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by haspok 10mo ago
I remember the last time I took the train in Austria, between Wien and Linz there was a section where the odometer on the train was showing 220 km/h. A large part of Austria is the Alps, that poses special challenges for trains. That&#
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by haspok 11mo ago
Ever heard of Nebula?
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by haspok 11mo ago
> I live in the US. I think it's pretty obvious the PRC is more competent in every way than our own government is. Yes, and you wouldn't be able to express your political opinion (like you do here on HN or anywhere else) if you
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by haspok 11mo ago
It's not "good" English, but certainly the usual "newspaper headlines" style. You have to get used to it.
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by haspok 11mo ago
> You are supposed to see beside the road by light reflected from your beams. I don't think so. If you are driving at normal speed (100 kmh in most of Europe) on an unlit country road, with a low beam, maybe with oncoming traffic,
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by haspok 11mo ago
But you are not supposed to see in the dark while driving! If you were, we would all be driving by moonlight...
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by haspok 11mo ago
> huge amount of white light you get with modern cars Maybe this is missing from your Tesla, but in my poor VW the "screen" has a dark mode which is automatically turned on when the lights are turned on - including Android Auto
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by haspok 11mo ago
I've worked for banks in the past (actually, working for one right now), and they always had Notepad++ available - at least for me, as a developer. There are no licensing issues, no fees to pay, no support to pay. It really is free, ev
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by haspok 11mo ago
> but i haven't used java in a very long time What was the last Java version you used? There has been a huge momentum in adding new features lately, granted, it is slower than in C# (Java's top priority is backwards compatibili
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by haspok 1y ago
Did you know that "final" does not actually mean final in Java (as in: the variable can be constant folded)? Reasons include reflection and serialization (the feature that nowadays nobody uses, but due to backwards compatibility t
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by haspok 1y ago
> They are almost done with the hard parts of the Starship. That's what Musk wants you to believe. In reality, reusability was the Achilles heel of the space shuttle, due to the thermal insulator tiles that could be easily damaged d
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by haspok 1y ago
> Also, when you look at these cars and there’s no one driving, I actually think it’s a little bit deceiving because there are very elaborate teleoperation centers of people kind of in a loop with these cars. I don’t have the full extent
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by haspok 1y ago
I don't understand that comment. The K-suite of apps is just as comprehensive as the G-suite of apps - most people don't really care or notice anyway. No, I did not notice that Firefox uses GTK - seriously, who cares, and it is ev
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by haspok 1y ago
Gnome UI sucks. It is ugly and non-customizable without plugins, or whatever you call that addon that enables you to put your clock on the right... I'm sure the UI makes more sense on a tablet or a phone with touch controls, but I just
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by haspok 1y ago
> Linux is not ready OK, but what steps are being made to make it ready? How do you solve the issue of many apps not accepting rooted Androids (and very rightly so)? I mean, Linux distros even struggle with Secure Boot on a normal PC - w
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by haspok 1y ago
Switzerland seems to have kind of the perfect blend of a solution (apart from the lack of space in general): it is _very_ car centric, almost everyone has a car, like in the US. On the other hand, to commute to work from their little sleepi
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by haspok 1y ago
> But when cities are much bigger, problems start to arise. Actually, the bigger the city, the more efficient public transportation is. Just look at LA with it's 16 lanes of car traffic, and compare it to London - the fundamental di
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by haspok 1y ago
> It's a kind of a coding competition, indeed. This is referring to demo parties specifically. Let's not forget the social aspects of them though. Yes, a selected few went to parties to "compete" in their chosen art,
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by haspok 1y ago
> Creative rose to dominate the sound card market at a time when there weren’t many options. They made an excellent product, marketed well, and made solid relationships with software makers. Interesting angle. The product that actually m
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by haspok 1y ago
A few years ago there used to be an ML-based app for Android that could classify photos of lesions that you took with your phone and could recommend you a visit to the dermatologist (or not). Unfortunately it seems to be removed now, the we
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by haspok 1y ago
This is not a battery, this is thermal storage. No electricity is stored or generated. (Unlike liquid-metal batteries, for example, which are actual battery storage.)
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by haspok 1y ago
The thing is, if you last looked at Java in 2018, prepare for a nice surprise. I mean, we were at version 11 back then, the language has made advances in leaps and bounds. Just to name a few: half of ML is here (records, pattern matching),
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by haspok 1y ago
> 3: On Android I can use Chrome. On Android I can use Firefox (with uBlock Origin, and the ability to play Youtube videos in the background or with the screen locked). There, I corrected it for you.
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by haspok 1y ago
> They have a smaller geographic footprint You might think that saves a lot of money, until you drive around Zürich (think: M25), and realise that about 80% of your drive was through tunnels... and Zürich is not even mountaneous.
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by haspok 1y ago
> Even when it doesn't work I was genuinely surprised last summer, when a locomotive standing still at a station spontaneously burst into flames, during the busiest commuting period. Had I not been WFH that day, it would have been a
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by haspok 1y ago
Don't forget about Dacia, which is Renault's cheaper brand. You can even buy a Spring EV for under 20k - quality is what you'd expect, but for many people it is not an issue.
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by haspok 1y ago
> he came off as a very skilled engineer. No, he did not. I still can't believe people bought his BS so easily - "it must be true, because he said it!" No, it isn't, never was, never will be. And I don't even car
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by haspok 2y ago
Java has now pattern matching, ADTs, case classes, even lazy vals are coming ("Stable values" previewed in JDK 25). Java is still much more verbose than Scala, but if you use it considerately, it looks more and more like an ML-lik
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by haspok 2y ago
Java will never "catch up" to Scala (for example, the type system / generics will not evolve in the foreseeable future). But once Valhalla lands, with some additional JEPs, Java will be very close to the core of what Scala of
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by haspok 2y ago
It may not help that there are more of them, and of course, among themselves they speak Spanish. One of them then turns to me and asks something switching to English, he keeps his speech mostly unchanged (speed, enunciation, pronounciation)

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