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by watt 6y ago
Checking for reference equality (comparing pointers) is such a niche requirement it should be hidden behind stronger syntactic vinegar. The greatest mistake Java made maybe is having == for testing pointers, and .equals() function for actua
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by watt 6y ago
You are the second person not sharing which brand they think actually is good. I read only negativity, nothing positive here. I happen to like De Cecco, and it's the one they sell at the local italian specialties store (Berlin).
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by watt 6y ago
This is a very good insight, however the way you say it comes across like you seem to like it or are OK with it. Sarcasm does not come across. We should point out this really is not OK and is not a desirable by anyone except the ownership c
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by watt 6y ago
I don't really care about the nitty gritty. The fact that it's even possible on something that's supposed to be high-end, is ridiculous.
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by watt 6y ago
There is some talk that it also _is_ deadly. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/new-uk-covid-v...
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by watt 6y ago
"In the six decades from 1950 to 2010, the U.S. population had increased from 157.8 million to 312.2 million" And it was 132.1 million in 1940.
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by watt 6y ago
It's easy if your hormones are in balance. Thin people don't go snacking all the time, it's the chubby folks who do that. For example, if your cortosol (the "stress" hormone) is high, you will be craving snacks. The
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by watt 6y ago
This is not about you, or me, but about general public. When they search for something on general purpose search engines, the docs.python.org should rank higher, so they too can get quality information. Why should I "you can simply&quo
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by watt 6y ago
I do the same thing. I listen to No Such Thing as a Fish podcasts.
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by watt 6y ago
If it's running on a TV, it better be. At that point it's not an plucky O/S running on underpowered hardware, trying to save battery.
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by watt 6y ago
This is a great explanation of "always those magical choke points where the past CRC is tossed" that parent poster is referencing. Thank you!
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by watt 6y ago
Wasted an opportunity to implement code that would detect and handle poison-pill messages. Those will happen in any system where queue is involved and there always needs to be an escape hatch to get rid of them. Deleting the queue is too ex
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by watt 6y ago
And? Are you now closer to being an ownership class? Do you own shares, real estate, etc?
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by watt 6y ago
What a hatchet job. Java software (JAR files) not portable and with licencing issues? It's like OpenJDK never happened.
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by watt 6y ago
Think about it in terms of incentives and nudges.
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by watt 6y ago
They can decide to start waking up an hour earlier or later without forcing everyone else to change their clocks.
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by watt 6y ago
I wonder what exactly is Firefox dev team spending all that time saved by not fixing peformance issues such as the bug linked above. Chrome seems to be doing some things right and Firefox is just adrift...
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by watt 6y ago
Yes indeed. And where's the panic? Where's the calls to sports cars from the city center? People get killed on Berlin's Ku'damm on the regular by these maniac drivers. (I am not joking or being sarcastic. Germany treats
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by watt 6y ago
Stop with the panic. Buses and garbage trucks are fine in your book, I presume? So how is this worse?
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by watt 6y ago
It fits, though. It's like the opposite of subsidizing an industry: saddling it with a crippling debt instead. And yes, Germany has awful telecom infrastructure, and lags behind the likes of Spain or Czechia horribly. All because telco
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by watt 6y ago
Pageable also adds window functions (limit, offset). If you are going to compare, please be courteous and do it right. When app starts up, Java compiles these declarations and will abort if the declared function actually does not match the
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by watt 6y ago
The lockdown happened because we had no masks. Simply had none. Once manufacturing geared up and masks started appearing, the lockdown could be lifted. It's bit weird though seeing all those people with fabric masks around when 3-layer
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by watt 6y ago
Are you this good going from abstract to practical? I know I am not. For me the it's a revelation that _fear itself_ actually is _fear of making something lame_. So, I don't really see the value of expressing this "concisel
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by watt 6y ago
FWIW here's a link to Tetris version from Vadim Antonov, who I believe crossed paths with Pajitnov back in the day: http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/old_page/tetris.c As Vadim says: "The version of Tetris fo
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by watt 6y ago
It did. I did not rewrite the stick. There seems to be weird problem how USB3 is treated at boot time. This was a problem 3 years ago and it's still a problem: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1030234/installin
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by watt 6y ago
It's about nudging the developer to do the right thing out of the box even if they aren't really aware of all the intricacies. Ergonomic design like this will become a big deal in the future: even if you have very little idea of w
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by watt 6y ago
I can't stand this. If Chesterton thinks he has all the power, why doesn't the onus to know "the use of it" fall on him? He should be responsible for documenting the purpose and motivations behind the fence, if he thinks
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by watt 6y ago
This is not even remotely the case. I just recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a newly bought PC (Asus motherboard). It was really tough - the installer would not recognize the USB stick for the longest time until I found the USB 2.0 slot th
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by watt 6y ago
This "paradox" is resolved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie - self-defending democracy. Before this idea, a democracy would allow itself to be subverted by allowing a dictator to be demo
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by watt 6y ago
They do. And it does take day our couple of days. But somehow it's high enough barrier of entry that NPM and Go style of publishing packages is taking over the world...

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