stefs

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by stefs 5y ago
inexperienced developers are unable - or just rarely - ask themselves the question: "is the current performance in the right ballpark of where it should be?" here it's obvious - muratori took one look at that thing and just k
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by stefs 5y ago
e.g. the case of the man named "Null" who's unable to access a lot of online services.
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by stefs 5y ago
i don't understand why o would escape if it's not inlined public int conditionalEscape(boolean cond1) { otherMethod(cond1); MyPair o = new MyPair(/*p1=*/1, /*p2=*/2); return o.g
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by stefs 5y ago
where do you get the idea that all men were gay? and no, being gay is not and never was a choice. one can have sex with people (of the same sex) even when they're not attracted to them but that doesn't make them gay. counterpoint:
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by stefs 5y ago
It seems they haven't heard about Guybrush Threepwood, who could hold his breath for 10 minutes.
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by stefs 5y ago
while i agree with you on some parts (ternary operators for example), i love the autoformatters for two reasons: 1. it makes it just plain easier to read others code. it's hard enough to have to grasp the logic behind everything, if th
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by stefs 5y ago
urban dead, a humans vs. zombies mmo browser game has not a single of the stated features and was one of the most emergent story generation games i've ever seen, pushed by the players in external wikis. i think it's almost 15 year
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by stefs 5y ago
bicycling and public transit complement each other (almost) perfectly. i don't see why you're advocating for "dedicated public transport lanes instead of bike lanes" as opposed to "dedicated public transport lanes a
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by stefs 5y ago
i'm speaking from a european city (400k inhabitants) perspective, where everything is rather crowded compared to the american suburb commute. > A majority of the population cannot use bicycles for long trips well, bicycling _in the
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by stefs 5y ago
tardigrades might have some very cool properties, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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by stefs 5y ago
> A multi-day race where riders can disregard stages will turn into a nightmarish competition of inhuman endurance. i think the most famous example of this is the RAAM - the race across america ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by stefs 5y ago
there are athletes who might suffer from abnormal genetic mutations that might give them an advantage. the most popular example might be usain bolt who is, technically, too tall - but in combination with his abnormal muscularity ... then th
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by stefs 5y ago
"we could" means "we don't". license plates for cyclist is a populist love child, but in practice almost the license plates on cars might be of use to me as a cyclist are if they actually run me down and there are w
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by stefs 5y ago
this comment on reddit explains it quite well: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l1gal0/why_a... > Architecture and construction practices are regional and cultural. What works gets repe
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by stefs 5y ago
i once used the monte carlo method to create a very simple but surprisingly effective AI for 4-in-a-row. it's so easy to implement it pretty much worked on the first try, and as a bonus the difficulty is easily tunable by changing the
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by stefs 5y ago
i played it as a kid with several lack of understanding in general but also of the english language. i: "papa, was heisst 'cutthroat'" (dad, what does 'cutthroat' mean?) dad: "das heisst halsabschneider&qu
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by stefs 6y ago
it's a wonderful feel-good movie (i loved it), but i'm not sure whether this is actually a sustainable farming solution. afaik they make the farm profitable tourism, i.e. the guided tours, which wouldn't scale.
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by stefs 6y ago
this is not a constructive comment. please consider making at least some effort to add something to the discussion.
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by stefs 6y ago
still, compile time would have been correct. if the checks were at runtime, it wouldn't be different from a GC.
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by stefs 6y ago
so where can i find those £50 carbon road bikes you are speaking of? no dodgy guy on my corner and classifieds are maybe 20% off the new price for an 8 year old bike "because i never rode it anyway". i sometimes dream about easter
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by stefs 6y ago
it's not about the petty little thieves, it's about the fences and big fish. you want the warehouses full of bikes and parts. the bikes aren't worth much to the thieves if they can't sell them easily.
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by stefs 6y ago
without yahoo answers this gem wouldn't have been possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
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by stefs 6y ago
iirc joel wrote another post specifically about this. the problem here is that some people applying for a job aren't able to write a loop for summing numbers from 1 to 100 in pseudocode. this is not about syntax errors, this is about w
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by stefs 6y ago
your point is still invalid because it's pointless to attempt what you're suggesting. and that's not how unit tests work. unit testing doesn't mean that all possible values have to be tested. usually it's about code
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by stefs 6y ago
many years ago i slaved away in a low end (5 people) ecommerce web shop with a homebrew php cms. i hated working there, but was too vain to quit. one day our biggest customer by far complained about slow loading speeds and i was set upon th
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by stefs 6y ago
1. people experiencing this issue have already bought the game, so there's little incentive here. 2. we can be reasonably sure people will buy newer GTA installments regardless of whether this bug is fixed or not. but: 3. if there&#x27
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by stefs 6y ago
that would be a monoculture disaster. monocultures are not resilient.
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by stefs 6y ago
i'd be interested to see how much the pay of the delivery rider could be increased, while keeping the company profitable, if you only reduced “key management personnel” compensation to a manageable level. is it really normal for a CEO
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by stefs 6y ago
https://spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/Checkerboard_Construction...
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by stefs 6y ago
i'm guessing Lock Picking Lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

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