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I wanted to try Confer — Moxie Marlinspike’s private AI chat — but I don’t have a Mac lying around. Since it requires isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable(), and most Linu…

"And even though they make up only 5% of the total student population, international students earned nearly half of all Master’s and Doctor’s STEM degrees awarded in 2019, a total …

Remote working was quite common in IBM when I worked there, ten-ish years ago. I stepped foot in an office only a handful of times.

Maybe contact Have I Been Pwned?, work with them to add it to their leak database, notify site owners afterwards with a timeframe for disclosure and release your findings/blog post…

1) That's far from true. I had a company in an incubator associated with one of the largest federal universities. Professors were supportive, overall. A few helped with contacts in…

Yeah, I'm here. Ten years on the road and a lot of failed dreams. Some days I feel like finding a high beam and buying some rope. Anyway, it's been a fun 10 years - people should b…

Almost all pages of cat-v.org read like that. It's a good read. Most should be taken in a light hearted way - it's just software, after all. People unfortunately tend to get outrag…

Back when I was remote sensing, I remember some talk of people using SAR images (Synthetic Aperture Radar??) to search for Maya roads. I imagine something was found since then but …

I have no ideas for companies you worked for, but I wouldn' trust Catho :-) apinfo.com.br salary survey matches my experience for average salary. BRL 5k is an average salary for a …

I'm sorry but 16k USD is not a good salary for a senior programmer in Brazil, at least not in Rio or São Paulo, working for a large company. USD 26k to 37k is a common range for se…

SEEKING WORKING - Remote (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) C++, Qt, Python, image processing, biometrics, UNIX and Linux. Just reach out to vbraga at acm dot org