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Do Old DOS viruses work on Windows 10?(youtube.com)
2 points by wickerman 6y ago|0 comments
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by wickerman 6y ago
The problem is that Youtube's policy of aggressive takedown has enabled a massive abuse of the system. You can go and find many prominent YT creators complaining about their videos being taken down by false copyright claims. Literally
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by wickerman 6y ago
Not sure about mesopotamia but there's evidence of indoor plumbing for sewage distribution in Knossos (Minoan civilisation - 3000 BC to 1100 BC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization#Plumbing There&#x
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by wickerman 6y ago
As someone with the opposite of aphantasia (I can daydream very vividly) who's also worked as a pro illustrator I don't really imagine things as I draw. Drawing is more mechanical than people think, and while coming up with a conc
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by wickerman 6y ago
I feel like any other tool, it largely depends on the context in which it's being used. I think that video chats are phenomenal in certain workplaces, or for certain people, and terrible in others. I've been in situations where ha
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by wickerman 6y ago
You hit the nail right on the head. The underlying rusophobia that has been eaten and digested by the english-speaking world after the cold war never ceases to amaze me, particularly in the face of the global threat that is the american mil
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by wickerman 6y ago
I do all my illustration work on Krita. I absolutely love it, after spending most of my career working on photoshop. I use a Cintiq Wacom tablet on Linux Mint and it works wonders.
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by wickerman 6y ago
I'm a data engineer, stopped trying to "upgrade" into ML years ago when I realised my skills were a lot more in need in the longer term than any ML specialists.
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by wickerman 6y ago
Coming from a part of the world where most people studying IT start working (as full time programmers) on their second year of college I really don't understand the mentality that even after paying for your education you still are not
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Amazon EMR Introduces EMR Runtime for Apache Spark(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by wickerman 6y ago|0 comments
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by wickerman 6y ago
I've been actually posting in a few telnet BBS, as well as some SSH forums as of late. I love the small web. I love the freedom of anonymity. I grew up in the 2000s and also got into web design through notepad and hand written HTML. I
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by wickerman 6y ago
Have you tried applying for banks? Most of the contractors I worked with in banking in Ireland were older, 40+ including some 60 something, all python developers. I don't know what country you live in but both the UK and Ireland have a
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Facebook Expects Half Its Employees to Work Remotely Permanently(npr.org)
2 points by wickerman 6y ago|0 comments
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by wickerman 6y ago
Another irritating bit about this is that when I search for news about my country in my language, spanish (I live in London, the UK one Siri, not the american one) I still get a number of english language results first.
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by wickerman 6y ago
I think this also happens because traditionally, people become loyal to a brand because they gain something intangible from it. Reducing prices is not a way to ensure loyalty - as soon as they find a better deal customers will bail, as you
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by wickerman 6y ago
I also know someone, a very handsome dude in his mid 20s who had a bit of a wanderlust for a year after a brief stint in the military, who also got plenty of harassment from dudes he was staying with. As in, two of his hosts in Italy cooked
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Krita – open-source painting software that is Linux friendly(krita.org)
5 points by wickerman 6y ago|0 comments
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by wickerman 6y ago
I used Photoshop for digital painting but wilfully ditched it when I got a new laptop and decided to install Mint on it instead of staying with Windows 10. Then I discovered Krita, which is a linux based open source illustration program whi
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by wickerman 6y ago
But here's the thing: this kind of personal data is used daily by many companies. There's a table in a bank/telco/etc where they have your full name, your ID number, your address, your age. Any worker who has access to t
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by wickerman 6y ago
I agree... I've never ever seen anyone actually act like this. Even the most fanatical of my friends in university would never ever pull a 12h day by their own volition (mostly because they were all working full time jobs while still i
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by wickerman 6y ago
I think it's time to start naming and shaming these companies. This doesn't increase productivity. It's disgusting. You don't own people's lives for 8 hours a day; you pay them to help you achieve goals for the comp
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by wickerman 6y ago
Sorry, where's the irony? I'm not familiar with what reputation Rolling Stone has.
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by wickerman 6y ago
I don't know about other sides of IT, but as a data engineer in London I'm getting daily messages from recruiters offering contract/permanent positions. All the big companies are also hiring. So if you have a certain level of
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by wickerman 6y ago
In Dublin, where the housing crisis is supported by an overabundance of "student accommodation" and airbnb rentals, the housing crisis disappeared overnight because of this virus. A friend of mine said she found a small apartment
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by wickerman 7y ago
As an argentinian living in the UK, I am waiting for this country to finally become civilised and include a stand alone bidet in every bathroom
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by wickerman 7y ago
I had a teacher in college who'd been part of a project to fix the Y2K bug in the bank he worked at the time. He said to us when talking about project management, that the only project he saw actually finish on time was that one. The p
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by wickerman 7y ago
I use DDG as my main search engine - for most things it works just fine, when I can't find what I'm looking for I go to google. I find it hilarious that the image search function works a lot like Google used to in the past - I&#x2
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by wickerman 7y ago
The unsaid thing about fake news is that it's manipulation by non-giants. It's not the big media corps/newspapers lying to the people, it's some small website playing up cognitive bias.
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by wickerman 7y ago
Yeah, my whole impression while reading this article was "why try to solve a non-technological problem using technology?" If the over abundance of information is just reinforcing existing psychological issues with humans then huma
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by wickerman 7y ago
I agree that all this fear-mongering is turning super counter-productive. While I do think we're in the middle of a climate crisis that is going to put a lot of lives at risk, I have to say that I've grown incredibly weary and tir

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