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New comment by wukerplank in "A love letter to the CSV format"

wukerplank — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:41:01 +0000

CSV is so deceptively simple that people don't care understanding it. I wasted countless hours working around services providing non-escaped data that off the shelf parsers could not parse.

New comment by wukerplank in "Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)"

wukerplank — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:57:04 +0000

I thought Nvidia is selling shovels

New comment by wukerplank in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

wukerplank — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:48:37 +0000

Fully agree, and my first association was the "Men Will Do Everything But Go to Therapy" meme.

New comment by wukerplank in "Compuserve"

wukerplank — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:12:20 +0000

My former employer was a lot more YOLO than that. When I joined (in the mid 2000s) there was no https on the website, passwords stored in plain text, no backup strategy, etc. But they printed money with their system.

New comment by wukerplank in "Compuserve"

wukerplank — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 03:54:21 +0000

I think there was no realtime CC processing back then. In my last job I found artefacts like fax forms where they would write down collected credit card data (from online subscriptions) to be sent to their processor. To have at least _some_ safety they would just check [1] if the CC number is sound.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

New comment by wukerplank in "Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)"

wukerplank — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 05:26:37 +0000

Not based on this source code, but on the original assets, 'reubs' made an Unreal Engine version of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4QUy02cQqY&list=PL3gCaTLUSA...

New comment by wukerplank in "Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI"

wukerplank — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:06:42 +0000

Taking a picture vs publishing/selling a picture are separate issues.

New comment by wukerplank in "Apple Vision"

wukerplank — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:41:17 +0000

I'm on the fence about XR and I for sure won't buy a "Pro" grade device. But regarding your point about reality shaping: Sometimes it's just obvious. When I saw the presentation for the iPhone, I know this was the first phone I really really wanted - everything about it was compelling. I guess this what some XR enthusiasts feel about this device.

New comment by wukerplank in "Rarbg Is No More"

wukerplank — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:46:04 +0000

Germany really takes the price when it comes to (torrent-based) piracy. The lawyers around it created a nice little ecosystem for themselves. Honeypot torrents and all. They have such a nice system that they don't go for the torrent sites, just milk the torrenters.

New comment by wukerplank in "Miller High Life cans destroyed in Europe over ‘Champagne of Beers’ logo"

wukerplank — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 05:12:41 +0000

You'd think a company of that size would have lawyers who know about protected regional product names. It's EU thing and you might disagree with it, but you have to comply with laws if you want to do business.

New comment by wukerplank in "The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube"

wukerplank — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 05:07:59 +0000

I used to think like this about marketing in general. "Build it and they will come" was the usual motto in my formative years. But isn't it a shame to build a great product and then not have people engage with it, just because I frown upon marketing?

New comment by wukerplank in "Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4"

wukerplank — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:59:59 +0000

Nord Stream 2 was finished last year, it just isn't used yet.

New comment by wukerplank in "Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline"

wukerplank — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:18:18 +0000

Gazprom runs underground storages in Western Europe which they didn't refill before Winter 2021/22. Back then it was speculated to be used to hike prices, now we know it's more about leverage.

https://www.ft.com/content/576a96f7-e41d-4068-a61b-f74f2b2d3...

New comment by wukerplank in "I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos"

wukerplank — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:29:56 +0000

Why not enable AFP on your Synology additionally to SMB?

New comment by wukerplank in "DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi"

wukerplank — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 05:06:49 +0000

Notes app also does OCR and indexes the scanned content.

New comment by wukerplank in "Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit"

wukerplank — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:00:50 +0000

Seems like this game engine is built on top of RubyMotion which compiles to byte code - no (slow) Ruby VM. This probably also allows them to bundle the game for many platforms.

For hobbyists Gosu (https://www.libgosu.org/ruby.html) should be good enough, but is not very convenient to bundle and distribute.

New comment by wukerplank in "I hope work from home continues"

wukerplank — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:11:18 +0000

While I enjoy working from home (fewer distractions and interruptions) I miss the social aspect of the office. I consider many of my colleagues friends and having the occasional beer after work, coffee maker chit-chat and common lunch breaks added a lot of texture to my life as a "worker".

New comment by wukerplank in "Adobe Photoshop ships on Macs with Apple Silicon"

wukerplank — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:01:47 +0000

Amazing accomplishment considering how long they struggled when the PowerPC->Intel transition happened.

New comment by wukerplank in "Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable?"

wukerplank — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:50:27 +0000

Is that how achievements were defined in the The Harvard Adult Development Study?

New comment by wukerplank in "Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility"

wukerplank — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:54:31 +0000

I think the European equivalent is politicians "landing" a consulting job at Gazprom.