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by svennek 9y ago
And it is MUCH thicker (or at least it seems so side-by-side).. Which it has to be to have space for the ginourmous rj45 plug... (I can easily live with the small dongle to get native rj45 on the x1s)
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by svennek 9y ago
As a X1 Carbon (4th gen) and X1 Yoga (1st gen) user with FHD and WQHD (2560x1440 if memory serves) repectively , I am going back to FHD on the next versions. That resolution (WQHD) in a 14" notebook is way overkill for my late 30-somet
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by svennek 9y ago
If you don't think the sharp divide between bytes and str in py3 is something new, you haven't grasped the value of it.. I am not sure, you are correct that py2-unicode == py3-str and py3-bytes == py2-str ... But even if (and I mu
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by svennek 9y ago
Porting from py2 to py3 is a "lot" of work and has a lot of risk. See (was it?) Instagrams keynote at PyCon of how one missing "b" prefix cost them 10% or so percent of runtime performance (can't remember the exact
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by svennek 9y ago
If you see the converting as hoop-jumping then I agree with you. If you do recognize that there is such a thing called text, that human understand, and for example the text "hello" has five "letters".... The point that t
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by svennek 9y ago
Yeah, or Denmark, where our VAT is paltry 25%... on everything...
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by svennek 9y ago
Yes, I have (for more than a decade in four different languages, not all of those who are latin1)... One project was even both LTR and RTL :) Byte handling is definately not fun in variable encodings, and even fixed-length multi-byte encodi
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by svennek 9y ago
Really? I find it so much easier (I am also not an English language programmer), because it is very explicit about what is the codepoints (i.e. string) and what is the bytes (i.e. on the disk or the network). The encode/decode function
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by svennek 9y ago
Python 3 did not break compatibilty for "pureness" sake. They broke it, because for 6 billion people in the world, for whom English is not the only language, there was a very real pain (bordering on stuff that was impossible). Mos
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by svennek 9y ago
Two answers: 1) If you are looking for 4.0 as a number .. who knows (3.6 is current, 3.7 is next version), who knows when they switch from 3.x to 4.x... versions numbers does not matter that much to open source people... 2) If you think of
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by svennek 9y ago
Multiple things, and sorry, but as an European, english is not my native tongue. First of all, know and acknowledge that as a bootcamper you "know" programming the same way a toddler knows how to run (a marathon) - i.e. you know t
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by svennek 10y ago
I think that potential employers always wanna stress you a little to see, what you really can and what is bravado. Good companies might still press to hard (but not give you penalties for failing way-too-hard questions). Also it can be a ta
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by svennek 10y ago
Three... 2 is dying (and should be!) As for resources, you can already program, so ... Browse the manual (it is quite good), look at some pythonic* style videos* , browse the giant standard library and do some stuff with it... (the last pa
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by svennek 10y ago
Yeah, Gentoo is quite nice in that regard, but isn't it still focussed on openrc? I was a ten plus years gentooo user before I switched to Arch (mostly because I got fed up with compiling)
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by svennek 10y ago
Most people I hear having problems with Systems is either on Redhat or Debian - not realising the both are mangling systemd badly. RHEL took in systemd way too early and are missing a lot of needed functionality. Also the have an ungodly am
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by svennek 10y ago
Sorry, but redirecting the naked domain seems like the wrong way. The correct way is getting both the naked and www domain set up on the serving host. Then either CNAME or A record the www to the naked... And if needed let the naked domain
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by svennek 10y ago
Well obviously (or maybe not) it was a joke. In all seriousness four comments: - I bend my X1 fully around all the time, not problem with the hinges - all X1's I have ever seen have 3-year ON-SITE warranty, your friend should call supp
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by svennek 10y ago
Current/modern kernel (I run Arch), disable unneeded radios (bluetooth and lte for me), slightly lower (but still nice) brigtness on the screen and agressive tuning by powertop..
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by svennek 10y ago
On my X1Yoga, the fan almost never runs.. When it starts up I look at the running processes (because something is likely wrong)
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by svennek 10y ago
I did the yoga thing with a Macbook Air and it's hinges was fucked instantly :) My X1 yoga has no trouble what-so-ever and I dropped it a few feet.. (and it rattles along unprotected in a leather bag every day)...
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by svennek 10y ago
Then you should try the X1 Yoga - basically an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the yoga hinges and a wacom digitizer and a glorious screen.. It has been my main laptop since release and it is by far the best laptop I ever owned...
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by svennek 10y ago
I have an X1 (Yoga). Tiny almost weightless (feels lighter than current-gen Macbook Air) laptop, and it runs between 10 to 11 hours on the battery when doing normal work (programming, mail, web, spreadsheets etc..) on wifi with pleasant scr
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by svennek 10y ago
Even if the following seems extremely client focused, I am a fellow freelancer. First acknowledge that a client pays you to produce something, he finds valuable. He does NOT pay you to spend x hours programming... (even if you bill by the h
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by svennek 10y ago
PostgreSQL, it also has the advantage, that SQLite is modelled after pgsql, so porting is going to be slightly easier than MySQL. Also, both of them (MySQL and PostgreSQL) can handle an enormous amount of concurrent work at very high speed.
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by svennek 10y ago
Basic econ 101: they are still profitable...
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by svennek 10y ago
I have (and love) a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, which is expensive but really nice... I run Arch linux on it....
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by svennek 10y ago
It is most likely just to show, that it is even faster working with 64-bit ints than floats... So my guess, all integer ops...
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by svennek 10y ago
Oh well, a competitor bashing PostgreSQL without knowing what they are seeing. PostgreSQL has an excellent planner, the problem (for count(*) and count-distinct queries) is that PostgreSQL keeps it's visibility information in the actua
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by svennek 10y ago
Yeah, that is state of the art. No chance there...
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by svennek 10y ago
That depends on the encryption method used. If it is any good, then no.

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