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weisk

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About weisk

weisk [ my public key: https://keybase.io/weisk; my proof: https://keybase.io/weisk/sigs/eids_lia0JYJwbANQac7lGKf9y0-82zexJ3S4EQasjA ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48624777

    yeah Allright! talk about timing, I've also recently been restoring a bunch of these iMacs, from the 2011-13 era. Such beautiful machines, and quite capable once configured! Obviou…

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    Comment #46328208

    "Do you confirm you are above 18 years of age (or the planet-rotation equivalent in your local star cluster)?" i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?

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    Comment #33379568

    [not knowing if a machine or a human wrote a twitter post is a bad thing] And what difference does it make, wether some content was written by an algorithm or it was written by pro…

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    Comment #33379516

    We've arrived to a very satisfying conclusion here: politics has always (mostly) been the biggest of all scams. Wether its a team of script writing artists, or the state of the art…

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    Comment #30850480

    Working in quite the prominent big tech in Europe. 7k+ slack members. We abuse slack. inter-team daily work, intra teams coordination. Squads / topic q&a's, code reviews. Tribe bas…

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    Comment #30483762

    Fun idea you got, but not exactly, in some european languages, "sweet water" refers to drinking water, as opposed to what would be "salt water", water from seas and oceans.

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    Comment #30463386

    You seem like a knowledgeable person. What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? And best of luck to you, dear friends.

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    Comment #30231644

    [disclaimer: i agree 100% with your thinking], but... > When was the last time you thought, oh my god look at that old loser last night

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    Comment #29822895

    > The internet and computing is certainly a big shift, but from a visible changes to the world perspective I think 2022 is more alike 1922 than 1922 was alike 1822. Lolwat? Handhel…

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    Comment #29611570

    Yeah, I remember that. That was a day to remember, a victory for the open source. The explosion in forks across many other git services, was so widespread and loud that github (app…

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    Comment #29008563

    Well duh obviously it exists, arent you reading it? Therefore it falls in the realm of existence lol jk, im just fucking around with the semantics of words here. However I have to …

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    Comment #28976351

    Microsoft owns github, it could be said that they no longer depend / compete with the open source community, since they operate it from the shadows. It is reasonable to think that …

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    Comment #28879088

    There are nowadays plenty of e-banking solutions which provide you with virtual cards, which you can create and destroy on the fly and at 0 cost. It is really wonderful for this ki…

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    Comment #28750992

    No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.

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    Comment #27690430

    I would add to the list to study some of the top notch algorithms out there, say fast inverse sqrt

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    Comment #25359205

    Who's this fucking Matthew and why is everyone talking about him? He must be the best heckin Accountanant ever

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    Comment #25359171

    Fingerprints are definitely not the only way to know if a binary has been tampered with.

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    Comment #25209245

    Hello, do you know how or who should I approach in order to offer my studio's professional services (for free of course) for tackling this UI problem? I want to commit to this, but…

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    Comment #12276270

    Another version, also 3 characters: 0/0

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    Comment #12234984

    Have you heard about Progressive Web Apps? They are bringing all those things you mention to the table: push notifications, background sync, offline access, home screen badge...

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    Comment #10929453

    Well how is this intended to be 'content manage'd? Through pr's on github? I think CMS is a poor choice for a name, when there is no interface to 'build' the site's pages. I'd call…

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    Comment #8514411

    LucidChart

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    Comment #5468316

    sorry but the first thing I readt was "PostgreSQL the shemales database". Confusing ..

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    Comment #5067107

    Wow, exactamente lo mismo que hacen las consultoras en España, pero con miles de programadores trabajando en cliente..