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by larsrc 3y ago
The list in the article lists more code quality issues than user visible issues. And frankly, bugs and UI flakiness are everywhere.
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by larsrc 3y ago
"highly durable" /me laughs in digital archivist
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by larsrc 3y ago
Disclaimer: working for Google, a Big Tech company. While enshittification is certainly real, stock value or company size can't explain it all. Do startups produce shining examples of high-quality code? Not from what I've heard. I
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by larsrc 3y ago
My bad, not actually surprising. The word Hoover came from the name, didn't exist before.
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by larsrc 3y ago
I'm not going to argue against Knuth on that.
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by larsrc 3y ago
Hoover: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company
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by larsrc 3y ago
> I would like to see PCs ship with a 'jumper' connected to a physical key position. Enabling that jumper would E.G. allow BIOS updates, including changing the installed / enabled list of allowed signing authorities, inclu
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by larsrc 3y ago
That probably voids any kind of accident insurance. One house fire and you're homeless. One injury to another person and you're facing millions in bills.
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by larsrc 3y ago
We just got a new Mac as our fourteen year old iMac is not getting Chrome security updates any more. Otherwise runs fine. Kudos to Apple there.
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by larsrc 3y ago
I always try to research my appliance purchases, but longevity info is decidedly not at my fingertips. Had not considered appliance repairman forums, that's a nice idea (until it gets commonly known and then abused).
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by larsrc 3y ago
Pfft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
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by larsrc 3y ago
Many old formats were essentially just binary dumps of memory, or something not far removed. Documenting the formats was not a standard. Yes, I agree that there is a social responsibility, but having worked in digital archiving I can tell y
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by larsrc 3y ago
I happened to find out what the Danish laws for not getting paid on time are, as the company I was working for got into financial trouble. If you're not paid on time, you can send a letter setting a deadline for the payment - typically
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by larsrc 3y ago
It's still there, just used it to see if I had guessed right on Rachel's workings (I hadn't). Thanks for making a very useful tool!
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by larsrc 3y ago
Also known as pundits?
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by larsrc 3y ago
Well, duh! We hardly know the population of any country more that a few hundred years ago. Even now, some numbers are guesswork - how many Russians have died in the war in Ukraine? That's already an uncertainty of tens of thousands. Fo
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by larsrc 3y ago
Apart from the data processing problems already mentioned, there is also a possible bias towards locally-known artists. For Denmark, one of the top scorers is Niels Bjerre, who is fairly obscure in Denmark at large. But if he was well liked
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by larsrc 3y ago
Coming from the Socialist Republic of Denmark, this seems like a very silly question. Why should ownership be a problem for restaurants? If a restaurant is owned by an investment fund, the fund will try to get as much money out of it as pos
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by larsrc 3y ago
In Wikipedia, being an encyclopedic work, heavy linking is a good thing, and one I rely heavily on. In regular articles and blog posts, I definitely don't want that many.
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by larsrc 3y ago
Obviously the author relies on the automatic linking, so they don't have to bother doing the manual work.
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by larsrc 3y ago
There are also further savings in not having to figure put, publish, and update fare systems. And if the change results in people taking public transit instead of cars, there are knock-on effects in the forms of less road congestion and few
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by larsrc 3y ago
I like this experiment! I hope to see some further analysis on the results. I came to a similar conclusion years back about languages: it's impossible to translate a word perfectly because the border cases differ. Is it a cake or a bre
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by larsrc 3y ago
I worked on AspectJ during a summer internship at Xerox PARC i n 2000. Very interesting, but did not convince me that AOP was a good thing. They had a few good examples (logging was the big one), but added so many advanced features to suppo
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by larsrc 3y ago
And here I was waiting for it to turn out to be a phishing attempt due to clicking the link in the alert.
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by larsrc 3y ago
Same here, using a bullet journal took a lot of strain off my mind. Now I wonder if I could adapt this advice to it.
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by larsrc 3y ago
Meetup is pretty active around here, with many things for various interests. A good starting point. Me, I have found Belegarth and other variations of foam swordfighting to have great communities. If Habitat For Humanity were active in Germ
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by larsrc 3y ago
Had it been Google doing this, the Metaverse would have been declared dead on arrival, not after this long.
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by larsrc 3y ago
That is so Silicon Valley. 30 years as the longest span? There are businesses here in Munich that have been around longer than the US has existed. They are not "investable", though, they just go about doing good solid products tha
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by larsrc 3y ago
I still would like a better way to follow a line back through history. But what we have is already pretty good.
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by larsrc 3y ago
You'd be amazed at how much experienced programmers fret about local "optimisations" that are actually made irrelevant by the compiler and just serve to make the code harder to understand. And with incomprehensible code comes

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