hawgietonight

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[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

In southern Spain you can't dig without hitting some stone age stuff. My town was a known stop for travellers before the Romans took over because of fresh water wells. Eventually a roman road was built about two millenia ago, and still ride on it with my bike for some routes.

No old buildings remain, this was a roadside village and stuff was made cheap and not meant to last, but there is a funeral arrangement from 600 BC that was unearthed and sent to the national museum. More info

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In the early days of the euro I got paid fully in cash and every now and then I got one of those in the envelope. I don't recall having trouble to pay with it... but those days are gone and haven't seen a 500 note in ages.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The ones I really like are the six missing

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Well, it was addressing the pay issue, and it is the most secure path to higher paid position fast. Moving on to new stuff comes naturally and the industry will push you to their next hotness, so not really a problem.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If your goal is to make yourself more valuable to employers/clients the best path is to specialize in some critical and niche enterprise tech. People that are good at stuff businesses were lured into using get paid very well. In my case it was SharePoint, but that's just an example.

Knowing your way around the OS is taken for granted in these positions, so you have one piece of the puzzle, which is great, but you need the other pieces.

But be careful, if I have to choose between two experts, one with basic win+linux and the other only linux, I'm choosing the former.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Born in the late 70s, I only recall being bored when my parents made me go to mass, or waiting while they did adult stuff like going to the bank.

Horsing around with my brother or playing with the Casio stopwatch kept us sane.

At home it was TV, Legos, music and bikes

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's funny that in spanish only the "c" is translated.

We say "ce sharp"

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm in a mixed case, I do use bone conducting headphones that are wireless when on my bike, because ear headphones are a 100€ fine I would like to avoid. Well, also use a Cardo on my motorbike..

But on the treadmill or at home I use some good quality wired earbuds, with thick ribbon cable that doesn't tangle up. It is just confortable for me and one less thing to charge and throw away after the batt says goodbye.

The phone: Ulefone Armor 21.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mix of euro dance/trance. Tiesto, Milk inc, Lasgo, Scooter, etc.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Technicalities aside, TS is being pushed by MSFT in their SaaS custom components, and that right there will keep it relevant a while. MSFT is known for changing names a lot, but not for killing technologies.

After over 5 years of writing TS, I have had to do plain JS sometimes, and it is scary. It feels like walking blindfold. I'm spoiled.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Doesn't happen as much, but family and non tech friends would present me to other people that "worked with computers" thinking I could take new job opportunities. They were always wildly unrelated to my field.

I know I know,.. they acted in good faith, and probably could have adapted a bit, but like 30 years ago there was a lot of overlap and systems where somewhat similar, but now somebody trained in Linux kernel maintenance isn't going to learn how to create SharePoint SPFx webparts. Development is very specific now!

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One line is fine if used wisely, everybody does it for readability. The issue is when you need more than one.

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