ahartmetz

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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   Base classes with fields or non-virtual methods are not exactly rare neither.
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   I hated chemistry in school as well for the same reason. I studied physics afterwards... Oddly, once I was looking for information about some experimental physics problem with electron orbitals and found some very well-written theoretical c
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   24/7 The Yes Men feed https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   You don't even need to publish your port if it's GPLv3 as long as you don't publish the binary.
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   I'm not sure if the classic adoption curve applies. Has there ever been a product that vendors were shoving down customer's throats as relentlessly as AI?
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   I mean, who the hell ever read that utter garbage on LinkedIn anyway?
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   I'm rather critical of spamming humans with low effort LLM writing as well, but getting a neutral opinion about a text seems like a decent use tbh - for lack of alternatives because you'd hardly ask a human to do it. Conventions a
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   It wasn't designed to properly squander^Wuse current computing power, I see
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   by ahartmetz 4mo ago

   AFAIK, the black magic factor is much higher for HF electronics than for HF mechanics. It's at least partially because you can build more complex systems with HF electronics. The other difference is that high frequency EM oscillations
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I'm not aware of any obvious contradictions tbh. What do you mean?
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range ? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I have also been very impressed by the performance and fluidity of Doom and Doom Eternal. Even when playing from a HDD (on a computer made from leftover parts), when high res textures and geometry didn't load fast enough, the engine ju
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    In Germany: Outside of residential areas, about 10 km/h more for speedometer displaying too high + official speed trap tolerance, another 10 if you are willing to accept an occasional minor fine. Or more or less strictly on the limit t
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    Chomsky makes the same point in his book "Manufacturing Consent": Economic papers report more truthfully than most because the truth is what their readers need to make decisions in the real world. I find that pretty convincing and
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I like my NWOUIIAY
16. 256.▲
    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    ...and without Firefox, apparently
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    ConnectionPool, ConnectionInstances, ConnectionLimiter... etc, it depends. There isn't always a great option or it's very difficult to find one.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    There is usually a more precise way to express what a manager manages, so Manager is usually just the lazy option that provides very little information. The question to ask is: What exactly does it manage? Lifetimes? Resource limits? Global
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I'm just gonna copy and paste my comment from another thread here: >Aka I thought the stuff that these other guys are doing was not so difficult. No one can replace me , of course. >Many such cases.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    ...or NiMH AA rechargeable batteries if you could be arsed.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    The current hack is to buy devices made for disposable batteries and then use rechargeables. Electric toothbrushes almost all come with built-in non-removable batteries... except the cheapest ones, which also work fine.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I trolled there, with a kernel of truth. The neutral version is that wealth is a contributor to respect that's unusually strong in the US and I do think that it goes back to Calvinism.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    He's incredibly rich. Americans greatly respect rich people, the richer the more respect. It's apparently a bizarre reinterpretation/misunderstanding of Calvinism.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I think XML's main problem is the ridiculous hype-wave that started in the late 90s. I really didn't want to see and hear XML anymore at the time. It was clear to me that it was no more and no less than a slightly awkward toolbox
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    > The Federation is a post-scarcity utopia until the writers want something interesting to write about. Similar to Iain Banks' Culture novels. The Culture is so utopian that there is no interesting conflict, so all of the action is
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    The pre-NT Windows architecture was interesting for its "hack value" (remember that expression?), but as a user, even a technically minded one, reliability and absence of arbitrary limitations was more important. DOS-based Windows
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    Frankly I thought even the book was terrible. The book was basically many pages of boring landscape description, then our heroes get into a VERY VERY BAD IMPOSSIBLE PICKLE, then A MIRACLE HAPPENS OUT OF NOWHERE. Repeat five times, the end.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    Probably because "The best X" is generally clickbaity.
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    It's in the context of "SQLite as local data storage for an application", and I am absolutely sure that entries in a cross-reference table make no sense anymore when one of the linked objects is gone, or entries in an auxilia
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    by ahartmetz 4mo ago

    I haven't used stored procedures yet, but even ON DELETE CASCADE is super convenient and I suspect somewhat underused by SQL scaredy cats.