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by hyperman1 7mo ago
I've read somewhere how the English people industrialized because they had problems that could not be fixed by human or animal power. Mines became too deep, pumping too hard. The ancient greek knew about steam engines, but had no use
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by hyperman1 7mo ago
This article in Dutch gives a whole list of Trump USA ambassadors being trolls: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/02/23/amerikaanse-ambassad... Belgium, France, Poland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Can
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by hyperman1 7mo ago
I wonder if we look at it from a too narrow perspective. We use the C ABI because it's the only game in town. We should be aiming for a safe cross language ABI. I'd love to make Rust, C, PHP, Swift, Java and Python easily talk t
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by hyperman1 7mo ago
I know of 1 smaller Cobol company. They alone had 10 to 100 million lines, after a decennium of trying to move to Java. Source files containing 1 routine were easily a few KLoc. The number in the article is probably too low. The main prob
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Farmers have a saying: Eating the seed grain.
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Western European countries got dominant, then got arrogant, letting the USA eat their lunch. USA got dominant, got arrogant, letting China eat their lunch. China is indeed getting dominant. They will get arrogant one day. Meanwhile, Weste
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Franz Ferdinand proves we are this bonkers.
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Isn't this the standard EU way? First, they publish a statement, declaring what they want to see. 'Deal with addictive design', in this case. We've had 'Deal with the zillion different connectors on cell phones&#
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
No. I remember a phone app ( Whatsapp?) doggedly supporting every godforsaken phone, even the nokias with the zillion incompatible Java versions. A developer should go where the customers are. What does help is an industry accepted benchm
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Years ago, HN had an article 'Hacking my vagina'. It contains a line 'I was in the market for a $GADGET’. With that one line, the author managed to put my view of buying things upside down. Not a passive consumer. Not: I b
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
In my experience, the 70+ are bad at driving in ways that do lighter accidents. Typically: Drive 50 km/h everywhere, even if the road is 30 or 70. General weird behaviour. Swerving slowly left right left forever. They do cause a lo
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
AFAIK this story started in France, and has been going on for a while already in multiple countries. e.g. here is the recall in Flanders,Belgium,for 2026-01-05, so more than a month ago: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl&#x2
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Indeed, the post-Trump period will have a choice to make. Either they continue the chosen path and dont regain trust no matter the next president, or congress and court add some serious limitations to the presidential powers so future dems
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Story I've told here once. A director I worked under had climbed up from the bottom. Now one weekend, us 3 ITers were going to replace the building switches and fix and cleanup the network cabling and move all servers. Massive weeken
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
The number of times I heard this joke: Oh, nobody goes to FOSDEM anymore, it's way too crowded. But it's true. They have a serious overcrowding problem, with the queue outside longer than the number of seats, while the room is a
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
I've heard that PC-DOS 1 had no directory support, and got drive letters as a replacement. DOS 2 found this already limiting, and introduced dirs, but the drive letters already existed. The fact that devices like CON exist (virtually)
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
As a Linux GOG user, I hope they don't change too much. It works very well already.
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
I remember reading 'Raising Steam' with more and more alarm and dispair. I loved all the other books, and there was something so obviously going wrong mentally in this book. Dementia sucks. Strangely, 'The shepherds crown&#
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
I tend to have many tasks in parallel, as there are always multiple blocked on input from someone else. E.g. * 2-3 big programming tasks as focus for this week: I push one forward until I hit a wall, then task switch. * A backlog of about 5
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
In my experience, it's a superior approach for code you wrote yourself in a repeatable crash. You have the whole programming language at your disposal for building a condition corresponding to your bug, and any kind of data dumping. I
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
Something I learned on this site: We're bad at estimating the average duration, but reasonable for the mean duration. If you get 10 tasks of seemingly equal duration, 9 will go well and 1 will hit a reef of unexpected troubles and take
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by hyperman1 8mo ago
In Belgium, Maestro card was halted and my bank switched to MasterCard. Then I paid on some USA website and they managed to pull money from my account based on only the card number, without using the bank website's chip+pin. I was fl
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
If it is pure marketing, I wonder why docker couldn't play the same game and be better at it? E.g. for your most damning example: If docker published this story, blogged about it, made noice in places like HN, it is exactly what the pr
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
I always assumed this to be marketing, as reversing the formula has been easy since the '90s. I know someone with acces to a university lab, and he reverses and recreates popular tastes as a hobby. Also, in double blind taste tests,
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
I assume mrustc is capable of bootstrapping rust? https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
In my country, there are little parks where dogs do their business. If you walk with a dog in public places, you are expected to have means for cleanup with you. If your dog soils the road, you're expected to pick it up in a tiny pla
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
This is a great idea. Where I live, a biking organisation gave out yearly awards for the golden and silver spokes for the best bike adaptions, and the rusted spoke for the most dangerous road setup for bikes. The government rarely collecte
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
That's a really interesting read. I felt myself being closer to John about the small method part, but closer to UB for the TDD part, even if in both cases I was somewhere inbetween. At the very least, you convinced me to add John&#x27
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
I assume physical still works. LIDL closed their shop in our neighborhood, so we stopped going unless their paper ads were interesting. Then they decided with a lot of fanfare to go all-in on digital, and as they decided we should want th
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by hyperman1 9mo ago
You scare me. After life dishing out one of its lessens, I decided to get some fundamentals in order, and for me that includes 3 meals a day, with the family. Things have to get really disastrous to not get breakfast, and I don't thi

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