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Comment · 1 month ago
You are selling a diploma. Some universities also sell some degree of attestation to the high resilience of their graduates. And of course the space to network. Good teaching is not on the list in my experience.

In general university lectures are horrible (of course there are exceptions). The lecturures oftentimes are required to teach as a condition of research funds, so for many it's not a priority anyways. On top of that most couldn't care less if their teaching style is didactically sound at all.

Comment · 7 months ago
Yes, pretty much. I bought a domain to make sure I only have to do this once and parked it with Infomaniak.

Then I setup a new mail account (by now I abandoned Proton for Infomaniak there as well)

The next year I just kept responding with my new email address, asking people to update their contact data and each time I logged in somewhere I changed my email address. This went really well, just 1 or 2 services where I couldn't change it because they only accept the big providers, no custom domains.

In the end the first 3 weeks were really painful, afterwards it was smooth sailing.

Since then I've swiched provider quite a bit from Proton to Zoho and now to Infomaniak (where I will stay for a long time I think) and each of those changes took me about 2h each time.

So in sumnary, you will curse yourself for a few weeks and thank yourself later!

Comment · 1 year ago
Reading documentation cover to cover for tools you use a lot is a very worthwhile investment in my opinion. Junior dev or not.
Comment · 1 year ago
Non of that paper stuff! Stone tablets only.
Comment · 1 year ago
The problem very much is binary. Ocne you have a self sustaining feedback loop going it's game over.

Its a gradient until it isn't.

Comment · 1 year ago
I like to do a few things: - Bounce ideas off it. How would you stucture this and why? - Simplify code i have written in a first draft - review my changes - ask about why something doesn't work (if the first answer doesn't help the next one won't either in my experience) - document this code - write tests for this (very useful, oftentimes gives you great initial tests and an easy test boiler plate to extend with your edge cases)

I use it a lot like a pair programmer, just to get out of my tunnel vision. I wrote the code, it can be hard for me to see the flaws since i looked at it all day already. It helps to get a different perspective.

The thing I feel is important is that you are ready to throw away anything it generates the second it doesn't feel immediately useful. I don't retry/reword request. I think I use something from about 60% of requests and the rest os discarded fully.

Comment · 1 year ago
He's literally saying the front end technology doesn't matter at all in this.

Are you just going to defend React to the bitter end? Or do you just enjoy imaginary binary choices?

Comment · 1 year ago
And yet reflexive cynicism about politicians is just being a realist :D
Comment · 2 years ago
They explicitly mention server hosting as an acceptable thing. They are not saying every consumer has to be able to run the infrastructure, but the community has to be able to. A few services on a k8s cluster would absolutely suffice for this.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, you cannot be resilient against a company directly injecting stuff into their software without user input.

There is zero complexity here. CrowdStrike accepted money for security services and offered a client. Then they didn't bother to test their stuff and literally caused the biggest IT outage in history to save a few bucks. They literally have a CEO with a history of not caring.

If you offer your stuff for use in critical infrastructure you cannot do stuff like that. This company needs to be sued into bankruptcy. This was plain bad engineering. If the same happened with a bridge, and it collapsed no one would even hesitate to lay blame on the engineering company/architects. You have a choice if you want to drive over a bridge or not, but when it collapses and you are on there I doubt you'll think I have to accept the consequences of my choices on your way down

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, the last 5 remaining humans after the most recent climate disaster will thoroughly enjoy waving at the billionaires living on the luxury lunar retreat.

The technological advancements were nice the first time around. But diminishing returns are a thing.

I understand it can be difficult to understand that historic data does not reliably predict the future.

Comment · 2 years ago
In their own houses. That's what cooperatives are for. Also prices would drop once speculation on housing is no longer profitable.
Comment · 2 years ago
They could have taken the cheap way of just deleting everything. So someone already wants to use it or at the very least have the option.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ahh robots bringing democracy. Wonderful.
Comment · 2 years ago
This comment is so divorced from reality for 95% of people it's not even funny.

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