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thirsteh
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About thirsteh
I'm always happy to continue a discussion in private through email: my username at google's mail.
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Comment #37219280
For everything to become incredibly amazing. 5G was more pumped than AI, especially in Europe. For some reason people kept mentioning robo-surgery as a use case...
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Comment #27979003
wow went to package manager, installed Half-Life Uplink, and it's playable.. and a Windows 95 emulator! lol
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Comment #27850959
Great talk by deech on Pharo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
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Comment #27606606
"Glorified auto mechanic" is exactly how I'd describe how software development is viewed in Europe. There is a much bigger emphasis on "just" buying software from Microsoft and SAP…
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Comment #27411139
Picking up other hobbies got me back into software side projects but not as an end in themselves as they used to be (and I'm pretty tired of "learning" new tech at this point -- it…
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Comment #27399626
Yeah, there are not many moving parts now. It messed with read heads in HDDs as well as CRT monitors. I still get nervous if there are magnets around cause I don't know how they wo…
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Comment #27359158
Serious question: Has PE M&A ever led to an improved product? (Maybe that's just a stupid rather than a serious question)
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Comment #27350751
This is for signing a document with a "hand" signature, not cryptographically signing it with a cryptographic signature. Besides, if you don't trust in-browser JS then you shouldn'…
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Comment #27338424
This battle has been lost my friend. The new cyber and crypto are here to stay :)
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Comment #27338386
Yield farming carries a similar or greater risk to investing in stocks and sector ETFs, and that is certainly not what retail banks do with customer funds (that was outlawed by the…
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Comment #26438524
I suppose it makes sense if you're issuing semantically versioned releases of each module and you want the GitHub releases to match, but the trend of turning everything into its ow…
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Comment #9678761
It's not even technically accurate. At the very least it's a draw :)
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Comment #9609332
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present
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Comment #9594735
https://youtu.be/6NcDVERzMGw?t=165
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Comment #9589144
You must not have gotten the memo: Google exposed some of their corporate systems to everyone, therefore VPNs are now useless and have always been useless. :)
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Comment #9577022
So how do you like the PayPal campus? ;)
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Comment #9524865
Generally, there's a good chance that most of these kinds of "Wtf?" logic errors are on the part of the journalist, not the person being interviewed. In the U.S, journalists don't …
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Comment #9517055
Chipotle's "No more GMO food" announcement was the worst "great news" I'd heard in a long time. It was clearly just for PR and nothing else. It's good to see some sanity--this obse…
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Comment #9489730
Why use Gitmo as an example when there are plenty of other areas where you can bash Obama, like continuing many of the Executive Order programs? At least he genuinely tried to shut…
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Comment #9484594
It turns out a lot of the processing is offloaded to proprietary drivers on the EdgeRouter board. It's great for running their stock firmware, but not so great running OpenBSD. End…
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Comment #9465726
All of them, if you want to do it right. Biggest reason inactive mixed content is allowed at all is that blocking it would break too much.
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Comment #9465376
Do you guys know you're actually describing the Surface 3 in detail? ;)
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Comment #9440031
In fact, Either/Maybe can function like safer versions of both paradigms: Functors allow you to build a program of many functions that will terminate with 'Nothing' or 'Either l' a…