weisk

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by weisk 3mo ago
yeah Allright! talk about timing, I've also recently been restoring a bunch of these iMacs, from the 2011-13 era. Such beautiful machines, and quite capable once configured! Obviously these are not workhorses, but for lightweight elect
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by weisk 10mo ago
"Do you confirm you are above 18 years of age (or the planet-rotation equivalent in your local star cluster)?" i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?
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by weisk 4y ago
[not knowing if a machine or a human wrote a twitter post is a bad thing] And what difference does it make, wether some content was written by an algorithm or it was written by professional staff, when the objective might be the same: to mi
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by weisk 4y ago
We've arrived to a very satisfying conclusion here: politics has always (mostly) been the biggest of all scams. Wether its a team of script writing artists, or the state of the art machine generated content, its the same worthless jun
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by weisk 5y ago
Working in quite the prominent big tech in Europe. 7k+ slack members. We abuse slack. inter-team daily work, intra teams coordination. Squads / topic q&a's, code reviews. Tribe based knowledge transfer, feedback, and many lul
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by weisk 5y ago
Fun idea you got, but not exactly, in some european languages, "sweet water" refers to drinking water, as opposed to what would be "salt water", water from seas and oceans.
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by weisk 5y ago
You seem like a knowledgeable person. What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? And best of luck to you, dear friends.
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by weisk 5y ago
[disclaimer: i agree 100% with your thinking], but... > When was the last time you thought, oh my god look at that old loser last night
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by weisk 5y ago
> The internet and computing is certainly a big shift, but from a visible changes to the world perspective I think 2022 is more alike 1922 than 1922 was alike 1822. Lolwat? Handheld devices that have the power to process millions of calc
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by weisk 5y ago
Yeah, I remember that. That was a day to remember, a victory for the open source. The explosion in forks across many other git services, was so widespread and loud that github (apparently under pressure from google) had to pull back on thei
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by weisk 5y ago
Well duh obviously it exists, arent you reading it? Therefore it falls in the realm of existence lol jk, im just fucking around with the semantics of words here. However I have to admit, this thought about existence or truthfulness of conce
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by weisk 5y ago
Microsoft owns github, it could be said that they no longer depend / compete with the open source community, since they operate it from the shadows. It is reasonable to think that game development is too complex to be privatised (for n
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by weisk 5y ago
There are nowadays plenty of e-banking solutions which provide you with virtual cards, which you can create and destroy on the fly and at 0 cost. It is really wonderful for this kind of scenario. Vivid is the one I've been using, I cou
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by weisk 5y ago
No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.
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by weisk 5y ago
I would add to the list to study some of the top notch algorithms out there, say fast inverse sqrt
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by weisk 6y ago
Who's this fucking Matthew and why is everyone talking about him? He must be the best heckin Accountanant ever
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by weisk 6y ago
Fingerprints are definitely not the only way to know if a binary has been tampered with.
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by weisk 6y ago
Hello, do you know how or who should I approach in order to offer my studio's professional services (for free of course) for tackling this UI problem? I want to commit to this, but with some kind of planning, just blindly sending PR&#
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by weisk 10y ago
Another version, also 3 characters: 0/0
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by weisk 10y ago
Have you heard about Progressive Web Apps? They are bringing all those things you mention to the table: push notifications, background sync, offline access, home screen badge...
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by weisk 11y ago
Well how is this intended to be 'content manage'd? Through pr's on github? I think CMS is a poor choice for a name, when there is no interface to 'build' the site's pages. I'd call it something like '
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by weisk 12y ago
LucidChart
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by weisk 14y ago
sorry but the first thing I readt was "PostgreSQL the shemales database". Confusing ..