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thdespou··on WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
I would ask his mom first.
thdespou··on WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
Show me a production website that does not use things like Caching, CDN's to serve static content or other optimizations to enhance performance It's the same as any other public facing service. I don't know what you are yapping about.
thdespou··on I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?
Whats wrong with a project that does something useless? I can find tons of them on Github.
thdespou··on Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
Because the stakes are high. Nevertheless you shouldn’t take this personally.
thdespou··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
I bet even their Site design is AI generated...
thdespou··on Dynamic programming is not black magic
> DP algorithms are "just" clever ways to cache a recursion

It does't work all the time like that since caching increases the Space Complexity.

There are DP problems that can be solved without storing all possible values in an array.

thdespou··on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store
How does this affect real women on OF? Will they lose business?
thdespou··on Show HN: Programming with Pure Lambda Calculus
OK but why? Is this for fun or profit?
thdespou··on We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones
>guns are made for killing people

As a consequence guns can be used as a deterrence as well. Since their primary purpose is to cause great harm, people that value their lives and not commit stupid actions.

thdespou··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
or maybe they should cut monetisation by half.
thdespou··on Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
HL3? Not in this lifetime
thdespou··on Diamonds Suck
Reading this while listening to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
thdespou··on VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
I played it. It works fine. It has some glitches with some of the campaign missions. Overall I give it 90% there compared to the original.
thdespou··on Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline
Best breakfast is Full-English IMO followed by leftover pizza.
thdespou··on High paying tech job turned into the loneliest time of my life
"That said, this is really just an overall example of how not to date or interact with people in general though"

Couldn't agree more. Try new hobbies and adventures and find more purposely intriguing things to spend your time. For example find a good cause and volunteer or join a outdoors club. This will improve your social skills instead of being bland and talk about work all the time.

thdespou··on SexualActivityRecord
Does it count as a workout?
thdespou··on Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX
People have problems...
thdespou··on Why agencies get stuck at $50k MRR
TL;DR; Make sure your get 5x-10x clients per month vs churn.
thdespou··on Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system
This is probably the slowest Game of Life ever.
thdespou··on Prisoners of Google Android development
This occurrence happens more often that you think if you are working on Mobile Apps. You just have to be extra careful with testing and verification, since the mistakes can be costly.
thdespou··on Novak Djokovic credits the TaoPatch for his success: What does the science say?
Is Djokovic trying to sell snakeoil?
thdespou··on Russian women fear return of murderers freed to fight for Wagner
Who would have thought that releasing murderers back to society was beneficial. Only in Russia.
thdespou··on Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack
This is how a backend engineer does frontend. Picking random technologies.
thdespou··on TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
Zig can though:

  const std = @import("std");

  pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
    try stdout.print("Hello, {s}!\n", .{"world"});
  }
thdespou··on July 2023 was the hottest month on record
Thats the problem with Twitter and its openness. They allow scum like Medvedev to post their Saber rattling left right and center.
thdespou··on Gaddafi's Oddest Idea: Abolish Switzerland
Gaddafi-nished
thdespou··on GeForce NOW is no longer free
UPDATE: Apparently it's was a glitch. Back to grinding.
thdespou··on GeForce NOW is no longer free
The free one hour slot membership plan was removed after the last update. Under the radar.
thdespou··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
If it's true I see that as a prime example of Ruthless Capitalism. It only serves to make businesses profit.
thdespou··on Game tutorials should be easily skipped. Why is that so hard?
The worst one was the Nier Automata tutorial. You had to play this non stop for about an hour with no saves.
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