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by unregistereddev 1y ago
I agree with both these points, though I'm much more willing to check a bag when traveling on vacation than when traveling on business. If I were to lose a bag on vacation there wouldn't be the same consequences. On vacation I don
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
I'm in a similar minority - I simply don't understand Gaudi's visions. Touring another building he designed left me in a similar state of confusion. His work strikes me as kitschy and impractical. The trick lighting is genuin
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
Ditto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops. Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing.
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
No issues browsing or playing media on Mint XFCE, but I'm not using Flatpak. On old hardware (~10 year old laptop with a Core i5-5200u and integrated graphics), I do have trouble with Google Video calls lagging. This seems to be caused
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
At my current (non-tech) company, someone in our C-suite has a very similarly controlled, low energy, slightly stilted vibe. If you get to know him, he's a ME with fantastic technical chops. He was pushed into a management role and sim
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
That is not specific to 32-bit system architectures. The 2038 problem is specific to timestamps that are represented as milliseconds since the Unix epoch and are stored in a 32-bit integer. It's quite possible (and common) to deal with
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
Indeed, I remember having to insert a dedicated 5 1/4" floppy in order to run spell check in Apple Writer on an Apple ][e.
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
IIRC the largest speed difference was caused by Active Desktop. Windows 98 burned a "lot" of memory and clock cycles in order to view dynamic content inside Explorer. Back in the day there used to be custom builds of Windows 98 th
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
It turns out there are two filters; the fishiness as determined by the UI layer must be separate from the content moderation filters on the backend. I've also had a couple fish that the UI thought were acceptable but the backend (right
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by unregistereddev 1y ago
Traffic in India is a different beast. Your calculation assumes each person is in a separate car, but that is not common. Many people travel on motorcycles or mopeds, often with multiple people on each. Motorized 3-wheel rickshaws are commo
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Productivity apps would be MS Office, yes, as well as separately-purchased licenses for Publisher (and I'm sure there were several other apps at the time). I do not know whether this category would include Visual C++ or Visual Basic li
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
I apologize for misreading your post, I thought you asserted that Windows did not come with QBasic. I'm well aware of what QBasic was - it's what I used when I first learned programming. It was an excellent toy for 12yo me.
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
When you set pricing for a product, profit is a goal. You don't know how many devices will be returned, whether the device or its marketing will attract lawsuits, or whether you'll be able to sell all the devices at asking price.
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Windows 95 and 98 came with QBasic, but it was not installed by default. It was an optional "extra feature" that could be added from your Windows installation media. I do not know about earlier versions of Windows.
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Even when etag's have nothing to do with the filesystem they can still be a security vector. Some API's use etag's to identify what has changed since the last time you called a particular API. This means the ETAG values are p
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Paperwork for the kid's daycare. Sick kid needs a prescription? Get them mostly better at home, then print and fill a form authorizing daycare to administer prescription meds and deliver it (along with the eyedrops or whatever) when dr
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Lots of pilots know each other and will sometimes film each other's landings just for fun. The original idea was probably along the lines of "Bill's coming in and I have a good angle on it, let's take a video and send it
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
To be fair, they didn't say /what/ computer from 2011 ran terribly. The Intel Core CPU's were the best back then. There were also Atom netbooks, terrible AMD chips, etc. AMD solidly has the performance crown now, but in
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
I suspect part of the difference is what kind of roads you are on. Whenever I'm in the Bay area (or Southern CA in general), I'm amazed by the quality of the roads. The pavement is even and smooth and the lines are crisp, fresh pa
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Old hat here. Things certainly can get worse. Outages can turn into a loss of customer data. Attempts at restoring lost data can result in corrupting an unknown amount of customer data. Throw caution to the wind and you can turn a 20-minute
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
I would venture a guess that they wanted to communicate their opinion that it's ignorance more than malice. Please do not escalate into a flame war.
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Does IntelliJ try to complete the word you are typing, or does it suggest an entire line of code? Because newer versions of IntelliJ incorporate LLM's to beef up autocomplete. You may already be using it.
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Woz pays a print shop to perforate them so that he can troll people by tearing perforated bills off a sheet and handing them out. If anyone asks where he got them, he says "Oh I have some friends at a print shop that do these up for me
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
A different approach: I had a project that stored a tremendous amount of spatial data. There were "sessions" of spatially-tagged time-series data that would be individually processed (think generating a map layer from time-series
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Is there somewhere I can find more info on this? Car enthusiast here who is genuinely interested in learning. My impressions had been that it largely mirrors the EV market: A few early PHEV models (such as the BMW i3) had poor battery manag
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
I agree. New codebases are clean because they don't have all the warts of accumulated edge cases. If the new codebase is messy because the team is moving fast as parent describes, that means the dev team is doing sloppy work in order t
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
The currently in-vogue answer is "give them houses", but your answer is more attainable. When someone asks me for money I take it as a reminder to donate to organizations that help the homeless and near-homeless. The best homeless
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
> I'm not sure why insurance companies aren't better at reining in these kind of abuses. I think they are working on it. My dentist has cameras shaped roughly like a toothbrush. Before and after performing work, they record ima
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
The EV1 switched battery chemistries almost immediately, because the lead-acid version was terrible. GM only used lead acid as a stop gap and knew the result was unacceptable. What made the EV1 appealing was its spaceship-like high tech int
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by unregistereddev 2y ago
Agreed, and to stress for clarity: Adding 3 percentage points to the conversion rate increases revenue by 15% in this example.

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