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r00ty, to programmer_humor in Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive
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The thing is, this type of job never needed a union previously. It was niche enough for a long time, that you were sought out and rewarded well. But yes, I think we're moving into an era where we do need union representation.

Oddly enough, with my experience I am sought out still. Just for bizarre startups who clearly never checked my previous work history. Some of the messages I get on Linkedin for example are just weird requests.

r00ty, to lemmyshitpost in They forgot the LGBTQ...
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Settle down, chairman moe! But, just to nitpick, what he says sounds a lot more like "immigants" to me. Which when I originally saw the scene, was the icing on the cake.

r00ty, to lemmyshitpost in Be amazed by the uses of Tech...
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I thought it was implying he was in some hard to reach location, and they were pulling the stops out to connect the last guy on earth without internet.

r00ty, to lemmyshitpost in Be amazed by the uses of Tech...
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Wake up sheeple! Gravity is an obvious lie from the NWO illuminati lizard people! We're actually all implanted with small steel sheets in our feet at birth, and everything on the planet has a small amount of iron filings in too. The flat disc we live on is completely magnetic. That's how we don't fall off.

I thought everyone knew this!

r00ty, (edited ) to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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How about 0xYYYMDD or 0xYYYYMDD if you need years after 4095 for some reason.

Today is 0x7e7b16

r00ty, to lemmyshitpost in Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first...
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It's hard to be sure these days.

r00ty, to linux in A symptom of linux past traumas
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Yeah, I was about to say when I read the first part. Adding windows manually is quite an old thing. Modern linux setups with grub2 will "find" the EFI loader for windows and add it automatically.

I lost my grub loader when I upgraded hardware recently. But, I just booted into a linux USB, chroot (remembering to mount /boot/efi) and re-run grub install/grub update. That didn't find windows. But, it was fine because I just properly booted into linux and ran grub-update again there, and it found it fine.

r00ty, to lemmyshitpost in A good deal of IT work, too
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Well, you need the basics of software development to start with. But sure, I'm not going to make my own implementation for every problem I come across. That would be insanity and a colossal waste of time.

However, people googling or using ChatGPT to create code they do not understand themselves, are just cargo cult programming, and it will bite them in the arse/ass (delete as applicable).

r00ty, (edited ) to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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What I read was that it never happened in the old versions and it wasn't a bug in civ5, in that, it was a nod to the legend. But apparently Sid Meier said it didn't happen in the original games.

EDIT: Here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

r00ty, to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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Yes, although isn't that an urban legend? Pretty sure I read that it was.

r00ty, to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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Nah. With binary, you can lose one hex digit AND the max year would be 2047 (11 bits year, 4 bits month, 5 bits day). What's not to like about hex anyway?

r00ty, to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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The UK driving licence has birthdate as YMMDDY in the licence number. Totally uncrackable encryption.

r00ty, to linux in A symptom of linux past traumas
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Hmm, only bios/firmware updates are meant to do that. Some hardware changes will too. I mean, it's what it's there for.

r00ty, to linux in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
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I think this is ultimately the answer. I'm not going to judge wayland until I see it as ready and can truly replace X in all use cases.

I sometimes feel like the distros switching now is premature. But, maybe they know something I don't.

r00ty, to memes in This post
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I'm from the UK and part of the forgotten generation, so I was pretty much brought up on both systems. The "cheaper" way to do F from C is double it and add thirty. It works reasonable enough. Of course the reverse is minus thirty then half.

I'm definitely more native in deg C, but am fine with deg F too. Yes, I added deg to stop the coding jokes.

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