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by bhuber 2y ago
The Honey discount browser extension, owned by PayPal, allegedly scams not only its users, but the influencers who promote it.
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by bhuber 2y ago
This phenomenon consistently happened to my college bus system, but on an even worse scale. The main bus line did a loop around campus, which took ~20 min to complete and buses scheduled every 5 minutes. In reality, you got a caravan of 4 b
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by bhuber 2y ago
Tesla owner here. If you have the Tesla app installed on your phone, you can "share" addresses from map apps to it and it will auto-sync them to your car. So the workflow is open calendar on your phone, click on location for appoi
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by bhuber 3y ago
This is mostly true, but sometimes the cost of evaluating the condition itself is non-trivial. For example, if a and b are complex objects, even something as trivial as `if (a.equals(b)) ...` might take a relatively long time if the compile
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by bhuber 3y ago
They stopped just fine, but their stopping distance was twice as far, and more like 3x in the rain
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by bhuber 3y ago
> But 700x28 is really the maximum tire size you can possibly fit with rim brakes This is patently false. Mountain bikes have been running tires over twice as wide on rim brakes for decades. I had one growing up in the 90s. Perhaps you m
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by bhuber 3y ago
I take it you've never actually cared for small children. One of the most obvious problems they solve is the ability to go outside earshot of the nursery - doesn't matter if the kid cries if you can't hear them! Besides that,
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by bhuber 3y ago
> This is one category of problem that should be solved through legislation, but I doubt that should such laws be passed, that they would be actually enforced against bad actors. IANAL, but I would think this would be covered by existing
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by bhuber 3y ago
As a parent of two small kids, I just did an old cell phone running tinycam + generic ip webcam (amcrest makes a bunch of good ones). The dedicated cell phone is mostly for nannies/babysitters, I just have tinycam installed on my own.
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by bhuber 3y ago
If anyone wants this capability, the chrome extension uBlacklist ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... ) provides it. I've found it very useful for removing github scraper si
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by bhuber 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't read your link carefully enough. I stand corrected, that does indeed seem to be the only reasonable interpretation. That said, this clause only exists in this particular OSL license, so it only applies to software dis
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by bhuber 4y ago
My interpretation of that clause is it applies to distributing code over a network. The most common example of this is serving javascript to a web browser. I'm pretty sure putting an API in front of a server that happens to run open
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by bhuber 4y ago
I didn't say it wasn't a problem - if I could wave a magic wand and get rid of the concept of null in Java I would. That isn't what we're discussing though - you said, "The biggest thing missing in Java is an answe
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by bhuber 4y ago
> it doesn't matter how much the HotSpot JVM is tailored to OOP code This is obviously false. The JVM, or any other compiler for that matter, is what translates the OOP code into CPU instructions. If it does that optimally, it won
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by bhuber 4y ago
I'm not sure you fully appreciate how tailored the JVM, and hotspot in particular, are to executing OOP oriented code. One great example I can think of is polymorphic methods. In C++ for example, you have to explicitly declare a clas
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by bhuber 4y ago
It doesn't fully solve the problem, but @lombok.NonNull helps a lot. It makes it clear which properties shouldn't be null, and catches NPEs closer to the source. Incidentally, lombok in general does wonders for boilerplate reduc
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by bhuber 4y ago
On any sort of list structure, a "find" operation generally means searching the list in order for an element that satisfies a predicate, usually equality to a given value. The article could be more clear about this, but in this c
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by bhuber 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply. > Kindly show me where I was making a cost comparison between nuclear and solar in my original comment Ok. "There simply isn't a comparison between nuclear and solar. Nuclear is a far bette
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by bhuber 4y ago
Agreed, it's actually fairly impressive. Beware the false equivalence fallacy however - there's little overlap in the expertise needed to design and install a home solar array, and that needed to analyze the economics of complex i
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by bhuber 4y ago
I'm certainly not an expert on nuclear vs solar energy, although I do have some background knowledge. As with many things, I make up for my lack of expertise by seeking the analyses and opinions of real experts. No offense, but I tru
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by bhuber 4y ago
This makes sense for lithium based batteries, but those aren't the only ones around. Iron flow batteries, for example, consist mainly of iron, salt, and water. There's no shortage of ingredients. They're too big and heavy
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by bhuber 4y ago
Sony literally cannot stop making spiderman movies. Part of the deal when they bought the rights from Disney in 1998 was they have to make at least one spiderman movie every 5.75 years, or the rights are forfeit. https://www.oc
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by bhuber 5y ago
It is when your local host server is macos and your remote production server is... anything else. I'm sure the number of people running macos servers in production is quite small in proportion to linux.
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by bhuber 5y ago
People who get on Putin's bad side have a history of ending up with things like polonium and nerve agents inside their bodies, even when living in western countries. Bombing facebook would likely be further than even Russia is willing
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by bhuber 5y ago
Don't get on that greased sliding board that ends at the top of a cliff. Once you start sliding, it will be hard to stop because of the grease, and then once you slide off then end you will fall and die. Do you really think this slippe
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by bhuber 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the premise. Most of the time I see someone not following best practices it's because they're unaware of them and just do the simple/most obvious thing, which just so happens to be bad for not-s
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by bhuber 5y ago
I'm not saying you have to use microservices to solve these problems, just that they are potential reasons why you might want to, even with a small team of developers. I would also argue that if you're deploying the same codeba
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by bhuber 5y ago
Most of the conversation so far has focused on the development benefits of microservices (decoupling deployments, less coordination between teams, etc). Small teams don't really have this problem, but there are other benefits to micro
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by bhuber 6y ago
I should have been more clear; I was mainly disagreeing with your first sentence. The rest mostly makes sense to me. Ad-hoc analysis was only one example, you could easily replace it with working on a prototype, where part of your goal is
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by bhuber 6y ago
This isn't at all universally true, it depends on the costs of failure. If you're programming a Mars rover, then sure, avoiding mistakes is paramount. If you're writing a one-off data analysis script that only has to work o

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