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by haspok 4y ago
> Wouldn't it be smarter to actually listen to what Russia is trying to say? No, they blew that chance when they attacked Ukraine, and when they massacred civilians in Bucha (and Mariupol, and in other places). Now nobody cares what
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by haspok 4y ago
This reminded me of a video I saw recently about the Bahamas, whose capital (Nassau) is a small island (~1 hour across via a bike), with near-perfect weather (all-year sunshine, but not too hot, rainfall mostly in the summer), no hills, per
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by haspok 4y ago
I love that you are looking for a Kochassistent (cooking assistant), a Bademeister (swimming pool attendant) and a frontend dev. (No, seriously.)
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by haspok 4y ago
Couldn't be further from the truth. The fundamental difference is that you don't really control units in Settlers, instead you build the infrastructure and units get deployed and working automatically (if they can). In this sense
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by haspok 4y ago
> If peace was the goal then both sides need to agree to an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of both military and political forces. A new agreement needs to be reached that places Ukraine as a neutral, sovereign country and both sides
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by haspok 4y ago
The same as Turkey would expect of Sweden if, say, Russia invades. Please stop thinking that Turkey (or any other country) is doing a favor to Sweden (or to Finland) by accepting their NATO application. It benefits all parties - Russians in
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by haspok 4y ago
Don't be so condescending - Finland is one of the few countries that successfully resisted a Russian invasion. It is very much capable of protecting itself, much more so than Ukraine (which is also doing it, albeit with significant sup
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by haspok 4y ago
Wondering if the OP hasn't heard of Notepad++ - if they are using Windows? It has a GPL license and does text editing rather well.
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by haspok 4y ago
You are overcomplicating it. User turns off notifications permanently (in Firefox, the setting is called "Block new requests asking to allow notifications"), problem solved. No tooling needed!
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by haspok 4y ago
> Aampe adds AI and ML optimization to your existing marketing stack, so you can send better messages in hours, not months. Nice try, buddy. It is not a "tooling problem", it is a GTF-off-my-lawn problem.
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by haspok 4y ago
My company laptop is from HP, which has a large-left-right small-up-down setup (basically equivalent to what you describe, except the up-down arrows are even wider than usual). I cannot possibly convey how much I hate this setup, I find it
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by haspok 4y ago
Is S3 sleep supported?
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by haspok 4y ago
Actually, not just where, but in which direction? Because during high tides the water can flow backwards up to the Thames Barrier in Greenwich, which they can close if it is too much. And if you are from Sweden you can ask back: how many IT
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by haspok 4y ago
I much prefer apple programming to pear programming. (ba dumm tsss.... sorry, couldn't resist :)) Although I'm on the Java side, I've yet to see a leetcode interview in CH, maybe I got lucky so far, but most of the interviews
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by haspok 4y ago
This essay brought back memories from the last millenia, from the IRC / ICQ / webchat days. Except things were much simpler then, and the whole point of chatting with someone was to meet them IRL (OK, I was young back then, maybe
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by haspok 4y ago
Just to confirm: this will / does require the phone to be capable of transmitting a stronger signal, therefore needing a hardware upgrade? After some googling: yes, there are / will be external comm devices and some future chipset
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by haspok 4y ago
He also did not invent reusable rockets. (And that's beside the fact that these don't exist yet - it is but a dream at the moment.) He funneled a large amount of taxpayer money into SpaceX, while not really improving much on anyth
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by haspok 4y ago
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, my current project is on Java 11, and I'm really struggling with the restrictions around enums (the poor man's sum type :)) and interfaces... maybe I can push for Java 17 at least! The
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by haspok 4y ago
The problems with null are: 1. They are not composable (can't map or flatmap or fold/reduce them). 2. They can only represent one extra value, if you need more, you are back to square one (eg. you can't return an error value,
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by haspok 4y ago
The whole C64 scene are shaking their head in disbelief. The CPU couldn't care less about "easy readability" (whatever that even means) of your code. Ever heard of self-writing / self-modifying code? Probably an extreme
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by haspok 4y ago
> "Except for games, UIs are actually very stable, more stable than the model. You have chrome, viewers, tools etc. What is a (somewhat) pure mapping from the model is the data that is displayed in the UI, but not the entire UI. So
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by haspok 4y ago
> you on the other hand told me my place is in russia. For the last time, I did not. You wrote: > do not pretend that us and nato are any better To which my reply was that if you really think so, then you have no idea what you are tal
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by haspok 4y ago
Constant pushing of boundaries is exactly what the Russians do: first they annex Crimea (no or very limited response from the West), then they separate Donbas (no response from the West), then they finally attack Ukraine proper. Should the
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by haspok 4y ago
> you would send me to russia for having a different opinion? No, you totally misread that. I did not want to send you anywhere. I just wish people put their money where their mouth is. If you are living in a developed country it's
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by haspok 4y ago
You should study pre-WW2 history, what happened when Hitler anschlussed Austria, Czechia, then invaded Poland and then turned west. Meanwhile the allied powers tried to close their eyes and were thinking that if they leave Hitler be there w
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by haspok 4y ago
The fact is that the example of Afghanistan clearly shows what a puppet state is like, and what happens if it is left without a supporting army. There were US soldiers backing the afghan government, yet when they left (actually, even _befor
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by haspok 4y ago
> All the Western politicians that are pushing for war Your comment has many factual mistakes, but this is by far the best - you write this as if the NATO attacked Russia, and not the other way around... did you notice that Russia is not
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by haspok 4y ago
There is no proper pattern matching / destructuring in either Java or Kotlin. There is a discussion about it in Kotlin, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-186/Support-pattern-...
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by haspok 4y ago
> You would not see Toyotas or Fords, etc. Tesla has been made into an exception. I'm sorry, but this is just completely false. Both car brands are extremely popular in most parts of Europe, not sure where you've been... Teslas
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by haspok 4y ago
In Switzerland there are two types of ebikes: - the usual pedal-assisted ebike which is classified as a bicycle, pedal assistance up to 25 kmh - bikes with pedal assistance up to 45 kmh, these need to be registered and need a special licenc

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