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by fzeindl 3y ago
> First, they made the streets higher without touching the storefronts. "Crossing the road" would have required climbing ladders. And what was underneath those higher streets? A giant block of concrete? Scaffolding?
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by fzeindl 3y ago
I reduced my use of sets. I often used sets in Java as return-types or parameters to specify collections of unique items. Profiling code over the years I noticed that, a lot of times the reason for a performance bottleneck was some hashcode
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by fzeindl 3y ago
How can one imagine this? A big underground hall with a concrete ceiling in which there are buildings? Or are the underground building like a -1 floor to the ones above?
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Especially since k8s allows using arbitrary labels for plugins, effectively creating „stringly typed“ programming. Nobody is stopped from compiling code, converting it to base64 and storing it into a label for later execution. Arbitrary par
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by fzeindl 3y ago
While I learned to accept YAML it messes up editor usage. It is so sensitive that basic text editing like copy and paste, tab, in/decreasing indent never quite do what I expect in IntelliJ. I paste parts of yaml into another yaml and i
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by fzeindl 3y ago
The difference is that file systems need a lot of “mechanical sympathy” to account for the many quirks inside syscalls and actual physical disks. There was a nice video about how it is really hard to implement file systems because disks jus
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by fzeindl 3y ago
I miss it too, I did almost every CS class at university paired and we generally scored very well.
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Reminds me of a saying from a dear friend: „Humanity is a boat with a big hole and we constantly need to shovel out water to keep it from sinking.“
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by fzeindl 3y ago
> Why this isn't applied to software engineering is a whole nother story, but i think it probably should. Because bits don‘t rot and while you need to build a new bridge now and then which will include your learnings from the old on
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Don‘t think like that. Medicine is a complicated field as well, but after evidence based medicine was invented death rates were going down. It is certainly possible to find and enforce lists of best practices.
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by fzeindl 3y ago
> Personally, I'm still an XP fiend at heart. Give me: a single list of prioritized work; a test suite I can trust … For me the essence of XP was always programming in pairs in front of a computer. That notion was somehow lost in th
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by fzeindl 3y ago
I wanted a smart thermostat but my 30 year old natural gas heater didn‘t support them. I only had a wheel which I could turn to set the temperature. So I took double sided tape, stuck a plastic gear on the wheel and put a servo on with anot
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How can a LLM optimise on it's own processing speed?(ai.stackexchange.com)
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by fzeindl 3y ago
PostgREST is amazing software, I have written an article on how to use it as a generic data-checking pipeline: https://www.fabianzeindl.com/posts/business-information-serv... And I already have the next article in the
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by fzeindl 3y ago
What is the use case for iMessage in interactions of colleagues. No email?
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by fzeindl 3y ago
> be so large we don't realize we are a part of it While these are valid and interesting ideas from science fiction, I personally doubt that there's some fundamental property about human life that we haven't noticed yet, l
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by fzeindl 3y ago
I once heard: „The universe is unbelievably huge and unbelievably old so rare events happen all the time.“ I think it meant that even if life started itself accidentally by some unbelievably slim chance, this could happen somewhere else as
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Abstract vs concrete is not the main difference of images vs text. The main difference is that an image (without text in it) can relay a lot of information at once. Counter example: try reproducing an image from a description. A text on the
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by fzeindl 3y ago
> You can drink a 12 oz can of Coke every day and it's not even a blip on the radar. Only that blood sugar levels also affect hunger, psyche etc. So no, you cannot just sum up calories in that case.
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Geos was Genius. It had word processing, drawing, spreadsheets, games, an entire office suite. And it was programmed in a completely object oriented way so that it would suspend everything to disk. You started the PC and all your applicati
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Yes, those are useful, but I think the requirement to declare upfront in general prevents function that are too long. When you start to have a screen height full of variable-declaration, you start thinking: "Maybe I should refactor thi
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Apples Human interface guidelines helped me a lot in improving the windows gui application, apps and websites I was developing in my career. After reading them I was definitely able to create much simpler UIs. (Example: use verbs in message
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by fzeindl 3y ago
One of the best things about Turbo Pascal was having to declare all variables upfront at the beginning of functions. I really don't know why languages like C, Java or JavaScript started to allow variable definitions everywhere. Needing
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Maybe they found AGI and it is now controlling the board #andsoitbegins.
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Have you ever read up on communicating sequential processes? In that model you have one or multiple threads executing work while new messages arrive on a queue. In such an architecture handling signals is trivial.
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by fzeindl 3y ago
This is not exactly what you are asking for but a very nice explanation and it tries to work without math as long as possible https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...
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by fzeindl 3y ago
Well I shipped fat jars using capsule more than 15 years ago without any issues. Nobody ships file-trees. Also the Startup depends on how much memory you allocate, but much of it is due to verifying class security, a feature that other runt
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by fzeindl 3y ago
This is correct but not because of Java. The android SDK is terrible because of many reasons. Which is also the reason why kotlin is so popular there. Using extensions function and concise syntax you can build clutches around this terrible
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by fzeindl 3y ago
The JVM uses as much RAM as you allocate in your program. If you get along with 4 megabytes then you can set the maximum memory of the JVM to 4 megabytes and it will never use more than that.

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