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There's just an enormous supply of Java developers and consultants around, which makes it an easy business decision when deciding the technology to base your projects on. I would not be surprised if a very significant majority of Java
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I think it's easy to predict that Garuda is just trying to create some leverage to negotiate a discount with Boeing, and they will just re-affirm their order quietly in a few weeks or months. I expect more airlines doing the same. Boei
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It sounds really stupid for Boeing if you put it that way. I can imagine it looks good on the marketing material, 'no pilot retraining required!', but as far as I understand from all the analysis so far, it's actually not tha
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>> those parts are already pushing their envelope, or are you implying Apple is specifically wasting money on their chips? I would say the envelope Apple is pushing with their designs is currently almost exclusively bound by the w
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That's all true in the context of trying to boost voltage/clock speed on a chip that is already running close to thermal limits when using a stock active heatsink (which are already huge). And yet, even in that context people are
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>> Except this completely defies the logic in the first part of the paragraph that the power and cooling do not affect the performance in the short burst tests. Those ARM chips won't get faster, they will just have the same spee
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>> The worst culprit for many people I know is flying. You can eat a lot of meat for the emissions of just one long-haul flight. (Which is sad because flying is great.) And yet the total CO2 contribution of the world-wide aviation i
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I went through a very similar thing writing my own toy/hobby game-project. It started out as a classical straightforward OOP design, but once I started adding extra stuff to it like animation, a scripting engine, etc. I really started
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One of the standard replies I get when I complain about VSCode being sluggish is that it's not worse or even better than Visual Studio on Windows. That might be true, I don't use Visual Studio so I wouldn't know, but it'
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>> What the earth needs is a better cross platform native GUI framework. NOT electron. I always like to use VSCode as an example. It's a tool a use on a daily basis, and I like almost everything about it. It's also a poste
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Remind me again which country has been the only one in history to actually use atomic weapons on their enemies, killing tens of thousands of innocent people as collateral damage.
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By that logic a laptop is never big enough, as you can always cram more and more into it, until you end up with a desktop workstation. The premise is that at some point the components you can fit in a thin and light laptop, are powerful e
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>> The MacBook line is going through a dark age right now, where seemingly people who design them are not the same people that use them. That might be true, at least for some subset of MacBook Pro users, but it is also possible to h
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But why? Looking at the wordexp synopsis it doesn't seem like a particularly advanced function. Why don't the various libc's just implement this function directly in C?
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Most of the meat you get from the ‘easy’ places like supermarkets tastes terrible anyway, compared to quality meat from a specialist store. I’ve long ago stopped eating chicken almost completely because of this, in the end you just taste wh
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Typing is cheap. Debugging, reverse-engineering and refactoring is expensive. Taking shortcuts just because you don't like typing a few extra characters is a bad habit to have, it leads to the kinds of code that has obfuscated variable
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Where I work 'using namespace std' is explicitly forbidden, and rightly so for exactly the reasons you point out: there's way too many common names in std:: that could clash with our own code. More broadly, 'using namesp
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Fortunately the performance of these kinds of CPU-bound workloads are almost completely unaffected by the mitigations, so you might as well enable them anyway.
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Well, the Minecraft world is represented as voxels, so it's not that far off to say it 'has voxel graphics'.
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There are a lot of moving parts involved in making a full-featured path tracer, and they can have wildly varying performance characteristics. Some parts such as finding ray intersections in parallel and integrating them map extremely well t
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But then I assume Google will take a cut. I would much rather pay the author directly and get nothing but a download link for the PDF. How much of my money goes to Google if I order the PDF there?
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Well, there's always a non-zero risk you break something, especially if the system is older and things don't come off easily. The fun starts when you install the new valves and re-pressurize the system. It's not difficult to
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And it seems like this is the case, right? 5% price increase in the US vs 20% price increase in China. So who is benefiting? Let me make clear that I'm absolutely not a proponent of China's global economic policies, so I'm no
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Proven right on what account? The article only says China affected negatively more than the US is affected negatively. Both still are still being hurt, and nobody is 'winning' anything. The article only compares consumer prices in
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Awesome, I've always wanted to make something like this myself but never came around to do it! It would be really neat if someone combined this with a very simple sequencer/tracker to create and manipulate tunes, which could then
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Except when you are using a Quadro GPU, and nouveau will hard-lock the machine randomly (and has been doing so for at least 4 years)
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I have to agree. I almost feel guilty admitting that it really annoys the crap out of me every time I see all these mode-switches and text consoles when booting my Linux desktops. It really should not matter at all because the end result is
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I think his point was that apple would invariably end up serving a niche audience. Referring to two other examples of niche programming only reinforces that assertion. Sure you could fill a whole service with programs for a wide variety of
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Not just SV, I've been all around the pacific coast, but also inland (Central Valley, San Bernadino, etc). You won't find a lot more than Denny's, KFC and McDonalds there anyway ;-)
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>> To reply to your thoughts, I always had read that restaurants and food in general were cheaper in the U.S. Curious that you found the opposite to be true. If you compare the same quality food, it is way more expensive in the US.

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