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by dtech 2y ago
Did you miss the natural gas crisis? All of Europe has been scrambling to replace Russian gas with LNG. If I remember correctly Germany even decided to postpone some nuclear reactor closing because of it. European industry and especially Ge
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by dtech 2y ago
Which language? In Java (/the JVM) it's perfectly fine while Mongo is a PITA
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by dtech 2y ago
I think you're over-selling the parity. Value based classes aren't definable by your own code yet. Records are severely underbaked, unless I missed it there isn't even a copy method yet, and those are essential for working wi
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by dtech 2y ago
Whether it's source or a binary doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to use a compiled GPL library in non free code. LGPL was specifically made for that case.
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by dtech 2y ago
I left the Scala ecosystems (mostly) a year or 4 ago, right around the release of Scala 3. It's a shame that the compatibility and tooling situation doesn't seem to have improved much since then. The Scala devs always said they wa
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by dtech 2y ago
At least PDFs are generally usable with JS disabled, and it's not available in popular variants like PDF/A and PDF/X
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by dtech 2y ago
I.i.r.c. ISS uses UTC
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by dtech 2y ago
Comparing cost of buying with cost of running is weird. It's not like they build a new cluster, train just this one model, and then incinerate everything.
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by dtech 2y ago
They seem to be putting all of their eggs in the Kotlin multi-platform basket. Might also be why they discontinued it so those devs with iOS expertise could focus on that.
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by dtech 2y ago
these pointy shape still holds, because we often have multiple services now and testing across services is difficult and expensive.
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by dtech 2y ago
The 4 second application is a web server. They also give a basic example starting in 0.031s, fine for a CLI. One of the use cases for startup time is AWS lambda and similar.
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by dtech 2y ago
Read the article, this doesn't reduce JIT capabilities at all.
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by dtech 2y ago
You should use your CS master skills to read the first line of the "Compiler" article in Wikipedia [1] > In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the sour
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by dtech 2y ago
Also in a military context it's probably worthwhile to heavily scrutinize your supply chains and nog just install soap dispensers from Amazon. Only a few months ago we saw an example of a intelligence agency implanting and blowing up b
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by dtech 2y ago
It's market share has been slowly trending downward since forever
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by dtech 2y ago
5xx indicates an error in the server, 4xx indicates a client error. So it's quite common for clients to handle them differently like retrying 5xx but not 4xx.
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by dtech 2y ago
The electricity price in the winter will go up until either the plants are viable again or alternatives become viable.
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by dtech 2y ago
When there is a lot of wind and sun simultaneously there is effectively too much electricity supply on the net, and day-ahead prices drop negative. This is partially fueled by flat subsidies per unit produced (has been fixed for a while for
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by dtech 2y ago
It doesn't seem even close. Rasberry Pi 4 starts at €40 or so, while the cheapest N100 PC my amazon query returns is €180.
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by dtech 2y ago
I steers people who don't know better away in numerous ways, e.g. most editors with language awareness will give some kind of visual indication like a strike-trough.
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by dtech 2y ago
Deprecating without removing ever seems reasonable
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by dtech 2y ago
The pep explicitly adresses the use case, and it's still allowed. The point of the pep is that it should be explicit, especially because the short form doesn't show whether catching terminating exceptions is a bug or intentional
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by dtech 2y ago
It was a binary plugin with supported platform at the whims of Adobe, it often had security bugs and sandbox escapes, it had bad performance and killed mobile battery. For the the web standards have replaced the use cases have improved the
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by dtech 2y ago
It's not really syntactically flexible, but made explicit syntax for the use cases other languages used flexibility for, like DSL-builders and extension methods. This avoid the problem that you have in more flexible languages where eve
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by dtech 2y ago
I highly doubt devs are interested in developing apps for such a niche mobile OS outside of hacker circles. Windows Phone failed because even paying devs for apps couldn't entice them to do so.
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by dtech 2y ago
That list doesn't seems complete, ".an" at least isn't in there [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.an
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by dtech 2y ago
Firstly it's what looks good in demos, both internally to management and when trying to sell things to consumers. Government services have users without a choice and usually that they have to provide it has been decided top down. Secon
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by dtech 2y ago
I don't think anyone with a passing understanding of computer vision seriously thought this wouldn't get solved at some point, just that is happened years/decades sooner than expected.
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by dtech 2y ago
> I just save these as random values in extra fields in my password manager Unfortunately that opens you open to a social engineering attack, 9 times out of 10 if you call the helpdesk for a password reset and they ask you the questions
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by dtech 2y ago
Twitter is no longer showing things to logged out accounts, but you can still create a separate account

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