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by e-master 4y ago
Reminds me how my mother used to say that we’re not rich enough to buy cheap things. I think it must be some proverb somewhere, but I only ever heard it from her.
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by e-master 4y ago
Perhaps it’s a personal thing, but I clearly remember that after we had our first child I realized that I would have loved an adopted child just the same. I wasn’t of that opinion before that, but an honest word if my wife would tell me now
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by e-master 4y ago
I can relate to number 3 so much. Especially as kids get 4 years old and older it becomes a lot of fun to spend time with them. And it’s not even playing with them that I enjoy much, though building Lego or a puzzle is fun, but working with
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by e-master 4y ago
Indeed, I had one of those - absolutely lovely piece of machinery, as most dewalt tools really.
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by e-master 4y ago
I really liked it at first, especially when I was able to just expand the news item with a single click. Then they changed the UI so that you had to open a new page for each item and it basically ruined it for me, after that I pretty much s
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by e-master 4y ago
I barely ever used Postgres, but I’m curious - does Postgres support some sort of extensibility, so that something like EdgeDB could be just another plug-in that you could package into Postgres?
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by e-master 4y ago
Call me crazy, but I never had issues with Canadian telcos - I start to think I’m some statistical anomaly :). I used Rogers, Bell and Telus for cell - all worked just fine; other than their barely functioning websites I never had a problem
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by e-master 4y ago
I only rarely delve into the python world, but as a .net developer I always found it odd and confusing that the error message comes after the stack trace in python. I don’t see people complaining about it, so maybe it’s just a matter of hab
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by e-master 4y ago
For what it’s worth we have 2 kids, I speak exclusively Hungarian with them and my wife speaks exclusively Ukrainian with them. They speak English in school. To my utter astonishment they speak Hungarian way better than Ukrainian - my concl
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by e-master 4y ago
This reminded me of that joke about the physics experiment that assumes a perfectly spherical chicken in a vacuum :)
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by e-master 4y ago
Reminds me how once I had a math test in college about simplifying trigonometric expressions (cos(a + b) kind of formulas) and I made a cheat sheet with all the formulas because I couldn’t remember them all. Obviously I forgot one formula a
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by e-master 5y ago
At first I thought that to be a mistake also, but I gotta admit I don’t mind at all using xml in the new sdk-style csproj files now, it certainly made upgrading legacy project files slightly simpler.
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by e-master 5y ago
Fair point. I honestly do not experience any noticeable latency after startup, but that is probably because my dev machine is so powerful (12 core intel core i7-8700 3.2GHz, 64GB RAM). Coincidentally I do have it associated with txt files,
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by e-master 5y ago
I used to be a big time notepad++ user, but at some point decided to try to use VSCode as my go to text editor. The ease of use and the large number of good quality extensions more than makes up for the slight latency at startup. To my big
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by e-master 5y ago
I absolutely loved the Passport, especially the touch sensitive keyboard, it felt so revolutionary at the time.
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by e-master 5y ago
To be honest, I’m unsure how many ‘pure’ RDBMS are out there, and doesn’t seem like the parent comment had them in mind. I’d rather suggest that mainstream RDBMS in general don’t have trouble working with data formats such as json or xml. S
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by e-master 5y ago
My experience supports that - on public transit alone our family saved more than 5k USD last year, it would’ve more than made up for any equipment I would’ve had to buy (turned out though that I already had everything needed to work from ho
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by e-master 5y ago
My son, to everybody’s surprise, learned my(father) native language (Hungarian) much better than his mother’s native language (Ukrainian), even though we both are the only ones talking to him exclusively on our language, as we live in an En
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by e-master 5y ago
To this day I think the touch sensitive keyboard of the BlackBerry Passport is absolutely revolutionary. Not sure if they just licensed it or created themselves, but I loved it. That was probably the one thing I loved about BlackBerries, an
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by e-master 5y ago
Role reversal indeed. Somehow he likes telling made up stories, probably took it from me when he was younger - I didn’t know any fairytales, so had to improvise them every night, eventually settling on a series about ‘Jeffrey the genius goa
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by e-master 5y ago
Indeed. I should have emphasized above my second point better (instead of the proud parent digression I wrote) - my son is the only one I speak Hungarian with every day (and vice versa). I’m certain that without this I would’ve lost a very
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by e-master 5y ago
I found that one particular thing that helps preventing forgetting your native language(s) is reading. Specifically as I get older I rediscovered some absolutely great classical books in my native Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.
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by e-master 5y ago
re #1 - to be fair, even if you have to use `unsafe`, it's not that bad [1]: unsafe struct FixedBufferExample { public fixed int _buffer[1024]; // This is a fixed buffer. } Sure, you need to be careful, but given that you
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by e-master 5y ago
Apologies for the silly question, but what’s so difficult in adopting v6? Cloud providers spend billions on new hardware every year, I’m honestly surprised at reading that some of them don’t fully support it yet? Is there some specific tech
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by e-master 5y ago
This reminded me of the book ‘Hard to be a God’ by the Strugatsky brothers.
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by e-master 5y ago
No it’s not. VS Code doesn’t allow you to view/manage threads, modules for example which are crucial for a bit more advanced debugging. I love VS Code and use it daily, but it’s no replacement for VS yet.
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by e-master 5y ago
Asimov’s Foundation series is pretty much what you’re talking about.
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by e-master 6y ago
I keep asking the same question quite often also, so I guess the answer to your question is no, you’re not the only one, though not sure if it will make you feel any better.