adimitrov

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by adimitrov 5y ago
I disagree. I prefer talks, most of the time, especially on stuff that isn't nitty gritty technical. Do I want someone explaining to me on stage how to install minikube and deploy a container? Hell no. But take what Fowler did, namely
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by adimitrov 5y ago
That's perverse. You shouldn't have to self-censor out of fear. The fact that Amazon (Doordash, Google, ...) can get away with just cancelling people's accounts willy nilly and they'd have no recourse is a gaping hole in
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by adimitrov 5y ago
There are crucial differences between Java applets and JS. - Applets tried to render their own GUI, Wasm doesn't and defers to the browser. - applets needed a big, slow to start and resource hungry VM. Wasm is running in the same threa
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by adimitrov 5y ago
I disagree. As a software engineer, R is a nuisance, it's a terrible language, and I hate doing complicated things in it. But it's very powerful, it's exactly right for these use cases and its ecosystem is mindbogglingly huge
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by adimitrov 5y ago
On my 6 year old mobile phone, I can do the same thing in Signal. Takes seconds to find arbitrary strings in years long very active conversations. Honestly, I've no idea how we can accept bad performance in Teams and Slack. I can grep
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by adimitrov 6y ago
I did not claim Macromedia birthed Flash! :D But I also didn't know about FutureSplash Animator. Thanks, learned something new.
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Adobe did not birth Flash, they bought it, through Macromedia. Also, Flash gets a lot of flak, but it saved us from applets and ActiveX. It also enabled multi media content on a web that was not yet as standardised and functional as today&#
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Says who? Says you. Based on what? I hear this sentiment a lot, and its proponents usually don't spend any thought on disproving other views. Such as, maybe it's better to have everyone motivated well, instead of having a few peop
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Because we're humans and not profit-seeking self serving automatons. Or at least I aspire to not be one If there is suffering, and if we can, we ease the suffering. The US and EU have bought way more vaccine doses than they need. It ev
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by adimitrov 6y ago
The BBC is publicly funded. The entire idea behind publicly funded news and broadcast is that they shouldn't care about eyeballs, singe they don't need and money.
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Visa will probably follow suit.
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by adimitrov 6y ago
This is just a conjecture: If it is indeed abuse related (whether there was any abuse or Google's algorithm just decided there was some abuse) then telling the abuser what got them banned is counterproductive from Google's PoV. Sa
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by adimitrov 6y ago
If you are concerned about your privacy, you can use an OSS keyboard app. Hacker's keyboard is one for android. There are some on F-Droid. You may even prefer them to Google's offering.
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by adimitrov 6y ago
The idiomatic error handling mechanism of Java is the checked exception. This mechanism does not work with higher order functions. You can emulate Rust's approach with Java, by creating what is essentially a sum type like Result. You&#
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Try to stick a function that may fail into a higher order function. The best example would be .map on streams/collections. You can only do it with unchecked exceptions in Java. In Rust, you can transparently do it with iterators and th
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by adimitrov 6y ago
I really, really dislike exceptions. Unchecked exceptions don't tell the caller something might go wrong. Fine for Python, where strong guarantees aren't a thing anyway, but any statically typed language cannot be content with ess
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by adimitrov 6y ago
> - but I'm only half-joking when I quip that PHP has evolved from its roots as a cargo cult version of Perl into a cargo cult version of Java. It's a joke in so far as it is funny - but it's absolutely correct. When you o
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by adimitrov 6y ago
I would like to say that not all git front ends are like that. I used to be a CLI only user, but now you can pry magit from my cold, dead hands. It's very close to the command line in what it does, it's very easy to see what exac
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Back in the pre-smartphone days I used to swear by Cowon devices. They're still around. This might suit your needs: http://m.cowonglobal.com/product/iAUDIOE3/ Nowadays I listen to audio books, podcasts, music
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by adimitrov 6y ago
I started using Vim in mid/late 2000s, and successfully switched to Emacs. Without knowing your specific gripes, it's hard no know what'll end up helping you, but here are my two cents: - use emacsclient and have aliases for
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by adimitrov 6y ago
We linguists have a saying. A language is a dialect with an army. There are, perhaps, few places where this is more true than in the Balkans. At least none come to mind.
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by adimitrov 6y ago
But I'm not proposing a solution. What I'm saying is that a vicious cycle isn't broken by shrugging and conceding defeat to whatever you feel "macroeconomics" is. It's easy pointing fingers and blaming circumst
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by adimitrov 6y ago
As they say, those who seek to combat traffic jams by building more roads, would also attempt to lose weight by undoing their belts. It's not different with phones. Your 2 year old flagship phone does not have a laggy UI because it&#x2
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Same story here. I was looking for a static site gen that was a bit more comfortable than my previous shell scripts around pandoc approach. I settled on Hugo because it ticked all the boxes and even had org mode support. The next three nigh
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Not only are they available online, they're better! Since internet distribution don't suffer from the same time slot problem broadcast media suffer from, they frequently add some extra discussion with the guests at the end. These
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by adimitrov 6y ago
What with a pandemic going on, that demographic just increased in number. We don't own a car, and used to just get everything done by bike and public transport. But we've stopped using public transport. We do more by bike now, and
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by adimitrov 6y ago
The car industry has forever not given a fuck about people who aren't their direct customers, mostly because they don't have to. Nobody's buying a car on the merit that it will protect victims of a crash that aren't in
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Isn't this more of an artifact of our memory architecture and the way we (de-)allocate memory? In that sense, the C++ flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach and Rust's borrow checker solve the same problem , and I'm sure
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by adimitrov 6y ago
> What if it was a new UAV, designed just for law enforcement? No problems then? Fewer problems. Presumably it would be much less capable. The sister comment[1] lays out how dangerous this UAV is, and how powerful. History has shown that
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by adimitrov 6y ago
Just so you know why I downvoted you: - your comment is not at all unpolitical, even though you claim to not "have a political horse in this race." Your dismissal of the opposition to PiS as hypocritical, small, and a "certai

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