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Lacerda69on On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch

correct, hotels/accommodations are another sector that is run mostly through students and minijobbers.

Lacerda69on In San Francisco, one person dies of an accidental overdose every 10 hours

Yes the problem is illegality. As long as mafia can make trillions of this shit nothing will get better.

The solution is not more police.

>no downside for trying out that lifestyle

Is that a joke? you know that the average addict "lifestyle" is literally hell

Lacerda69on On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch

That is only correct for a very small number of hip cafes and restaurants in certain districts tbh.

You can employ germans indefinitely without "proper" contract as well through something called "Minijob" and the majority of cafes and restaurant skirt the law and let you work without paying taxes "illegally". Most of the ppl working there are students or in between careers. Only a fraction of the staff will be employed permanently with "real" contracts.

source: worked in the industry there for 6+ years

Lacerda69on Bottom line, a college degree is worth the cost and then some

Bottom line, a college degree is massively overrated and expensive and then some.

Source: Im not the president of Princeton.

Lacerda69on GitHub now allows enabling private vulnerability reporting at scale

As maintainer what is keeping me from using this as a replacement for bug bounty platforms like hackerone, is the missing payout functionality. this is quite hard to do if you serve bounties worldwide (lets say researcher is in Indonesia, while my OSS company is in US) without significant bureaucracy and admin overhead. Anyone know a solution to this that does not involve commercial bug bounty platforms or something something crypto?

Lacerda69on Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

I guess there are tradeoffs both ways.

I will gladly accept that downside(?) of having to give 3 months advanced notice for the upside of not being fired arbitrarily on the spot whenever my employer feels like it.

Lacerda69on Google DeepMind

oh my bad i probably opted out right from the start then + heavy use of adblockers

Lacerda69on Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes

Cue the atomic fanatics vs the renewable cult discussion. Has been discussed a thousand times on HN recently and it always seems both are just shouting how the other side can not see the obvious superiority of their fav energy source.

why cant we have a bit of both? renewable seems very good long term and nuclear is also nice for transition. but I wouldnt want to live next to one of those crappy leaky french reactors.

Lacerda69on Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

You can swipe the data and leave havoc causing traps before giving notice, right? what am i missing?

Lacerda69on Google DeepMind

i used gmail since the beta and never saw an ad there, what are you talking about?

Lacerda69on Misalignment Museum

Simon, you are a beast, is there anything you don't do?

many thanks for all the content and inspiration, your blog is genuinely my favourite read right now!

Lacerda69on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle

Its the other way around; it was very unpopular, which is why the Green party formed in the first place.

Lacerda69on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle

because someone else supported the idea they are now responsible? weird take on how government should be held accountable.

Lacerda69on About three-in-ten U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online (2021)

i dont know about you but we mostly did this because we were bored as fuck.

plus dangerous behaviours like drinking, smoking, fighting with other kids, setting trash on fire, destroying property, stealing, an generally being a menace to society.

i think playing a bit of vidya is a god alternative outlet, and it can be just as social.

but i always admired the culture in the us where random ppl would strike up a conversation with you. if someone did that over here i would expect to get scammed, robbed or both.

Lacerda69on Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county

>go after supply and possession again

that achieved 0 results in 40+ years of drug warfare with millions dead and the rise of international cartels who are as powerful as nation states.

This is not the way, complete legalization is the only way to break the power of cartels.

Lacerda69on Tailscale – Introducing Custom OIDC

If you are just looking to run a custom OAuth/OIDC server, Ory Hydra is ridiculously easy to set up.

Keycloak comes with the full IAM stack, so if you need that good; if you just need the OAuth server, its a bit much in my opinion. Have not tried Dex so can't speak to that.

https://github.com/ory/hydra https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak

Lacerda69on A nasal spray protects against coronavirus including immune-evasive variants

wearing a mask is probably more practical than not breathing!

Lacerda69on Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume

was it ever not that? i got 100% of all jobs i ever had like that

Lacerda69on Ask HN: Would banning travel between Ukraine and Russia end the war?

you just solved all conflicts, just ban travel and all stay at home or at the pub and bother noone.

Lacerda69on Show HN: While painting this, I had nothing in mind

I thought its more about really feeling as a viewer what the painting stirs in your own soul and not what the painters feeling/intention/state of mind was when he created the painting. Like dont read the art critic interpretation (or not only) but rather really feel what the art invokes in you - a unique feeling.

Lacerda69on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended

the only thing worth using at ebay are the tiny classified ads

Lacerda69on Ask HN: How do you send email verification code to your users?

I use https://console.ory.sh or everything Auth related including email Verification.

Lacerda69on Poisoning web-scale training datasets is practical

few things would make me happier than seeing the archive thrive

Lacerda69on My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)

real Buddhism hasn't been tried yet

Lacerda69on U.S. food additives banned in Europe

better err on the side of caution with this stuff. you can manage just fine without potassium bromate.

bread should just include water, flour, and yeast IMO. anything else is an abonimation.

Lacerda69on Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This

no bits have been harmed in the making of this website

Lacerda69on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week

They are magnitudes cheaper i would imagine.

Lacerda69on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week

dont have kids, pets or a tv. my phone is with me in the office. chores are taken care of in short breaks which i need to take anyway. not sure how neighbours would distract me.

dont assume everyone else lives like you

Lacerda69on AI Looks Like a Bubble

>quite trivial to create a competitor.

I dont get it though, if its that easy why is there no meaningful alternative to openai now? or are you arguing that that will happen later on once its (even more) established?