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Jan van Brügge

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Jan van Brügge@jvanbruegge.cerberus-systems.de · 4w ago

Even without the random moving (was offered a PostDoc in my hometown that I wanted to move back to after my PhD), I still left academia. Now I have stable working hours, actual holiday, twice the pay and I don't have to deal with the song and dance of where to publish with whom for max prestige.

Alex Gude@alexgude.com · 4w ago

I guess I'm doing PhD discourse: I left academia because I realized that *IF* I was extremely lucky, it would mean: Moving to a random town. Being stuck there for the rest of my life. Being paid like a junior engineer. I loved my field, but enough to drag my family to Stillwater Oklahoma? No.

gabby@fullmoon.id · last mo.

Haskell can call into C code without blocking main thread (meaning that the C FFI plays nice with green threads because it can be preempted) and without the user having to manually manage a thread pool or similar. It's handled completely transparently for the user by the language and runtime

lexi@barredspirals.comint.su · last mo.

what the fuck is "data locality." do you seriously expect me to believe that you're improving performance by fiddling around with data structure feng shui?? NO. we are not going to waste our time trying to appease the L1 cache-spirit when we have real investors to appeas

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 3mo ago

Equal work deserves equal pay. 3 years ago, the EU agreed that payment of all employees should be clearly indicated, so that men and women receive the same. Now, EU countries are bringing these new rules into national law.

A split-screen graphic comparing job advertisements before and after EU pay transparency rules. On the left, labeled “Before,” a job ad displays the vague phrase “Competitive Salary” with a red X underneath, suggesting a lack of transparency. On the right, labeled “Now,” the job ad includes a clear salary range of “€2,000–€2,500 gross monthly” with a green check mark, indicating the new requirement to provide pay information upfront. An EU flag appears in the bottom-right corner, linking the change to EU legislation.
Plasma Ring@plasmaring.bsky.social · 3mo ago

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.

Yining Karl Li@yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Disney Animation remade three songs for ASL. For these, we resurrected the original data and pipeline version, reanimated (from near scratch in some places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did!

james7132@no-bull.sh · 6mo ago

Went from knowing nothing about NixOS to contributing to it in 20 days! I don't know of many other Linux distros that'd allow that. Feels really reminiscent of Bevy's approach to FOSS: make the average user capable of contributing on onboarding, then provide a shallow on-ramp.

james7132@no-bull.sh · 6mo ago

Trying out NixOS, honestly quite impressed. I replicated my Arch setup in 3 hours, 1 of which was just spent wiping the 2TB drive my old Windows installation was on. Here's to hoping the setup transfers over to my other computers without trouble.

Jan van Brügge@jvanbruegge.cerberus-systems.de · 6mo ago

Over the last three weekends, my father and I built what I call the ultimate board game shelf. I designed it in #FreeCAD and tried out the new assembly workbench in 1.0 (it's sadly not quite there yet, let's see if 1.1 fixes the issues) Now my collection has space to grow :)

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Jan van Brügge@jvanbruegge.cerberus-systems.de · 6mo ago

This argument never made sense to me. If someone is willing to wait several years for a PC version of a Sony game, they would never buy a PS5 in the first place. I certainly won't, but got several Sony games on Steam Most will just wait until emulation is good and pirate the game or not play at all

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One important piece of context here is that when someone buys a PlayStation, Sony doesn't just get their $500+. The company also gets 30% of *everything* they buy on the PlayStation Store. In other words, Sony makes the most money by getting as many people as possible on its consoles

Alex Dixon@dixonary.co.uk · 8mo ago

Just found out that a website written in Haskell that I deployed and forgot about over *7 years ago* went down this week, not because it crashed, but because the logs were so long that the server ran out of disk space 🙈 Another tally in the column of "Haskell just works"