dahauns

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by dahauns 5y ago
> But obviously a total amazonisation of all buying would be terrible nonetheless. What I'd love to see: a site like those price comparison directories but not so much focused on cheapest but on local availability. Current stock, pr
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by dahauns 5y ago
Those gift cards are often hilariously bad, like the one I recently received for a USB cable. Very official Amazon-looking at first glance, until you realize that it almost looks like cut out by hand. And when I was promised "10 US€ f
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by dahauns 6y ago
>If you're writing good unit tests already, why are you running into so many type issues? >If you already have to spend time writing tests, why spend more writing types? Because unit tests and types solve different problems and i
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by dahauns 6y ago
I see where you're coming from, but in this case I think it's not too bad. In the end I guess it depends on how you sit on your couch, but AFAIK the ergonomic guideline would be that your eye line should be aligned to the top of
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by dahauns 6y ago
While I agree with some of your arguments, I think your main mistake is calling it "factory" work - because IMO it isn't a valid analogy (and analogies are powerful! :) ). "Factory" work implies a far more constrain
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by dahauns 6y ago
> I would expect the assumption that if the customer doesn't have a fixed contract, they are on a default contract to be encoded in business logic somewhere in an application that uses this database. That's exactly the kind o
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by dahauns 6y ago
But nothing of this has to do with OO. This is an argument at the relational level. And yes, if there's something as fundamental a concept in the business model as a default contract that's in effect when no other contracts overru
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by dahauns 6y ago
This line raised a huge red flag for me: "If the customer doesn’t have a fixed contract, it is assumed they are on a default contract" No. Don't assume, specify. Explicitly. If this is part of your specification, have a Defau
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by dahauns 6y ago
The part about recovery and the lack of a universal undo/back function and instead offloading it to the developer, resulting in an inconsistent mess really drives the point home. What's most telling is how even Apple often does an
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by dahauns 6y ago
Ah, thanks, looks much better! Yeah, I just took the original and quick'n'dirty-added the second condition, all the while thinking "hmm..." - and quickly losing interest again. :) Regarding tree mutation - I have to admi
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by dahauns 6y ago
Very nice! And for Nuke Overdrive mode, add a check for position: sticky, i.e. (function () { var elpos,i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elpos = getCom
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by dahauns 6y ago
Ah, ah, but this is rational irrationality we're talking about. I wish I'd made that up.
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by dahauns 6y ago
Comet Lake's core µarch is identical to Skylake. Ice lake uses Sunny Cove cores, which are Intel's first significant core µarch redesign since Skylake.
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by dahauns 6y ago
TBH, I find those terms worse. And the more I think about it, infuriatingly so. (So I apologize in advance for the following cynical rant :) ). Sure, they sound superficially more compassionate. But in reality they are defeatist, victimiz
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by dahauns 6y ago
I frankly don't understand the definition of "free will" in regard to choice used in those arguments. Just because we might not be immediately consciously aware of the brain processes leading to our choice, doesn't mean
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by dahauns 6y ago
That hits closer to home than I'd like to admit. :)
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by dahauns 6y ago
Repeat after me: Tests are existentially quantified, types are universally quantified. (Yeah, existential types, I know. Shut up. ;) )
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by dahauns 6y ago
Why would you write any of this yourself? This is the classic use case for code generation. (And IMO one of the few justified ones.)
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by dahauns 6y ago
IMO, Go is never a good example in static vs dynamic type system discussions (I mean, for this case: parametric polymorphism has been around since the 70s...). The language developers themselves have repeatedly stated that its type system b
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by dahauns 6y ago
>They implemented a very boring transaction/caching/replication layer that is like any other DB except they borrowed the idea that "longest chain" should be used for conflict resolution. Handwaving this layer away as
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by dahauns 6y ago
Damn, has the quality really gone down this much in the last decade? :( I haven't been there for, well more than a decade, but coming from Vienna, one of the greatest things when visiting Italy (and what I missed most when I was back h
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by dahauns 6y ago
Ah, now I understand what you meant with "effort", i.e. that the disposable income after taxes normalized for purchasing power would be lower in Portugal than e.g. in Sweden, right? Hm...that's a good point actually - net PPP
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by dahauns 6y ago
Er...I might be misunderstanding something here - but it literally does? Something like tax rates statistics wouldn't tell you whether those taxes are actually paid - but tax revenue statistics do exactly this.
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by dahauns 6y ago
>he is the best judge of that. The jaded old fart SW dev in me tells you: No, he most certainly isn't.
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by dahauns 6y ago
>The researchers acknowledged in the study that the results might reflect differences in how people sing, and not in how people perceive pitch. But they argued that the totality of collected data, including some more direct measures of o
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by dahauns 6y ago
> You can argue that the octave is a "basic phenomenon" inasmuch a vibrating string is basic. Or...the human voice?
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by dahauns 6y ago
While not semantically the "same" - you'd be surprised where this principle shows up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance
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by dahauns 6y ago
It's funny because it's (probably) true. ...AARGH! No, scratch that. It's actually infuriating. :)
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by dahauns 6y ago
Please no - that debate is an anachronism. Apple simply can't create any kind of x86 chip whatsoever (at least if they plan to use it :) ) - they don't have an ISA license and likely won't ever be able buy one, because Inte
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by dahauns 6y ago
And it's still fundamentally flawed as ever. (since the suggested behavior in the HIG presumes contextual intent is something that's generally clear or even decidable from the content.)

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