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by qw 2y ago
Interesting I was not aware of that. I was told the reason was that in addition to a different format, the drive was more flexible so that it could adjust more dynamically. But it seems that you could store it more efficiently and get simil
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by qw 2y ago
> The whole world ran on 1.44mb There were small pockets of Amiga users that could store 1.76mb on the same floppy disk due to a different type of hardware
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by qw 2y ago
I accidentally hovered my mouse cursor over the images, and saw a detailed description. It may have been generated by AI, but it's a nice touch that was not expected
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by qw 2y ago
You are right. I got the two mixed up.
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by qw 2y ago
It's not all of Europe. The airports in Norway are operating as normal. One of the airlines reported booking issues on their website, but I haven't read about any other issues. Some international flights have been delayed or cance
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by qw 2y ago
The article is from 2011. Æthelstan is a central character in the TV show "Vikings" that came later, so perhaps his name is more recognized now
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by qw 2y ago
I agree that fuzzy matching etc. are usually not needed, but in my experience I need at least substring match. A log message may say "XYZ failed for FOO id 1234556789" and I want to be able to search logs for 123456789 to see all
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by qw 2y ago
If the method takes so many arguments that named parameters is necessary for readability, it is often a sign that the method is either too complex and should be split up, or that the method should accept a "config" record as a par
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by qw 2y ago
If money was not an issue, I'd probably try Delphi for both A and B, which can create native cross platform apps. If not, I'd try Lazarus for A and Kotlin compose for B A: Lazarus or Delphi (if money was not an issue) B: Kotlin co
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by qw 2y ago
One example of this is the lack of an include-tag that could fetch a fragment from the server (useful for headers/footers). Developers have wanted it for decades and have been forced to reproduce the functionality themselves using fram
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by qw 3y ago
Yahoo Messenger was available as a Windows program. If they had focused more on chat and video calls, we might be using it now instead of Slack and Teams
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by qw 3y ago
I recently found out that a Norwegian government agency open sourced a micro service for generating PDF I haven't used it, but it looks promising. You create templates based on html (Handlebars templates), which should make it easy to
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by qw 4y ago
It's a standard full sized external Mac keyboard for Norway bought directly from the Apple store. We share the keyboard with Denmark too I think. The Swedes and Finns have different keyboards, but I think they use a similar combinatio
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by qw 4y ago
They are ok to use I press ⌥ + 8 for square brackets and SHIFT + 8 for parentheses. It's probably not possible to find better alternatives for Mac keyboards that could be used for a language based on Lisp syntax. The Mac keyboard simpl
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by qw 4y ago
I agree. On my keyboard I need to press ⌥ + ⌘ + 7 It's actually made worse because { and } also need special combinations. To type \{X} I need to press (⌥ + ⌘ + 7) (SHIFT + ⌥ + 8) X (SHIFT + ⌥ + 9) I know this is something we ne
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by qw 4y ago
With "nntp//rss" you could get the best of both worlds. It contained both an NNTP server and an RSS aggregator, with a web interface for administration. It's no longer maintained, but it was a great concept
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by qw 4y ago
"Local history" in IntelliJ has saved me several times. The diff mode is very useful when working on a piece of code and suddenly your tests starts failing and you need to find out what changes you made in the last hour.
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by qw 4y ago
I think you are right. Many also got their first experience with Java in school or at their first job. Languages like Java/C# can seem intimidating at first.
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by qw 4y ago
Jetbrains has support for remote development environments. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks promising. https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/
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by qw 4y ago
Moat of the discussion is based on storing enough power to last the whole journey. What about providing floating supply stations where they could charge or exchange batteries?
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by qw 4y ago
There are still some fees involved of course, but they are much lower and typically a fixed price. One article I read says that BankAxept is cheaper than Visa for transactions over 30 NOK (~3 USD), but the information may be out of date.
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by qw 4y ago
When you pay by card in a Norwegian store, you probably use a card that supports BankAxept (since 1991). In that case the payment will be made through the banks, instead of through Visa. 3 of 4 payments go through BankAxept. Cards issued by
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by qw 4y ago
I think Spring Boot defaults to Logback these days.
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by qw 4y ago
> I've found them entertaining to watch. But Norwegians are master of slow-TV, so I guess that's why. They have good experts that manage to explain it to normal people. Interesting guests in the studio between moves. Interact w
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by qw 4y ago
I don't know if they are still in use, but there are pub/sub services that can be used for notifications. This was created to avoid unnecessary polling of RSS/Atom feeds: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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by qw 4y ago
Have you tried UltraEdit? I used it 10 years ago, so I don't know how well it has aged, but I preferred it over Notepad++ at the time. The reason why I don't use it now is because IntelliJ and vscode covers most of my need, and it
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by qw 4y ago
> The ban on psychic violence was not comprehensive, and included exemptions for images used in the furtherance of scientific, educational and artistic works. To survive, the advertisers had to learn to speak the language of art. I'
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by qw 4y ago
> you need to programmatically construct queries based on user input You still need to build the queries and have control of what parametres are in use. Why not build the parameters list dynamically as well?. There are some databases or
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by qw 4y ago
The article says it also works on dead human tissue. I don't know the significance of this, but it has been tested on something other than mice. I guess we can't make any conclusions on the adverse effects on a living human body,
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by qw 4y ago
I just opened IntelliJ and it has this feature too, where you can "Split right" or "Split down" and have multiple views of the same file. Thanks for letting me know this is something editors might support. For some reaso

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