mrighele

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by mrighele 7y ago
Is that such a big issue though ? The default install of my dev machine (Ubuntu) installed two different versions of python and perl5, neither of which I use. Other languages have been installed indirectly because I installed one tool or an
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by mrighele 7y ago
> All around him, not a single voice could argue strongly enough about the Google issue that later would become the *-as-a-service loophole and cloud issue. Not an expert in the matter, but isn't this loophole exactly what the AGPL
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by mrighele 7y ago
A long shot, but if I think about an arcade game with a barbarian I cannot think about anything but Rastan (although the graphics was not necessarily basic for the time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBs3X2LVAc
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by mrighele 7y ago
> The newest keyboard is a piece of sht - it feels like no physical feedback at all. Maybe it was the plan all along, to get people used to a virtual keyboard once they get rid of the physical one (yes, I'm joking).
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by mrighele 7y ago
What are the reasons to prefer Bazel to Maven or Gradle foe Java? I know it is supposed to be faster but on the other side last time i checked it it was much more complex and time consuming (expecially compared to Maven). Are there other go
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by mrighele 7y ago
The UI could be improved on mobile. The links are quite close one to each other and I regularly tap the wrong one, especially when I want to hide a tree of comments or a topic on the main page.
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by mrighele 7y ago
Annotations in general do work for local variables, although this is specified on a per-annotation basis. If I remember correctly, for example, the @NotNull annotation in javax.validation.constraints cannot be used for a local variable, but
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by mrighele 7y ago
You can try checkerframework [1], which uses annotations to perform extra typechecking at compile time, including nullable/not-nullable checks. Works properly altough it has a few issues: the biggest is that support is still stuck at
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by mrighele 7y ago
> Valve’s defence hinged on the argument that Steam sells game licenses – subscriptions – to games, not the games themselves. IANAL but buying a license seems different to me than buying a subscription, and if you ask most Steam users th
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by mrighele 7y ago
> But what's the appeal in x86 without expansion ports? You may have easier time trying to run some alternative OS such as one of the BSDs, Haiku, ReactOS, or even Windows.
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by mrighele 7y ago
How is the performance compared to the ARM processors in similar boards (RPI et al.) ?
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by mrighele 7y ago
But a unix system has a module system: the filesystem and its folders. The fact that there are a number of "functions" that are in the same "default namespace" is just a convenience: if needed two binaries with the same
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by mrighele 7y ago
> I'm in Venice right now and the difference between 1pm when it's jam packed with tourists and a total hellhole on earth, and a nice 7am run when it's empty and gorgeous ... yeah it does not even begin to compare. In the
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by mrighele 7y ago
The practical solution (which is what i do) is to flag a submission if the article cannot be read. The result will be that the article will be flagged (unless enough HNers pay for that website's subscription so it is ok for it to be sh
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by mrighele 7y ago
I am waiting for the app (or the browser plugin) that let me post only if I am sober enough. "Don't and post".
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by mrighele 7y ago
While in theory the relationship is arbitrary (in the end we just need the letter "0" and the letter "1") I think that there are practical reasons, such a conciseness (I don't want most of my sounds to use two or mo
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by mrighele 7y ago
But not all alphabets are equally good for a specific language, so inventing an alphabet may have its merits. Keep in mind that even among the languages using Roman alphabet there are variations, so that the english alphabet is different fr
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by mrighele 7y ago
> well in most languages you can wrap sync into async. so it's not "hard" It is not easy to do in a cirrect and performant way. "async" doesn't mean "code that runs in another thread". You can hav
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by mrighele 7y ago
Italy had no interest to destabilize Libya, in fact it had a good relationship with Gaddafi. It intervened only after US and France started, as a sort of damage control, since France was set to replace the Italian-friendly government with a
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by mrighele 7y ago
I would add also WoW to the list. I had friends that after a while would connect more to socialize than to play. And probably the equivalent in the 90s were MUDs, although they were text only.
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by mrighele 7y ago
In the article they mention that they moved money to countries that are in a EU blacklist so for now i am siding with tax authorities
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by mrighele 7y ago
I don't think uppercase/lowercase is an issue and in fact it is something that already happens. For example in most languages lowercase "i" has the letter "I" as uppercase version, but not in Turkish, where it
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by mrighele 7y ago
I give for granted that those data will be shared with US military. In any case the company is free to collect data from its own planes, not those that it already sold
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by mrighele 7y ago
> Yea, this comment from Zuckerburg seems strange to me or maybe I completely misread how people are currently viewing Facebook as a company? Maybe he is not talking about users but about investors ?
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by mrighele 7y ago
> What does a Cortex have to do with the Arduino? Note that they don't say THE Arduino but AN Arduino. What you're thinking about is probably the Arduino Uno which is the original model. These days Arduino is a platform made up
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by mrighele 7y ago
> But can I then add and remove items from an immutable object to create new objects? Yes, although the new object is not frozen by default. Adding is quite straight forward, expecially with the spread syntax let x = { a: 1, b: 2 }
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by mrighele 7y ago
> 0 = at most once = server fires and forgets — messages may be lost or duplicated Isn't "at most once" a misnomer ? By definition if it is at most once it is not duplicated.
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by mrighele 7y ago
Scale also matters. According to your link about one thousand people were sent to Guantanamo. Right now in the region of Xinjiang about 1 million Uyghurs are being held in re-education camps (about 10% of the Uyghur population of the region
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by mrighele 7y ago
> It's pretty much in line with the status quo in Western China It's not bad because it's exceptional, it's bad because it inerhently is. If else the fact that it is normal makes it even worse
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by mrighele 7y ago
It's magic because some frameworks that are used a lot offer quite a bit of functionality, terrible documentation and awful diagnostics, so when things go wrong your best recourse is randomly tweak snippets posted on stackoverflow by o

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