wukerplank

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by wukerplank 1y ago
CSV is so deceptively simple that people don't care understanding it. I wasted countless hours working around services providing non-escaped data that off the shelf parsers could not parse.
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by wukerplank 2y ago
I thought Nvidia is selling shovels
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by wukerplank 2y ago
Fully agree, and my first association was the "Men Will Do Everything But Go to Therapy" meme.
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by wukerplank 3y ago
My former employer was a lot more YOLO than that. When I joined (in the mid 2000s) there was no https on the website, passwords stored in plain text, no backup strategy, etc. But they printed money with their system.
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by wukerplank 3y ago
I think there was no realtime CC processing back then. In my last job I found artefacts like fax forms where they would write down collected credit card data (from online subscriptions) to be sent to their processor. To have at least _some_
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by wukerplank 3y ago
Not based on this source code, but on the original assets, 'reubs' made an Unreal Engine version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4QUy02cQqY&list=PL3gCaTLUSA...
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by wukerplank 3y ago
Taking a picture vs publishing/selling a picture are separate issues.
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by wukerplank 3y ago
I'm on the fence about XR and I for sure won't buy a "Pro" grade device. But regarding your point about reality shaping: Sometimes it's just obvious. When I saw the presentation for the iPhone, I know this was the f
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by wukerplank 3y ago
Germany really takes the price when it comes to (torrent-based) piracy. The lawyers around it created a nice little ecosystem for themselves. Honeypot torrents and all. They have such a nice system that they don't go for the torrent si
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by wukerplank 3y ago
You'd think a company of that size would have lawyers who know about protected regional product names. It's EU thing and you might disagree with it, but you have to comply with laws if you want to do business.
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by wukerplank 4y ago
I used to think like this about marketing in general. "Build it and they will come" was the usual motto in my formative years. But isn't it a shame to build a great product and then not have people engage with it, just becaus
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by wukerplank 5y ago
Nord Stream 2 was finished last year, it just isn't used yet.
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by wukerplank 5y ago
Gazprom runs underground storages in Western Europe which they didn't refill before Winter 2021/22. Back then it was speculated to be used to hike prices, now we know it's more about leverage. https://www.ft.com&#x
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by wukerplank 5y ago
Why not enable AFP on your Synology additionally to SMB?
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by wukerplank 5y ago
Notes app also does OCR and indexes the scanned content.
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by wukerplank 5y ago
Seems like this game engine is built on top of RubyMotion which compiles to byte code - no (slow) Ruby VM. This probably also allows them to bundle the game for many platforms. For hobbyists Gosu ( https://www.libgosu.org/rub
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by wukerplank 5y ago
While I enjoy working from home (fewer distractions and interruptions) I miss the social aspect of the office. I consider many of my colleagues friends and having the occasional beer after work, coffee maker chit-chat and common lunch break
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Amazing accomplishment considering how long they struggled when the PowerPC->Intel transition happened.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Is that how achievements were defined in the The Harvard Adult Development Study?
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I think the European equivalent is politicians "landing" a consulting job at Gazprom.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
> keep the society divided for as long as possible There can't be unity with fascists. They don't respect the values and rules of a democracy.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
So, leave the body by the curb?
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by wukerplank 6y ago
But with cars it's different as the individuals are responsible for their action. Not some shipping company. Why should I pay for reckless/drunk drivers?
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Regarding Saudi Arabia: They should sit on a huge pile of money and the end of fossil fuels is not a big bang event. I would have expected them to use that money for R&D to shape the post oil world to stay relevant.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
You make it sound like that's a bad thing. If my city becomes Diesel free in the next few years I won't ask where the money came from.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Is there a source for that?
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by wukerplank 6y ago
The specs that irk me are RAM and SSD, even more since they started soldering them on. CPU & GPU were always kinda on par with the rest of the field.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
My 2012 Macbook Pro was also slowly dying. As a Hail Mary I opened it up, cleaned it and renewed the thermal paste on CPU and GPU. Now it's back to old speeds!
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I'm also a fan of macOS, but those hardware specs (RAM, SSD) were weak 5 years ago.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
On paper the new Macs seem like Raspberry Pis with a fancy case and display.

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