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by wheels 4y ago
Refactoring tools are nice (I guess; I've honestly only used them in Java; I'm mostly an Emacs person), but my main gripes with Ruby maintenance are harder to fix with type annotations: - In duck-typed languages you have to write
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by wheels 4y ago
I'd love to hear stories about actual Crystal use. Of all the languages I've seen emerge in recent years, it was the one I was most conceptually fond of. It's basically (progressively-) statically typed Ruby, but fast (compil
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by wheels 4y ago
Yeah, I'm a whisky nerd, and the uninitiated trying to buy me whisky is almost always disappointing. Usually it'll be something from the grocery store, which has a chance of being ok, but has no chance of being novel, while simul
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by wheels 4y ago
Another really common one is that casting from void * to any other type doesn't require a cast in C, but it does in C++: #include <stdlib.h> int main() { int *foo = malloc(sizeof(int)); return 0; } That wo
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by wheels 4y ago
I'm also a bassist that does a lot of improvisation on stage. I often play with a singer that knows literally thousands of songs, and he often pulls one on me that I've never heard. What matters a lot is genre conventions. This
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by wheels 4y ago
Fun fact: the actual "dollar" sign is actually a P and an S superimposed, as it's actually a symbol for "peso".
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by wheels 4y ago
To be clear: actual "PCI-slot"-ish audio cards are now rare. But USB / Thunderbolt (and previously Firewire) external interfaces are a dime a dozen. Serious audio mostly uses them now.
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by wheels 4y ago
I'm not actually sure, because I feel like most of the things people do with SAP are very repetitive. Their UIs are mind-bendingly bad, but you mostly learn to do the 3 things you have to do all of the time, and then do them over and
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by wheels 4y ago
Historically, yes. It was basically like translating an ncurses (semi-GUI command line thing) into a UI. There were attempts to move away from that model, but at least when I worked for SAP, most actual deployments were still text-to-UI.
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by wheels 4y ago
Sorry, but that's just not borne out by data: almost all of the Fortune 500 companies use SAP (something like 80-90%; probably the rest use Oracle, which isn't significantly less painful to move to).
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by wheels 4y ago
Almost all software could be rewritten to be more concise. But SAP's actually too big to have one architect get an overview of everything and then conceive of an optimal solution. Anything with its level of complexity will have to ha
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by wheels 4y ago
Answer from former SAP employee (may have changed in the last 15 years): Two main reasons: - It's actually terminal software, that's translated into a GUI from a text interface on the fly. - The people that buy SAP never have to u
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by wheels 4y ago
Again, as I noted elsewhere in the thread, I worked in R&D at SAP for 4 years (16 years ago), but I have no deep love for it. But I do have some understanding of where it fits in the landscape. What you've said is absolutely true,
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by wheels 4y ago
So, full disclosure, I worked 4 years in SAP's LinuxLab (ending 16 years ago). I also hated interacting with their interfaces, but I do understand why they exist: Comparison with hosting your own email is like a dozen orders of magnit
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by wheels 4y ago
I only have 3 GB of data in my data plan, which is always more than enough for me, unless I'm working over my cell connection. I could get more data, but doing that just to stream music (when I already have a working solution for such
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by wheels 4y ago
That's questionable. Again, I don't believe anyone who claims things about sound unless they're doing a blind test with well-encoded files. You need to make a stronger argument than "they feel bad". Why? What fr
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by wheels 4y ago
That you think you might later re-encode is absolutely an argument for lossless formats. I'm not arguing that there's no use for lossless formats. The comments I was originally replying to was questioning why they're not un
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by wheels 4y ago
It actually is. The major "hack" in lossy formats is psychoacoustics. It's literally about removing the things you don't hear. At lower bitrates, it's about removing the things you hear less. The argument Montey
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by wheels 4y ago
Just to add to the fun, here's the Xiph founder arguing for lossy data formats: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html The arguments for lossy codecs vs. dithering / bit reduction aren&#x
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by wheels 4y ago
I still listen to my dad's classic rock records from the 60s and enjoy the hell out of it. But they sound like shit. ;-) If anyone someday down the line inherits your FLAC collection, they'll be listening to it out of nostalgia
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by wheels 4y ago
Do you mean Ogg Vorbis? Opus is a codec for speech. I hate pulling rank so fiercely, but I literally wrote the second (i.e. first non-reference) implementation of the Ogg container format (which Opus, Vorbis and sometimes FLAC use). I kno
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by wheels 4y ago
It's about $50 for a Macbook Pro. And I have my music on 4 devices. Sure, I could throw $100-200 at music storage that I can't hear any difference in, but why the fuck would I? Again, this is golden-speaker-cables stuff.
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by wheels 4y ago
Sorry, I meant that not being able to discern any difference is literally the definition of useless. And MP3s get stored on a lot of things that aren't SD cards, so that's a pretty weird metric. But you're getting dangerously
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by wheels 4y ago
I don't have a crazy large music collection, and mine is 85 GB of 192 kbps MP3s. With FLAC that'd be 250-ish GB of music. That's a significant chunk of most modern SSDs. Why would you use 3x the storage space if you can&#
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by wheels 4y ago
My flights were for me and my kids. Total of €2700. One of the flights was booked separately (because booking together didn't work on any of the websites I tried), though also American Airlines, and I won't get a refund on that.
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by wheels 4y ago
I was one of the folks hit by the massive cancellations in Germany this summer. I'd love this new suggestion. My flight was canceled a month and 5 days ago. It was to the US and Canada, was canceled 22 hours in advance, and would hav
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by wheels 4y ago
That's probably a grounding problem, and was probably just coincidentally broken since optical cables don't carry electrical signals, and hence can't be a part of ground loops.
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by wheels 4y ago
Amusingly, even thought I live in Berlin and have it readily available, I tried to make it myself by making mate concentrate, sugar, and a tiny bit of lemon. I got the taste just about right, but more mate-y with the really grassy, earthy
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by wheels 4y ago
You find temperatures that precise when they're for equipment that can hit it: a sous vide steak at 56º C is different from a sous vide steak at 58º C. It just makes no sense for an oven, which is a pretty blunt instrument.
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by wheels 4y ago
The truth is, you'll have this for any kind of software you're doing paid or otherwise. Learning how and when to say no is an important skill. Usually I just tell people that something's out of scope, or that if it's in

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