bollockitis

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by bollockitis 5y ago
To be fair, Java existed before a lot of modern standards and its primary goals were to be fully object-oriented (because every project manager was convinced that this was the best approach at the time) and cross-platform, so they kind of H
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by bollockitis 6y ago
I am not saying I agree with it, just pointing out that some organizations consider long-term viability as a key component to these kinds of decisions. Just because a fork exists doesn’t qualify it to be a drop-in substitute.
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by bollockitis 6y ago
My relatively conservative organization would never choose a new Linux distribution to replace CentOS, especially not one with a cheeky name. CentOS has a long track record and is well-trusted. I wish the developers all the best but if Cent
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by bollockitis 6y ago
I can’t imagine working on software that could have such potentially disastrous financial consequences, so kudos to you and all of the developers who do this kind of work.
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by bollockitis 6y ago
That’s a good catch. I’d there any way to tell which version of SQLite created the file? Aside from trial and error, I mean?
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by bollockitis 7y ago
I also moved from org to Notion and have mixed feelings about it. Notion is an amazing platform. In some ways, it’s revolutionary, but everything I store in Notion feels... haphazard. It’s easy to get lost in. Org feels more structured, les
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Let's not forget that worse is better. Electron is worse in almost every conceivable way; therefore, it is better.
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Do these kinds of attacks usually have a motive?
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Do you assume that the listener is incapable of challenging the guest? Just because Rogan doesn’t correct all of his guests absurdities doesn’t mean they go unchecked. After listening to the Alex Jones podcast, for example, I have come to m
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Remarkable story. It's amazing how closed-minded "experts" can be. I suspect there are many conditions that will eventually be understood thanks to the hard work of people who approach these illnesses with the curiosity of a
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by bollockitis 7y ago
That's very well said. Consciousness isn't a "thing" to be discovered, it's a process. It's only visible when a variety of "things" are functioning in harmony. It's like asking which guitar strin
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Generating reports!
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by bollockitis 7y ago
It does say in the description that this was built for “SQL lovers.”
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by bollockitis 7y ago
See also: SharpKeys ( https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys )
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by bollockitis 7y ago
I’ve been using DSG exclusively for about a year now and I've had the opposite experience: I've been amazed at how relevant the results have been. Occasionally, when struggling to find something, I'll use Google (via !g) and
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by bollockitis 7y ago
It's interesting how differently developers respond to languages and their ecosystems. While I don't love Java, i think it's fine. The documentation is very good and interoperability is excellent. Far from a punishment. Punis
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by bollockitis 7y ago
What about Windows? Is urandom available via MSYS/Cygwin/WSL and is its behavior consistent?
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by bollockitis 7y ago
When I was 11 years old I was looking at a bit of code in a magazine and, being curious to know what it did, I booted up my parents' old IBM PC. I typed GWBASIC.EXE into the command line and I was astounded that it worked. Maybe that i
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by bollockitis 7y ago
She is listed in the physics section.
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by bollockitis 7y ago
The text of You Might Not Need jQuery says the following: > If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe I am mistaken but it seems to me that
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by bollockitis 7y ago
I can't speak for anyone else but I certainly have never bought an Apple product to prove I can afford it. In emerging markets -- where the average buyer can't afford more than a cheap Android phone -- there might be some truth to
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Vala really is a remarkable engineering achievement that is highly underrated. I can only imagine what could be possible if Vala had mindshare similar to Python.
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by bollockitis 7y ago
Not disagreeing but it's interesting that you'd lump Java in with Javascript and Python. Java certainly has its problems but it's considerably faster and more efficient than both.
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by bollockitis 7y ago
But the reason for intervention isn't just "risks" but the decimation of an uncontested population due to disease caused by a previous intervention. In other words, it seems as though the "prime directive" has alrea
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by bollockitis 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why wouldn’t you want them to sort alphabetically?
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by bollockitis 8y ago
There’s a simple pause button on the web interface. I bookmarked it on my wife's phone and showed her how to disable and she's had no trouble since. At first she was skeptical about the pi-hole but after seeing the difference it m
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by bollockitis 8y ago
I think the brainwashing is somewhat voluntary. When fighting for survival is no longer necessary, most people enter a state of perpetual boredom which, at its extremes, becomes depression and anxiety. An economy of ever-flowing distraction
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by bollockitis 8y ago
> There is no alternative. I feel trapped. This is ironic, considering that you live out of a backpack! Honestly though, there are alternatives, but that's the problem with luxuries: once we have been spoiled, human pyschology make
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by bollockitis 8y ago
Thinness does have some value for phones. For laptops, there's certainly a market for ultra portable machines but Apple seems to have forgotten that some of us use our computers for work and are willing to trade off thinness for practi
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by bollockitis 8y ago
> For instance, when copying a file to Drive, the execution of the command will take as long as the upload process itself. Once finished, an exit status of 0 will indicate precisely that the upload was successful and the file is certainl

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