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> Home ownership is definitely a lifestyle choice first and foremost more than a financial one.

Kinda depends on the prices. Where I live you can be lucky to find anything resembling a living house for under 1m EUR. First you'd have to be able to do a calculation and say 'I can afford that', only then it makes sense to ask the lifestyle question.

FWIW, my parents had to spend the first 1-2 years renovating a lot in their house (in the 90s) but after that it wasn't really that much of ongoing stuff. Small garden helps a lot though.

I think it is. My hunch is that in most EU countries the labor laws are good enough that, in general, it just doesn't become a problem.

I don't even remember (been a while since I did lots of interviews) if you're allowed or not allowed to ask any of the aforementioned things but I can tell you from experience that about half the candidates would mention their partner and/or kids anyway, because it just is usually not a problem. But it's not such standard fare that someone not mentioning would raise a flag either. I guess most of us just don't think about it.

Also, tech is a bit different and I am not that old - but in Germany you could see a ton of personal details absolutely no one is interested in on CVs, but it's getting better. (What your parents do for work, if you are married, what name you had before marrying, if you have a driver's license for a desk job, what primary school you went to, etc.pp)

What about when they ask you to prepare something that is definitely worded as you should talk 5min about a random non-tech (so kinda explicitly non-work) topic (with some examples like poems and songs iirc) and then they are completely weirded out when you talk about a hobby?

But it was also part of the worst interview I have ever had and these misguided 5 minutes for a weird intro were on the low end of the wtf scale.

I've never had the sort of problems I[0] had with React when using Angular (1 or 2), despite the apps having more complexity.

Maybe that's just anecdata, but I hated them a lot less. (I am mostly a Backend dev who also does Frontend, so I don't love any of them.)

[0]: and by that I mean my whole team at the appropriate time, it's not simply me misunderstanding things

Totally misleading. Without reading all of it: MAYBE it means: it is/will be enabled for 130m people.

And even those of us who have activated it, have hardly used it for the most part, or hve concerns.

In my (German) university in the 00s we weren't handed back the graded papers, but there was an office hours slot where you could visit and take a look at yours (under supervision I guess). I don't think I did that even once.

OK, does anyone actually remember if half of the systems of the 80s really had such perfect font rendering or is this just some emulation 'current version'?

The first computers I used were 486 with DOS and early Pentiums with Windows 3.11 and nothing looked nearly as nice. Some of those old screenshots look A LOT better than stuff 10 years later that I used (incl MacOS 8 or 9).

I'm not sure deliberately avoiding this is useful, I do agree it makes sense to not only have friends at work - but just like everywhere else it can work.

I don't want to be too generalizing, but I found the book to be matching a lot of American cultural stereotypes (as I have experienced them) and most of it would just seem corny (but not terrible) to most people from European countries (less in the south or UK maybe).

Like, I don't even disagree with what he wrote, but most of the stuff just felt a little out of place and intruding on people who generally want to be left alone or keep it to small talk on a different level.

Not sure I understand, but maybe check out https://github.com/tmfink/i3-wk-switch for i3/sway, maybe it does what you want (as I understood it)

that's the beauty of xmonad-style switching without being pinned down per workspace or monitor.

i.e. if i have virtual desktops 1-2-3 on my 3 screens in order, I can switch out 2 for 4, but 1 and 3 stay put, so 1-4-3. if I want 1 to be in the middle now, I will switch 1 and 4, then I have 4-1-3. Now I can get 5 onto the left and have 5-1-3.

And it does not matter if I have a single big window, or whatever tling wm layout.

The point is that everyone can work however they want. When I use a tiling WM, half my screens/virtual desktops are fullscreen and half are tiled. sometimes 50:50, sometimes in other ways.

I still have an ATX Midi case sitting here in my office, bought in 1998, spray painted with the same Ford Metallic blue colour that my Fiesta had, a couple years later, because I only needed the can to fix a couple small scratches and had so much paint left.

I don't see anything wrong here except the price ;)

It sounds like you think this is a bad thing.

The tab switching is one of the main things that annoy me on a mac, and I'd describe myself as a linux tiling window person first, windows user only second.

Also my mac usage is hopefully only temporary, so why adopt to this - to me - inferior way.

