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mathverse··on New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
No the closest alternative is https://grsecurity.net/
mathverse··on Denuvo Analysis
Denuvo does not need to hire from the scene. The scene is not some magical place full of uber leet crackers. People doing denuvo have the same or better skills.
mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
I am thinking liquid not net worth.
mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
The rich are often in a different age group than those that would enjoy such adventures. But fully agree with you.
mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
The maximum wealth should be capped exactly where it becomes a tool to buy or assert influence over democracy.
mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
The definition of rich is not a tech billionaire though. It is literally anyone that can afford the LVMH and co.

It is definitely aimed at rich people just not billionaires. But yes these brands become commodity from a certain point...although one has to be rich to be fully dressed in those clothes and change / rotate every day.

mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
The thing is if you are wealthy you do not notice these things. They are just there. The luxury / highend items become a commodity. That's the minimum standard that you expect wherever you go.

Also these things are not really that expensive compared to 5-10M person.

Try Bora coocktops

mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
I find the most interesting bracket the 5-8M one where almost anything highend / luxury becomes a commodity.
mathverse··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
Except Miele is not a luxurious brand it's just a slightly highend piece of equipment.
mathverse··on Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
It's not a browser.
mathverse··on A single line of code cost $8000
This is an electron app.
mathverse··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
You can use cash but it mostly does not work in case of big chains or stores. They need to have access to their SAP/ERP software...It is not about payment for a long time.
mathverse··on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures
I am totally uninterested in China mainly due to them being so hostile to foreigners. Yes cities are impressive, technology and culture as well. But you are not welcome. At all.

You are sometimes not even tolerated.

And because of that your time in that country will be always limited. If China was to become like BKK or other SEA countries ....

That's another story.

mathverse··on Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi should try to find an additional revenue stream instead of trying super complicated and complex projects like maintaining a browser (even if it's just some kind of fork like Arc).
mathverse··on An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers
I actually really love it. Typically AV products UIs feel snappy and lightweight and it is the backend engine that does most of the work and feels horrendously as a bottleneck. Which I think is an interesting phenomena when considering modern desktop applications where typically the backend code does very little and the frontend one is the one being bloated (Electron).

It's a bit sad that there is not a lot of talk and re-usable components from these companies for Sciter that can help us create snappy apps!

mathverse··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
In my country the same reason is used to make things more expensive and give contracts via nepotism to allow for "alternative use without apps" to companies to make the whole thing through SMS or physical office while making the whole thing expensive for everyone and inefficient.
mathverse··on MySQL at Uber
What part of that sentence is racist??
mathverse··on MySQL at Uber
Preface: not an american

Uber offshored some parts of their engineering so all the new-ish blogs fit the stereotypes. Lazy written, LLM generated, by their offshore indian folks.

Make of that what you want.

mathverse··on Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
Dont all new projects go to gcp within google?
mathverse··on Servo's progress in 2024
Sciter is great but is also just a minefield of bugs and quirks. And its main developer Andrew is too stubborn to realize why it's not popular because he refuses to hire an evangelist that would take care of its missing ecosystem.
mathverse··on Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
But it's not like you can choose in China either :)
mathverse··on Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
Minions of people use SAP daily that does not mean it's a nice thing to interact with.
mathverse··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
This is absolutely not true. Moving across Europe is significantly harder than in US. On top of that companies hiring across Europe need to go B2B or EoR. The countries are absolutely not harmonised in terms of regulations, labor law or employing people.

I am sorry but you absolutely have no clue what you are talking about.

mathverse··on Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube
What? We mostly get political ads in CEE region as most of the products or services being sold here are not applicable anyway.
mathverse··on Looking for a Job Is Tough
Indians,Brazilians,Portuguese,Ukrainians,Russians are possibly the worst clique of discriminative nationalities. You can be 100% assured that you will be driven out of a company/job if more of them take a hold and get into higher up positions. This is not racism. This is a pure fact based on statistical evidence.

You will be sold a dream of infinite scalability by hiring "talent" in those countries for cheap and what you will get is usually disfunctional teams riddled with incompetence and nepotism.

Even if a job/team is meant to be multicultural,diverse they will find a way how to hire more and more of their countrymen until knowing the language is basically a requirement for the job.

I am not even an american and i've seen this happen in Europe as well so I imagine in the US it must be 1000 times worse.

mathverse··on Looking for a Job Is Tough
The salaries and perks in the US are much higher and candidates are more mobile than us in Europe.
mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
That's a relict of Soviet occupation and mindset. pre-war Czechoslovakia was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.
mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
History, traditions and current struggles are more common that's for sure but the attitude towards life is different.
mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
Because it's an absolute crap. In Germany the workaround is gas stations that were converted into grocery stores.

Even in my country where shopping is only closed on pub holidays the gas stations now serve as grocery stores and bake fresh bread on those days. It's just populism.

mathverse··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
Germans are just anti-technology in general. If Eeastern Europeans had the chance to flourish and were not getting abused by both Germany and Russia for most of their history they would be in an entirely different tiers of countries.

As EE is getting richer they embrace technology at must faster rates than DACH. Dryers, ACs, payment tech is much more common and widespread here.

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