harladsinsteden

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by harladsinsteden 17d ago
Why is that important? If the point is well made, if the content is interesting, why should I care whether a human or an LLM wrote it? Most of us don't seem to care anymore if the _code_ is written by AI, so why should we care if other
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by harladsinsteden 1mo ago
It was better because it was, well, less. Constraints tend to make you enjoy something more. I agree that a lot of the things that annoy me today weren't present back then. But a lot of other things that I take for granted these days a
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by harladsinsteden 1mo ago
I don't know where this nostalgia is coming from. "The Internet" has never been this super perfect place on a pedestal some people make it sound like. The Internet is what you make of it. Not more, not less.
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
Elon might want someone like her...
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
No, absolutely not. There is no "IT insists" in our company. Believe it or not we trust our people to do the right thing and to handle their equipment accordingly. There are a couple of applications that are forced by the device m
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
What kind of numbers would be acceptable to you?
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
> staff always want a refresh regardless if the laptop is good enough or not My personal experience disagrees. A lot of colleagues are absolutely happy with keeping their machines for quite some time. A lot of it - believe it or not - is
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
What exactly does "heavy use" mean? My MacBook Pro is now in its fourth year of daily development work. It doesn't show any kind of wear. So far I don't see any reason to replace it in the years to come. If nothing major
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
> I still believe I qualify as a nerd. And you absolutely should! There is not _the_ nerd archetype and never has been.
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by harladsinsteden 2mo ago
And why exactly do you feel obligated to mention that? Do you have a problem with porn? Why?
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by harladsinsteden 5mo ago
Life finds a way...
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by harladsinsteden 5mo ago
> I know if the potential ulterior motives. And you think the US tech giants don't have any ulterior motives?!
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
Well, I'm all for making money but the way it was tried here sounds like a pretty bad idea. Developers (or power users for that matter) aren't really known to be generous with their personal money for recurring software fees. But
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
What was your justification for the monthly fee in the first place? There is a model that worked for decades: If you spent a _significant_ amount of work enhancing an existing tool you'd release a new major version. The would be a disc
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
It almost makes you think there is still some good left in the world.
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
Your propaganda is becoming a little too obvious, don't you think?!
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
On the contrary. It's a great day for Europe!
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
One-time fee? I would be onboard instantly. Monthly fee? For what exactly? There is no recurring cost like server space or anything else. Nope, you lost me as a customer. For good.
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
The test says that I'm 66% German. As a German I'm not really sure how to interpret that :-)
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by harladsinsteden 6mo ago
> Do your own assessment. Yeah, and my primitive home-grown analysis then carries the same weight as those from experts with professional equipment? Oh come on...
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
I ceases to be legitimate.
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
The sheer amount of what you _might_ need later in life has proven to be simply too much for the time we usually spend for "overall education". I'm completely with you in that we should offer help along the way. But help can
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
> People die in car crashes. We can't eliminate those altogether, but at least we can take steps towards making things better, instead of telling them that maybe they should just not drive. Tough problems regardless. I agree with th
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
How would you ensure that the "average user" actually gets to the page he expects to get to? There are risks in everything you do. If the average user doesn't know where the application he wants to download _actually_ comes f
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
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by harladsinsteden 8mo ago
Which 30% are you talking about? Taxes? If so: From what do you build things like infrastructure?
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by harladsinsteden 1y ago
For me it's the opposite: If I had to write the code that I usually use lambdas for in any other way then _that_ would be very difficult to write and to debug. Especially when writing JavaFX code which is full of callbacks and event ha
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by harladsinsteden 1y ago
I don't know what to make of this list... Very strange reasoning and even stranger results: Streams 1/10?! Lambdas (maybe the biggest enhancement ever) a mere 4/10?! Sorry, but this is just bogus.