dr_faustus

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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Reading that really makes you wonder what the hell (sorry if that offends some atheists or buddhists!) they are talking about in official meetings at the Stanford IT department. Gray beards? Pocahontas??? In my 20 years in IT, not once have
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Spending some karma points here, but having worked with many stacks (PHP in the 90s, Java from J(2!)EE to Quarkus and also lots of RoR), the node/bun/whatever JS/TS/[10 other tools that need to be intricately combined] h
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Well, you certainly can use it with just an text editor. However, due to the maturity of the language and platform, the IDE support of Java is pretty much unsurpassed and you would certainly be quite a bit more productive if you used an IDE
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Huh! Absolutely nothing!
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Call me a cynic but the fact that after almost 10 years of AI hype we are still working our way down the list of popular board games is a bit of a downer for me. I mean, having AIs to play Stratego, Risk, Go, Diplomacy and what have you aga
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I really feel for chronic pain patients, having suffered from chronic (however not as severe) back pain myself for many years. However, the propensity of American doctors to prescribe heavy-duty opiods is unheard of in pretty much the rest
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I really love the concept of WSL and it is certainly useful but the file system performance was so bad for me that i could never get it to work with projects that had 1000+ files.
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Serif's Affinity suite has probably the greatest value for money in the whole software industry. I mean 119 bucks ONE-TIME for three pretty comprehensive graphics apps which are polished and get constant updates is very hard to beat. F
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
With the current weather, most electricity during the day is generated by wind and solar. So, thats not that much of a concern.
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I really don't understand the doom and gloom wrt next year. What was obviously completely underestimated was the elasticity of consumer demand for gas. In Germany, consumers are using 25% less gas even if you account for the weather. S
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I agree to some extent, however, IDEA often helps you with that (e.g. by converting arrays with Arrays.asList(array)). And I have to disagree: Any of them would not have been perfect. An array is sometimes significantly more performant and
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
They should switch to Perl and replace 80% of the code with punctuation
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I'm currently working on a project which has both Java and Kotlin and I really have to say that I like working on the Java parts much better than on the Kotlin parts. I find coroutines a really strange and leaky abstraction (and the pr
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
The thought that a company like twitter, that has about 5 features anybody cares about (and pretty much had them for years) spends ONE BILLION PER QUARTER on "R&D" and operations boggles my mind. I mean, 250 people or somethin
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
It‘s a stupid idea with all kinds of problems. What if, for some reason, your bank account is empty or your CC is over the limit at the time of departure. The transaction might fail and your flight will be canceled hours before departure.
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Not if the rest of the world is at 30%…
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I really wonder if there is snake oil the Saudis haven’t bought. It will be so much fun to watch once the petro dollars dried up.
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Not too much to be afraid of, I guess....
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
That someone has to come up with something like this is pretty depressing...
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
In my opinion, it's not a really fruitful discussion. The main problem is that people seem to think that the quality of music is somehow related to the musical form which is nonsense. For the first 1600 years of the common era (the ye
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
Ok, so: Israel has currently ~4500 Palestinians detained = < 0.1% [1] China has about 1.8m Uygurs in internment camps = 14% [2] I would call that a far cry. Also, many other statistics of welfare, e.g. child mortality or GPD/capita
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by dr_faustus 4y ago
I also find that interesting in contrast to the constant outrage about the situation of Palestinians in Israel which certainly has many highly problematic aspects but to me still seems to be a far cry from the situation of Muslims in China
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
I doubt it
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
To all those now worrying that we are on the way to a Fourth Reich! Fear not! I'm sure the money will be wasted and squandered just as it was for the last 20 years. Even though Germany was often criticized for its small spending on the
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
Aldi has been doing this in Germany for a decade on all their large stores (usually free standing structures). According to them, they are CO2 neutral by now and also offer free charging for EVs during shopping.
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
Do you really think its any different in Germany? Berlin, which right now has the most refugees arriving (edit: in Germany!), has a huge housing problem. People are just giving their spare rooms to refugees. And that is after we just &quot
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Russia Scrambles to Maintain Oil Sales, Lifeblood of Economy(wsj.com)
4 points by dr_faustus 5y ago|0 comments
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
It’s horrible to consider this angle, but this could turn out to be a blessing for many European countries. There is a massive shortage of labour in large parts of Europe. There are large, well integrated Ukrainian minorities already in man
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
On the other hand, RT is still happily streaming on YouTube, spouting their non-sense. German viewers is not even IP blocked, even though the have lost their broadcasting license.
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by dr_faustus 5y ago
I was in similar spot with around 30. My advice: 1.) Start dating. It might be a drag and maybe embarrassing at times, but obviously not being a loser having saved up half a mil in 10 years, you will probably find someone. Don't buy in

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