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eloox··on Ending respiratory infections
What's that? Any particular dosage?
eloox··on Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices
That may be, but I think you are missing the point of the outrage: this solution is not good.
eloox··on Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours
It can be great, but I've noticed lag during screen sharing. Other colleagues have noticed it too.

Even so... it's better than slack for audio/video and my organization uses teams as primary for calls and slack for text communications(group chats, channels, dms)

eloox··on I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
What do you mean by "series A"? :)

I never hid the scripts. The automation was out in the open and everybody in the team was making use of them.

I quit because I didn't receive pay raise and wouldn't have in that position(EDIT: They wanted to promote me to team lead(people management), but it is something I'm not interested in). Plus with the skills I've gained I managed to get a better paying job.

eloox··on I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
That's how I became a software developer. I was working for a big tech firm as a data entry "specialist". Everything (except some pricing calculations) was done manually. I was hired as the 7th member of the team. It started with copy/pasting some simple VBA scripts to automate small tasks. In a year I managed to automate most of the tasks. More notably: A monthly task that took 2 days(and quite prone to human errors) of the entire team into a less than an hour job for a single person. And automated discrepancy checks between the data sources.

It was quite satisfying and made me realize that I should be doing this for a living. I quit that company for way better pay as a software developer. I don't know if I'll be able to find such a job again, but I really enjoyed it.

eloox··on Checkbox Olympics
setTimeout doesn't guarantee that it will execute exactly after 3000.

  (() => {
    const targ = $(".setGo");
    const targ2 = $(".theSport > div:nth-child(2)");
    const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations, observer) => {
      if (mutations[0]?.target?.classList.contains('going')) {
        targ2.childNodes.forEach(c => c.click());
      }
    });
  
    observer.observe(targ, {
      subtree: false,
      attributes: true
    });
  
    $('.readyButton').click()
  })();
  
This gives me consistent Time: 0.001 in FF. "Time: not yet set" in Edge/Chrome.
eloox··on Poll: Where do you live?
Nice :) What library did you use for the graphics?
eloox··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
I don't know much about the history of these tests. Can Hanlon's razor principle be applied here?