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811.
by bzzzt 5y ago
That's just a problem with developers who do Java as their 'nine to five' job and don't have any interest or passion to really find out how stuff works. I've met a lot of those people and there's no reason they
812.
by bzzzt 5y ago
If you're just concerned about dependency injection there's also the CDI standard way of doing things where there are multiple implementations to choose from. If you're concerned about bloat you could look into Quarkus. There
813.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Isn't that about where the showrunners began te write the story instead of GRRM? Seemed to me they ran out of characters to kill, made some filler to get to the last season and then rushed a bunch of stuff badly.
814.
by bzzzt 5y ago
I believe this is the same technique (dye sublimation) that Canon uses in their small photo printer range (Selphy line). Those printers work with ink sheets where the ink is transferred one color at a time (yellow, red and blue). After that
815.
by bzzzt 5y ago
> Your points are valid. The hardware is something like a bad Android tablet with a few buttons. Which makes it more amazing that they're still selling a ton of them. Buy a bad Android tablet or even a good Android tablet and have y
816.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Both ATI/AMD and nVidia use all kinds of tricks to outcompete each other since gamers only look at the fps count. That means driver optimization for specific games, even dropping fidelity a bit when that means more fps. Also, nVidia ha
817.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Something like https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games ?
818.
by bzzzt 5y ago
* That class needs to be on the server already. The problem is lots of frameworks come with some pretty vulnerable classes. There are lists of 'serialization gadgets' for some potentially exploitable things if you can trigger a JV
819.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Newer Java versions disable deserialization of remote classes via LDAP. You're still vulnerable to deserialization of existing classes, but to exploit that there have to be exploitable classes on the classpath already.
820.
by bzzzt 5y ago
I think it had more to do with VB being so easy it attracted lots of inexperienced programmers who didn't care about performance or correctness as long as the job got done. Sort of like a pre-internet PHP ;)
821.
by bzzzt 5y ago
The first iMac displays were almost certainly 'built to order' for Apple. Later, Dell and LG both had 5K screens, but there were bandwidth problems with the common HDMI and Displayport connections requiring users to plug in two ca
822.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Dell has the UltraSharp UP3218K 8k screen for about 4 grand.
823.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Even if you don't have decent eyesight crisper text is easier to read than a blurry mess of pixels representing letters.
824.
by bzzzt 5y ago
If you're serious about watching movies you probably have some kind of (surround) receiver already, most of which have settings to tone down the dynamic range a bit (on my Denon it's called 'dynamic volume', acts the sam
825.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Having used a Linux-based system and macOS I can tell you it's those poor folks using Linux that suffer most from bloated desktop applications. Recent macOS versions are really good at efficiently using the available memory so a 16Gb M
826.
by bzzzt 5y ago
You can't have everything. Giving you, but also other companies the freedom to do as they want with your phone and data could also be considered anti-consumer.
827.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Adding to that, they are a middle man preventing the gas station owner to collect my number plates, bank account details and purchase data and selling those to third parties. Cutting out the middle man just gives another corporation an adva
828.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Sometimes it's not about looking cute, but to signal the 'sketch' phase from a design. When a sketch looks too professional there's going to be a disappointed pm or customer because it looks like it's almost finishe
829.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Metal was released a year before Vulkan. Apple just didn't want to wait and decided to design their own better than OpenGL API.
830.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Seems like Intel really lost the plan there with every new generation having just a few percent better performance, trouble with moving to smaller nodes and the enormous regression from spectre/meltdown. The Apple chips are made for ru
831.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Just look at the new privacy labels which were so impopular with the big advertising giants Google even paused updating some app for months just so they wouldn't have to tell users what data they were sharing. Wouldn't Google (or
832.
by bzzzt 5y ago
For starters: because the majority of humans on earth do not own or understand a PC or Mac or security in general and are only using a mobile phone. They just click on 'agree' and get on with their lives not understanding they jus
833.
by bzzzt 5y ago
In addition to that you actually have to demonstrate some driving competence (with a minimum of 20 hours of theory study) to get a driver's license.
834.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Instead of documented OpenGL drivers which could have cryptic bugs they used undocumented VGA modes which could have cryptic bugs. Seems nothing's changed then ;)
835.
by bzzzt 5y ago
I recently dug up an old 4S and was surprised the battery managed to get a few days of standby usage. While making phone calls still works, the software side is problematic. It's 32-bit which and totally unsupported. It won't reli
836.
by bzzzt 5y ago
Since we were perfectly capable of creating working graphical, internet connected software with a few megabytes of RAM in the 90'd I sometimes wonder if the availability of gigabytes of memory isn't the problem instead of progress
837.
by bzzzt 5y ago
I think the problem with this kind of reasoning is that need to have a lot of faith in this mythical 'anyone' person to minimally provide you with timely, trustworthy security updates. Bonus points for keeping up with the more adv
838.
by bzzzt 5y ago
I feel exactly the opposite way: when making photo's with my mirrorless camera I've got the photo 'under control', while having to balance an expensive phone with bad ergonomics for photography feels like it's a cho
839.
by bzzzt 5y ago
The issue is Linux (and Windows for that matter) applications have extremely bad graphical feedback. I haven't seen anything actually competing with the macOS/Safari way of touchpad response. The 3-finger expose command just slide
840.
by bzzzt 5y ago
The dutch national broadcasting service had a program around 1980 where BASICODE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE ) for homecomputers was transmitted. Lots of home computers (ZX Spectrum, C64 etc) had audio I&#x2

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