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TranscriptA twitter post by Peter Yang @peteryang. It says "Just had a call with someone on Forbes 30 under 20 list and came away really impressed. He shared with me how he made VP at a top tech company before age 30:

  1. 4:30 AM wakeup
  2. Cold showers
  3. Gratitude journal
  4. Meditate
  5. Dad owns tech company
 
 

TranscriptThe "Train hitting Bus" meme. The first panel is the bus going on the train track with the caption "Five minute job". The second panel is the train hitting the bus, saying "While you're here".

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Was it installing windows, or just the oobe?

Because the oobe is just

  • Set a username and password
  • Do you want to buy office 365?
  • Login with a microsoft™ account™?
  • Are you sure you don't want to login with a microsoft™ account™?
  • Do you want to buy office 365?
  • Set some privacy settings and preferences
  • Last chance, office 365??
[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

I have now been reminded that poast exists again :(.

Didn't join-lemmy advertise exploding-heads to some people, and they didn't remove it at first because they reasoned it would attract rascists, so they wouldn't go to other servers?

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

most people are on windows, so if I make something, it should support that.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

I use keepas xc with a ridiculously long password, and I've uploaded it to every device I own and to proton cloud.

Most passwords are randomly generated and 30 chars long.

 

TranscriptA wafrn woot (post) by @tinker@infosec.exchange saying "Microsoft Authenticator needs me to validate with Authenticator in order to log in with Authenticator to use it to authenticate another app with Authenticator. Here is the app telling me to open itself to validate itself with itself. #infosec #iHateComputers" It has a screenshot showing the microsoft authenticator app.

Thanks, this is the explanation I was looking for.

Also, lua is the same, packages are either written in c or pure lua.

It essentially means, "beware, the software is pretty shit rn".

I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.

 

TranscriptA meme saying "Society if end users remembered their passwords." it is accompanied by a picture of a futuristic city.

The subreddit's old reddit sidebar description is:

Once upon a time this was a space for IT-related ragecomics. Although we've progressed past that era of the Internet zeitgeist, there's still plenty of rage to commiserate over. Come share whatever it is that drives you to drink during your change control meetings.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OCRs have gotten better.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sorry, but "there is no wrong one" is how people end up on lemmy.ml

 
 
[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm a big fan of what it is, but I'd love if there was something unique people could come here for, I'm describing it terribly though.

 

TranscriptA text message exchange, the first message has a screenshot of an instagram post with binary code in the image. the message has the text "wtf does this shit mean". It has a reply saying "iM a coMpUtEr guY So I musT spEaK biNArY"

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be nice to hear about it in other places.

 

TranscriptA tweet saying "When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that int he context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing importand features, filled with flaws and not fit for the public.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/29371357

I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

 

I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

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