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by dvdkon 6y ago
I think you would. It's hard to see from the perspective of using another language, because you don't think of the code you write as emulating sum types. For example, in my biggest F# project I parse a local standard for public tr
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Yes. F# has solidified my belief that syntax and the "feel" of a language matter a lot. You might think just a few extra lines of boilerplate or a few keywords in C# are not a big deal, just like Java programmers may think multipl
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I don't think Delphi has been "ruined", but I think its heyday has definitely passed, because it wasn't flexible enough when the prices of tooling plummeted over the last 20 or so years. It's nice that there's
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Smaller punishments with more tickets would still mean having to deal with paying a ticket, which is often more annoying than a small fine. I think moving the goalposts and changing the rules from "any speeding gets you a fine" to
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Here the national land survey bureau (ČÚZK, rough translation) maintains maps in a similar scale to the one you posted. But they were opened only recently (they used to be for sale for pretty high prices) and the bureau haven't built a
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by dvdkon 6y ago
The source code for Watch Dogs: Legion leaked just a few months back.
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I don't see why marriage should be a legal process "provided" by the state. People from different cultural and personal backgrounds have differing views on marriage. You think divorce should be difficult so that people take m
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by dvdkon 6y ago
"Terms and conditions" often contain more than just restrictions on copying, they can have everything from arbitration clauses, through anti-interoperability clauses, to obligations that go directly against local laws.
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Thing is, I don't think most people want to replace subreddits, Facebook groups or HN. The issue is that for two of these three communities, they are hosted by a company that has a large amount of power over the communities. It doesn&#
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I wasn't talking about a "free speech platform", I just think that moderation should be transparent, and that users should be able to view content deleted/hidden by moderators if they wish. Many times I've read a di
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by dvdkon 6y ago
This seems to be easily solvable by just making moderation an opt-out default. HN itself has the "showdead" setting, which defaults to false. Anyone who forms their opinion on a community after deliberately turning off moderation
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Interesting. A number of websites don't display correctly for me if I use just half of my 1920 horizontal pixels. Keep in mind that many users still use 1366x768 or similar screens. As for maximising, Mac OS X never had a conventional
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Because once one site starts needing X px, most users will just keep their browser at least X px wide. At some point X became so close to the monitor's resolution that not maximising the window is just extra work. I'm not happy ab
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by dvdkon 6y ago
They might have meant actual responsiveness, as in the absence of lag. On low-end embedded devices, rendering a template with something like PHP could easily take high units or even tens of seconds, whereas JS on a much more capable client
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I find it much worse that so many sites nowadays expect users to have their browsers maximised. Noticed how most books aren't wider than an A5, and how any publications wider than this use relatively narrow columns? Because reasonably
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Less annoying work for me is something helpful in my books. If I can make my job easier at the expense of people using unsupported technology, I will, otherwise I'd be stuck supporting that one guy who refuses to move from Mac OS X 10.
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by dvdkon 6y ago
My point is that reducing how many neat gadgets people can buy will never get anyone's support apart from a few weirdos. Making products last longer, maybe by forcing repairability, is a more constructive solution that would allow peop
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Actually I was talking about an internal battery that's just sold by the manufacturer, hence the reference to a repair shop. Of course, I don't want to dictate to manufacturers that they have to make everything swappable without t
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by dvdkon 6y ago
A lot of electronics are potted in epoxy or something similar, true, but things like conformal coatings and/or rubber seals are actually much more common. Industrial equipment often needs to be both repairable and water/dustproof
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I think there is an unspoken part to "reduce consumption", "without decreasing the comfort of living". Decreasing individuals' buying power is about as good a solution to consumption as "don't give people
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by dvdkon 6y ago
If industrialization is so great it obsoletes repair, why is it cheaper for me to buy a new laptop battery and replace it or even take it to a repair shop, who will replace it for a small fee? Why did my parents have a repairman over multip
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Can we really be sure that current user-targetet advertising is better than contextual advertising? It seems to me that nobody wants to step out of the safe model of targeted advertising, since it does work well enough, and so there haven&#
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by dvdkon 6y ago
Do you have any insight into why these commercial corners disappeared and if they were really common across the whole USA? The population density is still roughly the same in suburbs, so the only thing I can think of is consolidation into b
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by dvdkon 6y ago
The question of the ideal environment for kids to grow up in is certainly an interesting one. I myself grew up in an apartment, but from visits to friends and family, I think I have a perspective on how having a wide, safe outdoor space can
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I think the demise of WYSIWYG GUI builders was partly just it "going out of fashion", but also partly because of rising requirements for dynamic GUIs, meaning actually changing the layout programatically, but also things like arbi
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by dvdkon 6y ago
If the Australian government feels so strongly about the declining revenue of news publishers, they have a host of reasonable options. They could subsidize them, they could lower their taxes, they could even substantially raise Google and F
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by dvdkon 6y ago
I definitely disagree. When having a video conferencing app open can use 100% of a single core, 2 cores just isn't enough for anyone even remotely multitasking. Same with a browser running some demanding JS for whatever reason or syste
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by dvdkon 6y ago
CPUs have been progressing faster in the last few years, mainly because of AMD's Ryzen line. In laptops, 4 cores are now standard, and if you can gen one of the AMD 4000U CPUs, 8 cores with good single-threaded performance are relative
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by dvdkon 6y ago
> smartphones don't require repairs often I've had people come to me with broken screens, old batteries, non-functional/muffled earpieces, wonky USB connectors, cracked lenses and other problems. Smartphones do require rep
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by dvdkon 6y ago
At least for me, I wouldn't have bought as many devices over the last few years if they were more repairable, and I do enjoy having a large collection of hardware. I had to abandon my last few phones due to cracked screens, water damag

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