thomasz

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by thomasz 6y ago
Sweden doesn't test nearly as much as other countries in Western Europes. Comparing deaths is already complicated, comparing "confirmed cases" is completely useless.
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by thomasz 6y ago
The new compile time code generation feature should largely eliminate the need for using runtime reflection, at least for serialization.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Winforms is a thin wrapper around windows APIs, so no, you can’t.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Microsoft open sourced all of dotnet. Runtime, class library, everything.
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by thomasz 6y ago
The vast majority these are "Alte Herren", i.e older, non active members. The important fact is that their importance for student live and career opportunities has all but ceased to exist.
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by thomasz 7y ago
No, we're causing strong selection bias towards something like the common cold.
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by thomasz 7y ago
> True. This is seems to be on one of the extreme ends of latency versus throughput optimization and it's niche in the big picture of Covid-19 will be very small. Could be very important for screening doctors, nurses, and people in
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by thomasz 7y ago
No, that is not normal politics. It’s sociopathic and it’s self defeating.
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by thomasz 7y ago
No it isn't.
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by thomasz 7y ago
No, they should be regulated.
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by thomasz 7y ago
If app developers explicitly prevent their code from running on future platforms, this is hardly the fault of the platform.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Wikimedia is swimming in donations. More than $100,000,000 yearly since 2017/2018.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Underreporting of infections leads to a overestimated mortality rate, underreporting of deaths leads to an underestimed mortality rate.
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by thomasz 7y ago
IE6 was a very good browser when it came out in 2001. People forget how the landscape looked at that time: Netscape 6 was utter garbage, Firefox was still years away and Opera was a tiny, largely unknown niche browser that did cost money an
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by thomasz 7y ago
I think thijsvandien meant object not in terms of simulation, but in terms of architecture: An instance of a Bullet class, instead of some sort of fancy representation optimized for SIMD.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Is that really a problem outside of large scale RTS games like Supreme Commander? I would be surprised if something like Counter Strike would see more than maybe a few dozen concurrently flying bullets in any possible situation.
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by thomasz 7y ago
No, it hasn't. Technology just wasn't there back then which caused significant cost per time unit, which makes it only fair to charge per time unit.
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by thomasz 7y ago
The proposed record types are just regular types with minimal changes to the initialization syntax. It's not like the divide between value types (``struct`` ) and reference types (``class``), which indeed have quite different semantics
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by thomasz 7y ago
The imperative features feel bolted on and underdeveloped. Just try to break out of a loop or do an early return in f#. The language really discourages the pure interface, impure implementation approach. I feel often compelled to use explic
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by thomasz 7y ago
It really isn't that extreme. Change happens to almost all widely used languages. Just look how c++, java, js and php have changed in the last 20 years. Furthermore, the designers do not constantly throw in new stuff. The change is rat
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by thomasz 7y ago
> If google is making false statements on the matter they will be in for a world of hurt. Is that so? When faced with unions in their infancy, often the companies come out with all guns blazing. They might even face fines after an incred
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by thomasz 7y ago
Countries with a social-democratic (Sweden, Norway) or conservative-corporatist (Germany) welfare state traditionally do not have minimum wage laws, because relatively strong unions and a somewhat robust social safety net have the same effe
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by thomasz 7y ago
Exactly. The <title> of typescriptlang.org is "javascript that scales". All those features in TypeScript exists to express common js idioms in terms of a static type system, which in turn enables stuff that makes programming
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by thomasz 7y ago
Typescript utilizes black magic to help building large systems based on the shaky foundations of javascripts type system. C# is very conservative in comparison. It only adds concepts that have been implemented by (often times several) other
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by thomasz 7y ago
Huh? I’m using a German keyboard with en-US Windows without problems.
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by thomasz 7y ago
In the late 90's, early 2000's, they aggressively tried to intimidate each and everyone using the letter T for any marketing purposes.
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by thomasz 7y ago
These keys were not standard before windows 95
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by thomasz 7y ago
The asp configuration thing is complicated but powerful. If you don't want that, you can just use ``Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable`` and be done with it.
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by thomasz 7y ago
This is very likely an urban myth.
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by thomasz 7y ago
It seems to have been pretty much public knowledge in the circles that interacted with RMS. It's just that nobody cared enough to act.

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