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by brabel 3mo ago
For most things in life that hit us periodically, we try to buffer them into manageable amounts so that when we address them, we do them all at once, benefiting from “economy of scale”, instead of having to constantly work on addressing eve
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by brabel 3mo ago
Oh what?? Most package managers do try to prevent typo squatting!! Your insistence that there’s something fundamentally different between different package managers is just weird! Debian, as npm, lets you package and distribute software. Th
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by brabel 3mo ago
Tyranny of the majority is ... democracy?!
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With a calculation like that I'd buy solar in a heart beat! But as I said, my main concern is my winter bill, which I know by asking people who own solar in the region, is almost the same with solar since there's no sun at all (it
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by brabel 3mo ago
> My strong belief is they want apps because they can spam you with notifications to get your attention. I believe the same about the Youtube App, I just can't see why else it exists and I hate the video links try to open in the app
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by brabel 3mo ago
Wow your current electricity must be really expensive... or your solar setup is?? Also the calculation was done by the company selling it, I'm pretty sure that was far too optimistic.
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by brabel 3mo ago
In a country like Australia where building density is extremely low that’s a negligible problem?!
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by brabel 3mo ago
> Why shouldn't that be true practically every consumer home in the world? Here in Sweden nearly all of the electricity bill you pay is concentrated on the winter months when there is literally zero sunshine. Even then solar is popu
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by brabel 3mo ago
Also embedding Neo4j is not possible, that seems to be the killer feature for YouTrackDB, they even shade dependencies so it’s like a no deps Java library for your application.
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by brabel 3mo ago
This article explains what they mean by end of software engineering: > his engineering teams rarely write code from scratch anymore. The role has shifted from creation to orchestration. Engineers now operate as “conductors”—defining high
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by brabel 3mo ago
Java implementations sometimes take part of the name from the interface they implement, for example, `FooRunner` probably implements `Runner`. My example was that I renamed `Runner` to whatever, `Executor`, and IntelliJ will ask me if I wan
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by brabel 3mo ago
It's pretty difficult to tell whether something is, or was at some point, a well known project. Things that were major 20 years ago but are no longer used tend to become invisible since search engines prioritize recent knowledge. For e
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by brabel 3mo ago
Oh I didn't know that... Swish is quite different so I would expect it to be a completely independent invention, and in any case I don't really know which is older.
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by brabel 3mo ago
But being so afraid that you have never been outside unless accompanied by your bosses would be pathological in any other case. Also, what I said was "ridiculous" was the jury's conclusion, not going outside.
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by brabel 3mo ago
Perhaps new devs should write all their code by hand until they feel comfortable doing that. Then, they can start using LLMs gradually, just a little bit at first, all the way to fully AI generated code. However, that would just make the di
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by brabel 3mo ago
In cases like this, it’s likely the victim defended the family, and it made it impossible to classify the crime as slavery if she said she was free to leave but “was afraid of the violence outside”, which the article mentioned. It sounds ri
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by brabel 3mo ago
You should read again what I said. Do you think that simply using GUIs makes anyone less productive? You can’t think of any cases where a GUI is definitely better for a task than a terminal? If you think that , consider why the vast majorit
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by brabel 3mo ago
No! Rename in JSP is not intelligent enough to match an interface name with its implementation names and decide whether to also rename those!
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by brabel 3mo ago
I think it was the same with PIX in Brazil, and Swish in Sweden, and probably many more precedents.
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Or if you have only started in the last few years and never heard of those older projects.
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by brabel 3mo ago
Why not eshell?
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by brabel 3mo ago
The only case I can imagine is when I rename a Java interface and want all implementations to be also renamed accordingly. I can do that in 1 second in IntelliJ. With dired on emacs that would not be possible at all and I would need a tool
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by brabel 3mo ago
Absolutely no one ever has been shown to be more productive because they don’t use GUIs. It’s kind of preposterous to think that could be true.
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by brabel 3mo ago
You’re judging RMS skills based on the current performance of a tool he created 40 years ago using the tools available at the time. That’s wild. You complain about emacs being single threaded but computers in the 80s had a single core. Soft
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by brabel 3mo ago
I don’t understand how something that has no clearly defined position like an electron can have a well defined speed. I thought I had understood that at that level, particles are more like clouds, or vibrations in the quantum field, and the
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by brabel 3mo ago
It’s easy to see that is true given media reports of civilians deaths (lately has been ranging from a few to a dozen per day) compared to estimated military deaths (all sides seem to agree it’s in the thousands per day).
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by brabel 3mo ago
War only goes down when the latest one killed the existing armies too effectively, so that it takes a generation until the armies can be replenished and the memory of the realities of war forgotten. Disease like the plague can also cause a
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by brabel 3mo ago
Using FF on iPhone, did not have any problems.
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There is a lot of resistance from the Ukrainians to going to the frontlines as we can see in the endless videos of people fighting the government “recruiters” who come to forcibly take them and the large stream of people fleeing the country
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by brabel 3mo ago
Rust didn’t start in academia! It was a practitioner’s pet language until Mozilla started sponsoring its development. It’s actually the exact opposite of an academic language like OCaml and Scala, which were started by researchers in univer

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