him to come clear and/or you can start looking for alternatives. My opinion (I am hardly 30, so maybe think it over), is that he doesn't want to be direct with you , for whatever reasons.

Isn't the term `Red Scare` ? Strange that I get called out for mixing up names :)

Anyway, Guardian, Economist, etc, doesn't really make a difference. They all write the same subservient way about China anyway \__(:-/)__/

What do you mean by `Red Rage` ?

By the common understanding of the word, it is not. Just as “homicide” means killing a person and “suicide” means killing yourself, “genocide” means killing a people. China’s persecution of the Uyghurs is horrific: it has locked up perhaps 1m of them in prison camps, which it naturally mislabels “vocational training centres”. It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women. But it is not slaughtering them.

- Yes, Guardian is so sure that no mass murders took place. How ? Cause you know, CCP says so, so must be the truth.

A sham of an article in the name of journalism and "trying to name the crime accurately".

Looks like there is even a website ! https://cs186berkeley.net/