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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think RPi in this thing says it all. It screams it was built by somebody that does not know how to develop a physical product for mass market. There are only three parts in this product that should have any significant cost to them: * the
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think names should first of all be reliable . What I mean by reliable? * It does not change either in time or space -- you have to come up with a good name right from the start and then you are not allowed to change it. The same thing ha
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by twawaaay 4y ago
One thing I noticed is that knowing how things can be automated causes teams to actually get slower at getting stuff done. First, because automation takes some upfront effort to get done. Second, because once it is set up it frequently acts
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Guys, chill out. "OOP has failed" should be read in context of the promise that everything can be effectively implemented with OOP, that you can make objects for everything and your entire program built out of it. The masses adopt
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by twawaaay 4y ago
A function pointer is the mechanism by which you realise a callback. For me, a callback, is when you have two modules and the function pointer is used to call back the functionality from the calling module in an environment and at a time
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by twawaaay 4y ago
If I was a government body responsible for setting tax rules after reading the article I still haven't learned anything. First of all, tax systems are typically result of huge forces within the country and represent history of negotiat
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Hi. For background, I have been writing professional OOP code in ANSI C. Yes, Structures in C can be used as classes. And yes, this includes polymorphism. My solution was to put a callback in the structure that would point to the implementa
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Software maintenance is what you have to do for it to keep working. It is a useful distinction, especially from the point of view of management, even if the tools and skills used are the same. In many companies, the funds for maintenance mi
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I would be cautious to give something that could be misconstrued as an actual health advice. I have rather limited medical knowledge and I am only comfortable experimenting on myself. That said, I red 3-4 dozen books related to weight loss,
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Just making sure everybody understands that these drugs are not a solution to the problem. Assuming they work, they just make dieting easy. Look at people who successfully lost weight with diet -- studies show that almost all of them will r
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Not viable yet . But with greater adoption and more focus the prices are bound to fall. And the prices of alternatives will be rising, both electricity and hydrocarbon fuels. Also EVs seem to not be the answer to everything. If you live in
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think the problem with anything we do like weight loss strategies or healthy diet or exercise is adherence. Long time ago, when I would start something I would try all the way. Loose all crappy food or not at all. The problem is that th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I guess it all depends on your climate or what you do for work.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yep. This is the thing that I wish somebody told me when I first ventured to start running. Light run is when I run with somebody else and I still can have a pleasant conversation. I take phonecalls when I am running and I had situations wh
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Some time ago I discovered a health issue with me and it prompted me to spend a lot of time trying to understand how proper nutrition should look like. I discovered that almost everything I have been taught, told by doctors or red on the in
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I shower every day anyway, so I don't count shower time as cost of running. I head out first thing in the morning immediately after I get up and then shower immediately after I come back. Which I think is a terrific way to start my day
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I noticed on myself that running long distances is also willpower training. Being able to force myself to stick to something hard/painful causes me to also expand my ability to stick to other things. And when I can't run (for exam
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am sorry you hated it. The first time I started running I hated it too. But that was just because I did not know how to run or what to expect. I think my very first run was something like 250m after which I through the shoes and vowed nev
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think all those studies that say running even 5-10 minutes makes you almost invulnerable from death should be taken with caution. One problem is that people who run regularly are just different from people who do not. People who will run
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Personally, I think aren't many better return on investment activities than spending half an hour every day on a morning jog. You can run more than that but I think half an hour steady state easy run each morning gives you 80% of resul
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I corrected "half" to "quarter" at the time you must have been responding.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I bought lifetime email, domain and couple other things from my webhosting provider in 2000 for 3 times the annual price for these services. They were a new company back then and probably needed some cash quick. They are still honouring the
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> After using both, I honestly don't understand why devs use MacOS over Linux I have used Linux as my main driver on all my desktops and laptops between 1999 and 2021 until I migrated to Macbook Pro. The simple reason is that mainta
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I still feel that a fluid that can fill the scratches and cause them to basically disappear is much better. If the CD is damaged the goal should really be to read the data once, then throw it away. So I think it is fine that the filling&#x2
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Now what we need is similar that can engage spammers and waste as much of their time as possible.
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For what is worth I have successfully dealt with scratched CDs by applying a cream that I found to be almost the same refractive index as the plastic of the CD.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am unable to speak for the management because I have no knowledge of their particular situation or extensive experience in the matter. I can only speak about the forces that act on development teams and what could most likely in my mind e
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I don't have experience with airline scheduling but I have experience with software in large financial corporations like banks. The situation with banks (at least the ones I worked with) is that there is a huge amount of software maint
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by twawaaay 4y ago
In realm of real hardware security modules this is actually simple, at least in theory. (I worked as a security officer for credit card payment company and we had real HSM boxes worth small fortune each). What you do is you initialise the h
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Any security mechanism is pretty much worthless if it can be trivially circumvented. So yes, the second part is pretty important Actually both parts are important, either is worth little without the other. Having well implemented hardware k

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