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sirwitti

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About sirwitti

https://schwerpunkt.digital

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48875950

    One aspect that is often overlooked is a room acoustics - especially reverb time. Have you ever felt cosy in a large church? Or, if you have ever been to a wedding and wondered why…

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    Comment #48591937

    Man, I just realized it's been 20 years for me. I vaguely remember sometime in 2006 that Windows Vista was inevitable and decided to switch to linux. I don't care about fussing aro…

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    Comment #48415200

    Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to hear :)

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    Comment #48412955

    Has anyone real-life experience with these tools?

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    Comment #48396252

    Posts like this are the reason why the internet and software development felt magic to me as teenager. This stuff still is magic to me. Wonderful work!

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    Comment #46942658

    Not trying to be rude, but in a technology you're not familiar with you might not be able to know what good code is, and even less so if it's maintainable. Finding and fixing that …

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    Comment #46876504

    You're missing Signal which has gained a lot of traction in the last years. Apart from that it's hard to take statements from such an ignorant US centristic point of view about wha…

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    Comment #46835560

    Owning the issue is one thing, but being able to fix issues with a reasonable amount of resources is another. To me code created like this smells like technical debt. When bugs app…

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    Comment #46801456

    I absolutely love the progress that was made in the several last years! The number of VST/audio plugins available on linux has grown from being quite a problem to having an actual …

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    Comment #45613789

    The jetbrains IDEs hav some very useful features falling into this category, these come to my mind immediately: - Making variables, functions,... grey if they're not used - Tempora…

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    Comment #44897264

    Why once successful? But more importantly, tell me more about the scandals, I love good gossip :)

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    Comment #44897232

    Just in case people don't realize, the author is Dries Buytaert who created drupal.

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    Comment #44300048

    Just as we aren't far from actually usable and safe self driving cars since 10+ years. This is not a valid argument.

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    Comment #40819171

    In your opinion, what's the problem with the port concept of the frame.work?

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    Comment #40427112

    Which unfortunately is not a solution since harsher punishments have shown to not prevent crime.

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    Comment #40256992

    > Such as call-by-reference only working 2 recursions deep. Which smells like an anti-pattern to me. Blaming bad code on the language is one way to deal with it. > Arbitrary decisi…

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    Comment #40195322

    I recently discovered shdotenv and I like it a lot!

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    Comment #40141803

    How so? All over Europe the same infrastructure is being used for both.

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    Comment #39970619

    Didn't know about cheat.sh. Thank you for that, I love it!

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    Comment #39805594

    Related to that, I recently learned about safe-rm which lets you configure files and directories that can't be deleted. This probably would have prevented a stressful incident 3 we…

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    Comment #38287475

    Quality never was the only or even the most important aspect of popularity in music and probably art in general. So I'm not sure your projection is valid.

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    Comment #38204569

    I didn't know that, thanks!

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    Comment #38110876

    I'd like to see what the european court of justice will have to say about this, should this actually become law.

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    Comment #36598797

    Do you have a source for that?

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    Comment #36370506

    Upvoted just for the name and acronym!