azdle

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I’ve had I’ve applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.

    In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it’s just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)


  • I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I’ve applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.

    Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months.


  • azdleAtoFirefox@lemmy.mlExcuse me, but what the f#@£?
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    4 days ago

    Donating to Mozilla doesn’t change any behavior in Firefox.

    Also, donations to Mozilla don’t go towards Firefox development. As far as I’m aware the only way to “give” money to Mozilla Corp (who work on Firefox, as opposed to the Mozilla Foundation) is to subscribe to the VPN service they resell.


  • I’m in the process writing my own version of webscript.io, an old service that died back in 2017. It was a dead simple service that would run a Lua script for each HTTP request that came in to a URL. It sounds pretty trivial, but it was remarkably useful for hacking together little scripts for things like watching webpages for changes, little custom APIs for DIY IoT devices, translating from one API to another, and other simple stuff like that.

    I’ve got enough of it built that I’ve been able to make a few actually useful things with it already. A few different job posting website scrapers were the first thing I made. I also made a little script that queries a live traffic api and sends my wife an estimated drive time for her commute home. The plan with that one is to watch the drive time as it’s getting closer to the end of the day and if it starts spiking earlier/worse than normal, it can email her letting her know she should leave early if she can.


  • Before anyone thinks this could be good news for EA…

    The offer comes from a group of investors that includes Silver Lake, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and Saudi Arabia’s controversial Public Investment Fund.

    WSJ states that it would “likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time.”

    A leveraged buyout from a PE firm means they’ve decided EA needs to die and they’re going to pick the carcass clean.






  • azdleOPAtoRust@programming.devthings rust shipped without (2015)
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    1 month ago

    I’m curious, have you used Rust much? Most of those changes just feel like “rust should be more familiar to me” changes.

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    As Rust 2.0 is not going to happen, Rust users will never get these language design fixes

    Isn’t necessarily true for most of your suggestions. Since most of them are just changes to syntax semantics and not language semantics they could be made in an edition.








  • That is not a repost, this is an other article from ProPublica

    Ah, I just assume that was a slightly different title for the same article. Maybe a mod made the same assumption.

    Are you joking with me? They are using a paraphrased title.

    Well, the first part is. But, I don’t know what “munching” means. The second part of the Ars title actually says what it’s about. Don’t get me wrong, I can probably make a guess. But when you’re scrolling social media, I don’t think anyone is stopping to think about what a title really means. If it’s not obvious at first glace most people are just scrolling by. The Ars title, at least to me, skims as “AI bad” since those are the words anchoring each end of the title, that’s probably enough all by itself to get some people to upvote.

    I am really curious, what sort of evidence you want/expect to see?

    Literally anything vaguely conclusive. I’m not saying you should go find more evidence for me or anything. I’m just trying to explain why I don’t find your evidence here convincing.

    I suspect that Reddit has more than enough money to be competently shitty. So, if they are doing what you suggest, unless they fuck up or decide they don’t care, you might not be able to find solid evidence.




  • azdleAtoFediverse@lemmy.mlFediverse server (only)
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    5 months ago

    I agree that would make sense. I think it’ll come with time.

    To others, I’m pretty sure what OP is suggesting is just a generic activity pub server that all the various front ends could use.

    I’m pretty sure this is what the original (?) authors of the AP spec intended and that’s why they specified a client-server protocol. My understanding is that (almost?) no one uses that API though, they all just specify their own.