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by lenkite 1y ago
Also shipping lots of fentayl. Here is an article from 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2019/08/23/fen...
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by lenkite 1y ago
> but most usage of sqlite is not as an application file format, This is exactly the OTHER way around. Most usages of SQLite are as an application file format. Firefox stores bookmarks, history, cookies in SQLite files in the profiles
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by lenkite 1y ago
> and I wasn’t clear on how to get to normal mode. You need to ditch your heretical friend if he has broken the Holy Commandment of <Esc> to get to Normal mode.
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by lenkite 1y ago
I hope there can be ways without JS to populate templates with data - autoloaded from sources. This would tremendously increase the number of JS free web-sites. Also wish the web-components standard did not mandate the use of JS. It should
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by lenkite 1y ago
US political news has infected the entire world now sadly, esp after Global Trump Tariffs. Its like he wanted to make sure the whole world talks about him...
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by lenkite 1y ago
I don't like the guy because he killed Windows Phone and the Native (Chakra-based) Edge browser - both of which were excellent products. Also it was towards the end of Ballmer's tenure that the Linux switch happened AFAIK - though
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by lenkite 1y ago
Something like Kafka should be part of the core operating system. Its API has been stable for years (decade+?) now.
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by lenkite 1y ago
It depends on which Indian state you were from. South Indian states like Travancore were allied with the British Empire and signed a treaty that brought it under British influence. Travancore was facing extinction from Islamic conquerors -
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by lenkite 1y ago
Rust doesn't have computed goto (gcc/clang extension heavily used in interpreters like CPython and LuaJIT for direct threading). You’re forced into function-call or jump-table dispatch, which tends to be slower.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Timing and concurrency issues are actually easier to discover in a debugger than using printf logging.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Apple Support directing folks to curl's support page is most definitely a shining symbol of today's dystopian tech.
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by lenkite 1y ago
I think you can safely double that to plus or minus 20 years for what "little" we can control.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Yeah, well C++ built a faulty bridge and screwed the pooch for future language designers who now all say "bridges are harmful".
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by lenkite 1y ago
I find massive blobs of XML easier to grok than massive blobs of JSON, esp well-designed XML with namespaces and use of attributes. XML is self documenting. JSON is just a homogeneous unnamed bunch of braces and key-val pairs that you loose
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by lenkite 1y ago
This architecture is also wonderful for diagnosis and investigation. You have effectively broken down the problem into CLI tools that can be independently tested and invoked with problematic requests.
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by lenkite 1y ago
In my last org, we just separated "flaky" system tests into its own independent suite. They were still valuable to run - just not all the time.
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by lenkite 1y ago
These are "system tests" at your $DAY_JOB, not "integration tests".
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by lenkite 1y ago
If he didn't help get the orange fella elected, he would be in jail. So still a win for him.
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by lenkite 1y ago
People were writing to UWP. There were hundreds of UWP apps that got cancelled and abandoned when Microsoft ditched their Windows Phone once Nadella got in. He kill Windows Phone, he killed native Edge (Chakra JS) and a lot of other stuff
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by lenkite 1y ago
He was under some imaginary assumption that Trump cared about the national deficit because of his campaign speeches. Once he realized that Trump really didn't care two hoots about it and only planned to increase it even more he had a l
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by lenkite 1y ago
China's national unemployment rate was reported at 5.0% in June 2025 and 5.1% in July 2025. Unemployment rate for youth (16- to 24-year-olds) in China ticked up to 17.8% in July . The US youth unemployment rate in the U.S. was 10.8 per
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by lenkite 1y ago
> Neither Go, Java or C++ would catch that concurrency bug. That is incorrect. Java enforces that a monitor lock (or Lock) must be released by the same thread that acquired it. Attempting to unlock from a different thread throws IllegalM
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by lenkite 1y ago
Seems like the Indian High Court has decided to kneel to western land lords.
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by lenkite 1y ago
I believe this depends on the OEM.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Github's Primer design system was wonderful when it was a pure CSS system that could be used with any framework. Sadly, M$ killed that and made the new Primer design system shitty-React consumption only.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Even my Grandmom knows Windows split screen shortcuts. Please don't give artificial margins to limit line length - they just annoy people.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Nowadays static typing is the rage for maintainability and sustainability. Types also assist performance. https://dthompson.us/posts/optimizing-guile-scheme.html
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by lenkite 1y ago
Flat != Accessible && Ergonomic. Too much eye-squinting needed and everyone makes mistakes with a new flat UI.
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by lenkite 1y ago
Not really sure whether it makes a difference, but the Parallel VM is running Windows Pro, while the Windows OS on ASUS Gaming Laptop is running Windows Home.

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