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gitowiec

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I am amazed about what I can read here, and the profession of the discussion.
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gitowiec··on Get better at Googling
I agree with you. You are first person among commenters here that see this. Using free software is hard. There is a little of packages well documented. Plenty of packages has multiple versions not compatible with themselves. Sometimes reading documentations reveals that package API is not providing. Among worst things is minimum reproducible repository when one is working on a proprietary software based on Foss. I never could prepare such example to show reported bug because I could not share code or the bug related on such big part of code that it was impossible to me. That is why I really start to hate JavaScript environment and the business model based on opensource... If owner has no money to buy ready solutions it's gets hard after few years of development to be content of code base one is developing (that is how I feel now, and I'm looking for another job)
gitowiec··on Cicoparser: Full game reverse engineering [video]
This was great to watch. I wish it could work with Linux. First game I would like to recompile is Dune.
gitowiec··on Monkey MindPong
Poor monkey. It should belong to the forest or other natural environment it was took from. I don't get it why there are still tests run on animals. The first what technology should bring is a replacement for every animal test subject.
gitowiec··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
My friend found an IT job in a manufacturing company. That is his way to stay a little productive and to not to stress too much. He told me to not to choose software house without its own product, because it is the worst, most stressful and full of "very important" tasks. Instead he found a job as a PHP developer in a company that produces hearts. He just do simple stuff with CSS, WordPress, PHP. He is so lazy he even did not set him self a git repository or CD pipeline. He just codes inside browser and if it works he copies it into putty in midnight commander's mcedit. For his 44 years it is a dream job.
gitowiec··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
That is funny shit! Looks like a spin-off scenario of The Stepford Wives!
gitowiec··on Ask HN: OCR Libraries for Receipt Scanning/Parsing?
I'm familiar with Camelot, it is used by UI called Excalibur. It is more intended to scan invoices or bank statements. It is perfect for tabularized data. It can handle tables without explicit column edges.
gitowiec··on The Norway Problem
I don't like YAML because when I need to write configuration in it I waste time to remember what is the syntax. I have much better understanding of JSON, because I use it almost on daily basis.
gitowiec··on Testing the Nvidia RTX 4090
I love how much he puts commitment to make it look all genuine. And the time he just let it unveil. First there is a little talk. Then a look inside. When he turns the power on all things start to go snafu.
gitowiec··on The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
I read another article linked inside this article. It is very good: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-l...
gitowiec··on Addiction to Outrage (2020)
The anger I feel now is much weaker than it was before. When I was addicted to weed and before I found my girlfriend which I currently have a child. The anger was my friend, thanks to it I never felt lonely, I never was alone (but I was, I was just alienated teen-ager that couldn't cope with life and my feelings). The anger I felt gave my strength. Strength to resolve problems and issues with relations and interactions. I felt so powerful I knew I could stand up to that person (father) that never told me good thing, never prised me, never agreed... The anger I felt to my parents I protected onto other people. The strong anger I felt sometimes was causing next day so blue that my mind was just wandering if suicide is the solution.
gitowiec··on Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF
In our project we use Chromium with puppeteer. The thing is good because it saves our time. Our project generates invoices PDFs. It's written in React so we can send invoice view component directly to PDF printer made of Chromium and puppeteer. Another pro is that puppeteer has a side project "swarm" and which makes it easy to scale when demand is high.
gitowiec··on Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users
Slack is paid for every team (small or big). Search does not work if using a lot #random and #general because knowledge left on other channels disappear
gitowiec··on How to deal with difficult people on software projects
Which personalities displayed in this article sum up for a developer which is also lead developer, CTO, very oriented on functionalities delivery, strict about new ways (always wants to write an article about something, always wants to do research, to the point where I as a 10 years of experience dev feel like he does not trust me)? And yes he is someone who does not trust if I do not back my ideas, opinions or methodologies with googled articles. He also has no sense of humour, or does not show up with it in the team. I sometimes think about him he is a robot...
gitowiec··on Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
Exactly this: recent Firefox mobile update. It is the worst happen to software I like to use and I use it on daily basis. It went bad. And I don't understand why they removed so many helpful features. It is time to (again) depart from Firefox and choose Chromium again.
gitowiec··on WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
I am looking for the Whatsapp chats offline viewer. I would like to store my chats on my laptop and view it without needing Whatsapp on my phone. Currently I know that chats can be viewed (and chat) on web.whatsapp.com, and I found this app https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/ which makes it possible on Windows (and it seems outdated because of lots of bugs on GitHub). But I would like to view chats on Linux computer, it could also be an web app. Do you know such application?
gitowiec··on Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
I would love to see this in my WebStorm! I often did premature commitment and then I used undo and redo. Then I learnt that it is hard to code. Now I am slower in decisions which does not quite help me be productive but calms down premature commitment.
gitowiec··on Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
That is good. And Facebook just shoot it's leg. No news sharing on FB will make people go out from this closed garden to look for news. And this is good, because a lot of people treat FB like the whole internet (they just don't understand what is a blog, home page, vortal)
gitowiec··on Build a Raspberry Pi CM4 4-Bay NAS with Wiretrustee Carrier Board
Do not buy ROCK Pi SATA HAT. I own one, and after few months of lite usage with 4 SSDs, one channel (two SSD connectors) has just died. I just installed OpenMediaVault and configured LVM on 2TB, 2x 1TB and .5 TB SSDs, to use it as a home media server.

