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by aliasEli 5y ago
Dependency injection is an idea that looks nice in theory, but it soon becomes pretty messy in practice. Without DI it is in general not too difficult to debug how an object is created. With DI you will also have to debug through the DI cod
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is the most detailed article that I have seen so far.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
A nice list. There were some entries that I did not know, so good input for my next visit to the library. I was a bit surprised about Cinderella (why not some other fairy tale) because I was not aware of its long history[0]. [0] https:&#x2
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by aliasEli 5y ago
In virtually all cases the answer is yes. The problem that an IV tries to remedy is that many messages have a more or less fixed format for the start of the message, so you have some plaintext. This is one of the reasons why some many Germa
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Also try to translate the messages into the user's language when that is feasible. The native language for the majority of internet users is not English.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is a very good sign you should be looking for a different employer.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Sharding would also introduce additional complexity into the system, which is also risky.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What are your requirements? It seems like you don't need ACID transactions or joins.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Technically what we normally call grains (e.g. wheat, corn, rice) are all members of the grass family. The reason why grasses are extremely common around the world it that they are pretty resilient to being eaten or mowed. Meadows consist o
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It largely depends on how you define nature. Many species of animals and plants are severely threatened and most of them will die out or will only be able to survive in zoo's or wild parks. Humans at the moment should be considered as
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Please don't call it a lie. It means that they knowingly presented something they knew to be false as the truth. So far I have seen no evidence to support that.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What's far worse than half of the internet being down was that Hacker News also had problems. If I waited long enough on a comments page I got an error message. I don't quite understand what happened there. The communication betwe
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Is this legal in the US? As far as I know, it is illegal for US government institutions to spy on US citizens unless there is some probable cause.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
When I was a university student we had teacher assistants, who were more senior students. In most cases the best teacher assistants were not the brilliant students but rather the more mediocre students. The cause is that these mediocre stud
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by aliasEli 5y ago
If you are working with other people to figure out if a proposed solution could work, claiming "That Won't Work" is not a very constructive remark. A far better way is to ask questions about the things that you consider flaws
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Although the article is far more nuanced than I would have expected from the title, the author did not pay much attention to the means of communication that were used. The internet is well known for its flame wars. Also I have known several
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by aliasEli 5y ago
You don't have to believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. By definition they exist when people observe something in the sky that cannot be identified. When we can identify an object as a flying spaceship from Mars it is no longer a UFO
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by aliasEli 5y ago
All animals depend directly or indirectly on plants. Plants in general can only migrate very slowly (or not at all).
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It seems pretty unlikely. For all whale specious the numbers are far lower than historical numbers. There is a huge amount of krill and there are a lot of other species that have been doing this for a very long time.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It was night, it seems pretty unlikely that anyone could make any good observations of the size or shape. When someone points a green laser at some clouds you will observe an object with a green light.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Sunset in Tucson at Feb 9 was at 18:04 [0]. The incident occurred at 22:30, so it was pretty dark. I could not find any weather reports for that day, but since it disappeared in the undercast it must have been cloudy. Because it had been da
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is not just Excel, there are a lot of systems that export CSV. Many of them are broken. Examples: - double quotes in text fields - using the wrong decimal separator, should it be "," or "." - using the wrong column se
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But a country with a rapidly growing population will struggle to grow economically, e.g. due to the increasing strain on natural resources. The GDP per capita growth of China between 1960 and 2018 is almost 4000%, while some other third wor
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Many third world countries are trapped in a vicious circle. Because there is no functioning social security system, it is important to have many children because they will provide income for your family in the future. So on a micro level th
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This will likely put more pressure on Stack Overflow to monetize their content.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine you use the bangs that you add to your query, e.g. !w bang searches for bang on Wikipedia. The list of bangs can be found here [0] python: !python !python2 !python3 Postgresql: !postgres Fl
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by aliasEli 5y ago
In the Netherlands we are witnessing a dramatic reduction in meadow birds. One of the main suspects is the deteroration in soil life.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Note that Tara Cornelisse has a PhD inn Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She also worked as an assistant professor at Canisius College in Buffalo. Just the fact that she works at a nature conservation non-pr
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by aliasEli 5y ago
According to outdated race theories, both belong to the semitic race. This is one of the reasons I dislike the term anti-semitism.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> The environment impacts and risks are virtually non-existent. I really doubt this. The dams will destroy existing habitats in that location. Also you need a lot of infrastructure around them. There will have to be roads and electricity

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