oriolid

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by oriolid 4y ago
You're so right about the sex scenes. Just before pandemic I saw Caligula. Back in the day it was notorious for the gratuitous sex and violence, and now it felt like yet another HBO show. I haven't had Netflix for a long time, sou
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I've understood that the army gives the not fit for service grade quite easily, because the people who are willing to go that far to avoid service could be serious trouble if they'd be forced to serve anyway. Back in the day many
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From Finnish perspective, it's just not availability of TVs but the content too. Until 90s we had just two channels that were mostly showing content from public broadcasting corporation (Yleisradio) with some segments of commercial pro
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For military test it works the other way too: If you score high you're more likely to end up in officer training or some specialist troops so you have to serve longer. Shorter service is a strong incentive to get a lower score on purpo
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So, so you have definite proof that nobody could figure out these problems on their own?
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Ask someone who has worked on a long-running project before CI and code reviews became common. If the choice is between slow and randomly failing CI and no CI or code review at all and mistakes getting noticed when the software is finally t
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> Gives me the feeling that the author really tries to misuse the workplace for lifestyle, meaning, socialising etc which they really are responsible for themselves in their free time. This gives me the feeling that you really believe th
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by oriolid 4y ago
Yes. The point is that software is not static. I work on mobile app that doesn't really have the scaling issue, but it's not that uncommon that a new OS update or phone model has new bugs that needs to be worked around or changes
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Awesome that Xfig still around. I used Xfig for the illustrations to my master's thesis back in the day when Inkscape was new, because it felt like Inkscape is trying to make precise alignment difficult on purpose. It still feels the s
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by oriolid 4y ago
Installed or download size? IDK about PS5, but many Steam games seem to do some decompressing during installation.
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by oriolid 4y ago
For the second paper, looks like the test task is quite small and the language used requires more work from developer than a modern static type system with type inference and generics. Still the difference between static and dynamic typed v
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On a quick search, for example https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-013-9289-1 . "This paper describes an experiment that tests whether static type systems improve the maintainability of software s
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> Otherwise, write your own equivalent. And be judged for wasting time reinventing a wheel?
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It was very productive for the person who wrote the library.
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Someone did the same thing with Facebook to a person I know. She finally went to Facebook, selected "forgot password", changed it and deleted the account. Problem solved.
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> If people hire you to "fix their Java app" and you then subsequently bury your head in the sand and insist that this cannot be fixed (or you will not fix it) To be honest, most of these cases have been what could be called ba
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Maybe an accident, but adjusted for inflation $2000 in 1983 USD corresponds to $5800 in current money. Electronics was expensive in the past.
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This sounds a lot like the people at SpaceX, RocketLab, etc are actually building rockets to entertain themselves.
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> That is an interesting approach, but I'm looking also for a statement from the Russian forces. Search for "Pravda in English" and you'll find it. It may seem a bit detached from reality and insulting to anyone'
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Now that you mentioned early 2000s, at the time I was shopping for a LCD display. At the time Eizo was the go-to brand for good screens, and they used Samsung panels. As a poor just graduated programmer I bought the Samsung with the same VA
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by oriolid 5y ago
I had the 1. The battery died after 2 years but it had already stopped receiving Android updates at that point. The 4a has been good so far but around here the 4a and 5a had really poor availability.
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On the other hand, Apple is very good at reverting their mistakes and pretending they never happened. Who remembers the single button mouse, hockey puck mouse, iPod dock connector, emojibar without physical esc key, USB-C as the only connec
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by oriolid 5y ago
If the feature is there, it's better hidden than others. Some time ago when I was shopping for a TV, it looked like every brand's demo mode hurt my eyes (Samsung was the worst but not only one). On Sony I was able to find the &quo
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by oriolid 5y ago
I recently ran into political science term "pockets of efficiency", which is used to explain why some part of a large corrupt organization (originally state, but I don't see why a giant corporation would be different) can wor
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If any apps work on the Samsung phone, it's because of the app developers' sweat, tears and cursing when they work around the phone-specific bugs that seem to be different for each model. Even Huawei and Xiaomi are better than tha
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I would say that RAII is enforced try-with-resources without the extra syntax and releasing memory when resources are released instead of having a garbage collector is a nice performance optimization. C# with "using var" is on the
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> People will think you're a wizard if you simply learn how to use Java's telemetry. It's an invaluable skill. People who want to hire me to fix their Java app think already think I am a wizard. The problem is, they stop b
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No. I am the poor programmer whose manager forced me to use a library their nephew's dog or someone wrote that does all of those. Except using finalize for closing pipes for subprocesses, that was by Java standard library itself. And k
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Java language design decisions affect JVM design, and JVM design affects other languages that run on it. Additionally, it seems that JVM languages justify their existence by FFI to Java, so the Java worldview leaks to other languages that w
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I'm not advocating C for anything except low-level embedded but even there I think we could do better. I'm not sure what would be the optimal language for writing web backends but I'm convinced that we could do better than Ja

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