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by haspok 3y ago
For a thousand pounds you can buy a small used car, tax it, insure it and drive it around for a bit. Meanwhile an average e-bike costs more than that. Does that sound sane to you?
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by haspok 3y ago
> which is shut until the new year Btw. is it a coincidence that they chose to write about this exact location, at this exact point in time (when there is no alternative way of transport)? (rhetorical question)
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by haspok 3y ago
> If you compare train on a train-direct path... That's why I specifically took an example of my then-commute, which consisted of 15mins to the train station, 25mins train ride, then 10mins to workplace. I wouldn't exactly call
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by haspok 3y ago
I find it amusing how they did not interview one single person who thought he or she might just choose a different way of transportation, instead of driving a car, unless absolutely necessary. I used to commute in the north between two mid-
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by haspok 3y ago
Or just use an ad blocker. Also extremely simple.
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by haspok 3y ago
Null safety checks and if being an expression are major pain point resolvers that are still not available in Java (OK, maybe pattern matching helps the if-expression part, because pattern matching IS an expression in Java). Oh, and the lega
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by haspok 3y ago
I have the same phone, and the main culprit is the connectors. The audio jack connector has gone a few years ago, now the USB-C is getting worse - I need to sometimes wiggle the cable to connect the charger. If I use a headphone then the sm
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by haspok 3y ago
All naked, of course.
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by haspok 3y ago
Try Krusader!
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by haspok 3y ago
An interesting feature of steel frames is demonstrated by Surly frames: their rear end spacing is currently 145mm, which is neither 142 nor 148 (the standards). What they say is that because it is steel, you can bend it a couple of millimet
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by haspok 3y ago
A Mac application? Big enterprises are mostly on Windows desktops. Especially those that would be interested in this app. Otherwise the idea is great, now please someone create this for Splunk...
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by haspok 3y ago
So this is a bit like React on the OS level? Cool project, especially the cooperative scheduling part. Although I'm not sure why insist on a single function (if not for a "hold my beer" moment), because for any non-trivial pr
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by haspok 3y ago
I would argue that your income tax calculator logic should probably not be unit tested, it sounds complicated enough to involve multiple classes / units of code. What you really want to test is business logic, not code logic.
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by haspok 3y ago
Maybe _your_ type system doesn't do that. It is perfectly possible to introduce type aliases to differentiate between X and Y coordinates - though usually it is not worth the trouble. (Unless you are working on the firmware of a nuclea
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by haspok 3y ago
> > TDD itself is also overrated, as writing testable code is much more important than the actual tests. > Indeed, that is exactly the point of unit test and code coverage: proving that your code is well organized and testable thro
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by haspok 3y ago
How does this compare to Erlang? Or, to be precise, and Erlang VM running on a contemporary OS. I always had the feeling that the Erlang VM should have been implemented on the OS level from the start, and now it turns out some company actua
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by haspok 3y ago
A bit of a naive approach in my opinion - nobody will tell you the name of the client or even a vague salary range without a phone call - otherwise they would have included it in their first message. Also, nobody will read that long email.
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by haspok 3y ago
The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.
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by haspok 3y ago
Maybe there is no real need for supporting large CSV files? Typically large amounts of data will be stored in a database (in which case you can query with SQL), or you will be using large-data oriented file formats like parquet. Excel'
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by haspok 3y ago
Thanks for linking that post. I would summarize this tool more as a log viewer and editor, not necessarily a CSV editor. I mean, this: "What if you’re running a script that writes to a CSV file and you want to see it updated?" I h
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by haspok 3y ago
This article makes no sense to me, because right to repair is not necessarily about the customer repairing their own stuff, but somebody else other than the manufacturer repairing it - it can be an independent repair business or a shop with
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by haspok 3y ago
Why does this make any difference to you? Are you afraid that they secretly joined a terrorist organisation and were in a training camp in a Middle-Eastern country?
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by haspok 3y ago
What country? What continent even?
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by haspok 3y ago
Funnily enough, I think it is exactly the other way round: it is much more difficult to run a marathon while depending on carbohydrate (because your stores are limited and the amount you can digest per hour is also limited). It is much easi
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by haspok 3y ago
> Why do I want to work for your company? Because I need to eat to survive and you’re hiring. This is embodied in the contractor lifestyle: no corporate bullshit, no politics, and the "you give me money, I give you a limited slice o
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by haspok 3y ago
Solar city was saved with Tesla money in a situation it would have gone bankrupt had Musk not lied about the product (and that it was "ready"), without telling Tesla shareholders about what's going on. Which is typical Musk c
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by haspok 3y ago
Nice project, congrats! One thing struck me as a bit odd: > In particular, it does not support: generics What kind of support is there for generics in the JVM? Maybe I'm too naive to assume that due to type erasure on bytecode level
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by haspok 3y ago
> (...) and the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) are indicators of a carefully crafted 'love letter'. I call BS on this one. TDD is usually a sign of a struggling junior and results in the worst code quality possible.
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by haspok 3y ago
From the Wikipedia article you linked: > Lesson #5: Proportionality should be a guideline in war. > McNamara talks about the proportions of cities destroyed in Japan by the US before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, comparing the des
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by haspok 3y ago
Seems to be from the Windows 7 era - doubt it will work at all on later versions: https://superuser.com/questions/732605/how-to-prevent-the-se... ps. I stand corrected - probably something similar still works: h

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