jbellis

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   by jbellis 4y ago

   This is a very very bad description of why Buchanan sent troops to Utah. Utah really was effectively a theocracy and it really was refusing to enforce US law, especially wrt polygamy. Quoting from https://www.dialoguejournal.com
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   by jbellis 4y ago

   How does this reconcile with the other comments saying that the Oculus resolution isn't high enough?
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   by jbellis 4y ago

   Thanks! I see a lot of people complaining about Workspace, so this sounds like the way to go.
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   by jbellis 4y ago

   Hey, offtopic but I couldn't find another way to contact you. What did you end up doing for getting off of gmail?
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   by jbellis 4y ago

   My thirteen year old watches a lot of techno blade videos. I was struck watching this that TB's dad is only a few years older than I am. Very sobering.
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   by jbellis 5y ago

   I read the paper but came away feeling that their attempts to find something quantitative failed. The graphs didn't particularly correlate with the periods of decline and downfall and my guess is that if you showed the researchers the
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   by jbellis 5y ago

   Thanks, that sounds very cool. As you say, intellij basically hands this off to gradle or maven. Does Eclipse interpret those natively or do you have to reproduce your maven build in the Eclipse gui?
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   by jbellis 5y ago

   I'm very curious to hear what Eclipse does that IntelliJ does not match.
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   by jbellis 5y ago

   Good summary of the language-level changes here: https://piotrminkowski.com/2021/02/01/new-developer-friendly... ETA: actually if you haven't used it since 1.6 you'd want to find an article on Java
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I think the Streams designers did an amazing job. One of my favorite things about modern Java. Yes, it's more verbose than Python list comprehensions, but it's both higher-performance (parallelism that just works) and more produ
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Next-gen Threadripper Pro was also announced today: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-details-ryzen-threadri...
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I've seen a lot of authors I respect say how great PJ was, but satire tends to go stale. If I wanted to read him today for the first time without nostalgia-tinted glasses, what should I start with? I was not able to find such a list
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I also thought anyone could learn to code at at least a basic level, until I worked for a year as a computer science instructor, including for the big intro class for freshmen. Some people's brains just aren't wired for it. (And t
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    What distinction are you trying to make between "programming" (fast) and "editing code" (slow) ?
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I've been using resilio sync for years without corruption. If you're seeing corruption across half a dozen different systems, I wonder if you might have a hardware problem.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I've wanted a bluetooth Advantage for years, but going from the vestigal F keys to none at all is making this a tough decision.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    One of the graphs shows ZGC with almost 50% more overhead (in heap space) than G1, which could very well take some applications from "works fine" to "broken." So I can see why they'd leave it something to opt in to
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Here is the comparison I did with Cassandra workloads, comparing CMS with ZGC: https://jaxenter.com/apache-cassandra-java-174575.html . (TLDR, ZGC is a huge improvement.)
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Have they said anything about new Threadrippers?
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I'm also underwhelmed with the new Evernote clients. (IMO it's gotten worse on Android, too.) But I like Onenote even less. What are you looking at moving to?
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    How is the state of linux power saving (i.e., mobile battery life) in 2021? Last time I checked you could expect to get almost 2x the battery life on equivalent hardware with Windows or Mac OS.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Makes me happy to see the classic Sirlin article applied to business.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    16MB in 1987, good lord. I didn't even know that was possible on x86 at the time.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Yes, it's truly astounding. It's just one guy and he actually IS putting out journal articles in his day job, as well as teaching classes. Really phenomenal and my favorite Patreon subscription.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    wow, clearly I shouldn't have posted before coffee this morning! :)
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    This reporter reached out to Richard and got his comments on how well each chapter holds up today: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-v...
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    I don't see "pay once" as an option anywhere on that page.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    It's buried a bit, but it actually does kind of refute that. > Here is a 2016 paper [PDF] whose authors "examined 171 software projects conducted between 2006 and 2014," all of which used a methodology called the Team Soft
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Looks a lot like the algorithm in https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6314479 , modified to be more oil-paint-y.
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    by jbellis 5y ago

    Glass half full: that's some serious commitment to backwards compatibility.