And jftr, I don't plan to use this - I kinda like NPP, but I prefer to use TextAdept on Linux and Mac for notes anyway (and not vim, which is weird, but I guess I am weird with my choices).

Less ex-user, more like: never really managed to get to use it at work I guess (just like it is for me). It is still a niche language (compared to the big ones) after all.

Oh wow, that's indeed a bit weird.

I mean at least you have teams as an alternative.

Where my wife works they simply have a WhatsApp group because there _is_ no messenger, and while they don't use it for work stuff, they couldn't even have anything but group emails for discussing lunch plans or reaching someone who is not present at the office without calling (and in the case of reaching someone, they don't have access to anything on personal devices and they 90% have no work phones).

People have different tastes and opinions, and I don't remember how GNOME looked in 1998, but KDE 1? 2? wasn't so great imho (saying that as a huge fan of plasma, and intermittent KDE user for the last 25y).

I used enlightenment for a bit and was very happy with it - just like some things on a desktop at home don't matter, but do on a laptop. I've more than once mangled i3 and gnome or xfce or kde together to have the "desktop environment" things like wifi and power management and so on.. whereas in the 90s on a desktop I cared about neither of these things.

And while this was all very much a long time ago, I don't see how enlightenment would have changed - it's just a bit barebones compared to a DE, just like i3.

I guess the definition of "overpriced" varies, but I pay 7 or 8 EUR for one bottle of CO2 and it lasts like 3-4 weeks for 2 people, just to put it into perspective.

Unless I am mistaken or had some other fluke it will also just happily download the old version and build with that, even if there was a vulnerability, which has mostly led me to always bumping to the latest release when I touch it.

Someone n another thread mentioned the `toolchain` command, maybe I should look into this again.

I hated this (so far) for any microblog-related things where I tried it. That was mostly many years ago with Twitter.

To me this can work when you go all in on web standards and get the replies collected at the source, I guess with the fediverse it's easier but I have mostly accepted the whole thing as ephemeral and just don't bother.

On the other hand I have normal blog posts, and then I question any syndication besides RSS/ATOM - maybe I'm just not trying to grow my audience enough.

Also lost 1/3 of developers who have no interest in self-hosting on the open net.

Wondering what specific field of CS you're referring to, I'm seeing a much wider spread (and Saarbrücken does not even ring a bell). I was attending LMU and I have not kept up with the database stuff the last years from there but I feel like they published a lot of stuff.

That's only true for some things.

If you provide a course on, say, Assembler and CPU architecture, you better have examples ready that are newer than Knuth's books. Your approach would be kinda ok if your program said: we'll ignore everything that is hardware and related ot the real world, but people take offense at claims like "there is only one cpu".

There's a difference between fundamentals and "details". Any given framework in one language is a uselesss detail, if you're teaching a course on programming language theory I would expect you'd at least have heard about most reasonably popular languages, even if they came out in the last 5 years - because people might be asking questions about their new favourite language versus what you are teaching.

I don't want to be part of the "small web" - I want to be part of the web. If my stuff can't be found in a sea of a million ad-ridden whatever sites so be it, but I am not going out of my way to submit stuff to special search engines or web rings, I've been there in the 90s.

Keep up with the grade a gatekeeping, lest someone not really liking it watches some of it.

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Unfortunately there's some thing about their "session management" that makes it unusable for me. I've used it in the past, but apparently differently. (Would have to dig up the specifics)

This comment section has made it clear to me (and maybe others that use some of these tools every 10 years) that just finding the correct project/binary if you want to use TeX can be... interesting :)

https://www.tug.org/levels.html seems like a good start

It's never that easy to calculate.

I have a long stretch of road near me that used to be 50 km/h and is now 30 km/h.

If you take that road during rush hour, yes - there's no meaningful difference in time spent. You'd be going traffic light to traffic light slightly faster.

The problem is that I personally use that road (in a car) more to pick up/drive my wife from and to early and late shifts at work than during rush hour, and this makes it take a significantly longer time. Like, I am not complaining at all, but it takes something like 20 minutes instead of 15, so like a 33% increase. And then again on the way back. But in the end being lucky with the traffic lights is still the main point.

I don't know, I also only use RSS (with the exception of Reddit I think) so I would not even notice a website that a) provides content I want to get notified about and not actively visit for a reason and b) has no feed.