anthonybsd

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by anthonybsd 4y ago
Palm Pilot was a huge success both from a sales perspective and from "getting consumers comfortable with touch screen" perspective. The author of the article has a very poor choice of metaphors and examples which really obscures h
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
You are lucky. Where I am (Northern NJ) Ginger Gold's been gone out of stores for a few weeks now. Highly seasonal :(
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
Missing my favorite apple, Ginger Gold :(
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
Late 90s to early 2000s for sure. Tons and tons of backends of various kinds were written in it. If it was Windows it was typically running on COM/DCOM, and in UNIX it was usually CORBA. Sure, the UI was typically written in something
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
Wow. Condescending much?
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
Doubtful. Pro gamers are known primadonnas. If anyone ever tested them and added synthetic lag with double blind study I suspect they wouldn't identify it more accurately than what a random chance would dictate. Sorry, but pure speed
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
I disagree. The fastest human reaction time is something around 100ms. ( https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime ). I've just measured, and mine is 230ms. As such 10ms lag wouldn't make any difference. I
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
I mean it all depends on what they do. 3 hours a day of coding is huge amount of work. 3 hours a day of zoom meetings is meh.
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
>From where I'm standing, productivity doesn't look so great. It's an open secret in my remote-heavy, North American west-coast social circle that everyone knocks off at 1-2pm when the east coast people are definitely logg
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by anthonybsd 4y ago
I refuse to watch propaganda garbage made by the Russian fascist who is enthusiastically cheerleading the genocide of Ukrainians (1). If you are interested in Anna Karenina - do yourself a favor and just read Tolstoy. It's a fantastic
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by anthonybsd 5y ago
>We also have much better DOM apis for things like efficient diffing/patching >that I'm sure you lacked back then Oh I hope so. I marvel at React virtual DOM magic on daily basis so I'm sure it can be all done a lot mor
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by anthonybsd 5y ago
Around 15 years ago I needed to build an internal app for my company that would aggregate and display a lot of data. Our backends were all in Java and I had sour taste for JavaScript from a previous project so I looked around for an AJAX fr
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
>I think many of these workers are laid off so they can get unemployment benefits, and they'll be hired again by the same companies as soon as the quarantine end That is highly doubtful. Many companies can't survive even 2 mont
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
> All those services, and a bunch of other services for small businesses are possible because of Wechat. Ughh, no thanks buddy. I'd rather not have any of this propaganda garbage. WeChat basically contributed to a global pandemic be
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Fair point, thank you.
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
That was my interpretation too.
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Part 5 of this thread: https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753... Perhaps it's an issue with translation, but then I'm entirely unsure what he means by "Arrest".
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
That's what skeptics in Italy were originally saying. Now people in Lombardy are dying from strokes because hospitals can't admit them because ICU is overrun by Covid-19 patients. Sure, if you break your leg and die from bleeding
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Currently it's very difficult to reason about object geometric dimensions / movement from video alone. We (humans) are decent at it and we still make mistakes. "The right ML algorithm" for this is basically a problem as
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
>Nothing about the greenest and most sustainable solution: reducing consumption. Well that's because it's not a realistic solution. Any solution that goes against the human nature is doomed to fail. Our species historically had
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Probably these ones: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-top-3-companies-in-autonom... Tesla is leading in marketing though, if that helps :)
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
>If anyone, it could well be Apple that can catch up with Tesla's self-driving capabilities. Wait what? Tesla is not even in the top 3 of the autonomous pack. Why would Apple be trying to catch up to a distant 4th or 5th?
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Well of course. Just like an int doesn't always live on the stuck. I.e. when it's declared as a field for example. If you are piping data from SQL DB into a List<YourStruct> the list is a reference type and will of course be
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Ughh, you can provided that they are 1) Small 2) Short lived. Because they live on the stack and follow the rules of value types you really shouldn't be using them for anything major. I.e. you want to model a SQL query result for a tab
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
> You are completely missing the point of Nullable Am I? Apparently so is everyone else because Microsoft has re-worked Nullable<T> in C# 8 to be almost exactly like Java Optional! Silly me right?
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
Reference; heap; They are data containers, not control structures.
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
They aren’t “entirely different feature”. Why do you think C#8 introduced Nullable reference types that work exactly like Java Optional ? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-refe...
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
The one that annoys me the most in C# on a day-to-day basis is Nullable<T>. Java took their time with Optional<T> but once it was released it was great. Can be used in lambdas, all libraries are modified and aware of it etc. C#
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
>Java finally gets what's been available in Scala (case classes), C# (structs or maybe properties), Kotlin (data classes) and others for a very long time .. so long we already have tools like Immutables and Lombok to get past this r
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by anthonybsd 7y ago
They mention Bellingcat in the article but what they don't mention is that their "verification" essentially piggy-backed on top of identical Bellingcat verification of a the same video that got released 14 hours prior [1]. Th

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