mtl1979 (50)in #funny • 7 months ago • NoneMicrosoft skips Windows 12, releases Windows 13 on Friday the 13thMicrosoft is skipping Windows 12, because in some countries number 12 has negative connotation. This comes after…mtl1979 (50)in #funny • 8 months ago • NoneTwo week strike in Finland causes shortage of underwearA week ago started strike in Finland that caused ports to not process any containers that contain anything else than…mtl1979 (50)in #funny • 8 months ago • NoneEU banning saran wrapEU is planning to ban use of saran wrap. Since the early days of modern-day birth control, saran wrap has been used as…mtl1979 (50)in #exchanges • 2 years ago • NoneHow token scams work...A lot of us have been scammed by malicious smart contracts that check who calls the smart contract and then change the…mtl1979 (50)in #funny • 3 years ago • NoneJapan considering limiting number of Pikachus in a single room...Apparently Pikachu toys are getting so realistic, that Japanese people are worried about the interference the toys…mtl1979 (50)in #images • 3 years ago • NoneHow to save full sized protected copy of thumbnail image from websiteSome sites use cryptographic hash of browser request to protect saving full-sized images. In websites like…mtl1979 (50)in #windows • 3 years ago • NoneAdding Sandbox support to Windows installation image...Sandbox is isolated executing environment designed for testing dangerous or otherwise unsafe software without risking…mtl1979 (50)in #windows • 3 years ago • NoneAdding Hyper-V support to Windows 10 Home installation image...Hyper-V support isn't normally enabled in Windows 10 Home, but the installation files are actually included in…mtl1979 (50)in #windows • 3 years ago • NoneCopying drivers from running Windows 10 installation to installation imageSometimes installation image doesn't have all the drivers for current hardware... It's possible to copy all drivers…mtl1979 (50)in #windows • 3 years ago • NoneInstalling updates on Windows 10 when Windows Update fails to installPrerequisites: Windows installer image from: Windows Media Creation Tool Windows installation disc USB…mtl1979 (50)in #math • 3 years ago • NoneWhy 0.999... doesn't equal to 1...Everybody tries to convince that if you divide 1 by 3, you get 0.333..., which is repeating number. If you add that…mtl1979 (50)in #tron • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneJackTron on Nile testnet of TronSome people know me as founder and current CEO of Talleo Project. I want to introduce other people who work for, or…mtl1979 (50)in #funny • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneWhen all the kids in the country start to dance in tune of a porn song...A short while ago school teachers in Japan were struck by Norwegian sex and drugs related song going viral when a lot…mtl1979 (50)in #amazon • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneHow Amazon double-charges international Prime subscribers for Prime Video access...When Amazon user subscribes to Amazon Prime (separate from Prime Video), it is bound to same region as the one used to…mtl1979 (50)in #review • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneMy review of Blurt, the Steem forkFirst impression My first impression was that there is no enough developers working on the code and when Blurt was…mtl1979 (50)in #qt • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneHow to use zlib with Qt applications under Windows...Qt needs special build script to be able to use zlib as it uses more functions than standard binary has. I used…mtl1979 (50)in #cmake • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneHow to force cmake to link against static version of library...Sometimes it is necessary to force cmake project to link against static version of system library if available, it can…mtl1979 (50)in #programming • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneWhy disabling RTTI is a bad thing in libraries installed using package manager...RTTI is run-time type information... It is used in C++ and similar languages when one variable type needs to be…mtl1979 (50)in #cmake • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneHow to add FindPackage() script for libraries not already supported by cmake.Sometimes a developer wants to make sure compilation of a program doesn't fail even if user hasn't installed all the…mtl1979 (50)in #programming • 4 years agosteemCreated with Sketch. • NoneWhy measuring time difference using a clock is a bad thing...A lot of times when we write programs, we want to show the user how much time has passed doing something or waiting…
