kpil

43 ms·

421.
by kpil 10y ago
Swing is themeable, as has always been. With some minimal effort, it's possible to do a nice looking GUI with fonts that not look like vomit, etc. If Sun and Oracle had spent more than 5 minutes on packaging applications - why not in j
422.
by kpil 10y ago
I agree with the first part! The second part can never happen since there is no process that can handle the complexity of the real world. There might be patterns that could be found generic enough, but not a deconstructed atlas of everythi
423.
by kpil 10y ago
I am not sure what constitutes 'vikingness', but the government, culture and economy was nothing like what I think comes to mind when thinking of vikings. The viking era ended 400 years before, because of Christianity and the rise
424.
by kpil 10y ago
I think that most people are hardwired from start to value ownership of things. You might have noticed that people are hoarding a lot of stuff, that are of little value to them. It's probably an intrinsic value to most people to ow
425.
by kpil 10y ago
Exactly. Maybe poor people will take the robocab from hell, with sick on the floor. Most people will not.
426.
by kpil 10y ago
Fjord or Fiord is more or less the same word as Firth. It was spelled Firþ in old English. Not sure what's going on with the 'o'. It turned into Fjärd in Swedish. At least on the east coast.
427.
by kpil 10y ago
Hvals ey => Whales isle. You may note that England have been invaded by the French, which caused them to forget how to spell.
428.
by kpil 10y ago
Isn't it a stretch to call them "Vikings?" They where clearly Norwegians. The Kalmar Union was in effect in 1450, and the kingdoms had been formed for long. There were at least two Universities in Scandinavia, etc.
429.
by kpil 10y ago
>The car is just a battery with wheels I think this sentence is what could make Tesla fail, as a car-company at least...
430.
by kpil 10y ago
I think that the monitors stayed more or less the same later pixel density for a very long time. Is only been gradually increasing very slowly for 20 years, until a few years ago. No point in spending time on logical pixels if it makes alm
431.
by kpil 10y ago
I kind of almost get why Samsung is doing this, as they have identified that they will be looking at decreased margins as a hardware-only player but... Is it really viable? What do Samsung offer that Google doesn't already do. Is it po
432.
by kpil 10y ago
If only someone could invent monitors that sticky notes actually stucks...
433.
by kpil 10y ago
Posh!
434.
by kpil 10y ago
I agree wholeheartedly! The default mouse settings are unusable, and it is impossible to get it good, but with a lot of fiddling it's almost possible to get rid of the weird acceleration. Sensible defaults for mouse: fixed scaling (dow
435.
by kpil 10y ago
I think I overused every single pattern, method, or framework I happened to learn until maybe after 15 years of coding. Probably still do to some extent. Nice read, and something to reflect upon for all young "fundamentalist". It
436.
by kpil 10y ago
If vagina dentata is an important concept in psychology, it reflects more of the sad state of psychology than anything else :-) Besides, I think the doctor was harboring repressed sexual urges of all kinds. It was not exactly taliban law at
437.
by kpil 10y ago
Rate limiting, and specifically leaky bucket algorithms that spaces out requests evenly, rather than servicing them as they happens to come in was shown to improve the overall performance in a few systems I worked with. Using a leaky bucket
438.
by kpil 10y ago
I really enjoyed this video with Dr Holly Krieger of Numberphile. https://youtu.be/NGMRB4O922I There are a few more videos related to PI and The Mandelbrot set, Julia, etc. All nice to watch. https://youtu.be&#x2
439.
by kpil 10y ago
I am not an expert but many seem to consider the increased handling risk related to the toxicity and activity of plutonium and other products, especially considering terrorism, and also the risk for weaponizing the enriched plutonium. But I
440.
by kpil 10y ago
Truth is that no one really knows. Deep storage is one alternative, but 100.000 years is a long commitment. Breed reactors might reduce that to 1000 years, but it's still a commitment.
441.
by kpil 10y ago
As for instance half of Sweden still have increased levels of caesium 137 since Chernobyl, and I have just finished a spaghetti bolognese made from a moose from that area, I am not really impressed by average values. The health effects have
442.
by kpil 10y ago
The total cost for storing and securing shit for 100.000 years is also 'externalized.' Both costs are more or less impossible to establish upfront.
443.
by kpil 10y ago
If they can deliver the cars, and at a reasonable price, you are probably spot on.
444.
by kpil 10y ago
I agree. Population density, building near shorelines, and a short collective memory probably clouds our analysis. I also think that tinkering with models and drawing conclusions about the real world is extra sensitive to confirmation bias.
445.
by kpil 10y ago
Uber is having a similar problem in Sweden. The taxi market is possibly too unregulated with two-three larger regional or national companies that focus on quality and compete on good prices, and a bunch of scammers that try to have identic
446.
by kpil 10y ago
I hate the popcorn stink. Watching a movie at home is so much nicer, as my sofa is so comfy and especially since they made the big screen pointless by ruining it with bad 3D.
447.
by kpil 10y ago
I used some coins today. It was probably the first time in a year I used cash... While I see the value of failsafe money (except it really isn't) I think the returns are diminishing...
448.
by kpil 10y ago
It has probably changed a little, and varies between schools and educational systems in different countries, but back in my days, some things I learned in university was pure anti-pattern. Especially the "coder culture" which was
449.
by kpil 10y ago
I was thinking this too, but do semnicent nerve cells actually exist, and so they function normally of they do?
450.
by kpil 10y ago
France is a bank crisis waiting to happen though...

More ›