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by haspok 4y ago
I remember Creative as the company that killed Adlib, by making sure Yamaha wouldn't ship its new OPL3 chip until Creative would be ready with its sound card too. No question that the guy was a talented and ruthless businessman, but I
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by haspok 4y ago
I recently transitioned to a "full-stack dev" role (using React on FE), and honestly, it is much _simpler_ than I expected. I had the opinion before that FE is lacking the breadth of BE development, but of course, without actual e
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by haspok 4y ago
The last I had this problem was in 2015, when Dell in their infinite wisdom (or because they got a deal) decided to ship _some_ of their XPS 13s with a "Killer" (?) wifi, which didn't have proper Linux drivers, it was too new
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by haspok 4y ago
I'm wondering if it would be worth skipping the SQL layer and compiling straight to the execution plan level. This would make PRQL tightly coupled to a database, but would also unlock performance and fine-tuning potential. And, maybe i
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by haspok 4y ago
I think Americans may not really get how big some of these places are until they experience it first hand... Consider a San Diego - Boston route, which crosses pretty much the whole US (OK, not Alaska), is around 3000 miles and 45 hours net
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by haspok 4y ago
Except if you come from the EU and you have a job in Switzerland, you get a permit, more or less _by default_. You are even allowed to stay for 3 months just looking for a job! Good luck trying that in the US. Side-note: Having watched a nu
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by haspok 4y ago
Interestingly, in Yorkshire, where there is the Rights of Way, which gives you the right to pass through private land on a specific path, I had the opposite experience. I can't count how many times I had to pass through ploughed fields
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by haspok 4y ago
There is this excellent FAQ page that answers your question: https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/faq.html
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by haspok 4y ago
> People also don't fall as much while running as they do when riding Says who? Just a couple of days ago I had a runner get past me while I was walking on the street, 2 seconds later she hit a bump on the pavement with her foot and
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by haspok 4y ago
> Your steel fork is bent? Hit it with a hammer until it's true again! I'm sorry, but this is BS. I don't think you can fix double/triple butted tubes easily, and even if you could, I wouldn't trust them any long
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by haspok 4y ago
So it's kind of like GraalVM with cgroups? How about Kubernetes, in other words, how does this scale (I understand the single process proposition, but can't see how it replaces multiple containers, which might be deployed on multi
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by haspok 4y ago
There is no "95 years after publication" rule in the EU, so you cannot say the Sonny Bono act was a "harmonization". Wikipedia also states (with some sources), that "Since 1990, The Walt Disney Company had lobbied f
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by haspok 4y ago
Native speakers learn the language at a time when they can't read or write, so they have to rely on their listening. Non-native speakers on the other hand usually first see the language written down, and then hear / pronounce it,
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by haspok 4y ago
I found this interesting (in another blog post of the same author): > Keep your integration testing for smoke tests — to make sure your database actually starts and that you haven’t missed anything basic. Only when there is no way to exe
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by haspok 4y ago
The proper analogy would be that the media player would play random extra videos in addition to what you are watching, in overlays or even opening new windows. Can you imagine VLC working like that? In-video ads are usually OK, the way they
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by haspok 4y ago
> People seem to think it's the browser's job to block ads... Yes, it absolutely is. Ads not only cost me my time and attention, but also consume resources (network bandwith, CPU time, screen real estate) that I might not want
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by haspok 4y ago
> ...not the location of the company you work for... No, that is exactly how it works if you are not resident in Switzerland. Quite logical IMHO. How else would you do it :)
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by haspok 4y ago
I don't think that is how it works. In the ad the Kaltmiete is €1900, which is simply the rent without utilities. It does not mean that a. you are eligible to buy that property b. the buy-to-rent price will be the same. And even if it
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by haspok 4y ago
Does this also work with the Firefox plugin? Can't wait to get home and find out...
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by haspok 4y ago
My master password is "public" (I put it in a mail draft, also a note on my phone and printed it out on a piece of paper, just to be sure), and I have 2FA enabled via Yubikey. I never really understood why I had to always provide
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by haspok 4y ago
This option is turned off by default, as mentioned in the blogpost.
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by haspok 4y ago
Just to set the record straight, I did not say frontend was EASY, I said it was SMALL. Small things can be hard for sure. I feel so lucky I didn't have to do FE dev during the browser wars, roughly from IE6 to ECMAScript6... I would ha
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by haspok 4y ago
The Lada Niva was popular because it was one of the very few socialist block cars that could officially go proper off-road, in other words, people had no choice (welcome to the wonderful world of socialism!). But it was - and still is, can&
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by haspok 4y ago
I would say (and I might be wrong, but) to me the frontend world looks so... small. I mean, there is a dominant programming language, there is a dominant set of dev tools, there is html+css, and the few established frameworks. That's i
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by haspok 4y ago
React Beta looks promising, thanks! The existing codebase was unfortunately developed by not-so-senior people, so I'm reluctant to just jump in without first trying to establish a base line. I mean I saw some of their Java code, it was
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by haspok 4y ago
No, this is way above the unit test level. Fuzzers usually are.
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by haspok 4y ago
At first I did not understand if and how they managed to fit a running game into 64K. My original thoughts were that a memory expansion would be required. But now that the source and release are available it makes sense - the game runs on&#
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by haspok 4y ago
> The bike was taken in to a mechanic for a full tune-up seven times, and for small things a few more visits. Considering this, a tubeless sealant top-up at each of these visits would have been no extra chore. Just sayin' :)
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by haspok 4y ago
Wondering what "long tour" means here, because you usually don't need sealant top-up very often - maybe once or twice a year in my experience. You have to pump tubeless tires regularly though (lose pressure more quickly than

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