Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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TIL the .zip format is ambiguos enough that different parsers can see different files
Bug 1534483 - Ambiguous zip parsing allows hiding add-on files from linter and reviewers
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534483
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Many programming arguments boil down to "my approach done correctly is better than the opposing approach done incorrectly."
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the dirtiest secret you find when reverse engineering games is how many implementations of String they have.
This one is at least 3, plus it uses some stl so there's probably an std::string somewhere
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huh, apparently, the first person to get a PhD in computer science was a nun named Mary Keller. she was first woman admitted to Dartmouth College and was part of the team that invented the BASIC programming language. she later got masters degrees in in mathematics and physics.
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buttons have it easy
if they're depressed, they're working
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watching fedi blocks live, you realise how arbitrary they are
american culture rant
The American attitude towards reading foreign words is bewildering. It's completely understandable to not know how to read one, but when a youtuber or the like spends multiple days, if not weeks, if not months, researching a topic for a video and doesn't bother to spend 20 seconds asking Google Translate how to read the name of the thing that's literally the subject of the video, it's just plain ignorant. Nobody expects you to pronounce them well, but we do expect you to at least try instead of making up a butchered pronunciation on the spot. Bonus points if you then get fussy about it and try to defend it like "that's how I/we read it". Yes, you read it wrong. That's the problem.
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"if we ban TikTok we have to ban Facebook and Twitter"
PLEASE
One of Poland's major cities is called Łódź, which just means Boat. This is apparently funny enough that "The City of Boat" or "Boat City", verbatim in English, has become a fairly common humorous nickname for it. That, and it's a pretty funny city on its own, since like 40% of it looks as if the Germans just stopped bombing it yesterday, another 40% as if the communist gov never fell, and it all clashes with the remaining presentable 20% magnificently. And often these different "styles" are right next to each other. If you ever have a chance to visit it on the way I highly recommend it, even the attached pictures don't give that extreme contrast justice. Just don't wait too long, they're making progress broadening that 20% and in another 20 years it may look like just another western city.
Another nickname: "uć". It's read similarly to "Łódź" but has only two letters which is pretty impressive. It also sounds kinda funny but that can't be conveyed in text or pictures.
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RT @AlexisCompBio
A Bachelor thesis in my lab makes a seminal contribution to software engineering - open source codes written in C on github have higher code quality when they contain swear words.
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@thegoodnerd oh wow... I was just making a throwaway joke about misreading "Google Bard" (a new Google product release) as "Google Brad".
But, as you've pointed out, someone seems to be typo-squatting www[.]bradai[.]chat, which occupies the top search result with what looks like a crypto scam. Wow!
But, as you've pointed out, someone seems to be typo-squatting www[.]bradai[.]chat, which occupies the top search result with what looks like a crypto scam. Wow!
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I see that there are generators for "CONTRIBUTING" docs these days. They output pretty, long description of how to contribute, including a detailed guide to good commit messages.
Then you look at the actual commit messages from the project's author…
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While the #CryptoWars continue, we would like to remind everyone of two very convincing facts for the pro #encryption side:
✅ 1. Encryption can't be outlawed
✅ 2. Backdoors for the good guys only are impossible
Read our position on the ongoing crypto wars: https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/
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Percentages are magic.
Let's say someone has $400. You give them $100. Now they're 25% richer.
Now you take these $100 from them. They're only 20% poorer.
Repeat a few times, and you are an expert policitian.
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@neilhimself or perhaps he exercised superhuman focus in the early morning of March 16?
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Hey #screenshotsaturday 👋
Made this prototype today, I call it Conway's game of breakout 😜
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
