rnikander

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   by rnikander 7y ago

   Four people saw it with their eyes. David Fravor has talked the most but there were two planes, each with two pilots.
2. 62.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   Did you really mean to say you swam 10,000 yards in one session? At the pace you mention (50yds = 1min) that would take over 3 hours.
3. 63.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, and I upgraded the SSD by myself. Has something changed? I see articles online that suggest it's still pretty easy to unscrew the cover and plug in a new SSD.
4. 64.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   I can go to BestBuy and get a 1TB SSD for $140. Is there any reason to pay $200 more for the MacBook Pros with bigger SSDs, rather that buying the drive separately?
5. 65.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   Good. Amazon has sold me garbage and dangerous products. Example: I bought a MacBook power adapter from them (not Apple branded). When I went back to review it the product page was gone. In 220 volt countries, it would cause all connected t
6. 66.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   Didn’t they already release new MacBook Pro models in May? Is there another release coming in September?
7. 67.▲
   by rnikander 7y ago

   As someone who just started using Kotlin again, I'm curious what you mean by "agenda". A typical company trying to make products for money, or something else?
8. 68.▲
   by rnikander 8y ago

   I wish they would add tail calls to the VM. It would really help functional programming. It's doable but apparently not considered a high priority.
9. 69.▲
   by rnikander 9y ago

   I have a harder time (at least as a beginner) with Russian than I do with Mandarin, because of the multiple cases and verb forms. In Mandarin I learn one word and can use it. In Russian that word has 10-20+ different forms. (This is about s
10. 70.▲
    by rnikander 9y ago

    Thanks! Those links give me a lot to explore. I'm trying the game... level 4 just taught me something.
11. 71.▲
    by rnikander 9y ago

    I tried to read Griffiths once, but I couldn't learn that way. I wish there were a path to learn quantum mechanics from a programmer's point of view, with "how to" knowledge rather than only the declarative language of m
12. 72.▲
    by rnikander 10y ago

    Has anyone used Racket for a long running application server? Last I remember it did not have native threads (ie, it could only use one core), and I don't know about it's reliability compared to something like the JVM.
13. 73.▲
    by rnikander 10y ago

    Maybe Google could spend a few billion dollars helping Oracle customers move to PostgreSQL.
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    by rnikander 10y ago

    I wonder how hard it is to defeat ASLR, once you find a buffer overrun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza...
15. 75.▲
    by rnikander 11y ago

    First they come for the tobacco, then the addictive candy that causes obesity, then the life-wasting and mind-altering games in the app stores ...
16. 76.▲
    by rnikander 13y ago

    My tests so far are encouraging. I'd like to know their intent with Scala. That plugin seemed to go nowhere for years, and ScalaIDE/Eclipse looked like it would be the only option. But ScalaIDE is still pretty buggy. If they are
17. 77.▲
    by rnikander 13y ago

    Just trying the Scala plugin now. I really want to leave Eclipse. I wonder if it will show me implicit conversions and parameters, and if will handle hairy stuff like macros. And does it use the presentation compiler like ScalaIDE/Ecl
18. 78.▲
    by rnikander 13y ago

    I don't know what you mean here. I'd be curious to see an example.
19. 79.▲
    by rnikander 13y ago

    > [...] the faltering and overly complex Scala I use it everyday for work, and it's an excellent language. I think it "falters" because it's more ambitious than anything else. Kotlin doesn't look as ambitious so