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by coldcode 5y ago
Interesting detective work. I really wonder how in this modern era people still write in a language that's so easy to screw up. I started writing C in late 1984 but have zero desire to ever even see it again. Today I do Swift, but if I
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by coldcode 5y ago
Unless you are far far away (like NZ or Aus) you are better off dying instantly. Even far away, and even if there is no nuclear winter sort of result, the radiation and effects are likely get you as well. Volcanic dust can be pretty widespr
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by coldcode 5y ago
Sadly the Amazon is slowly being destroyed. How many species will vanish before anyone even knows they went away. How many of them will turn out to be important but we will only see the after effects. I wonder if the current rate of destruc
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by coldcode 5y ago
I doubt the majority of Russian military planned this attack. It seems more like Putin and his inner circle made all the decisions and failed to listen (or were not even told out of fear) what could/should be done. Hitler had the same
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by coldcode 5y ago
You can have an enormous airforce on paper, but not be able to wield it in those numbers. It's possible they simply can't get enough working planes together to make a difference, and what they have working is all that they have. I
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by coldcode 5y ago
I wonder how the court views Apple's iCloud Relay. If every browser used such a feature (where your IP is essentially elided), then would that not solve such IP related GDPR issues? Of course Apple knows your IP address, but no third p
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by coldcode 5y ago
To solve a problem about 23 years ago I wrote a programming language + interpreter. It was meant to be a simple language to write phone surveys in, so basically a kind of DSL for a single purpose. The programmers who built the survey taking
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by coldcode 5y ago
Duffel is interesting, I wonder what they use on their back end. I've written airline booking API when I was at an OTA (now sadly gone like so many) on top of our parent company's res system. It can be complex, made more in my cas
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by coldcode 5y ago
I spent the last ten years of my career building iOS apps, all but one you would likely known at the time, and whoever in charge of this app is an idiot. Shipping an app to the general public with symbols intact? Really? If they didn't
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by coldcode 5y ago
I post my art daily on twitter; I rarely post anything just textual other than explaining why I missed a day, and I retweeted one thing from another artist who is learning from my work to help him. I refuse to use instagram/meta but so
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by coldcode 5y ago
Does anyone here run a desktop Mac without a battery backup device? All of my Macs are either laptops or have a hardware backup device, so unlikely a write would be lost due to power failure (unless backup device failed which could happen).
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by coldcode 5y ago
Snake Oil is a long standing business practice.
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by coldcode 5y ago
The analysis was interesting but the end result was pretty terrible. Of course music in the past was often considered terrible by the following generation, a trend that still exists today. What I would really like to see is an attempt to wr
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by coldcode 5y ago
I went to college in the late 70's, I was 6'5" and weighed 180. Then again my metabolism was crazy. Now I weigh 215. Clearly my one data point proves all...
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by coldcode 5y ago
Works fine for me as well, though I use the hosted version (not a high volume site atm).
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by coldcode 5y ago
As a former iOS dev (retired, now doing MacOS/Web only) I also spend most of my time in Safari. Sure it has issues, but iCloud Private Relay is very nice, and iCloud Keychain is very convenient across all my Apple devices. Chrome might
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by coldcode 5y ago
I don't have kids at all and I found it a fun movie. It's not a heavy plot (there really is no villain) but so refreshing after a steady diet of superhero movies. Look at the average broadway musical and the plot is even lighter;
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by coldcode 5y ago
Hmm I get hear no sound at all (Safari, Monterey). The fretboard should be switchable to left/right handed.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I'm 64 and retired last year. I spent 4 decades programming, and everything changes all the time, and I always learned new things. I am still learning new things, and still writing code to support my generative art. Admittedly I was fi
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by coldcode 5y ago
Hacker News used to be about things that mattered to programmers and startups, etc. Now we are turning into yet another Reddit scream box. This type of article does not belong here. The comments keep turning into pointless vitriol.
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by coldcode 5y ago
At my last job my team were at one time referred to as "onshore resources" despite all being employees and in the same office.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I bought a copy recently and it's much improved from what it was before. The new mixing algorithm is very nice and mostly transparent. That said it's still a huge CPU hog, particularly with watercolors; it routinely soaks up 6&#x2
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by coldcode 5y ago
Last place I worked (big company, not FAANG) I remember a PR for our main app that affected 500 files and occasionally dozens of places in some of them. All the reviews were "LGTM".
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by coldcode 5y ago
Wonder if he remembers anything from when he was young, if that's even possible for a tortoise.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Having written a commercial memory allocator a quarter century ago, I remember dealing with freelists, and decided they were too much of a pain to manage if fragmentation got out of control. I chose a different architecture that was less fr
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by coldcode 5y ago
The only opinions that matter in the end is the pilots', I want to hear from them. Are you willing to fly a loaded jumbo into an airport with a flaky altimeter during a zero visibility landing? Airline and manufacturing execs and the F
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by coldcode 5y ago
Also watch Mentor Pilot on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpHKudUkP5tNgmMdexB3ow He is very through and detailed, an instructor pilot with a lot of experience.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Won't someone please think of the children syndrome. The real answer is we want to read all of your internet interactions any time we want; the children thing is just a way to convince people that letting the government (and everyone e
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by coldcode 5y ago
Elvis did not have bananas on his bacon sandwich, but blueberries? I will never believe such poppycock. Actually I have never tried either, so maybe either works!
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by coldcode 5y ago
I think they just removed the n't. When your business depends almost entirely on ads, you have to do anything you can to keep from losing revenue from ads and that results in screwing anyone and everyone and hoping your size makes it i

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