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by zvrba 6y ago
What strikes me the most are how short the soldiers are. In most photos with standing soldiers, they look to me as not fully grown children.
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by zvrba 6y ago
> "Can" is not the same as "will". Well, you don't know. Therefore you must act as if "can" = "will". Otherwise, you're playing Russian roulette. > draconic hard lockdown Travelling ba
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by zvrba 6y ago
> For all the non-exempt countries, i.e. for most of the world, there is obligatory quarantine on your own dime. Unless your job allows you to work from home, that's a substantially larger financial penalty than the fine you suggest
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by zvrba 6y ago
> So rich people will shrug it off and travel anyway? Rich people wouldn't just hand-wave away obligatory quarantine on return. It'd make them think twice whether they MUST travel.
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by zvrba 6y ago
This is extremely egoistic post. You, a single individual, can infect tens of persons, without even knowing it, who spread the disease further, and of whom someone will die. Is satisfying your heartache worth starting a chain of deaths? The
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by zvrba 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's only advisory. The government should set up a 5000 NOK (at least) "traveling fine" per person, and obligatory quarantine ("home" confinement in state-provided guarded quarters) upon entry. THAT w
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by zvrba 6y ago
'vi' is still 'vi' in OSX, and I believe the "original" 'vi' is accessible as 'nvi' on the usual Linux distros. (e.g., https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nvi )
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Now 'nano' is not nano anymore. Nothing beats plain old 'vi' (NOT vim!).
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Quite the opposite, we want to support as few as possible. Indeed. It's impossible to tell whether two given hashes, computed with different algorithms, refer to the same object. I can imagine that's kind of bad in an archiv
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by zvrba 6y ago
And I like how you only have to know the library/class/interface guid. No header files, nothing to link, the compiler figures out and infers everything. Type libraries make it possible to use the same component in a language-inde
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by zvrba 6y ago
The paper would perhaps have a greater impact if I didn't have to google for the meaning of the word in the title ("affluence").
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Croato-serbo-bosnian-montenegrin language "In confidence": I miss the days when there was only serbo-croatian and croato-serbian :D (I grew up in Yugoslavia and still remember cyrillic.) Politicizing of the languages is just
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by zvrba 6y ago
> XML Schema is incredibly mature and robust (and an ENORMOUS pain in the butt to write). The way I do it is to define classes in C# and annotate with attributes (either DataContract and/or System.Xml.Serialization) and then export
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by zvrba 6y ago
Croatian "izbaciti" is closest to this meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eject or the phrase "throw out". F.ex., "Izbacivac" [sorry, haven't bothered with setting up
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by zvrba 6y ago
> "hr" is Croatian, Hungarian would be "hu" (and no doubt it sounds cool too). And the translation is abysmal: "jezgra" = "core" (of nuclear reactor) or "nucleus" (of an atom); the closes
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by zvrba 6y ago
Actually, it's easy to deliver something within an overblown budget.
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Pieces of our software get deployed over a satellite link so yeah, megabytes matter (and that's why I don't even dare to propose using .NET for those parts). Megabytes are a one-time thing, unless your app is HUGE. Once you&#
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by zvrba 6y ago
A fun fact: When you press CTRL-C in a Windows console program, a thread gets injected into the program. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/ctrl-c-and-...
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by zvrba 6y ago
Oh what a load of biased crap in that article. > then you would be infinitely wiser to use an event loop or coroutines. Coroutines... if you're lucky that your PL of choice supports them in a non-hacky way. C# kind of does with asyn
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by zvrba 6y ago
Um, he "invented" a command design pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_pattern
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by zvrba 6y ago
For me it's both about the privacy and vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth stack such as https://www.armis.com/blueborne/ According to the article, you need Sep 9 2017 security patch level, but my 5 year old phone is
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving. Or visit a graveyard
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by zvrba 6y ago
I know it's not your team, but now that it's going in Windows kernel, maybe you could ask around... Any plans to support QUIC for data transfers from/to Azure Blob Storage?
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by zvrba 6y ago
A question to particle physicists: I've always thought that matter and anti-matter qualifications applied only to charged particles. Neutrinos have no charge, so how can it have an antiparticle? Does there exist an "anti-neutron&q
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by zvrba 7y ago
> However, the published algorithm for dd' was incorrect! This was discovered and fixed by Rytter in 1980, which we weren't aware of until we received a bug report. Fits what Knuth said: "Beware of bugs in the above code;
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by zvrba 7y ago
On laptops, there's usually a light that turns on when the camera is active. I (like to) believe that this light is controlled by the camera's firmware, i.e., it can't be manipulated by software? Can someone knowledgable conf
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by zvrba 7y ago
> They really do need to start over from scratch, get rid of all the cruft, design the APIs not to suck, design in security, permissions, and sandboxing from the beginning. Security model is still better than what POSIX provides. As for
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by zvrba 7y ago
Re proton: I tried to use it in point-to-point mode, but haven't been able to figure out how; Javadoc reference is useless for that. There exist only Python examples but Python APIs don't map 1:1 to Java APIs.
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by zvrba 7y ago
Oh, you're right. I missed \ at the end of definition of Deferral macro.
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by zvrba 7y ago
Uses globals. Not thread-safe in any way.

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