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by whartung 3y ago
You can do it by any number if you toss in addition. If you’re multiplying by a constant, you can factor it out. For example multiply by 40 (coincidentally the number of characters per line on common microcomputers), you could shift to mult
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by whartung 3y ago
Not sure what your requirements are. My point about 4 line dependency is to point out that the barrier to entry into FX is low. What you are doing I would consider unconventional, as demonstrated by all of the hoops you're jumping thro
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by whartung 3y ago
It was. Even before it was more "bundled" with the JDK than "part of Java". But, to be honest, that's a real nit. It's a standalone dependency, it's 4 lines in a POM file, it doesn't drag the internet
724.
by whartung 3y ago
Well, Swing is still bundled with Java. Netbeans uses the "Flat Look and Feel" and looks ok to me. I find Swing a lot more work compared to FX. JavaFX used to be bundled with Java, but was removed. Some JDK distributions bundle FX
725.
by whartung 3y ago
> Not only in regards to figuring out the language and resources available but also the fact that creating a GUI still requires external dependencies. What external dependencies does Java need that's not in the JDK itself? I
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by whartung 3y ago
For me the biggest difference is that handyman mistakes tend to tangible, and potentially worse to repair than the original problem. Software is easy to reset back and clean the slate for another go. It's this kind of thing that deters
727.
by whartung 3y ago
So was a CVE filed for this exploit? Or was it patched in time?
728.
by whartung 3y ago
Souplantation was like this. You could go through the salad bar, the soup, and bread line as much as you want. But on the salad bar, most of the actual proteins (I should say non-vegetable proteins -- all the garbanzos you can eat!) were an
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by whartung 3y ago
Red Lobster decided to make its "All you can eat Shrimp" a permanent menu item. Turns out it cost them dearly. It was designed as a promotional loss leader, which doesn't work full time. They eventually had to creep the price
730.
by whartung 3y ago
> I prefer Embassy Suites though, where I can see them crack eggs. As I understand it, it's somewhat of an open secret that many of the eggs are powdered. I don't know if that's true. They may well also be "b
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by whartung 3y ago
Our colloquial term for the Chinese buffets was "All you can stand Chinese". I haven't been to one in years. A singular issue with Chinese food today is the seeming race to the bottom. They're all as commoditized and che
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by whartung 3y ago
The quality of the time is very important. I used to have a 1hr+ commute each way, but it was 70MPH on open highway. This is in stark contrast to a 1hr commute in gridlock traffic. My current commute (which I don't do daily) is 1:15, 1
733.
by whartung 3y ago
I've done this. In a production application. Why? It was the easiest sort I had memorized, I didn't have my college Data Structure 201 book handy. It did exactly what I wanted. And for my datasets, it was not impacting performance
734.
by whartung 3y ago
Isn't this because the mid range is going straight into the streaming services, rather than through (an I assume expensive) distribution process into theaters? Theater going is expensive (I think it's expensive), the alternatives
735.
by whartung 3y ago
I think they're hiding the tip after the talk about drivers shopping for tips. As I understand it, before you would tip up front, and so the drivers knew which orders would have better tips. Letting the customer tip after the order has
736.
by whartung 3y ago
This is a nit for me in the PDF experience. The browsers I use tend to have no difficulty in rendering the PDF in the browser, but every now and again, you click on a PDF and now it's in your Downloads folder and opening up your OSs PD
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by whartung 3y ago
For some insane reason, one of the stores we use that you can order online and pickup at the store, when you try to print the page with the barcode, the barcode does not print. We end up having to take a screenshot and print that. It's
738.
by whartung 3y ago
I’m doing a personal project using RDF. Not semantic web. Not OWL. Just “raw” RDF. And I really like it. It’s perfect (so far) for my purposes of an extensible data model. I’m sure others have augmented applications with “generic” data type
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by whartung 3y ago
Back in the early days, MS-DOS was very much like CP/M in that there were several different 8088 machines. The “PC Compatible” hadn’t quite exploded yet, so MS-DOS (and CP/M 86) compatibility was enough. But soon, Flight Simulator
740.
by whartung 3y ago
Electronic stability control is pure wizardry. It’s useful to dig up some videos on YouTube watching it in action, or, even better, when it’s not in action. Look up the “Moose maneuver”.
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by whartung 3y ago
My Mother used to live in Buffalo. She would recount tales of the harsh winters up there. Using cross country skis out of her second floor window. She mentioned that there were times when the Niagra river would freeze up and shut down the f
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by whartung 3y ago
The fact that this was done in just 430ish lines of BF really illustrates some of BFs power that may be lost on others.
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by whartung 3y ago
> Most other GUI libraries is in a much worse state than front end web dev. I'm certainly not going to suggest you're wrong. But I would like a sincere comparison between JavaFX (because I sorta know it) and "the web"
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by whartung 3y ago
To be honest: > But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! This is something that, a little, keeps me f
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by whartung 3y ago
Traveller is notorious. The core "Free Trader" trope is very difficult from many levels. It starts with this "small band and their ship" meme. The problem is that the ship is worth $40M. Traveller economics are basically
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by whartung 3y ago
I had the great fortune of going into this movie completely blind. I had never heard of it, never seen a trailer for it, nothing. My brother said “oh let’s go see…” and we went. A great adventure for a teenager at the time.
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by whartung 3y ago
I found Endless Sky to be ok, but it didn’t hold my interest in the end. The early part of exploring a new game was fun, just going through the mechanics of trade and navigation and such. My one combat was decidedly one sided and a disaster
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by whartung 3y ago
This looks very interesting. For the curious this is about modeling existing terrain, not about generating synthetic terrain. That said once you have some synthetic terrain, this work may help get some interesting insight into it, notably t
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by whartung 3y ago
So, it wouldn't necessarily "know" much about Middle Earth, but might take a stab at writing like Tolkien?
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by whartung 3y ago
I’m late to the game about this. So I’ll ask a stupid question. As a contrived example, what happens if you feed the LoTR books, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and whatever else is germane, into an LLM? Is there a base, empty, “ignorant” LLM

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