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New comment by skuzye in "Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change"

skuzye — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:12:24 +0000

The long term obligation for them is created by the very thing you wanted to leave out.

New comment by skuzye in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

skuzye — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:24:34 +0000

Not sure about the other stuff but food allergies in Europe are very high as well https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193945512.... It seems to be linked with economic development.

Anecdotally, we have no history of food allergies in the family but my daughter has severe sesame allergy, milk, egg and nuts allergy. We are from South America but live in the UK.

New comment by skuzye in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

skuzye — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:38:58 +0000

And here I am in the UK, where the brackets have been frozen until 2028 (if they don't invent some reason to freeze further).

New comment by skuzye in "Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts"

skuzye — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:28:26 +0000

I don't have a horse in this race nor a particular interest in US elections but I don't think your definition of popular vote is the commonly used one (i.e. candidate doesn't have to have more than 50% to win it).

New comment by skuzye in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

skuzye — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:54:07 +0000

Still the case. It’s a good system IMO. My team is low toil and low page it’s basically free money/time off

New comment by skuzye in "Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street"

skuzye — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:17:58 +0000

Can't say for other companies but they came for engineers as well at Google.

New comment by skuzye in "How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps"

skuzye — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:54:21 +0000

My dad used to be in the refill business selling parts, inks and all needed to get it done. Im not sure about this particular model but the DRM can be worked around in a couple of ways: swapping for a 3rd party drm chip, using a reset device or some older models just click “print anyway”.

Edit: typo

I’d imagine things could be worse nowadays.

He used to buy products from an American company so it should be available in the US too.

New comment by skuzye in "Disney begins laying off 7k employees"

skuzye — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:04:56 +0000

Feel bad for those employees, being on the line of fire myself at Google and waiting to find out if I have a job next month.

That being said, how on Earth has Disney managed to screw up 10 years of Marvel success? They spread themselves too thin trying to create too many shows without proper planning. And that's only focusing on Marvel. They also managed to piss people off with their half-assed Star Wars trilogy, to the point that you can clearly perceive directors going into different and incompatible paths for films that should build on the predecessor.

Edit: They should be two franchises that print money, but instead we get the current headlines.

New comment by skuzye in "Just use a monorepo"

skuzye — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:14:03 +0000

I have to say, I really enjoy using Google monorepo and all tools available to me.

Having said that, it's not free of course. There are many engineering teams and computer power being invested to provide this environment to all googlers.

New comment by skuzye in "DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market"

skuzye — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:15:22 +0000

The lack of good content from Hollywood lately has been pushing me towards cancelling streaming services and buying used old favorites from a local store (going as low as £0.50 a pop) and buying blu-rays of the new ones I'm interested in.

I know they will always available for a rewatch and I don't have to finance the whole bunch of canned crap they have been putting out.

New comment by skuzye in "What to read to understand central banking"

skuzye — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:42:37 +0000

Being hard to understand is kind of the point. If everyone understood how modern banking really works they wouldn't be so happy about it.

New comment by skuzye in "The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)"

skuzye — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:31:08 +0000

Google is hiring in Munich too. I couldn't find public salary information on salaries there though. I'd say it's competitive enough that I'd be willing to relocate from London there.

Disclaimer: I work for Google. Words my own.

New comment by skuzye in "MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation"

skuzye — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:53:51 +0000

It's all explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

New comment by skuzye in "Brazil Suspends WhatsApp Payments"

skuzye — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:17:40 +0000

Speaking as a Brazilian - the country is an odd one. If you go by GDP it should be a rich country but it just isn't.

It's rightly classified as an emergent country. It has deep social and poverty problems that needs addressing even though it's a regional economic force.

Brazil is definitely capitalist but it's hard to do business there - 144th place in economic freedom index.

New comment by skuzye in "Why Static Websites Need HTTPS"

skuzye — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:49:52 +0000

I may be misunderstanding but I don't believe the Same-origin policy will protect you there. You're browser wouldn't be able to tell whether the JS it's reading is the real one or the modified one. So it would be all "same origin" for it.

It won't stop a modified code from pushing data to anywhere in the web either.

> More fortunately still the application is a diff tool, so it can perform self validation

Yes, if the application has been loaded before but I feel like it would be a half-baked HSTS implementation.

Edit: it was too convoluted

New comment by skuzye in "Why Static Websites Need HTTPS"

skuzye — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:29:43 +0000

If you don't use HTTPS you are also forgoing the integrity check and not only the encryption. Any router standing between your users and your servers could inject anything into your code, html, etc.

New comment by skuzye in "When physics meets biology: a less known Feynman"

skuzye — Tue, 15 May 2018 13:50:26 +0000

Biology is a huge field so I don't mean to speak for all of them. My wife is doing a PhD in Immunology so I know that at least for her, she's thinking in a whole different abstraction level. She's not that concerned about the physics in her day to day experiments.

New comment by skuzye in "DNS over HTTPS"

skuzye — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:36:16 +0000

if the traffic is encrypted how can you tell whether it's http or plain dns?

New comment by skuzye in "Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders"

skuzye — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:13:48 +0000

Regular software, yes, they crash all the time. But I would think these systems would be more safely handled. For example, nuclear energy, air traffic control, bank systems and automated train lines don't crash nearly as often, for example.

Being such an important feature (not crashing) it shouldn't be ignored. I am also skeptical but we have examples of reliable systems so I believe they can work.

New comment by skuzye in "Why I love Swedish taxes"

skuzye — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:02:36 +0000

Don't forget to factor that in lots of developing countries your salary will probably be a lot less too.

Edit: I feel like I should expand here. I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Rent is through the roof if you want to get two work in less than 1 hour. The goods are very expensive, everything is taxed 100% when imported, plus there are a lot of taxes added to the local products price.

I have a good salary for the place and even so, if my wife wasn't working we wouldn't be able to afford our two bedroom apartment within a 30 minute commute to the city center.