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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I'm not so sure other languages do that any better (nodejs doesn't even support non-unicode filenames at all for instance). Modern python does a pretty good job at supporting unicode, very far away from being a "Mess" th
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
"Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a highly classified weather modification program in Southeast Asia during 1967–1972. The cloud seeding operation during the Vietn
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
meanwhile there is not a single tech startup from germany worth talking about, but yeah sure not everyone has to do it the SV way of doing things, like actually being successful
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
QML is actually pretty awesome, I got into it through KDE/Plasma widget development. I think it should be possible to get newest JS working using Babel in your build pipeline. I think it makes a LOT of sense in cases where you develop
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Its not like Zoho is known for their high availability anyways, their domain not being reachable is just par for the course. Also since it said "suspended for abuse complaint", I would almost immediately assume the Zoho just didn&
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Is there anything worse than having to develop with people who can only use Git via a UI? It pretty much by definition means they have zero grasp on the fundamental concepts of Git.
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Global Netflix Search Engine(unogs.com)
2 points by zorkw4rg 8y ago|0 comments
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
> the scripts are all written from the same manual anyway I bet you mean "Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need", its such a cancerous guide.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
The insanity of international copyright law has turned a lot of people into basically just ignoring the laws which is 100% justified, reasonable and morally sound in my opinion. It is not the consumer's fault that politicans are too in
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
> Increase your productivity by never leaving the home row. I can't possibly be the only one who read "Increase your productivity by never leaving home.", But awww I'm so much more productive in the office though =)
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Thats so depressing that we have to have serious discussions about technical countermeasures against our oppressive EU regime. Just because of some old ignorant evil assholes. Time to leave the EU I suppose.
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Source for theguardian.com(github.com)
251 points by zorkw4rg 8y ago|97 comments
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
In my experience its really bad for your mental health to read the source code of software you use, there is a troubling amount of horrific code in widespread use.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I think generally linux distribution bug reports aren't that important to most other types of software, since you can always do so much to diagnose and work around issues yourself. And if there is a bug in software I use like kdenlive
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I can't do: a, *b = range(3) which should be 3.5 i think.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Its one hell of a gigantic conservative industry Tesla is up against. When jeremy clarkson (top gear) did his hit piece [1] there were (probably still are) a lot of people who were completely convinced by it and who saw nothing wrong with i
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
> This case and this verdict had nothing to do with GMOs Over 80% of genetically modified (GM) crops grown worldwide are engineered to tolerate being sprayed with glyphosate herbicides.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
> Mr Johnson's lawyer, Brent Wisner, said the jury's verdict showed that the evidence against the product was "overwhelming". Uhhh to say that is quite the stretch, a jury of layman should judge the scientific consens
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
https://github.com/wannabeOG/Mask-RCNN/blob/master/model.py yeah dumping it all in a single 2098 line file, why not? Here is a clean documented implementation of faster rcnn for comparison: https:/
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Weird why is that getting flagged/downvoted? Isn't that a legitimate topic of discussion? It should be possible to at least point out the facts of what happened. She wrote some tweets in the past that some people interpreted as ra
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I listen to the Daily as well, definitely recommended no shill. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Isn't that anyways now different, I mean asbestos is dangerous when its in the air but: > The report states that the agency will no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assess
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Maybe someone could clarify some things, because I think the impression that I got from reading about this vulnerability is completely wrong. Isn't vPro just something in server hardware? At least the CPU, Mainboard and NIC all need to
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I always thought the idea of the digital divide never went far enough. If you look at the work performed by regular people on a daily basis using computers and the work performed by skilled software engineers there is such an absurd level o
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
I guess rather than having to deal with the agony to move away from a sufficiently large and complex Jenkins setup, people rather delude themselves in that its actually good software. Just the amount of obtuse setup that thing requires is c
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
The number of 20 years is often repeated for the great giza pyramid, however its constructed using 2.3 million stones (~2.5 ton each) meaning they would have to place a stone every 5 minutes, for 20 years to make any sense. Traditional theo
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
The article even makes mentioned potential fraud: "[Thomas] was forgetful and sloppy, but at worst he was being deceptive" Without any further explanation. Science "journalism" certainly has the reputation it deserves.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
There are also a ton of websites from german nazis (I mean common folk nazis, not institutional nazis like the CSU) that use webhosting in the USA to circumvent the more restrictive free-speech in germany. Not like thats pursued of course.
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
How a language with nested list and dict comprehensions can ever claim to focus on readability is beyond me, or look at typing and the mess that leaves behind. One obvious way of doing things while simultaneously mixing oop and functions ar
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by zorkw4rg 8y ago
Just reading the exchange with "botg" is really all the information you'll ever need to know about Filezilla, using it (bundled or not) would just be gross negligence after that. Here is an alternative: https://win

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