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by prerok 2y ago
In my view, that's unfair to the early versions of Windows, at least up to Win7. Sure, they were charging a hefty sum for the OS but it was the best choice for a home and even office user. They used some dirty tactics on the business s
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by prerok 2y ago
In a general, philosophical sense it probably is non-falsifiable. But... where does it end? What if we took the measurement 5ns, 500ms, 5 seconds, 5 hours later, because of, you know, things. Billions of universes springing up every second
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by prerok 2y ago
That's how the AI seems to play it. :)
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by prerok 2y ago
Thanks! Will give it a try.
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by prerok 2y ago
Solved problem for some but not for these end consumer laptops?
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, exactly that. I was a Mac user, enforced by my employer at the time, and I did not quite like it but was ok with it. Would never pay for it, with the high price, though. I use (soon to be used) Windows on my home PC since Windows 95.
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by prerok 2y ago
In the process of migrating my 20+ years of data to Linux. Have been running it off a different disk for a year now. My biggest concern was gaming but Steam really makes it work seamlessly. Lutrix/GOG is not as seamless but works well
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by prerok 2y ago
The article does state that the referenced study may be seen as endorsement of this new shiny approach without clear analysis of the problem. What is true, in my experience, is that Agile is poorly implemented across the board. Sprints are
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by prerok 2y ago
In the Amazon series are proto-Hobbits, before they settled down. So, they had a different society from the ones we read about in the books. But, yeah, the time travelling pots and socks must be how it worked :) Kind of like Skynet in the f
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by prerok 2y ago
And I disagree with your disagreement :) Just some background first: one of the billion dollar mistakes is the null pointer which is a special value to be assigned to any type. It was inherent in the first high (today considered low) level
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by prerok 2y ago
They didn't get acquired but did hire one member of the team as per this post: https://cyan.com/2022/10/31/olttfor/
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by prerok 2y ago
I must say that this "billion dollar mistake" about nulls really baffles me. What's the mistake? We invent new languages almost daily and none of them have ever resolved the problem. I mean, when you start with a pointer, it&
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by prerok 2y ago
While the algorithm is interesting and I commend the authors for the algorithm, it should be noted that this is a guesstimate only. So, it's not really an efficient way to count distinct values but an efficient way to get an approximat
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by prerok 2y ago
Emm, no, we are not. In Europe, in general, we do lean towards social-aware capitalism, which is still a far cry from a socialist republic. I know, I lived in one.
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, The Stand from Stephen King comes to mind when you say that. There was a short series filmed, that I enjoyed, but definitely not strong.
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by prerok 2y ago
Yeah, I was also surprised: did you see the photo from Alaska by a National Geographic photographer. His bare feet were fully covered by mosquitos. Apparently, it's not the cold overall climate they need. They only need steady water an
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by prerok 2y ago
I was there 20 years back and did not notice them. I think you have to be heavy in the marshlands to notice.
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by prerok 2y ago
Geez, yes, we only have mosquitos and I didn't think there's a worse thing :/ Though I encountered them only in quantity in Milford Sound in New Zealand. I was in Scotland for three months (Edinburgh) and did not encounter th
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by prerok 2y ago
The problem is that automatic memory management means to some newcomers that you don't have to worry about it. Which is not true at all. These newcomers may have heard about it, may even understand it at some level, but it's not i
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by prerok 2y ago
The sky is falling! Seriously, though, I am not knowledgeable enough about these CMEs and how they compare to the past ones. Are there any good historical analyses?
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by prerok 2y ago
Yeah, in EE there is a joke that the devices run on smoke. Once it's released it won't run anymore :)
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by prerok 2y ago
> In Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Cem Kaner, James Bach, and Brett Pettichord provided the origin of the term: "The phrase smoke test comes from electronic hardware testing. You plug in a new board and turn on the power. If
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by prerok 2y ago
I would be interested to know what you think about translating word plays. One example. In LOTR there is a hobbit named Meriadoc, but his friends call him Merry, which is a shorthand for his name but also carries meaning. In one translation
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by prerok 2y ago
In Star Trek they had gravity plating, so that defined which way is down. Needless to say, we have no idea yet how that would even be possible :) So, for now, the question is whether we can still do it without such a solution.
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, I don't doubt that cardio fitness decreases the chance for morbidity and mortality, but in this study they only established correlation. I think that in science we have to be extra careful just what we are saying. And saying that
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by prerok 2y ago
What I find strange is that <> traditionally included system header files and "" included local files. They used different include paths, so you could have a header file in your sources with the same name as the system heade
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by prerok 2y ago
Me too :) It does open up opportunities for consulting in all the programming languages in use today (or 10-20 years ago), so we can expect to be in high demand right before retiring :)
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, left and right originated based on the parliament seating arrangement in France: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political... So, traditional left/right split may not make much sense anymo
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by prerok 2y ago
What I can't wrap my head around is how these types of people manage to land such prestigious positions. How is it possible that we see people failing upwards across companies everywhere? I mean, consider if you are looking for someone
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by prerok 2y ago
It's interesting that their site explicitly states it as open source. I think the problem is that they don't understand the term. Open source is a legal term, with many side meanings, while they seem to be referring only to the fa

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