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by kpil 9y ago
Using Linux and GNU (and to some extent FreeBSD) was such a relief after a few years as an ordinary (non-root) Solaris user.
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by kpil 9y ago
Nah, shit happens. It's easy to stamp in the wrong account number.
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by kpil 9y ago
I can say the exact same about windows. It's confusing as hell, a mishmash of weird semi-trustable drivers and utilities with no overall plan. For a casual user it's impossible without google to figure out how to change simple set
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by kpil 9y ago
Except that ravens and other corvids seems to be self aware and are highly intelligent, it's correct that evolving things does not guarantee high intelligence. Insects and especially social insects like ants are good examples of very s
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by kpil 9y ago
To be fair I don't think that Oracle have been particularly bad to Java, except beeing Oracle. I doubt Google was ever an alternative. Realistically it was a fight for power over the enterprise customers between IBM and Oracle, with mo
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by kpil 9y ago
Was that earlier than Norton Commander?
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by kpil 9y ago
I think that audio recognition is an order of magnitude less complicated than fully autonomous driving. The world is fully contextless outside the road to an not-even-at-insect-level brain driving two tons of metal, and anything can happen.
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by kpil 9y ago
I once saw two marine lead-acid batteries explode and catch fire in the boat next to mine when the owner had dropped something big enough to short circuit and not disintegrate itself. Instead a fat copper cable exploded and then probably bo
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by kpil 9y ago
The whole idea with the (modern, democratic) state is that certain task are delegated and exclusive to the state. Revenge and killing people is for instance delegated to the judicial system, the police, and the military. Without it we woul
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by kpil 9y ago
22 or 26 hours of flying doesn't really make a difference. If someone reinvented supersonic flight, and gave it a 20.000 km range, then that would be absolutely fantastibulastic! That would be about 3x the range of Concord, so I guess
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by kpil 9y ago
I've changed flight in Singapore or Bangkok a few times after a really long flight. Had there been no security check it had been nice to take a walk and look at the too expensive wine in the taxfree shops, but the extra inconvenience o
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by kpil 9y ago
Swish allows to send using an arbitrary number (phone or arbitrarily assigned) rather than an actual account number. It's also credits the recipient immediately. That's possible since all the participating banks have deposited a
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by kpil 9y ago
... but modern js almost always have a build step. But yeah, the fair deal of time I have spent on fixing old web pages was more related to fixing the html and CSS and just minor problems related to js.
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by kpil 9y ago
I've done work for a fair number of banks and insurance companies, and my anecdotal impression is that there is always a java system siphoning data from the cobol systems... Both stay around for the same reason: backwards compatability
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by kpil 9y ago
I have worked with a lot of people that were technically competent in a narrow field, but surprisingly clueless in most aspects of life. It was sometimes a bit frustrating, since they could occasionally spend a lot of time on problems that
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by kpil 9y ago
Google doesn't do what?
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by kpil 9y ago
...but ffs! The reason is that Google is encouraging their employees to file patents, just as everybody else, since the patent system in regards to software patents is really just a pissing contest - they need patents to hit each other in t
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by kpil 9y ago
True. The wallpaper paste "ice creams" just get skin on the outside... It's surprising that people doesn't recognize quality. Eg Ben & Jerry's seems to be popular but I never found one that wasn't made of t
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by kpil 9y ago
I eat a Mediterranean breakfast, but I don't smoke so I just have a coffee ️ And a large glass of water. If I'm really low on energy I'll have a fruit. I've heard all life that breakfast is the most important meal, but i
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by kpil 9y ago
I really doubt that there is any transliteration into ASCI that's acceptable to European speakers. Eg A Ą Å Æ Ä are all different letters in most languages, not simply a pronunciation guide. I think most European languages use at least
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by kpil 9y ago
But that's just the tip of the iceberg that xml is a amateurish protocol language. I'm so glad that it's finally dying. Unfortunately it's replaced by something even more messed up
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by kpil 9y ago
The reason is that the string concatenation operation is doing a String.valueOf() on the argument, and that delegates to toString() that promises a human readable string that is relevant. For some reason someone decided to check for null in
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by kpil 9y ago
Honest question: Do you not enjoy food? What do you think the benefits are? I'm asking because I think I would be severely depressed on such a monotone diet. I love cooking and it gives me great joy to eat good food, or new kinds of fo
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by kpil 9y ago
I'd say it's a process error if the requirement specifications are locked at the point they reach a dev team. Preferably the requirements are explored by the team with the stake holders.
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by kpil 9y ago
I played with evolving algorithms playing some kind of robot war (in java) almost 20 years ago, and beside the fact that you had to be veeery patient since evolving a generation took 10 minutes at best, I realized that it's very hard t
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by kpil 9y ago
Railway signaling systems - the onboard kind - require separate software including operative system, and possibly also differentiated hardware. They do not run in lock step but if one of the machines detects a different output from it&#x27
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by kpil 9y ago
As far as I know, it gets colder on the ground when there is a clear night. Presumably the radiation is absorbed by the clouds and the heat stays in the atmosphere. I have absolutely no idea how it compares to reflective clouds during the d
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by kpil 9y ago
My experience is that the long term effects are more than 10x. I heard a joke once : Complicated problems requires complicated solutions. Unfortunately, all problems are a bit complicated if you are a bit thick. The gist is that complexity
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by kpil 9y ago
I think the headlines are a tradition rather than something else. Maybe there is also a slight hint of intellectualism or some would say elitism in the references to classical quotes and trivia that's generally only picked up in higher
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by kpil 9y ago
Bill Gates happend, solidifying the nerd image.

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