exabrial

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1. 2911.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   > JWST does the same job much, much better. Close: JWST is near-infrared. SOFIA was the last and remaining far-infrared telescope. There's debate though if far-infrared was worth it though.
2. 2912.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   The ends do not justify the means, ever. Repeat this ad infinum.
3. 2913.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   It's a bit weird the FCC is ruling on this... not really a space agency... but regardless, it's a good move!
4. 2914.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   How about license plate scanners too? And Civil forfeiture?
5. 2915.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   Who still using chrome? Use safari, brave, or Firefox.
6. 2916.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   Who cares? Function over form. The point of Bootstrap was to "make the default web beautiful". The better question is the poster feels the need to piss on everyone else's work.
7. 2917.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   One additional comment: they need to make the launch protocol for jar files, much simpler as well. META-INF needs to be replaced with a simple properties file that indicates what method to run and which libraries to have on the class path.
8. 2918.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   CDI and modern Java are both great, extraordinarily productive, run an order of magnitude faster than dynamic languages like python JavaScript and ruby, and are succinct compared to the mass of footprint of dynamic languages on a system. Yo
9. 2919.▲
   by exabrial 4y ago

   I’m actually very happy to see this after using Java for many years. I definitely had all of the mentioned thoughts about the keywords, and not knowing what they do when first learning. Java needs staunchly maintain its static type nature r
10. 2920.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    They’re fine if they are self contained, which is your point, and which is the author’s point (and generally everyone else). He didn’t go into detail of the why, but that is east is usually meant. A good clean programming have it is to wrap
11. 2921.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Tangental: I'd really like to hear the ins-outs of colocation. We spend in a week what a server costs. It's not sexy right now to own your own hardware, but renting at this scale is a bit ridiculous too.
12. 2922.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Really the only thing we run into trouble with is `count(id)` where `id` is the pk of the table. This is surprisingly slow when you get above a couple hundred million rows. We're 3rd normal form, with proper fk's and indexes. I _h
13. 2923.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    If you're going to replace SVG xml, whatever you replace it with is going to need a schema.
14. 2924.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    CTOs should absolutely be technical, be able to solve problems, be able to code, and participate as necessary. In addition, CTOs need to do "C suite stuff", which is nearly all non-technical skills: planning, budgeting, communicat
15. 2925.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    If they could provide a bit higher resolution scans that would help out tremendously
16. 2926.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Your Garmin had an option to load a credit card and tap-pay, no Ultra needed.
17. 2927.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    This is precisely what I’m talking about. I don’t replace my hvac every 5 years because Lennox came out with a new heat pump.
18. 2928.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Why are they sunsetting devices that still boot and literally just work fine? So wasteful.
19. 2929.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Good point actually
20. 2930.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Why are they sunsetting hardware that is in perfect working order?
21. 2931.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Not at all, Garmin is not fashionware like Apple. You buy Garmin because you are an athlete that needs an actual complete product that is tested and bullet proof; where you own the hardware, and you’re not ‘renting’ it from Apple. If you wa
22. 2932.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Just buy a Garmin if you want to do anything -useful- with your watch for sports or outdoors. Apple is 5-10 years behind their reliability or battery life. And if you’re going somewhere without a cell signal… or god forbid, you don’t have (
23. 2933.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Yeah but it’s not node, wasm, sass, typescript, react bootstrap, rails, flask, ecma, flash enabled, spa web 3.0 with social media and crypto integration so it’s pretty much outdated and useless…. /s obviously, but it just points to the
24. 2934.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Step 1: Break ties with Russia. Until then, everything is double-speak
25. 2935.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Then let the science speak for itself. What annoys me most is the integration of greenwashing into advertising, and people _eat this up up like hotcakes_. For example, Apple is not a green company by any objective measure. Their manufacturi
26. 2936.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Correct, that surprised me
27. 2937.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Basically: xhtml is fast and verifiable?
28. 2938.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    The suggestions here are so not 1337. The whole point of writing code is to show off how much smarter you are. During code reviews, you can teach everyone else a lesson; you’re basically doing them a favor by making them read your 1337 code
29. 2939.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    I know this is against the grain, but I do think clean hydrogen is the future fuel. I know hydrogen is less efficient than Battery-Electric, but it's not about efficiency, it's about convenience. One can transfer millions of joule
30. 2940.▲
    by exabrial 4y ago

    Two quotes I thought were noteworthy: > traveling at a downward angle and about 600 feet per second as they reached the target zone. That is incredible. Some BB guns don't even fire horizontally that fast > Regarding it taking 69