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tasubotadas··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
That's not how it works in practice.

In practice you pay 40% or more in taxes and the person who wants to get professional help, still uses private services.

Universal health care is only for the poor

tasubotadas··on YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened.

I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density

tasubotadas··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
Setting EU labor BS aside.

Don't hire as "permanent employees", hire them as contractors (and offer higher rate).

There are lots of people who are quite happy with this arrangement. People get more money, the cost is the same. Employer gets flexibility. Everybody is happy except the tax collector :).

tasubotadas··on Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
I took this course a while back.

It's not really groundbreaking or anything but I think it's useful.

Wouldn't put it on a MUST TAKE IT course list but it was worth it's time :)

tasubotadas··on Perplexity.ai prompt leakage
Prompt injection
tasubotadas··on UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online
How about we jail MPs and police when they fail to protect citizens?
tasubotadas··on Show HN: WunderGraph – The simplicity of RPC with the power of GraphQL
Damm... We went full circle now. From (SOAP)RPC to REST to GraphQL back to RPC :D .

Code generation for RPC brings so many bad memories back.

Personally, I will be sticking to RESTful interfaces as they are easy to understand and maintain.

tasubotadas··on Non-ECC memory corrupted my hard drive image [video]
When people complain about these random OS crashes and freezes it's usually RAM corruption at fault.

Per 1gb of RAM, you can expect to see 266 bit errors per month[1-2] if you are using your PC 16h per day. Multiply that by 64GB or 128GB of RAM and it's crazy to think that you won't run into any of the stability issues.

[1-2] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... [1-2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory#Research

tasubotadas··on Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
That's another one for we-are-getting-closer-to-1984-dystopia bingo.
tasubotadas··on $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
That's a complete misunderstanding of situation.
tasubotadas··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
Yes! Another German biurocracy-inspired bill to outlaw problems in the society.

Why they just don't release a law that forbids people from making bugs?

tasubotadas··on Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?
I think the benefit is mutual
tasubotadas··on FTX balance sheet, revealed
I am quite surprised that nobody is talking about VCs (Sequoia) that happily poured money into this.

What was their plan? Were they blind? Were they hoping to cash out before it crashed?

Major investors usually get full visibility into the company.

tasubotadas··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Why does this need to be regulated? We already have banks for that. And it's not like regulation saved them from being able to become insolvent.
tasubotadas··on [dead]
Maximizing sensationalism for page views > ad views > revenue.

The journalism is dead.

tasubotadas··on An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek
This really shows that there is no actually useful substance in their talks.
tasubotadas··on Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
How does remix compare to nextjs?
tasubotadas··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
Never seen language server come even close to what intellij offers.
tasubotadas··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
Who even use sms these days?
tasubotadas··on Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
I think you should try out Angular. React ecosystem is a mess and needs extremely experienced developers to produce software that doesn't suck.

Angular, on the other hand, it's quite simple and helps you to get the shit done.

tasubotadas··on C++20 coroutines: “The bug is in the C++ standard, not GCC.” (2020)
I am sorry to hear that you have experienced such a sorry bunch of code-bases and frameworks but that doesn't define the language or even an ecosystem.

I've seen worse magic crap happening with Ruby and Python with their auto-magic method invocations.

tasubotadas··on Building a Startup on Clojure
> And the joy of working with an esoteric language is that it attracts esoteric developers, who often get frustrated by the requirements of being a software engineer in a large company (i.e. everything that's not writing code), which leads to the aforementioned 100% dev churn (after a lot of shouting).

Wow. Pretty insightful :)

tasubotadas··on C++20 coroutines: “The bug is in the C++ standard, not GCC.” (2020)
No idea why you decided to lump Java together with these abonimations.

Java by itself is an extremely simple language.

tasubotadas··on EU to consult on making Big Tech contribute to telco network costs
Once again, this is driven by German bureaucrats together with companies that are dead innovation-wise.

Sounds like a great plan to increase revenue to introduce rent seeking in addition to expensive and oversubscribed internet.

tasubotadas··on From Common Lisp to Julia
I wasn't aware that C and C++ standards are ANSI standards. Good for them then :). Sloppy CL.
tasubotadas··on From Common Lisp to Julia
It's an ANSI standard so that makes updates much more painful than otherwise just "updating the spec".
tasubotadas··on We Are Changing the License for Akka
I would argue that akka is successful because of the permissive licence. Now that that's changed, it will create growing space for other projects.
tasubotadas··on Jetbrains Space
Has anybody actually tried it? Anyone willing to share their experiences?

The tools looks extremely promising for smaller teams that just want to get the whole thing going with minimal config

tasubotadas··on IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
It's called lord of the rings. Not lord of the woke and flops.

They could have started a new saga with whatever setting they wanted but they picked a story with a (strong) legacy.

Strong legacy comes with strong fans. Since they don't live up to the legacy they deserve (rightfully) to be mixed with dirt.

tasubotadas··on Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources
Ah... a classical argument of the "communism was never truly implemented" :).

Perhaps. Perhaps initiatives likes these are bound to fail. Not sure how many lives have to be destroyed until people get "statistically significant" results.

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