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121.
by epx 6y ago
Me too, with a lot of help from Herbert Schildt books.
122.
by epx 6y ago
My dream board would be a full Raspberry with an Arduino-like µC included on the same board, for easy I/O.
123.
by epx 6y ago
Given the current RAM and disk sizes, and how much we put trust on computers, every cell phone or computer should use ECC RAM and checksummed filesystems these days.
124.
by epx 6y ago
Next, some app named Nitrogen will be banned because it is related to explosives and therefore to terrorists.
125.
by epx 6y ago
I do see a big difference but it is another expensive ecosystem to maintain, it is difficult to justify for a thing that can only take pictures and I have no hope of making a buck with to offset costs.
126.
by epx 6y ago
Only Macs sleep reasonably correctly, and even they have issues. In my Macbook Air, Wi-Fi is the first victim after "n" cycles so I need to reboot it.
127.
by epx 6y ago
Not sure how much xBase code still runs out there to be maintained or rewritten. Depends on your market. At least here, the businesses that still ran xBase were the ones unwilling or unable to pay decently for maintenance and/or migrat
128.
by epx 6y ago
Once a guy told me that MS-DOS would be alive in 2000, I laughed at him. It was 1994 or so. Worked in DOS-based systems (running on Windows machines, at least) until 2005, had to find a job cross-country, and tell "no" firmly a nu
129.
by epx 6y ago
+1, I even started to "cry as a woman" after bad dreams or so. That started before the kid was born, even. My kid never had problems to sleep, he is by far more easygoing than either myself or even my wife, so I cannot blame exter
130.
by epx 6y ago
What will happen is, the no-code generation will rediscover that Turing-complete machines are great, and code is the easiest form to express arbitrary algorithms. In time, they also discover no-code is not portable, you are tied more tightl
131.
by epx 6y ago
I like Nubank, I am a client of Nubank, but I am afraid they are too concentrated in getting press and selling a "woke" image these days. The VP gave an interview last Monday, some woke people thought they found some misplaced wor
132.
by epx 6y ago
They overpromised and doubled down on scams. The core idea was good, read somewhere that some ex-Theranos people are working on more realistic/humble implementations of that same idea.
133.
by epx 6y ago
So x.org is abandoned, Wayland does not work/is not mature, Linux for desktop is dead? Adopting the upper-half of Android AOSP UI would be the escape hatch?
134.
by epx 6y ago
Bitcoin was very useful to me - it taught me the services the bank and the justice system offer are worth their cost.
135.
by epx 6y ago
It is useful, but in 1 every 300 sites I visit, so the SNR is not good indeed.
136.
by epx 6y ago
And childcare costs/good free childcare availability/allow you to leave your job at 17:00 sharp are probably other relevant factors, as well.
137.
by epx 6y ago
Used this to write my master dissertation back in 2003-2004. At least for me it is how every word processor should be, like an IDE, a front-end for CLI tools that are in turn amenable to automation (I used a Makefile to sanity check and gen
138.
by epx 6y ago
You think big :)
139.
by epx 6y ago
Family, relatives and friends can be huge sources of distraction, if you can't say no. I know many people that should be a lot better off in life given their merits, but they are weighed down by an endless parade of other people asking
140.
by epx 6y ago
Personally I never had this problem, but some friends complain that, in their workplaces, they are automatically supposed to be on-call or available to travel on short notice because they were single/childless. Every place has its part
141.
by epx 6y ago
Purchases are irrational. I bought the car I bought because I like the engine noise, and I bought a house because I don’t want to have to ask permission to the landlord to hang a frame in the wall. It makes sense not to buy a house if you j
142.
by epx 6y ago
Personally I don't like the usage of proprietary codecs on digital voice. It was a letdown.
143.
by epx 6y ago
Yes. As piva00 said, the elite benefits from the status quo. I think it is something even deeper: people are deeply afraid of change. Another factor is the laziness of the bureaucracy. Public servants prefer to move paper around than being
144.
by epx 6y ago
Bureaucracy is a lazy way to do this.
145.
by epx 6y ago
Nelson Rodrigues. The original in pt_BR is “Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa; é obra de séculos.”
146.
by epx 6y ago
As a famous Brazilian writer said: "Underdevelopment is not improvised; it takes centuries to perfect."
147.
by epx 6y ago
Exponential back off, use this technique all the time
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by epx 6y ago
Agreed, replace IQ by "talent of some sort".
149.
by epx 6y ago
Happened to me as well. Saved at least two guys from losing a tire because of loose nuts, and one from losing the engine because it was sounding 'dry' or 'treble-y' because it was losing the oil. Of course, this could be
150.
by epx 6y ago
This only concerns tiger moms. I learnt a bit of music when 10-12 and I am forever grateful for that, because music is a bridge between your senses and a lot of physics phenomena. It is a way to create bridges between feelings/senses a

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