Joeri

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811.
by Joeri 6y ago
Delphi was something that doesn't really exist anymore, the blending of IDE, programming language and toolkit into a single product. You programmed in Object Pascal, using the VCL toolkit (component suite), and because that was the onl
812.
by Joeri 6y ago
Created labs did a step by step guide: https://youtu.be/IACHo5y9Los
813.
by Joeri 6y ago
Did he really blow his credibility though? There is a double standard at work. People who are generally honest and accurate only have to slip up a handful of times and suddenly are deemed non-credible. At the same time, in the same media ve
814.
by Joeri 6y ago
OLED is less bright, so it makes sense they would take all the nits they can get by not adding a matte layer. Generally matte or antireflective screens are easy to find in the business laptop segment.
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by Joeri 6y ago
What they need to do is flip the script. Instead of only looking at the input side of these systems and how to plug into older systems not designed for it, look at the output side of everything that’s built and make sure it is api first so
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by Joeri 6y ago
If the contributing.md says no PR’s are welcome and there is a pull request template which just says in big letters “PLEASE DON’T!” I doubt many people would get confused. https://docs.github.com/en/github/building
817.
by Joeri 6y ago
GPT-3 strikes me as the human fast thinking process, without the slow thinking process to validate and correct its answers. It is half a brain, but an impressive half at that.
818.
by Joeri 6y ago
But the minds clearly direct the people, messing with their psychology and constructing scenarios where the people see no other option than doing what the minds want. Given that the minds are so much more intelligent, that they fully contro
819.
by Joeri 6y ago
Housing first is an approach conceived in the U.S. but for political reasons not as widely adopted as it should be. 99pi did a fascinating podcast series about the homelessness problem in oakland and how housing first fits into the picture.
820.
by Joeri 6y ago
Are you accounting for the refining and transportation costs of fossil fuels and for the fissionable material mining and refining and for the waste storage costs of nuclear?
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by Joeri 6y ago
Alright, let’s say it was possible to track all pollution to its polluter, and you could assign ownership. Then what? Tax or fine the polluters? Isn’t that basically the same as regulating the polluting industries in the first place?
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by Joeri 6y ago
But that is exactly what the article says. It's not going to be all remote all the time, just more than before. Our survey evidence says that about 25 percent of all full work days will be supplied from home after the pandemic ends, c
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by Joeri 6y ago
Assuming every function is called the same amount of times and carries the same cost it would indeed be silly to cut up a system like that. But in the real world some parts of the system are called more often or carry a high cost of the exe
824.
by Joeri 6y ago
We just ported a system that kept large amounts of data in postgres jsonb columns over to mongodb. The jsonb column approach worked fine until we scaled it beyond a certain point, and then it was an unending source of performance bottleneck
825.
by Joeri 6y ago
Those very large mysql deployments typically use it as a nosql system, with a sharded database spread over dozens or hundreds of instances, and referential integrity maintained by the business layer, not by the database. For a good example
826.
by Joeri 6y ago
The idea is that you can scale different parts of the system at different rates to deal with bottlenecks. With a monolith, you have to deploy more instances of the entire monolith to scale it, and that’s if the monolith even allows for that
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by Joeri 6y ago
They may get lucky. In Heinlein’s The Door into Summer the protagonist only survives the long sleep because he ends up put into storage with the wrong repository, but that happened to be the one that kept the lights on for 30 years.
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by Joeri 6y ago
Ah, but my sister always says I’m not open-minded because I won’t read all her antivaxer info. If we give all ideas equal credence, better ideas will not win out.
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by Joeri 6y ago
You can have a SQL database and still end up with assumptions about the data smeared across your codebase. I've worked on multi-million line codebases on top of a SQL database where nobody dared change the schema of some (very non-opti
830.
by Joeri 6y ago
But then you would be back to the problem of a yank on the power cord throwing the laptop on the floor. At least with usb c you have a chance that it unplugs. With a bottom charging mat there’s no chance. What would be the point?
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by Joeri 6y ago
A touch screen serves a different role than a trackpad. They could replace the trackpad by a touch screen, like asus’s screenpad, but that comes at the expense of battery life.
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by Joeri 6y ago
The X1 isn’t low end. Low end trackpads on windows laptops are still abysmal in most cases. Anecdotally, there’s a store near me which arranges laptops by price. I often start at the high end and try the keyboard and mouse, working my way t
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by Joeri 6y ago
It will not be the magsafe of old. I could see them making a magsafe adapter similar to the iphone’s, that snaps onto the back of the screen on either side.
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by Joeri 6y ago
I feel like Donald Trump is not the good example to argue against the power to deplatform. He is an internet troll who calls for violent action to overthrow the elected government. You can't be tolerant of that kind of intolerance, or
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by Joeri 6y ago
I’ve always thought about it like this: one person’s freedom stops where another person’s freedom begins. When freedoms start conflicting, a negotiated compromise is needed and thus legislation is often involved. So, for example, it should
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by Joeri 6y ago
Honestly, those people didn’t even need that. They need nothing founded in reality to make up their conspiracy theories, which is why no argument from reality can weaken them.
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by Joeri 6y ago
Is your external display on the intel mac in scaled mode? MacOS has to do a lot less work if it is in its default display resolution. FWIW I use catalina on a 2009 core 2 duo mac mini hooked up to a 1440p monitor in native mode, and the fan
838.
by Joeri 6y ago
I’ve been on HN for many years and don’t notice this decline. Could it be that those who observe a decline in quality simply have gotten more sensitive to low quality posts with age?
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by Joeri 6y ago
This is a specific view of the role of the developer, one where a developer is not a stakeholder, has no agency, and is in essence a hired gun easily replaced by another hired gun. Products built like that tend to be the lowest quality, bec
840.
by Joeri 6y ago
I will say, I think the niche of browser games played by kids is now taken up by phone games from a consumer perspective. I'm not sure even if an easy way to create them existed that they'd be nearly as popular. That is for me t

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