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by ghnws 2y ago
Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.
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by ghnws 2y ago
Everyone knowing about character encodings sounds like a lot of time wasted. Gen Z has skills in what is available and popular today, just like the previous generation had.
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by ghnws 2y ago
Having worked quite a bit in b2b applications, that is exactly the kind of thing that makes customers consider other options.
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by ghnws 2y ago
I've never seen more green checkmarks than on AWS status page during a major outage.
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by ghnws 2y ago
Nice! I would like it more without the "lives" though.
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by ghnws 2y ago
People also use extremely offensive language (including racial slurs, but not limited to them) under drugs, alcohol etc. because the words are extreme and nothing else. Using a racial slur does not necessarily make one a racist.
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by ghnws 2y ago
Reader mode saves the day
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by ghnws 2y ago
Unlikely enough to not matter at all
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by ghnws 2y ago
What do you mean by reformat? Any decent code formatter keeps a consistent style. Getting conflics only happens if you missconfigure your editor or don't have checks to catch invalid formatting before merging to remote.
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by ghnws 2y ago
What harm do you think typing a function, for example, would do? I'm genuinely qurious because I just can't see where the issue is.
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by ghnws 2y ago
I've literally never seen anyone put types on trivial variables like that. Maybe your team is just inexperienced with types and/or python?
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by ghnws 2y ago
My current company just has a few HR type people that take care of purchases like that. I literally email them a link to hardware or software I need and they get it delivered to me. This is the best way I've seen it done. I don't
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by ghnws 2y ago
I'm using Brave on my iPhone for ad blocking purposes. Have not encountered anything shady with it so far.
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by ghnws 3y ago
It is by far the most used git host
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by ghnws 3y ago
"Containers are silly" What a silly take
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by ghnws 3y ago
Not just Americans. MS Office is the standard (at least) in the western world.
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by ghnws 3y ago
They specifically make you eat less.
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by ghnws 3y ago
I refuse to buy any duvets that don't have the holes. It's too much of a convenience.
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by ghnws 3y ago
Doom without sound is not doom. Sound is absolutely needed
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by ghnws 3y ago
There is bad ui and then there is such bad ui that you lose focus on the actual thing and just wonder how an ui can be so bad. This is the latter.
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by ghnws 3y ago
Hopefully no-one bet their life on unregulated extremely risky investments.
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by ghnws 3y ago
>I think it's a bad idea to judge tech based on popularity. It just becomes a game of high school fashion drama, instead of getting work done. I disagree. If one tool is way less popular, you risk it being discontinued. You do not
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by ghnws 3y ago
Death, for example
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by ghnws 3y ago
The law is to protect children from dumb parents. You can give a funny name to a dog if you want, not to a person.
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by ghnws 3y ago
Elaborate?
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by ghnws 3y ago
For adults, yeah. For children the system is great. In Finland the rejected names are published and there are many really horrible ones. A child is a person.
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by ghnws 3y ago
The rejected names are published too. Makes it pretty clear why the system is good to have in place.
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by ghnws 3y ago
And wireless devices often have wires in them.
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by ghnws 3y ago
That looks like a great tool! I write a lot of documentation as part of my job and having Markdown side by side with the rendered output is great. Once you get the hang of the syntax, markdown is so much faster to write than using any tex
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by ghnws 3y ago
You can not even bruteforce an AES-128 encrypted zip, let alone 7z or rar with stronger algorithms. (Given a decent length password obviously) > There is value in introducing barriers, even when imperfect. Not when they are completely in

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