I recently tried to initialize warranty process (I bought it directly from shop.allnetchina.cn with shipping to Central Europe) but I got no replay.

gitowiec··on I checked Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false
What is Privacy Pro substitute for Android?
gitowiec··on A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
Doesn't work responsively on latest Android Firefox
gitowiec··on Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
Are you talking about WiDi? I tried to use that on my 3gen i7 laptop. It was awful experience on Windows 7. Then I switched to Linux and never went back.
gitowiec··on Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned
Yes, we put chips in everything, and if this occurs https://youtu.be/hESunUuFrzk what then?
gitowiec··on Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F#
I also didn't get what it does, just reading the homepage content and viewing the examples. And I know what Github gists are (I suppose, are the just text files?)
gitowiec··on Moral Competence
So if I properly understood this article, Bill and Melinda Gates are morally incompetent?
gitowiec··on Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
Why there is VAT on every pledge? Using Patreon is not buying (that is what I believe, that is how similar services work in my country, they don't add extra tax).
gitowiec··on Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail
This is common behaviour of administrative workers. 7 years ago I was employed in a company where contracts with such clauses happend in monthly basis. "Web page should work on MSIE 5.5", and etc.
gitowiec··on Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life
You can watch about this "membranes" concept in Netflix's "Photon" documentary.
gitowiec··on Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
This is true. Symbian was very versatile. I worked at Playsoft - then, at 2007 it was company dedicated to porting games. We had big safe cabinet full of phones from all of the European countries. It was more then thousand of them. Some had TV built in, some had chatting apps, push to talk apps, beautifully animated built in games, calendars, internet browsers, Bluetooth sharing content apps, etc, etc. These weren't Android phones, all of them were Symbian with Java ME.
gitowiec··on 3D printing boats is becoming standard practice
What about all this microplastic which gets from this "boat" into water? This should be banned, I think.
gitowiec··on Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?
I agree with everything what you said. My collection of MP3 is huge. And collecting this music gave me so much fun. Discovery in Spotify is much less fun. There is no friend with similar taste, no DJ you know from gigs you party, no radio editor which voice you love, it is just an algorithm. And serving content right away fast without searching and waiting makes that one does not listen repeatedly songs just discovered. Just jumping from one to next. This destroys the ritual, which is very important as rituals keep and enforce identity of the listener. When I was listening Goa trance I felt connected to gigs I was partying. When I switched to Legendary Pink Dots or Radio Head I was connected to my inner sorrow and so on and on... It all became more mechanical with streaming, soulless...
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