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by kpil 1y ago
I once worked with translating an application to polish, and found out we had to have separate placeholders for "name" for persons (nazwisko) and for things (nazwa). Which is a simple example why you need context. All UI framework
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by kpil 1y ago
I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.) One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing. But extrapolating the trends, yes Islam will proba
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by kpil 1y ago
This is like a really really fast VIC 20!
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by kpil 1y ago
This is underrated and applies to almost all roles involved in product development. > the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models.
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by kpil 1y ago
Still is. The standard tools were always sort of unergonomic on all of AIX, Sun/Solaris, DEC/Alpha, SCO, and *BSD. I don't know but it seems people (or at least old geezers) install GNU on top of Macs these days.
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by kpil 1y ago
Crossed fingers, in my experience.
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by kpil 1y ago
I think you got most details from the others, but insurance is two basically two different things: Life Insurance is mostly a savings product, and the insurance part protects you if you live too long. Property and casualty insurance protect
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by kpil 1y ago
I got unreasonably triggered by this.
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by kpil 1y ago
Extending flaps for approach makes a rather distinct woosh going from high to low pitch over a few seconds.
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by kpil 2y ago
This page was interresting and demonstrates some problems with CIELabls hue perception: https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique....
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by kpil 2y ago
No not really. You need an explosion or energetic impact to trigger it, and potentially a fire too. But it might become unstable by heat and more so if it's contaminated by oil. One early industrial disaster and the biggest explosion o
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by kpil 3y ago
Don't miss the - "how it's made": https://simonowen.com/articles/augmentinel/
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by kpil 3y ago
Nice. I enjoyed this: https://simonowen.com/spectrum/augmentinel/ Maybe not as nice visuals, but it emulates the Original Spectrum port but transplants it in a VR capable renderer and adds David Whittakers Amiga s
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by kpil 8y ago
Please delete my account.
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by kpil 8y ago
This is even less complicated than an adaptive cruise control system. If you point it to in the general direction of a mountain, it very much depends on luck if the descent is possible or not.
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by kpil 8y ago
That's bullshit. What could we do? No political party were seriously against it, and it's not a huge question to form a new political party around. They did a 'trial run' after the investment which I guess was to make it
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by kpil 8y ago
They don't move that fast, so saving space is more important. Not perhaps at the stations but at rail yards and transfers that might be underground.
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by kpil 8y ago
The procedure is to slam the emergency brake, then run as hell, as far back as you can get.
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by kpil 8y ago
There's no limit that I know of.
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by kpil 8y ago
Russian trolls and their "useful idiots" agree. That's about it.
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by kpil 8y ago
Saudi Arabia is the ISIS that made it so I don't see your point? The beheaded even less so.
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by kpil 8y ago
The futures market comes from the fact that some people are trading actual beans by growing, selling, shipping, buying, or cooking them. They are typically willing to pay for price insurance to reduce their financial risk. (that could close
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by kpil 8y ago
Hm... echo "My message" | mail -s subject user@mail.com
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by kpil 8y ago
I would argue that perhaps with the exception of regex, the examples you mentioned are excellent ideas that are awsome despite their suboptimal DSLs, and they would have been even better if their DSLs had been implemented as extensions in a
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by kpil 8y ago
I disagree that DSLs are the right choice unless it's an extension to the suitably flexible implementation language itself. Actually, the perceived need for "dumb" DSLs is sprung from the same misconceptions as mentioned in t
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by kpil 8y ago
Why not simply unlock the hatch when the device is powered down using a simple electromechanical device like every laptop cdrom ever.
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by kpil 8y ago
Money isn't everything. If you can afford it spend as much time as you can with your kids if you have the chance. If you are a mere 'Salaryman' there's no way your loss of income is worth more than the experience and rel
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by kpil 8y ago
But what is IBM truly good at that can be applied at Redhat? A lethal legal department? Super efficient HR processes? Office supplies management? I doubt something in engineering and sales? Or perhaps sales is the closest answer.
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by kpil 8y ago
I think in most cases the synergies are thinning out rather fast, and the only positive effect that truly grow is financial muscles. If you do not depend on aggressive funding I suspect growing inefficiencies and complexities are the major
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by kpil 8y ago
Given a huge codebase: Spring. Blue-coloured j2ee containers. Old non-mavenized applications found as source jars, etc.

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