lokedhs

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by lokedhs 5y ago
I don't know what your native language is, could it be Swedish? In Sweden, media consistently write Iphone, because it's a name, and names start with upper case. As you mentioned, what the marketing department says about the case
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Coroutines in Kotlin can be convenient, but they are overall about 20% slower than non-suspending code. I didn't spend too much time investigating the cause, but I believe it's because of the extra object that is passed along in a
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Very nice chart. It really helps when understanding IPA. I was trying to find the Swedish "u" sound. According to the Swedish Wikipedia page on the sound, it says it's written as "u" in IPA, but it doesn't soun
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by lokedhs 5y ago
I haven't done Android development in years, but I do use IntelliJ Idea Ultimate edition for a bunch of Java and Kotlin stuff. If I want to do Android stuff, is there any reason to use Android Studio in favour of IDEA? It seems AS is b
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Spot on. Firing someone for a mistake is incredibly short-sighted. After the mistake has been rectified, you can be sure there is going to be one employee in the organisation who will never ever let that problem happen again. Why do you wan
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Spain is forcing phone makers to give you an extra year of warranty(xda-developers.com)
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by lokedhs 5y ago
We can often determine if a program halts or not. The halting problem is discussing solving it in the general case. For example, you can easily prove that your hello world program will halt. In fact, any program which does not have any flow
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by lokedhs 6y ago
The one great thing that came out of UML was sequence diagrams. I don't recall sequence diagrams being a thing before UML, but they are actually very useful for describing interaction flows. What UML did was to provide software enginee
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by lokedhs 6y ago
You are right. My thinking behind the post was to suggest that the "it's expensive" argument doesn't really matter, since all cars are so cheap in the US. This is of course not a great line of reasoning, since people loo
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by lokedhs 6y ago
The only thing taxis reduce is the need for parking. Everything else results in more traffic compared to individual driving. If I take my own car to work, the car is only on the road between my house and my office. If I take a taxi, at the
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by lokedhs 6y ago
In Singapore they had massive outbreaks in foreign workers dormitories one year ago. Now they have apparently seen new cases among the previously infected, suggesting that immunity starts to wear off after about a year. I'd definitely
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I'm always so amused when I see people complaining about certain cars being too expensive. The cheapest Tesla Model 3 costs 160k SGD here, which is about 120k USD. And it gets more expensive from there. Not to mention the fact that you
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by lokedhs 6y ago
> Examples of popular apps that can write to the host filesystem (and remember kids, the ability to write to $HOME always means full account takeover, followed shortly by root access if your account can sudo): I actually use exactly zero
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by lokedhs 6y ago
There are no distributions that do security testing of all packages. And even if they did, it wouldn't be a guarantee that all software are actually free of security bugs. The solution is to simply not trust the software at all. This i
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I trust the distribution, I have to because they are they ones delivering the kernel. But I absolutely do not trust any of the software I install from the distribution's repositories. The packager doesn't analyse the code for all
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by lokedhs 6y ago
> Most flathub apps have "access to all your information" one way or another. I went thought some of the Flatpak applications I commonly use, and none of them had access to all my information. I'm not going to go through a
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Flatpak is the only practical approach to achieve some degree of isolation on Linux today, unless you are willing to go with Qubes OS. And yes, I know Flatpak has some way to go before it actually reaches that goal, but I don't see any
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I've used the Matrix bridge to IRC a lot, and no one has complained. Of course, one has to remember to never use edit messages, or use the reply feature. Ideally, these functions should not be available when connected to an IRC channel
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by lokedhs 6y ago
That is true, but the benefits of UTF-32 is minor compared to UTF-8, and might not be worth the cost. And I say that as someone who is developing a language which only has UTF-32 support. The problem is that even with UTF-32, doing things l
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I think Qubes OS is a great example. It's a system that besides the security benefits also gives me the control to remove jank from other software (usually software that thinks it should take control of my computer to do what it feels
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by lokedhs 6y ago
What about a 1, 7, 10? That seems to be as though it would be even more difficult?
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Probably a lot. Gnu COBOL has some annoying limitations, such as no easy to use network API, nor do they make it easy to read-write files whose names are not declared at compile time.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I'm definitely no fan of mysql. I have, like many others, been scarred by its misfeatures. However, not having DDL in transactions isn't really a barrier for being useful. Oracle doesn't have transactional DDL either, and say
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by lokedhs 6y ago
They may have tried already. It turns out that financial software is really complicated. The basic functionality is never too complicated, but most of these systems are edge cases that needs to be treated specially. Also, a lot of behaviour
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I used to work for a regional distributor for SCO, and my first Unix related job was to support SCO products. It was a nice product at a time when Linux was just starting to become capable of running server workloads. Even though I had long
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Except that its numbers are underspecified and cannot be used safely outside of a certain range. The spec explicitly states that the precision of numbers is not defined, meaning that N and N+1 may be the same number, and its behaviour would
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by lokedhs 6y ago
It doesn't copy all the good things about the Unix shell though. The reason people are comfortable with the POSIX shell is because you use the same syntax for typing commands manually as you do for scripts. But, you're going to ha
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I think the argument is that the buyer wouldn't know whether you still have a copy of the key or not. The idea is that the blockchain is used to ensure you cannot backdate a transaction. Mind you, I'm not a blockchain fan, and I b
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I've done the same, with the only difference being that I bought the stuff a few years back. I never enabled cloud management nor remote access though so I think I'm OK for now. Not buying any more hardware from them though, unles
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Here in Singapore VW has as good reputation as it's always had. I think the reputation problem is limited to the US.

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