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by worewood 2y ago
At that point why not code something using the Interop APIs to programatically interface with the spreadsheet? It's a PITA to code but it works.
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by worewood 2y ago
> If you are big and improve you get fined Well, no... You get fined if you make improvements AND use your already big position to bury competition that may compete with your improvement. Google could've just marketed their option a
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by worewood 2y ago
With widespread CGNAT and the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses this will become more and more common each day...
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by worewood 2y ago
This is type of cool hacking I like to see. Kudos! (Or better, Sukodus :) )
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by worewood 2y ago
TS running under Node.js for the backend, I'd dare say, looks pretty standard. But I like to imagine the Web frontend made in Go, compiled to WASM. Would be a fun project, for sure.
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by worewood 2y ago
I have to second this, 100%. Not everybody is developing the next Canva or the next Google Docs. To me it sounds like people trying to justify that what they do has some higher value than what it really does.
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by worewood 2y ago
Be aware that the article is written and published by a company that's selling an alternative version of refillable dispensers so that it may be biased. And as always, no one discusses the danger of creating even more plastic waste by
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by worewood 2y ago
How often do people expect to compile open-source code and get _exactly_ the same binary as the distributed one? I've seen this kind of restriction only on decompilation projects e.g. the SM64 decompilation -- where they deliberately c
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by worewood 2y ago
In the year 2024 it is prudent to think of everything that leaves the premises as potentially listened upon. That's why we've got HTTPS an DoT/DoH so widespread these days
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by worewood 2y ago
I'm working on a fork of it [1], because the original didn't have diacritics (á,ã,etc.), the metrics were a bit off for me and the "f" has a line at the bottom which I didn't like; and I'm also trying to adjust
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by worewood 2y ago
> What makes the presentation layer of HTML/JS/CSS so different from Win32 of yore, which had VB? From my experience: besides both Win32 and VB being from the same entity (Microsoft), which helps a lot, what we had basically we
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by worewood 2y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice
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by worewood 2y ago
More often than not, the changelog just states "performance improvement" or "bug fix", without any detail on what they've done. For example, I've been bitten before by Dell due to plundervolt updates that remo
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by worewood 2y ago
Makes sense. Big Tech are the only ones pushing for Secure Boot because it gives them control over our machines. With that they will be able to garden-wall our PCs the same way they do with our phones.
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by worewood 2y ago
I like it. Having taken a bad decision lately, this resonates deeply. Had I evaluated the available options and criteria explicitly, it could've been avoided. The feeling is the same as being sure that something, like an algorithm, is
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by worewood 2y ago
Be aware that the brazilian tech-literate tend to have far-right opinions, and as such like to think that there is a dictatorship because they're not able to voice opinions defending violence or discrimination openly.
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by worewood 2y ago
Number One, Pipe Character, lower case L, upper case I, zero and O, Parentheses and Brackets, are so common pain points on coding and terminal fonts. Those should be painfully distinct.
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by worewood 2y ago
Why not? Japan was using floppy disks until last week or so :D
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by worewood 2y ago
Depends on if you're in on it with the forgers or if you're against it but being forced to do it. It's the perfect clue to leave in, as its intention is plausibly deniable and you can tip statisticians to uncover the fraud.
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by worewood 2y ago
From my experience in corporate, "support" basically means consultation, because the corporation only employs "developers" who know zero things about garbage collection, or how threading works, or how to read reference d
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by worewood 2y ago
I bet that if this algorithm had come up today it would be called AI resizing
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by worewood 2y ago
The sad thing is that the index would take just as much space as the data itself, because in average you can expect to find a n-bit string at the 2^n position.
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by worewood 2y ago
As a developer in a corporation, yes, the software I develop runs on Linux servers. But we don't develop in the server - my work computer is a "desktop with packaged software" and as such runs Windows.
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by worewood 2y ago
Yeah, like that time when somebody just wanted to fix a gramatical error ("he" was being used incorrectly) and the maintainers rejected it on political grounds, bringing politics into something that had nothing to do with politics
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by worewood 2y ago
Yeah absolutely. This exploit is akin to V8 allowing websites to supply its own bytecode (not WASM -- talking about the internal bytecode here) to it instead of Javascript.
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by worewood 2y ago
Writing text and writing code are two distinct abilities. It is very rare the professional that possesses both.
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by worewood 2y ago
The alternative is called Windows Job Objects, and it allows for limiting CPU and memory usage, among others. There are numerous libraries and launchers on github; my favorite is [1]. CPU limits are only for Windows 8 or greater though, so
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by worewood 2y ago
The problem is not dropping automation when it fails. The problem is dropping automation BECAUSE it fails. They aren't able to rely on the automation because it's faulty - and as consequence error rate increases.
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by worewood 2y ago
Supply and demand don't exactly work on an inelastic market like rent. You can't wait until find an acceptable price, you need a roof today. You can't accumulate, so you only look for rent when you don't have one and NEE
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by worewood 2y ago
> wouldn't it be similar to the credit scores we all have Wow, have never thought about this. Yes, yes they are similar... That's why I get basically the same interest rates across all financial institutions. There's no co

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