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by dtech 5y ago
> first iterations of Android were relatively open, apps could run in the background without much issues. But then Google started tightening the grip The flip side of this is that there were a lot a badly behaving apps, sitting in the
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by dtech 5y ago
> If you mean, we are not as equipped as elephants or whales to fight cancer, then that's true. There's some debate as to whether they have better cancer fighting mechanisms, or whether their size means they are less fast affec
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by dtech 5y ago
That <1% death rate is only with every serious infected getting adequate care. If the disease went further out of control and intensive-care, oxygen etc. was no longer available it would be much higher.
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by dtech 5y ago
I'm not sure you can generalize from the top 0.001% like Jeff Dean to the top 10% or even 1%
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by dtech 5y ago
Where are all the horses augmented by technology doing the plowing?
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by dtech 5y ago
Yes, you can write your 2 line program faster, no one is disputing that. But that's not the real world, in real world you have to change and debug large amounts of existing code, and collaborate with colleagues. There's little con
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by dtech 5y ago
indeed, all of these issues were problems only because they were already dominant
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by dtech 5y ago
I didn't read the comment as putting the employee in a bad light.
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by dtech 5y ago
~millenia~ billions of years
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by dtech 5y ago
I'm not sure what we should've done. Google for a long time won users by making almost objectively better products. It's only in the past decade or so that they started to abuse their monopoly. Putting the blame at government
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by dtech 5y ago
As a software engineer, Terraform/HCL being a real declarative programming language is a big advantage of the big ball of JSON/YAML from cloudformation.
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by dtech 5y ago
Amsterdam is definitely less chaotic than Oxford, the canals are wider and there is less "pedestrian" traffic, the closest you'll find is water bikes or tubs with drinking people. The main canals are mostly visited by touring
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by dtech 5y ago
It's adressed in the article > However, we've made it a tradition every April 1 to launch a new consumer product that leverages our network to bring more speed, reliability, and security to every Internet user.
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by dtech 5y ago
Absurd that there are lawsuits from 2015 about 110 year old books.
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by dtech 5y ago
iirc correctly their bootstrap always has been to bootstrap a Go 1.n version, that can build Go 1.n+1 etc.
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by dtech 5y ago
As always, there's a relevant XKCD [1] https://xkcd.com/978/
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by dtech 5y ago
> not just double in size, not just be 10x larger "An order of magnitude" usually refers to 10x. I interpreted it as being 10x off with his guess.
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by dtech 5y ago
If you are being taking out by trams of all things you are not paying attention to the road layout and markings. Probably similar with bike lanes. People in Amsterdam have very little tolerance for tourists walking in bike lanes because it
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by dtech 5y ago
Were you advocating an endpoint + DB or different apps directly writing into a shared DB? The latter is not really a good idea for numerous reasons. Kafka a - potentially overkill - replacement for REST or whatever, not for your DB.
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by dtech 5y ago
This is all true, but all these argument are 98% the same for a.plus(b), which is common in widely used libraries and the Java stdlib. So why is a.plus(b) better than a + b? What would be the problem of translating "a + b" automat
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by dtech 5y ago
This is exactly how scala does it
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by dtech 5y ago
I never understand the hate operator overloading gets. Why is it collectively decided that date.plus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS) is 100% fine and dandy, but date + ChronoUnit.day(1) would be like introducing longjmp.
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by dtech 5y ago
It's been theorized for a while. For Multiple Sclerosis - an autoimmune nerve disease - a curious phenomenon is that 100% of patients have been infected with EBV, the cause of mono, while the base rate in the population is about 90%.
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by dtech 5y ago
In most environments it's better to use a LTS version
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by dtech 5y ago
In general you are right that the Java ecosystem is highly backwards compatible, but 9 is a bit of an exception. The module system breaks a lot more stuff than usual, and is the reason a lot of legacy is stuck on 8.
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by dtech 5y ago
It was, it recently transferred to Eclipse
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I wouldn't exactly call US the winner of the Vietnam or Iraq wars
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by dtech 5y ago
This is different from not deleting your account. Having to keep a record of your purchases doesn't mean they can keep track of your hobbies or whatever. GDPR solved this years ago: right to be forgotten does not apply to legal require
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At least they are using that money for citizens and green energy instead of Ferrari's of the royal family
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by dtech 5y ago
Plastics can be made from starch which would capture CO2. However, bioplastics tend to degrade. Making plastic from oil as the vast majority are doesn't sequester CO2.

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