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by gwnywg 3y ago
Is it stealing to switch channel when TV broadcasts ads?
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I do feel the nostalgia, I do remember early internet and I do miss it too. I must be getting old.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm Firefox user and I do have adblockers installed, but on youtube I have them disabled since they are threttening to ban users with adblockers. Now I read some people still got banned (even in this thread) and that makes me thinking
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I was reading here posts of people who lost their google account (can't remember url) and when I have first seen it I moved everything away from google and from other huge email providers- I don't want to live in world where I hav
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm on Linode since ~2012 and some time ago they added free ddos prottection to their offering, it was advertised on HN too [1]. Hetzner is also offering something to mitigate ddos. There was HN thread asking the same question [2] Havi
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by gwnywg 3y ago
That's exactly what I thought. Calls to tax the rich are not affecting them since they have means to avoid being taxed. We have no means at all and those laws will be directed at us at later stage (thresholds lowered, definitions chang
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I thought the bug is that you don't need to interact with FF to get injection into pasted payload... So am I wrong to think that as long as FF runs in the background, you can still get injection to the payload you just copied from the
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Try building bots in codingame.com, 2 hours should be enough to build something that works :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
When I first saw Boston Dynamic's Atlas I thought "I wonder when will they fit a firearm to that". I was hoping my first thought was out of my cynism or bad sense of humour...
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Entanglement by gopherwood studios https://entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com/en-GB-index.html
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Nothing to be proud of, but I once won $50 through betting on ice hockey. I had no clue what I was doing, I just picked a team and put bet for draw every time that team was playing, doubling previous bet. Once I won I took the money and nev
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm reading it line by line, some parts are really difficult to ingest and other parts go very easily. Once I finish reading it first time I plan to read it again, this time I hope to get more from difficult parts based on the context
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but who can stop you or me from deploying VPN and providing secure comms channel to our families? surely, any user who encrypts their comms is suspicious to govt, but there needs to be something more than suspicion for
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Fair point, my thought after I contemplated a bit was that those who do not obey, regardles of ideology. Which I'd say fall into your box of 'those who lost'
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I have seen this short some time ago, and I was wondering, if such weapon was ever deployed, what ideologies would be labeled as 'evil'.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm in the same boat, have 2 kids and want to enjoy trade the same way I used to many years ago :) but not at expense of my kids. This feels possible only in a universe where I run my own product and am capable of making a living (not
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by gwnywg 3y ago
> You have to do leetcode if you want any hope of being able to find a different job. It's funny how much perspective can differ between people. I have 15 years and was asked to do leetcode type of question twice, both times I was i
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'll chime in to share my experience, I was once looking for companies/startups looking to get offshore developer (I was offering my time) and remember I got direct link to the company through meetup app email distribution list fo
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I have seen ISO 27001 implemented twice, both time it was led by someone who knew the game (each time it was different person). I don't know the budget but from what I have seen to have these guys who knew the drill was crucial..
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I was employee #1 long time ago and got 5%. Another time I was employe #15 and got nothing. Yet another time I cofunded the product and got 10%.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I don't do leetcode myself, but I frequently do clash of code on codingame. I do this for fun, and sometimes as a warmup to get better motivation before work.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I noticed youtube will detect too many downloads and start serving errors at some point. I could download one or sometimes two videos error free and then yt-dlp log starts spamming with 'unreachable' errors...
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I am fine with the concept and minetest is available through pacman on arch. I sometimes play with them on local server
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I talk with my kids about addictive effect of different things, one of them are smartphones- they currently are interested in games but I already talk with them about other products that bring same addictive effect. We talk about mechanisms
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I haven't bought smartphones for my kids. Some of their friends have smartphones and this sometimes leads to complaints and longer conversations, for now they accept my list of reasons, I'm yet to see what will future bring. As fo
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I absolutely love this, when I was a child I have seen a book with those pictures and wanted to have one since then. It gives weird type of pleasure once you force your eyes to 'see'.. :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
around 15 years ago I came across a garden torch that was sold on the stick, the manufacturer was claiming these torches scare mosquitos away. I was sceptical but I got two, and it actually worked, we spent whole night outdoors with not a s
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I co-funded a startup ~decade ago, had CEO removed similarly to how you was removed, so I left too and came back to regular software engineering role. No stress and focusing on tasks helped me to recover and now, after few years I'm ha
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by gwnywg 3y ago
When I was younger and during interview people asked how much I earn right now I learned to answer this : "my contract prohibits be from sharing this information", it was always working.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
How do you deal with testers who try to report non-issues or really minor issues and expect to be paid big bounties for it?

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