DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
That's up to any significantly large country, or the EU to stop. Until then, they really can do what they want. And are, as this story suggests.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can think of other terms that Google should de-list that are far more harmful to society than a hooky copy of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Google is a private company can do what they want, but this is still a pretty poor decision
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by DrBazza 5y ago
PWC tried to become 'Monday', the worst day of the week, back in the original dotcom boom. Didn't work out too well for them: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can touch type at a fairly high WPM, so I don't really think I'd benefit from dvorak or any other type of keyboard. I am interested in a split keyboard, but again, I don't have any joint pain or similar that would possibly
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yeah, and the "passing the keyboard" was my original comment as to why I can't personally waste the time to learn a different keyboard layout to QWERTY, or even a split keyboard, when everyone else (99%) use flat rectangular
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Snapshots of working set would be taken on a daily basis in hopes of keeping recovery under ~5 minutes during service restarts or updates. Exactly this. We took hourly snapshots (for a trading system), and could restart the system in
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm talking about two keyboards, one qwerty (theirs) and one dvorak (mine) both plugged in. Back in the day, it's a (Windows) OS setting per session, so both keyboards would need to be the same. Is it now USB driven? Does the Ma
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Like many readers of HN I work in an office (well, not at the moment), and quite often I'll end up working with someone else, and perhaps using their keyboard or vice versa. I don't think I have the mental muscle memory to switch
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I've worked on a few event sourcing systems, and the only ones that have been truly successful are the ones where the system was written from scratch. Trying to retrofit systems never seemed to quite work as expected. Also, the "
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'd like to know how it works on lower spec hardware (from, say, 5-7 years ago). Will it also be able to load existing IDEA plugins?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This is no different to how the world reacted when the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant was discovered and announced by the UK.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The 'good reason' to use them for communication, if it were practical, is that they interact so weakly, you don't have to worry about pesky things like planets or stars getting in the way of your signal (though gravity is sti
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by DrBazza 5y ago
My "anecdote" isn't "pretty meaningless". The bank I worked for didn't spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a whim. They spent the money with the aim of saving more money by outsourcing technology work to
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Well, I worked for “megabank” back in the 00s and they tried to outsource to India. It failed miserably, and cost more than it saved. Time zones didn’t work. Language problems. Lack of communication. There’s a reason London and New York w
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Is back end dev generally easier than front end? Generally easier? No. Different domains, different problems. Also "back end dev" is almost certainly not javascript or typescript on node, but I suspect that's what you
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can imagine that there's some contorted logic that goes like this: * MS (used to) allow the user to choose default programs in the spirit of "openness" (because they were legally told to). * The default settings in programs
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Microsoft returning to its early 00s attitude. I wonder if the EU will step in and make this an anti-competitive thing. Yet another reason to not install Windows 11, including telemetry, adverts, an always on internet connection, and aband
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> How is it so popular? Setting expectations? I have low expectations for most action films, so I always tend to enjoy them more. I suppose watching the Matrix sequels without knowing the first film even existed, might have meant more p
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by DrBazza 5y ago
A running joke with my friends, is that as one of the oldest democracies in the world, we've had longer to figure out how to hide the corruption of our politicians, and also to inure the population to it. One key difference in the UK i
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> I'd start with the Moon blowing up for no reason. That's a biggie. Further to that, I'd start with the precise, huge, amount of energy required to "blow up" the Moon into exactly 7 pieces.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Who is forcing women back to work? A modern Western lifestyle. Almost every Western country without fail requires dual incomes to afford a basic lifestyle. The working-dad stay-at-home mum has long gone.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
You can just download a JDK, and gradle, and achieve the same thing for Java or Kotlin.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Very few languages throw away syntax or features. Python 3 is one that tried, and it took almost a decade for people to switch. C++ famously clings on to old features for a long as possible. Only a tiny amount of things have ever been re
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I know about Resharper, but I haven't fired up Visual Studio since 2015 (I think...) so I have no idea what the built-in refactorings are like these days.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Having worked on .NET frameworks up to 4.5, and then vaguely following the evolution of C# since then, it certainly seems like a "new language" in many places. The trouble is that you can still write code in the original language,
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I thought that 2019 article is now "answered" by the fact that we have multi-messenger observations of gravitational wave events that confirm fading light curves.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Close by, interesting astronomical events are rare. The last decent naked eye supernova was the crab nebula in 1054. It would be a real shame to miss the next one in this galaxy. Other "rare" (non-gravitational wave) events I can
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by DrBazza 5y ago
KDE wasn’t the first gui for Linux. Wasn’t writing that duplicating effort? If it wasn’t for people rewriting things because it didn’t suit them we wouldn’t have most of the modern software we have today.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Hit the sweet spot for consumers. It’s been the year of the Linux desktop for a couple of decades now.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
On the other hand... suppose they get it right? A desktop on Linux that looks good and works, and is shipped pre-installed on desktops and laptops like.... Windows and MacOS? The chances are pretty small, but if they want to write their own

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