cybergoat

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by cybergoat 1y ago
As hairy as it is, COM is an example of a cross language API/ABI. It's workable from C, C++, C# etc etc and even accessible in MacOS as "NSPlugin".
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by cybergoat 2y ago
I was messing around with Bing's image generation recently and found it was very sensitive towards the usage of the word "Jesus". It did not object to me using other gods names such as Krishna or Vishnu. I managed to skirt ar
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by cybergoat 9y ago
Scrum is a sad joke. But corporate loves feeling "safe", with estimates in hand, even if they readily blow out. Usually it ends up with "watergile", a total mess. You can just time kanban tickets vs estimated size (all t
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by cybergoat 9y ago
This is rather clever! What immediately came to mind was perhaps you want to hide a secret key from entering memory. If this was done in kernel mode, you would be able to disable interrupts/task switching execute the "secret"
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by cybergoat 9y ago
There is nothing particularly wrong in eating white rice, if your energy expenditure is matching up to the intake. But as societies change, manual labour is replaced by machines and people move on to physically less demanding work, diets ha
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by cybergoat 9y ago
I'm not sure where you went to eat, but I found the food in KL to be of lower standard as compared to Melaka (which is famed for its hawker food) and Penang. In KL, I had to be shown to the good places[1], but in Melaka you'd be p
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by cybergoat 9y ago
I am more than happy to address your concerns. You are absolutely right about the wealth inequality. There are also deep inequalities within Malaysian society not just along socio-economic lines, but also racial lines. It's a complex,
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by cybergoat 9y ago
My wife is Malaysian, but I am not. Here is my outsider's perspective: * Street food is very tasty, but often laden with gular (palm sugar) or rock sugar (case in point: Sambal). You don't notice because it's spicy! * Sweet d
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by cybergoat 9y ago
I want to give thanks to all the SqlAlchemy devs! I am a huge fan of the custom column types -- they have allowed me to have code that works against SQLite as well as a production databases with ease!
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by cybergoat 10y ago
I'm running OpenWRT on a TP-Link TL-WR841N/ND v8 and the LuCI interface that comes out of box is vastly better (cleaner and more feature-full) than the majority of consumer router interfaces I've encountered. In particular, t
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by cybergoat 11y ago
Some other bootstrappers from Melbourne: * PayDirt - http://paydirtapp.com/ * Cycling Analytics - https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/ Other products developed in Melbourne (I am unsure of the levels of VC): *
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by cybergoat 11y ago
I'd like to mention another local success story. Hidden away in Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne is Blackmagic Design ( http://www.blackmagicdesign.com ). 99% of sales are overseas and they compete with the likes of Canon a