rzwitserloot

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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
It's not of course. But 'screening' news casts for 'inappropriate' content is easy and it is easy to point fingers when it doesn't meet 'standards'. Whereas with wikipedia, unless a dedicated team of
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
The author started out making a library that does auto-complete based on SQLite table definitions, which is where the etymology of the 'lite' in 'CodeLite' comes from. Not 'lite' as in: "This IDE is lightw
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
This. Downfall affects CPUs released almost a decade ago. The argument of 'Intel caught a ton of these and downfall is the one that got away' doesn't add up. Surely Intel would find at least one issue during development of a
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
This product names crucial issues with how software development is currently monetized, and then offers an alternative that... solves absolutely none of these problems. Optional extras like 'downloads or other resources' are presu
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
> I really think medical science gets many things wrong and knows only a small piece of puzzle on how the human body works, and people with long covid are stuck in that knowledge gap. The vast majority of medical researchers agree with y
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
I (thought) I saw where the article was going before it got there, but, the notion that the 'optimization' actually __increases__ gzipped sizes surprised me (I thought the conclusion was going to drive at 'it makes no differe
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
To be clear: OpenJDK refers to different things. One of the things it refers to is an open source repository. (a git repo, to oversimplify things). It also refers to a 'packaging' - more on that later. OpenJDK (the repo) is source
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
I use CMD+TAB prodigiously, but only to switch to the previously open thing or the second-previously open thing. If I'm looking for a certain window I use the three-finger-swipe-up, or, if using the mouse, it has a few extra programmab
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by rzwitserloot 3y ago
Java loaded full unicode code point semantics into its standard `java.lang.String` class. These _are not guaranteed_ to have `O(1)` performance characteristics, because the underlying storage format is dynamically either a UTF-16-esque vari
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
As the Opening Arguments podcast (one of the two hosts is a lawyer) said: If as a lawyer you do what was asked - just parrot what an AI tells you to parrot, you're going to get sanctioned and possibly disbarred. As a lawyer you are res
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
In the US it gets a little crazy: Land is separated out into square plots in quite a few places, especially the later-colonized west, think 'chessboard'. Companies buy all the white squares, leaving the black squares as public lan
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
The 'plague' - the one that feels utterly needless, is deplorably bad quality crap. The key is that there are 2 completely different things going on and I think it's very bad that we keep conflating the 2: * Bad quality crap,
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Yes. If you get sued as a company for e.g. negligence, and it's pretty clear you're not going to win by attacking the point directly, the two go-to arguments are: 1. I did not know, and whilst I have a duty to know, in this case I
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
> Putin didn't have to invade! If he was truly worried about Russia's economy he could have (and should have) gone about instituting reforms/policies to encourage economic diversification and growth. Yes, absolutely. Russi
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
If I created the impression that this invasion was a smart thing, I didn't intend to do that. It's more: Russia is up the creek without a paddle and wanted to do something, on the bizarre but common logic of 'well, doing _som
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
> can't be caught off guard by China as EU was caught off guard by Russia. There's always a bigger fish. The last time nations were obsessed with autarky, we got WW1, and soon after, WW2. Most countries (i.e. every country not
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
> It's very obvious from enormous numbers of examples that current AI systems are capable of learning much more abstract features of human culture This doesn't seem to translate well to code. You can't copyright 'remb
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Microsoft released a product which gives you cancer the moment you use it. According to the opinions about what inclusion of open source code into your projects does, as per the ex-CEO of the company. That seems a bit of a far fetched concl
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Let's say my company has $400,000 in earnings left over. I could pay it to myself but then I have to pay income tax and all that jazz. So, instead I buy something fungible-ish that isn't on anybodys immediate radar as a 'secu
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
The blame is obviously on microsoft. They peddle the appstore as a much safer alternative, and they keep a bunch of the cash - it's a service, that is being sold as a service. Microsoft makes no effort to indicate that evidently the bu
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Microsoft clearly cares about their brand, and cares _a lot_ about making MS Edge a success. They're evidently willing to spend about 10 billion dollars on it or so at least (given that their relentless pushing it is risking the EU sla
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
In the end, having a 'more expressive' language isn't the key competitive advantage. At least, I can't recall when a company seems to have significantly outperformed a competitor because they used a 'fancier' p
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
This question breaks down across 3 completely different lines. But first, SQL is a descriptive language: You describe what you want, you don't describe how you want it. Instead, you rely on extremely complicated optimisers and a lot of
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
No, it's a distopian fucking horrorshow. You're right, of course. Humans are involved, it's not consistent, you're witnessing a state machine where 'opinion and carefulness of the human(s) that are part of this proc
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
From time to time you see the entire executive body of a large firm, or sometimes even _all_ executive bodies from all firms in a certain market segment, do something that makes you go: Hmm. Odd. Sure seems like they are oblivious morons fr
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Java is somewhat legendary for being rather overly wordy. But, if a new language starts off its list of 'why should you use this' with comparing how to write to the console (java: `System.out.println`, other languages: a simple `p
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Most comments here are in agreement that a ton of programming is doing complicated things, and the complicated part is not "which letters do I press on this keyboard to make code loop a few times". Hence, low-code tools don't
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
I don't know. I can plausibly read it (knowing nothing about the man) as self-deprecating. A realisation that he's bound by what the law says, even if _he_ finds it unjust. For example, if a jury finds a defendant guilty of some c
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
I can accept google search doing some trickery where it goes: Okay, I found nothing, or the few things I found seemed irrelevant, however, if I replace one of your words with something similar, or e.g. I take this one word you wrote and sti
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by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Google search has a feature to restrict your search to a specific period, such as 'only stuff that showed up in the last year'. I can foresee google semi-intelligently figuring out it's a news search and giving you recent stu

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