abraxas

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by abraxas 2y ago
Yes, the only substantial change to the web's usability (genuinely useful apps like maps excepted) has been addition of streaming video that just did not work all that well in the nineties. Everything else has been mostly fluff. The pe
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by abraxas 2y ago
Except when they can't. A good GPU still won't fit in a flat case that you describe. And things like the current gen imac feel a little pointless as they are basically laptop guts with a larger screen bundled in. I'd rather g
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by abraxas 2y ago
The amazing thing is that we currently have all the tech to make that ad work in reality where back when this was shot, it was pure sci-fi.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Now we're glorifying the psychopath as the high priest of the tech bro oligarchy?
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yes, I've long given up trying to reconcile this mess and bought three separate cell phones with three separate sim cards to for the three countries where I spend non-trivial amount of time.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Never thought I'd live to see the end of Pax Americana and yet here we are. To give up this amount of control and soft power just to cozy up to the corpse of the Soviet union is not the universe branch I expected to find myself in. You
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah, except that future doesn't need us. By us I mean those of us who don't have $1B to their name. Do you really expect the oligarchs to put up with the environmental degradation of 8 billion humans when they can have a pristine
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by abraxas 2y ago
Is this even reality or CGI? They really should show these things off in less sterile environemtns because this video has a very CGI feel to it.
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by abraxas 2y ago
> it does not, on its own, prohibit any other action than "declaring war" to any other actor. That's why it will be a "Special Military Operation in Greenland" or "SMO in Canada".
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah but that was when product managers broke it. The early days eclipse circa 2002 was amazing
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah, spring was and still is, an abomination. Spring boot also. But it's not a requirement even if many Java projects fell into that trap.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah, gradle/maven was a mistake that happened along with most "app store" style 3d party library slingers. I'm of the opinion that the world was a better place with Ant and when we had third party dependencies manually,
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by abraxas 2y ago
Java checked exceptions are (were?) a wonderful feature that was wrongly dissed for the same reason Java types and IDEs were dissed. It forced people to handle exceptions or pass them up the call stack but they had to be dealt with. And IDE
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by abraxas 2y ago
It had a steeper learning curve than other languages or environments but that was for a reason. You got a lot in return. And those lightweight editors and environments are like that because they don't do very much. And talk not to me a
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by abraxas 2y ago
Java beans was just convention. Enterprise Java Beans was a mistake which probably contributed to Java's bad rap for a while. But you could use an app server without EJB just fine. I did for years and never had problems. As for rmi, wh
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by abraxas 2y ago
Not where I am. Maybe a peculiarity of the community I'm in but here it was all Node all the time after Java was declared uncool.
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by abraxas 2y ago
That's cool but I get a chuckle when I see server side html rendering being all the rage now and thinking to myself, should I tell the juniors about servlets, JSP and Struts?
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by abraxas 2y ago
I'm quite dismayed to say that this has been a feature of any Java developer setup for the past 25 years. Yet hipsters threw it all in the garbage when node.js took off and are only now starting to approach feature parity with a 2002 J
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by abraxas 2y ago
If low cost GPUs are not what they are offering then what are they offering anymore that I wouldn't get a big cloud vender. This looks like self inflicted mortal wound.
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by abraxas 2y ago
More than half of you nerds voted for this shit and you're supposed to be the intelligent ones. I lost all hope.
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by abraxas 2y ago
His base is basically the left hand side of the IQ curve and a smattering of ultra rich who don't care about costs of living. His base will be easily persuaded that whatever calamity bestows them it's the fault of Canada/Chin
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by abraxas 2y ago
I guess your love is not unlike my long ago passion for CodeWright. It was such a flexible beast with perfect support for BRIEF bindings and an infinitely configurable user interface. Alas, the world preferred the simplicity of Visual Studi
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by abraxas 2y ago
When dictatorships emerge, most businesses fold like dominoes. This was discussed at length in a recent Tymothy Snyder book "On Tyranny".
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by abraxas 2y ago
> scroll tap swim this watch has no touch interface. any scrolling and selecting has to be done via the five buttons which I ALWAYS somehow get wrong. Who on this beautiful earth thought it was sane to make the bottom right button be the
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by abraxas 2y ago
I tried it on 100m, 400m and 1km swims. In each case it miscounted my turns and distance which I kept in my head to verify its accuracy. In one 100m it missed two turns claiming I did 50m and not 100m. That's patently wrong since I kno
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by abraxas 2y ago
Getting into the swim app itself takes a couple of different buttons presses. But then it tries to be both too smart and too stupid at the same time. All I wanted to begin with was lap counting with a big number on the centre of the display
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by abraxas 2y ago
Ha! It's a testament to their great hardware though! I did not even scratch the watch by throwing it full force again a hard surface.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Please for the love of all that's holy pay attention to us, swimmers. We may not be nearly as large a group as runners but we are very underserved by the tracker watch market. The world needs only so many glorified pedometers. I know t
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by abraxas 2y ago
Bah! They nailed what exactly? It's so mofing complex to use I hurled it at a wall (literally) and then gave it away to my son. A $600 CAD watch that I could not stand to use without seething.
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by abraxas 2y ago
I just gave away a very expensive Garmin to my son. Its feature set is to dream of. Its user interface is hot garbage. When I'm out on a hike or in the pool trying to just measure my fsking laps I need a single click option or somethin

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