tomcooks

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781.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Cue in Concerned Client #382716: "but then how do we update the website independently"
782.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Weird phonetically? ASCII spells like ask-he, so it should read as asskicker. Pretty phonetically sound, no?
783.
by tomcooks 7y ago
The ESPN targeted ads provider requires "several minutes" to "process" the opting out of tracking. Blacklisted ESPN and Truste.com from my forum. Blah.
784.
by tomcooks 7y ago
I've always wondered if German speakers are generally ok with "ue"? I've seen it used on URL's
785.
by tomcooks 7y ago
This unfortunately pleases the state, the tourist service providers and the wealthy. All three of them not being particularly known for their respect of culture, tradition and delicate (eco)systems. Blah.
786.
by tomcooks 7y ago
It's not minor, the implications of such mistakes are enormous (especially in the days of easy copy-pasting, semi-universal support for utf8 on the web, and plenty of ways to do research) on a cultural level. Poor journalism and disdai
787.
by tomcooks 7y ago
OT: Ugh, emojis.
788.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Avoid those sites, and when asked for feedback mention the problems (a great place for feedback is the customer serivce chat, followed with a FU, enter and a ctrl+w)
789.
by tomcooks 7y ago
There are a lot more problems with Esperanto than the French veto I believe
790.
by tomcooks 7y ago
> Add memes and GIFs as you walk the code! Cristo.
791.
by tomcooks 7y ago
It's a colonial project that expands illegally at the expense of one side only, how's that not one-sided?
792.
by tomcooks 7y ago
> negative energy Israel burns down centuries -old olive trees, closes access to water, and promotes settlements in occupied territories "Negative energy"
793.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Italian too
794.
by tomcooks 7y ago
got to the end in 8 minutes, pity the job spontaneous candidacy form doesn't show up -- is this the final ruse?
795.
by tomcooks 7y ago
You're using "paranoid" as if it is a bad thing.
796.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Writing such a snarky comment? Oh yes.
797.
by tomcooks 7y ago
Am i the only one who still uses good old floats and position? Supported everywhere, keeps markup to the bare minimum and doesn't smell like 1992 <table> based layouts.
798.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Why link to some dude's twitter, I WONDER, when he links the [actual paper]( https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/whitepapers/Experimental_Secu... ).
799.
by tomcooks 8y ago
This is what you get by not answering RTFM to stupid questions.
800.
by tomcooks 8y ago
I think you're illustrating ONE way to deal with multi-armed bandits, specifically an epsilon-greedy strategy
801.
by tomcooks 8y ago
(Especially if you sub-hire other people for 0.60$/hour, pocketing 0.40$/hour from each of them for ZERO effort.
802.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Been a big fan of this author since the cypherpunk podcast, strange to see "smuggler" reveal his real (?) name.
803.
by tomcooks 8y ago
because otherwise he'd have to admit he's been an irrationally harsh critic /s
804.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Compression glitches can also produce beautiful harmonics as samples' quality degrades: Mille Plateaux just released Bienoise's "Most beautiful design"[0], an LP that can fit on a 1.44 floppy disk thanks to mp3 compressi
805.
by tomcooks 8y ago
unsplash.com has unbelievably high quality pictures, released for free. putting commercial stock photos hubs to shame. I used to use pixabay.com in the past, but their releases are often of lesser quality.
806.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Give 10% to the poor and causes you respect, go do a world tour with your family or alone, make a bucket list and fulfill it The world is your oyster go abuse the opportunity
807.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Use the buzzer button, wait for a nurse to come and express a complaint.
808.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Fuck this website and its rewriting of my keyboard shortcuts, my back button and history. Fuck this.
809.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Check the NSA PowerPoint that came with Snowden's revelations.
810.
by tomcooks 8y ago
Thank you

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