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721.
by Tainnor 2y ago
Cryptography is kind of an issue . Certain protocols that by now are expected aren't supported by Java 6.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> that's a bit of a big ordeal if you already have a 15 year old codebase that's written in Java. JetBrains has prioritised compatibility with Java and it shows. Of course, there are some gotchas (such as nullability or checked
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by Tainnor 2y ago
It is. We run an old version of our application on Java 6. Apparently multiple people have tried to upgrade it in the past but it proved too difficult because it's using a bunch of completely obsolete technology with little available d
724.
by Tainnor 2y ago
Turing completeness has nothing to do with static type checking. Dynamically typed PLs can't express any type (except Any) yet are still Turing complete.
725.
by Tainnor 2y ago
> except maybe Rust Swift, Kotlin and Scala all have had ADTs for a while, even Java has it now.
726.
by Tainnor 2y ago
> Also a 'white' older male is the least preferred even if he is smarter compared to all females and the minorities that are being interviewed as long as they are not terrible. Biases galore. I will agree that ageism is a thing
727.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I didn't "skip over" anything. If it's irrelevant to you that something is a submanifold or group, you also don't need to look up the definition. Reading mathematical definitions on their own just doesn't give
728.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> At this point, either you know what all of those words mean or you don’t. If you do, great! You’re done. I'm not sure. I only have a rather rudimentary understanding of topology, so I do understand the definition of a manifold on
729.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> The frustrating thing about external interruptions is the inability to control them. [...] The good news for these internal interruptions is that it should be much easier to control them. Interestingly, I feel the exact opposite. I&#x2
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Maybe it's worth noting that a very similar looking article from the same website was recently flagged and is dead because it appeared to be AI generated nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39872271 I haven&
731.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Hitler was certainly brilliant in certain ways, e.g. as a public speaker he must have been very persuasive. I don't think that changes anything about how utterly insane his (and his fellow Nazis') ideology was, though. There are &
732.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Not the same thing. Twice the unique zero of cos in [0, 2] is provably equal to the circumference of a circle of diameter 1. It's not equal to 3.2 or whatever the Indiana Pi Bill was trying to legislate.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
It was the same thing in mathematics. For example, when Edmund Landau defined pi as "twice the value of the unique zero of cos in the interval [0, 2]" (a very common definition) instead of geometrically, this was attacked as being
734.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> Hitler and Germany could'a stopped there and likely been okay. If Hitler had been Franco or Mussolini, then maybe. But racism and especially anti-semitism were integral parts of Nazi ideology. It wasn't principally about we
735.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I think it would be possible to fix it properly and without security risk by allowing pipeline authors to allowlist dependabot and/or specific forks for accessing secrets.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Last time I tried (which is >2y ago, so things might have improved), dependabot seemed like an afterthought for GitHub. For example, at some point GitHub introduced a change that prevented CI builds triggered by forks from accessing secr
737.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I wonder where everyone is working, because in 11 years and several employers I've rarely had deadlines, if any, and if so, they usually came from customers and were announced in advance. Then again, I also never worked a 80 hour week.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Magnitudes are intuitionally directionless (hence why norms and measures are nonnegative reals). Of course, you can extend notions suitably and make it work, but I really don't think that this is terribly intuitive. (Of course, differe
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by Tainnor 3y ago
The article initially points out that in mathematics, there are often equivalent definitions, that each have their own benefits and drawbacks. I think the author could have just written "I have found an alternative approach" inste
740.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure you're correct, I did stumble over this too.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
> If you allow negative side lengths, as you should [...] I mean, the blog post was about a pedagogically better suited construction of trig functions. If we allow negative side lengths, it's not really going to be intuitive anymore
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by Tainnor 3y ago
I agree that the triangle-based definition starts breaking down once you get to angles greater than pi/2. I was told in school that "there are no right triangles with such angles, but just imagine that there were" and was the
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by Tainnor 3y ago
My problem with Germany at the moment isn't that it's objectively so bad - although you can certainly find places where certain things run better, such as Switzerland - but that it's getting worse and that for the last two
744.
by Tainnor 3y ago
No idea what your point is. The German empire wasn't a dictatorship, if you want to claim otherwise, find me a credible source that says so.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
> Previously, you had to go to the City Hall or whatever in your pace of birth to get a birth certificate. > Now you can email them, pay, and they mail you the certificate via snail mail. > How it should be: Use an online token, lo
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by Tainnor 3y ago
De-Nazification effectively stopped once the US realised that Germany would be more useful as an ally against the Soviet Union, so in the first years of the new state you had former Nazis in important positions. It really was the next gener
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by Tainnor 3y ago
I still have no idea what you're trying to say beyond vague insinuations.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
it's really basically the same? Cheese is better in Switzerland though.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Like everyone else here, I don't have any data (I searched, but couldn't find anything), only anecdotes - my own experiences from living in Cologne and Berlin, and those of friends who live in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, etc. Ther
750.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> So tired of this apologetics, modern German bureaucracy has been built exactly by former Nazis and Stasi agents. The modern US was founded by slave owners, Spain was a dictatorship for longer than most of Germany, Poland was sliding in

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