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I like radio, I grew up with short wave and still remember picking up stations late in the night in languages I’d never imagined existed.

I recently bought a cheap SW radio to play with my kid and I got surprised by the amount of stations from china broadcasting strong signals over basically anything.

I have a bunch of screenshots in my laptop that I take for reasons like attaching to tickets and sharing on Slack. Some are very sensitive if shared outside the company. If the attacker had physical access to the laptop, that explains.

I won’t ever forget a macroeconomics lecture I had back in university.

It was in line with “To accumulate wealth, you either have to exploit the planet, other nations or it’s own people. This applies for countries, companies and even individuals.”

That's the moment I'd recommend you to close the website and book a hotel.

The whole pandemic reminded me I miss staying in hotels.

Not having to worry about groceries, lunch, cleaning ... A great hotel experience turns your holiday into a holiday experience. The older I get the whole bnb experience feels like a premium stressful hostel.

My computer graphics class used pov ray back in early 2000s. I remember I wrote a Perl script to generate my scenes to avoid typing things manually. I still may have the code somewhere.

It's interesting to see that nowadays reballing has the same exoteric feeling as desoldering your C64 chips back then.

That's not about selecting the most qualified, the extra "lunch", "coffee", "working habits", "cultural fit" ..., it's a way found by companies to involve the maximum number of people in the hiring process to make people in the team feel confortable with the new hire. It's a very expensive team bounding exercice.

Every 10 years my career repeats itself. I’m solving the same problems I was solving back in 2011

Am I the only one who wants to work from home and still get the 30k-a-year raise?

jokes apart, if remote culture consolidates with different compensation and benefit packages compared with those in the office, we'll likely start to see lawsuits in that matter.

I don't use sublime on my day to day, but I'm always happy to purchase their new licese when a new version ships for this reason.

Most of us doing tech for more than 20 years grew up as a fierce award nerd.

Them somewhere aroud early 2010s being a nerd was the new cool and paid off. Tech teams had more non-nerd competent engineers, and suddenly nerds are a target for complains and a bad example of teamwork.

This reminds me the first time I got in the process to sign a 1MM contract. I kept pushing for a price reduction and the sales guy kept giving me clues of how this would affect commission. I had no idea that he was talking about my commission. It was so ridiculous that I involved compliance and shit scaled pretty quickly.

Reverse layoff

I have a FiiO X3 and its the only way I can properly hear music nowadays. I'm a freelancer musician from time to time I have to spend proper time with high quality audio files as folks who transcribe music sometimes eat notes for pleasure or mistake.

Also, thanks to a friend who was into whatcd, my entire entire CD collection was ripped in a great way. I moved abroad a few years ago and I'm thankful that I could donate the less rare ones to the local library and avoid shipping a bunch of boxes to my new place.

I still purchase the majority of albums I want from bandcamp and HDtracks and having a dedicated device that can take a profissional headphone is great for my study.

Sad to hear. I just deleted all my photos from there and closed my account.

The real reason must be something so stupid that no one ever considered. Something like there was a comet in the sky every 75 years and they burned the settlement to scare it away.

They OH auth0 was using mongo to store customers’ data and wanted to fix that.

FSF was never a movement or an organization. It's a fact that its influence has been waning in the last two decades becase it was nothing more than a echo chamber to RMS's own image.

I'm not sure they can part ways with that.

The amount of tooling you have to write yourself to keep a sane workflow is excrutiating.

I'm disgusted that all competition to k8s is dying a slow death. I'm counting the days for nomad with expectation and whishing something better will arise.

I don't understand the reason why but it seems a constant that the majority of tech workers are the sole income for the house. Maybe I'm more exposed to H1B workers in US, but that holds even in other places.

That's pretty much how a newborn moms feels in the first 6 months.

I just spend two days chasing a bug because someone shoved a variable inside a dataclass in the wrong place, nothing is immutable in python.

I think there's still some space for something like fox pro and even access nowadays. Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and that doesn't need to be fancy, specially on the back office.

I believe it's mostly an unsetting bitter feeling. Underrepresented and marginalized people are fighting back structural society norms, the internet is the new medium[1], and social media resembles a lot the `Cercle social`[2].

I remember reading research that notes the music, poesy, and literature to carry cynic and political narratives preceding and during society changes (could find the link).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_in_the_French_Revolu... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Friends_of_Trut...

Dynalist + highlighter

https://talk.dynalist.io/t/dynalist-highlighter-web-highligh...

I have >200 bitcoins locked into a wallet I've used to pay for a seedbox in 2012 :)

At least you paid your bills.

Is anyone still crawling emails in 2021?

The day I discovered feedbin can follow twitter lists and you can use it to subscribe to mailing lists, it got me in.

Most of my work is per contract on which I've usually signed a non-disclosal.