Joeri

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by Joeri 5y ago
I’m not convinced they are targeting profitability, because that is hard to connect back to individual user action. They target what is easy to measure at the user level, probably engagement, and operate on the assumption that higher engage
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by Joeri 5y ago
Unless you have a door specifically designed to withstand burglary a crowbar will always be an easier door hack than figuring out a backdoor to your automation. There is no perfect security, only risk profiles. I would argue the risk profil
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by Joeri 5y ago
There are too many platforms now. Back in the day people would buy into the windows or mac ecosystem and it was all they had. You could build only a windows desktop app and sell it and have enough happy customers to make a living. Nowadays
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by Joeri 5y ago
Plenty of enterprise software as well. I used to work on this product, the windows desktop part of which is 3 million lines of delphi. https://spacewell.com/brands/mcs-iwms/
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by Joeri 5y ago
You should try going back and taking all you have learned and applying it to modern pascal. You may find it a much more productive language than you remember.
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by Joeri 5y ago
For everyone else though, I find it hard to blame them. Overnight you get a complete architecture change Except it didn’t happen overnight, Apple announced it 6 months in advance. There has been affordable hardware available for porting s
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by Joeri 5y ago
You are throwing the mode of government and the outcomes of government on one big pile, but I don’t think you can. Even under a dictatorship people can reasonably expect access to basic human rights. Putin seems to be depriving his people o
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by Joeri 5y ago
Microsoft has a tick tock approach to consumer OS releases, where every other OS is “the good one”. Windows me - bad Windows xp - good Windows vista - bad Windows 7 - good Windows 8 - bad Windows 10 - good Windows 11 - bad For a bad release
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by Joeri 5y ago
That’s fascinating and dovetails well with Windows NT’s origin story, where internal OS research at DEC that got canceled (the MICA project) ended up with its lead architect Dave Cutler and his team walking out and moving to Microsoft, wher
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by Joeri 5y ago
Instead of giving advice, I’m going to talk about how it was for me doing the same, switching after 13 years at my first employer. There was a lot more learning at the new job than I initially thought. Much of the knowledge was domain-speci
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by Joeri 5y ago
I only ever used that infrared to control the classroom vcr, to the absolute befuddlement of the teacher. Only time I’ve seen someone tap the side of a vcr to fix whatever is broken with it. I used the serial cable to hook it up to my compu
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by Joeri 5y ago
It seems to me insurance companies must break into two categories. The first are honest agents operating on a house-always-wins model. Meaning, over a sufficiently large time and sufficiently large customer base they pay out less than they
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by Joeri 5y ago
There are basically three types of time: coordinated time, based on atomic clocks, zoned time, derived from coordinated time by applying a time zone rule to calculate an offset, and wall clock time. The latter two are often lumped together
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by Joeri 5y ago
Isn’t that fraud? Like, literally the legal definition of fraud? Why doesn’t the government step in to put a stop to that?
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by Joeri 5y ago
There are huge opportunities here for hashing and watermarking that guarantees videos are unaltered from the original recording taken by a physical device. An iphone already has all the hardware it needs to ensure it cannot be fooled by a f
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by Joeri 5y ago
I am assuming the studio display will support EDR with its 600 nits of peak brightness, so while it may not be hdr, it is not quite sdr either. For those who don’t know, EDR works like this: when the built-in display of a supported mac is n
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by Joeri 5y ago
It wasn’t just that things got faster quickly. Hardware would rapidly become too old to run modern software. My first pc was a 386 33 mhz with 8 mb ram around 1993, and by 1998 software had passed it by to the point where I literally had no
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by Joeri 5y ago
I think you may have to recheck those facts. All power sources are intermittent, and nuclear is no exception. Nuclear power plants go offline unexpectedly all the time. Every energy grid needs a mix of sources to deal with intermittent prod
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by Joeri 5y ago
The ExtJS codebase suffered from this problem, and this was solved by patching the ExtJS version ourselves to fix bugs as they were found (security issues and browser bugs). At first we would do minor upgrades of ExtJS and bring the patch f
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by Joeri 5y ago
Throwing out frameworks is throwing out the baby with the bath water. Frameworks manage component lifecycle in a way the browser by itself doesn't. The author seems to misunderstand why upgrades are forced on you by frameworks. It is n
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by Joeri 5y ago
If spreading “fake news” about Putin could get you locked up for 15 years you might be equally disinclined to protest.
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Which would be great if we could invite russia to build nuclear plants in the U.S. and EU. Right now that might not be the best plan. We need a model that is cheap and safe everywhere, in every country, not just in china and russia. Also, I
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by Joeri 5y ago
Solar and wind are already far cheaper than gas or nuclear plants, and they’re still getting cheaper while gas and nuclear are getting more expensive (although to be fair, gas has only recently gotten more expensive). In so far that the eco
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by Joeri 5y ago
They helped me realize that what I value about going to a good independent bookstore is curation. Not "highest rated" or "most popular" - but books I wouldn't get otherwise exposed to that an employee has selected
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by Joeri 5y ago
Well, talk about not updating your info. The vision of reprocessing + breeder reactors is straight out of 1960. Several countries spent many billions and many decades trying to make it work, and discovered that it was safer and cheaper to k
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by Joeri 5y ago
There was a full touch screen phone that predated the iphone, the LG prada, but if you look at the demo you can see in some places they arrived at a similar design (the dialer), in others they had a laughably bad design (T9 text message ent
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by Joeri 5y ago
For the customer though the difference was not that dramatic. My wife had a WP7 device and I liked it enough that I replaced my android phone with a WP8, and while it was clearly better than 7, it was not dramatically better. At the time th
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by Joeri 5y ago
No my argument is based on NATO members being perfectly able to join up with non-NATO members to invade another country without needing to do it through NATO. Ukraine did not need to join NATO to join with them to wage war against Russia, i
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This argument makes no sense from a logical viewpoint. NATO is a defensive union. The only reason to fear it is if you’re planning to invade other nations. Putin ostensibly should have no reason to fear NATO expansion unless he has ill inte
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by Joeri 5y ago
Alright, I’ll try to pitch the counter argument. The current green movement narrative is the same it has always been: living within our means. The current fossil fuel driven economy is objectively unsustainable. Yes, you can geo-engineer yo

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