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by vvillena 6y ago
Corona probably already held the Coronita trademark, because that was how it was branded in Spain until recently, because the brand was held by a winery. It would be fun to see them reverting the brand once again. What bad luck!
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by vvillena 6y ago
Do modern CPUs fry themselves like the ones from 15-20 years ago? I thought they just throttled down when approaching their limits, and extra cooling is helpful for allowing CPUs to boost clock speeds for longer.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Windows does antialias in a special way. MacOS and Linux are usually configured to respect the font shapes, using subpixels as needed. Windows font rendering prefers to snap to the nearest pixel, increasing sharpness but not being as faithf
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by vvillena 6y ago
The main ones I've used for some time are the git CLI (which should be counted as a git toolset too), Sourcetree, the GUI inside IntelliJ, and Magit. I currently use Magit + the git CLI for some quick commands. For me, Magit code stagi
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by vvillena 6y ago
> what can you do with magit that you can't do with those? It's not the "what", it's the "how". Magit enables extremely fancy workflows with great simplicity, and its UI is self-discoverable and well la
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by vvillena 6y ago
I use and love Spacemacs, but their branch handling is a major PR fuckup. The last stable version should be phased out now. The develop branch works way better. They should rethink their release model.
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by vvillena 7y ago
Maphacks, aimbots, and infinite resources cannot be options in competitive games, for obvious reasons. Of course, a game can be designed around these issues, hiding info not only from the player, but from the game client, but you still have
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by vvillena 7y ago
It's the Java 1.4/Java 6/Java 8 problem all over again. Big companies refuse to keep up with the base languages, and important parts of the ecosystem (e.g. Spark) fall behind the language.
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by vvillena 7y ago
As for learning resources, I always loved the Oreilly "Programming Scala" book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033073.do It's one of the few books that is structured in the same way a Scala devel
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by vvillena 7y ago
Scala made lots of Java patterns builtin language features, and it appears Scala 3 will do the same thing with all the patterns that emerged in Scala 2. As long as the tooling keeps up to par, Scala 3 will be one of the most pleasant to use
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by vvillena 7y ago
Scala dev here. "Having to learn Java" is not true at all, unless you interact with Java dependencies in special ways, or if you maintain a Java API for your Scala code. There are Scala libraries for almost anything, and it's
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by vvillena 7y ago
The design trend of modern SUVS is to look like lifted sedans from the front. This is wrong. The headlamps should never be so high that they can shine through the rear window of another car. This goes for all vehicles: cars, buses, trucks,
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by vvillena 7y ago
The lockdown must be kept until the health system can cope with everyone's health problems. Then, you slowly lift it to ensure it doesn't saturate again, as that would mean a need for another full lockdown.
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by vvillena 7y ago
Yes. Compact cars are usually 1.8m wide, subcompacts are usually around 1.7m, and bigger cars are about 1.9m. 2m puts a Tesla Model S in "midsize van" territory. Thats the size where you start having problems in some spots. For a
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by vvillena 7y ago
Not anymore. F1 cars use just 3 engines for the whole season. Lots of other categories use one single engine per seasone. The "one engine per event" era is long gone.
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by vvillena 7y ago
That's the estimated percentage of people who need some form of ICU treatment due to COVID-19. If there's no more ICU beds left, it's safe to assume that the majority of people in need of ICU treatment that can't get it
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by vvillena 7y ago
A Tesla Model S is almost 2 meters wide. That's wildly impractical everywhere in Europe.
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by vvillena 7y ago
The amount of people who do not wash their hands in any way while in the bathroom is sickening. I hope coronavirus helps raise awareness regarding the basics, so more people get into the habit of regular hand washing.
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by vvillena 7y ago
Two joysticks, plus gyroscopic sensors, actually. You use the gyro controls mainly to move a pointer, which is OK, although a mouse would be better on some situations. What's genius is being able to use the pointer along with the joyst
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by vvillena 7y ago
It's true this release doesn't bring is as many features as the last ones. However, the jump between LTS versions wil be impressive. Everything is more polished, more functional, and more intuitive. I'll upgrade as soon as I
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by vvillena 7y ago
Banked turns spanning several kilometers are not unusual, even in standard rail systems.
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by vvillena 7y ago
The article talks about trying to fulfill all requisites for all the vehicle buyers. A bike indeed a fast, safe commute vehicle in many cases. On snow conditions, a lightweight vehicle with winter tires will be better than anything else. In
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by vvillena 7y ago
I'll clarify. I meant that people are entitled to their own emotions, and being angry is ok. What's not ok is to hurl the anger towards somebody. In this case, there are lots of other good options, all of them more productive and
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by vvillena 7y ago
Thank you very much for the list!
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by vvillena 7y ago
People have a right to become angry. They absolutely don't have any right to override the will of a project maintainer. By the way, isn't this a great opportunity? The code is open. Fork it. Seize the day. Become a better maintain
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by vvillena 7y ago
If this is the issue, one of those forks will become the new mainline repo everyone contributes to. Expecting a maintainer to behave the way the community wants is unreasonable. Maintainers are not public servants. I mean, anyone can fork i
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by vvillena 7y ago
I just came back to look for those books too. Does anyone have a list?
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by vvillena 7y ago
The git "master" branch is just an example of 'convention over configuration': some commands use it as the default argument, just like "origin" is the default remote name. Nothing in git is special or sacred! :
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by vvillena 7y ago
In any case, git garbage collection isn't a common phenomenon. It usually triggers every few weeks, even in repos with high activity. The chance of hitting a GC that deletes an untracked commit you need is extremely small.
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by vvillena 7y ago
Recloning means redoing your work on top of a potentially different codebase. The approach I described is how you "blat and reclone" using git instead of the filesystem, and it has the clear advantage of keeping everything in the

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