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I'm going to defend this method of hiring a little bit. To me, having at least a bachelor of IT already proves you have software engineering skills. The coding tests are just a quick check if you haven't lied or anything. The first month is trial basis anyway (both ways) so if the candidate is not on-par technically it's a quick goodbye.

I don't care about parties either but if I'm going to have to work with you I need to know you fit in a little, creating software is collaborative. In real life, in real companies you are not solving leetcode problems all the time - so why hire based on that? Person A is super intelligent but abrasive and person B is half as smart but super easy to work with. 100% of the time I pick person B.

> having awareness of software principles is really worthless

This is nonsense, you are already expected to know this

> I've seen files with 13k lines of if/else/switch, how do you test that shit .-.

I've seen those too, but don't pretend that's unique to a specific country. There are shitty software developers everywhere.

There's not going to much meaningful pushback on this comment because any (ex-)ASML employee is going to be super hesitant to share anything. So feel free to think what you want.

I just miss listening to full albums. I know I can, there's nobody stopping me - but something changed in me I think. When I was a kid we didn't have a TV at home so evenings were sitting together and either having discussions or listening to music together (Opeth's Damnation and Deliverance were a staple). We had a room with a beamer that we explicitly used for movie nights. Now I've got a TV show on in the living room while checking stuff out on my phone and still feel like I should be doing more stuff.

What if the requirements are super clear but they change? When do you find out and what happens then? I've personally never had a project where the requirements were 100% clear and stayed exactly the same. Even when writing a v2 of an existing project from the ground up things tended to be unclear and subject to change.

How does that work? So you've already went through the steps of figuring out a process, or do you just pick one and stick with it - accepting shitty parts? What's the process?

What do you use that does lead to a good piece of software?

nato is a defensive pact

He's a populist, a liar. PVV has ties and is influenced by the kremlin. Follow the money did a very good investigation. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland...

The ICC has arrest warrants out for Putin for his war crimes. I really can't believe you're wilfully this ignorant to say there has been no civilian targetting. How are cluster bombs on cities not pure indiscriminate murder?

Pretty much nothing. The docker image is less than 10mb and it uses barely any RAM for me, like 15 idle? I've got it running locally and can access it through tailscale everywhere. Having it open to internet is a bad idea since rate limiting becomes an issue but for a single user it's perfect.

I still selfhost a libreddit instance for search results but no more browsing

I don't have the data to support it but I think Germans in general care a whole lot more about privacy than any other country

I used the git-sync plugin, worked fairly well.

I really like Obsidian but the long startup time (on mobile) has stopped me from using it as a daily driver.

This is why I don't mind paying the 5 euros a month for a Fastmail account. I don't send many emails but it's pretty much the key to the kingdom.

I almost never have to print and in the rare exception I do I go to the library.

How do they inject the ads? It might be worth running your own little dns like adguard home or pi hole (or paying for nextdns)

Haven't tried to install it myself but was looking through the git repo for this exact info. Just do it like every other project, either let the user configure it in the frontend through config or make it an environment variable.

I'm from the Netherlands and I know plenty of people who have iPhones but I also know (and am) plenty people with androids. People use either WhatsApp or Telegram. Isn't iMessage just texting within a walled garden?

I've a 2021 Kia Proceed and I've had 0 problems with it. I don't know much about cars but I was advised by a mechanic friend to go for a Kia or Hyundai.

No, he's been busy trying to find someone who is not an embezzler[1] to talk to the other parties so they can form a cabinet. Didn't manage to find one in his own party.

[1] https://nltimes.nl/2023/11/27/cabinet-formation-leader-resig...

> if a Kagi search takes me there

Same and mainly because Kagi let's me rewrite the url to a private libreddit instance. Otherwise I'd have downranked it.

Lemmy is pretty great and I still use it now and again, but I've mainly just stopped consuming content in that way. I subscribed to a quality newspaper for news / analysis / opinion; I stay on HN for the technical news & discussions.

Honestly once you break the (to me addictive) loop of opening reddit/lemmy you're not missing out on much. Whenever I get a reddit search result it redirects to my selfhosted libreddit instance (connect through tailscale). Public libreddit instances are basically always broken, but a single user one which is just used for the occasional search result works perfectly fine.

Teenage me loved the edginess. Adult me just finds it boring. More like a phase thing to me.

Rebelling against what?

I'm loving (semi-) government. Great work/life balance and at least in the Netherlands pretty innovative and into open-source.

I went all out and got a Synology DS1621+ with 5 14TB drives. I don't really do photo and/or video editing so I'm not sure what the requirements for that are. I access it through Immich but I've also got a few shares mounted through NFS which is very fast imo.

I've got kids so I'll never use a Google product for any pictures of them. Degoogling myself 1 service at a time as well.

I'm selfhosting Immich (Google photos clone) on my NAS which has a 70TB's+ of storage. Every night a backup to Glacier runs (which is pennies to store, expensive to retrieve). Every so often I hook up an external hdd and just copy the backup over.

I've had some pretty severe data loss a few years back where I had photos on a cloud service that shut down and I was too careless to properly back them up. Once I got kids I stepped it up a notch and vowed to never let that happen again (the Glacier backup is for when my house burns down or something). Still need to write some proper instructions for my family to retrieve the data if I am unable but they're basically files on a hdd.

As for curating them, I'll leave that to the next person. I think I'd have loved to comb through pics my parents took of us. I do select pictures that are super great and add them to an album. Throwing away isn't worth the effort imo.

Or even better, a nitter url. This is like combining my two least favorite platforms.