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New comment by Vinkekatten in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

Vinkekatten — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:56:36 +0000

Hell no. I work with RHEL every day, and while I'm by no means an expert, I would say I'm reasonably proficient with Linux.

Every time I've tried using Linux on the desktop, it's worked just fine until I tried to update something. Sooner or later, there's some broken patch or some incompatible thing here or there that breaks my window manager and throws me to the command line, ruins my network settings, overwrites my boot config or some other maddening mess. Linux works brilliantly, AS LONG AS YOU NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?"

Vinkekatten — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:45:17 +0000

I live in a country where income is public information.

It´s not really a problem as far as I know - and at any rate it definitely benefits employees.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Git git git git git"

Vinkekatten — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:06:59 +0000

Or if you don´t care for fiddling about too much and just want it to work out of the box: http://ohmyz.sh/

New comment by Vinkekatten in "MacOS High Sierra"

Vinkekatten — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:18:31 +0000

2017 15" decked out macbook pro here. Not all that smooth.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Spellfucker"

Vinkekatten — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:00:20 +0000

Æss a nårvidsjæn itt vassent tu hard tu riid jur vraiting laik dis. Aj vånder håo diffikult itt iss får a slav tu ønderstænd nårvinglisj....

Edit: and now I feel like Petter Solberg. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Kaeh8FRPANs?t=4s

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth"

Vinkekatten — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:03:58 +0000

Five weeks of vacation helps too.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth"

Vinkekatten — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:02:21 +0000

Food in Oslo has improved by leagues and bounds in the past ten years. You'll find it here if you know where to look :)

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth"

Vinkekatten — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:58:35 +0000

I'll be honest, it's a little rough. Around late december, the darkest part of the year, I barely see sunlight for a month or two. I'm at work by 8:30, sun rises 10. I leave work at 16:00, sun sets 14:00.

It gets better though, so by february the worst bit is over. It's not really that awful - you really get a physical sense of the year progressing, and in a sense the darkness is cozy. Lots of light in the cities, starry skies in the countryside. Get some solarium tan going and spend a week or two of vacation time in warmer parts of the world and it's not at all bad.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console"

Vinkekatten — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:28:31 +0000

Haven't played it either, but from what I've heard you can do that, but you'll get pounded to a fine paste by said boss in about three seconds flat.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "GitHub commit search: “remove password”"

Vinkekatten — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:52:36 +0000

Genesis commit, that's a catchy name for it. We've done the same thing, after some discussion this always ends up making the most sense.

Also, you can hide your crimes and not show off all your "TODO: put more stuff here" commits to the world.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "GitHub commit search: “remove password”"

Vinkekatten — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:50:54 +0000

We've published internally developed projects on github after removing anything sensitive and initializing a new repo from the latest version of the code base.

You lose your development history, but you ensure you won't get bitten by stuff like this.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Magic Leap said to be ‘doing 1,000 things badly’ after raising $1.4B"

Vinkekatten — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:15:50 +0000

Google Translate has been improved immensely just in the past six months or so, through neural networking and machine learning [0]. It's become MUCH better at translating full sentences and coherent text - in some cases it's hard to differentiate from a competent human translation. They have made great improvements to both speech recognition [1] and text-to-speech[2] as well. It feels so damn sci-fi to just pull up a phone, talk into it and have it repeat what you said in japanese or spanish.

Siri is still mostly useful as a kitchen timer though.

[0] https://blog.google/products/translate/found-translation-mor...

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/SpeechProcessing.html

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12860866/google-deepmind-wa...

New comment by Vinkekatten in "GitLab Database Incident – Live Report"

Vinkekatten — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:44:50 +0000

Good intentions and heartfelt prayer.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection"

Vinkekatten — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:36:16 +0000

won't that make you look hella suspicious? Blank phone, blank laptop, light luggage?

New comment by Vinkekatten in "I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection"

Vinkekatten — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:31:28 +0000

What I don't hear anyone in this thread talk about is, what happens if you present them with a blank device? Say I have a brand new chromebook, no logins, no data. Brand new phone, five emergency contacts and no messages. No logins. Brand new google account.

Won't that look pretty suspicious to mr. wannabe Jack Bauer in the TSA?

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5"

Vinkekatten — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:04:34 +0000

Hell, I love my 9-5 dev job in government sector. Almost never overtime, decent pay, great colleagues and I get enough say and time to shape my work a little.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5"

Vinkekatten — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:03:50 +0000

Sometimes you shape your own crack.

Sometimes your crack shapes you.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls"

Vinkekatten — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:08:01 +0000

I'm inclined to agree. Convincing someone to use a space-age toilet for the first time without giving them instructions is hilarious.

New comment by Vinkekatten in "What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn"

Vinkekatten — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:39:21 +0000

We have a few tie-ins too, but only for Bitbucket stuff like feature branches and occationally Confluence.

What's a better alternative to Jira though?

New comment by Vinkekatten in "Git Koans (2013)"

Vinkekatten — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:22:25 +0000

We use Jira and bitbucket - most if not all branch names contain an issue number and the name of the issue, while commit messages can be more cryptic. This is often helpful when the branch has been deleted, as it usually is.