okeuro49

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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   I don't think the author is referring literally to people with mental illnesses. They're referring to the IRA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_...
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   I found paying to use the convenience to be much more common in Germany than in the UK. It was especially annoying at railway stations and shopping centres, both places which usually have free conveniences in the UK.
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   I was thinking about making the same comment. It's such an awful book.
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   > What would you do if HHVM didn't even exist? If you're referring to the Slack article, it is a bit out of date. PHP has since added stronger typing and better performance. I don't think using HHVM is very popular.
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   Rather than keep on restarting your Kotlin app, you should run it as a server, then you'd also benefit from JIT compilation. Then it would serve requests at the same speed, if not faster, as your Go app.
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   I like PHP, because it has a familiar C-like syntax and great tooling, like composer, and frameworks, like Symfony. The language has warts, but it's improving. I think its strength is its architecture, namely shared-nothing state and c
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   > doesn't suffer from slow startup times that plague JVM languages Java ecosystem now has AOT compilation.
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   The Google Chrome history deletion feature has always been dog slow. I did read an explanation that it does some complex operations, but you have to wonder if it is deliberately made complex to make people avoid deleting their history, as i
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   by okeuro49 3y ago

   > It's a repeat of what Elasticsearch did to their community. Not exactly the same as I understand. Amazon were providing Elasticsearch as a service with nothing in return. Fair enough. Although there did seem to be some issues abou
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    They can spam users with audio ads fine.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    I wish a Googler would sabotage YouTube making it a premium feature to be able to listen to YouTube with the screen turned off on Android. It's environmentally unfriendly, resulting in degraded lifetime of batteries and wasted electric
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > IME using Ansible for small-scale automation is no faster than just running the tasks manually, once development time is taken into account - you need tens of servers to make it worthwhile, by which point containers start to look more
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > Ansible solved a large problem (config management) before the kubernetes era, but containerization accomplishes the same goal for most applications before deployment. Depends on the size of your business. For small-medium size business
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    I see the JVM is getting new relevance when it comes to x86 and arm.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > Great idea. How? Small modular reactors https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > Aren’t the salaries higher as well? The killer is house and rental costs. If you want a flat in central London you'll be paying half (or more?) of your £68k salary on rent after tax. In Canary Wharf you might not even be able to a
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    It would be pretty unusual for Spring not to take advantage of virtual threads, given the potential for dramatic performance improvements under many workloads.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Is that the same growth that was contingent on lead in paint and CFCs in the atmosphere?
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    I don't think there are any "hits" it's just exhibitionism.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Can I have the growth please without chemists putting microplastic beads in my toothpaste.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    No, React is HTML in JS.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Off topic, but: > The right to erasure is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    The title should be and "dispute" it
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nb4z/the-oral-history-of-t...
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Same here. Best of both worlds. Pre-pandemic I usually worked in open offices, and always found them horrible. I found it insane the first job I had that companies preferred me to work in an open plan office, whereas I could do hobby coding
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > or if class instances were always invoked directly without magic. Then you can't provide a test seam. Dependency injection + mocking is a very powerful concept.
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    I worked with a contractor who implements an abstraction layer for a communication protocol: goes into a company, provides an integration for the protocol, then leaves. Similarly I've worked for someone who sets up a continuos integrat
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    > everyone wanted Slack because of integrations and apps (and they were just more familiar with it from using it at previous companies). > People have a strange emotional connection with Slack Seems to contradict: people don't ha
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Your blog post: > Got another programming job. Got fired for "performance." I think the reason wasn’t good, but I also have a hard time building a theory of mind, which means I can’t read code written by others. If you can&#x27
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    by okeuro49 3y ago

    Now not only downvoted, but also censored. Despite the issue being covered in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...