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by ivanhoe 4y ago
It's also important not to forget that West Germany wasn't immune to the censorship either, and bans, beside what realistically was a Soviet propaganda, also included some really good documentaries and artwork even by today's
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
I have no experience with Free Pascal, but its predecessor Delphi was a lot safer (and easier) to use because of dynamic strings and arrays. You could use it almost without touching pointers ever (Win apis were the main reason for using poi
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Also databases (yup, MySQL I'm looking at you) got better at handling subqueries quickly, which makes the job of ORMs a lot easier.
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Back in the days of Mysql w/ MyISAM engine it was sometimes way faster on big data-sets and underpowered DB servers to do the query exactly this way. Even with all the correct indices in place the JOINs (especially if more than one tab
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> is only an issue if there are actual vitamin deficiencies that matter. It's an issue because it's wasteful, you're loosing the good stuff in the process. Throwing half of your meal into garbage every time is only an issu
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Not just heating, even simple cutting/mincing of the food promotes oxidation that can significantly influence the composition of food. On the other hand some processing like canning of fresh food can actually help preserve the good stu
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On the other hand mainstream frameworks have a big community behind them, while the custom framework's support is only you - thus making it: 1) far more likely that you have undiscovered vulnerabilities in it, 2) actually a lot more wo
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> and caused the deaths of tens of millions 40-50 million in the war itself to be precise, but that doesn't account for all the millions of people who died in years directly after the war as a consequence of hunger, diseases, reveng
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Not relevant just to Asian faiths, as it was a symbol widely used in many Indo-European cultures, particularly Slavic and Roman(and Germanic, but that perhaps hits too close to the problem). You still can see it as ornament carved into wood
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
That's a privilege of skilled labour unfortunately. With unskilled, easily replaceable work force managers often simply aim to maximally exploit them, and if (when) they burn out they simply hire the next one.
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But that doesn't explain the incentive for Amazon to hire anyone from Costa Rica at 3x higher salary? If education/skills are the same why not just hire more Indians (or ppl from some other, cheaper Latin America country) and save
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> But his understanding of the context and emotional impact is nothing compared to us on the outside. Well, similar defense could be used for psychopaths as well, they too have a condition that prevents them from seeing or understanding
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What you're saying suggests that those old codecs were superior to new ones (offering better quality at smaller sizes), which is not a case for most of formats. Also the "size bloat" with data from say 40 years ago means litt
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
> If the current state of affairs at Twitter keeps up, it'll probably be a slow descent into chaos. It's not like Twitter was bug free before. How many times it annoyingly refreshed the timeline while I was reading something, o
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De gustibus non est disputandum... also no Idared and Jonaprince
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true, but we could always print encoded digital data to that papyrus and call it a data-storage method :)
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It's 100% true for a book forgotten on your attic, but if discussing organized effort to preserve information I argue it's an illusion - the libraries have to be actively looked after too. There is a fire protection, regular derat
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Is Mohenjo-daro really something that most of people never heard of? I admittedly forgot most of the details about it, but I remember it being mentioned in my history classes in the primary school (in 80s Yugoslavia)...
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That's what backups and RAID arrays are for. We certainly know by now how to build a redundancy that will guaranty the data safety. For most of the libraries it's really a budget problem - they've been given huge expensive bu
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Literally ANY digital format can be converted to a modern version fully automatically once the need arises. You need to solve the problem once, build a tool, and from that moment on you can convert as many files as you need with a single cl
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
The huge difference is that digital data doesn't ever "wear out" - it might get lost or it might be in format that you don't know how to open on your current device - but it will never become partially unreadable or frag
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
My understanding of the article is that the author actually got quite a lot of benefits from having that OSS project and github stars. There's a huge difference if you're trying to promote a completely new software that no one eve
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
Take all these stories with a grain of salt because one of the key elements for the things being better (at least for for me) 30 years ago is realistically the fact that I had 30 years less back then. So everything was new to me, I had a lo
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by ivanhoe 4y ago
What happens if/when Mastodon gets mainstream and gets plagued by all the same problems as twitter? It being the distributed platform there's a very little options to fight fake news, hate speech, bots, etc. on Internet-wide level
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Complex numbers are extensively used in electronics so I never had a feeling of it as something purely synthetic, but most of n-dimensional math was for me beyond my capabilities to understand it any level higher then treating at as a purel
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> and I bet the human experience is a big part of their motivation. Restaurant business is one of the rare where "free market" is really fully functional, and market will quickly self-regulate and award the good ideas, and puni
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Back in the day it was much simpler - what ever symptoms you tried googling you'd inevitably end up with a self-diagnose of cancer every time.
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These are all legit concerns, and on paid projects you really don't want to reinvent the wheel as long as the existing wheels do the job. You'll save time/money, it will be easier to maintain and safer, and all those other pr
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This is perhaps doable in a very early stages where the team is just a few people and there's little tickets and customers, and perhaps the customers are also tech ppl/early adopters, so they'll appreciate talking to someone
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Yes, exactly, the same story is with the Damascus steel. We now know that the secret to it, beside the cool look, was that it contained many carbon nanotubes in steel that greatly improved the performance of the blade. That was achieved by

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