j_jochem

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by j_jochem 3y ago
No, they’re banned because the people who decided the ban disagree with content that questions their political ideology. For example, this includes a lot of books on racism.
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by j_jochem 3y ago
The problem is that it is impossible to create an engine that will run on synthetic fuels, but is guaranteed to never run on fossil fuels even if modified / hacked, because they’re chemically identical for all practical purposes. There
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by j_jochem 4y ago
All of the gift cards I’ve seen in the EU used barcodes, not mag stripes.
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by j_jochem 4y ago
JIRAs growth strategy was based on developers adopting it without having to talk to their bosses first because it was cheap enough to do so. Nowadays, this probably works differently, but that’s how they initially gained traction.
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by j_jochem 6y ago
Fun fact: Norway is not a member of the EU.
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by j_jochem 6y ago
Apple has a 100% monopoly on the market for iOS app distribution, which can be argued is bad for the customer because the 30% revenue share they take is inflating app prices.
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by j_jochem 7y ago
Tooling inside IDEs is somwhat useful. But being able to just run a compiler-like CLI tool to tell you if there are type errors in your program is much more useful still, since you can run it in pre-commit hooks and on the CI. As far as I k
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by j_jochem 7y ago
They do static analyses that go beyond type checking. I have not tried phan and psalm, but the last time I used phpstan its type analysis threw false positives because it was using incorrect assumptions. So my impression is that phpstan lac
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by j_jochem 7y ago
Unfortunately, PHP doesn't ship a tool for this (and it’s hard due to the way autoloading works). So PHP's typing is slightly less useful than e.g. TypeScript.
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by j_jochem 7y ago
When I want to buy cherry tomatoes in German REWE, usually half the varieties have their unit price listed in €/100g, while the rest is in €/1kg. While metric does make converting in your head easy, I bet this still throws off a l
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by j_jochem 7y ago
> * Checkm8 doesn't bypass the protections offered by the Secure Enclave and Touch ID. All of the above means people will be able to use Checkm8 to install malware only under very limited circumstances. > * The above also means t
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by j_jochem 8y ago
„Under a second“ might be ok for websites, but doesn’t cut the mustard for web applications. People expect highly dynamic user interfaces which react almost instantaneously.
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by j_jochem 8y ago
One third is next to impossible. Anecdotally, startup survival rate should be around 5-10%. However, that should still yield better results than distributing the money amongst SAP and Deutsche Telekom.
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by j_jochem 8y ago
The point of the standard was to avoid power supplies becoming useless and going into the trash once the device they came with is no longer being used.
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by j_jochem 8y ago
I’m stumped as to why they would pick such a ridiculously low sampling rate. Crashes often play out in minutes, wouldn’t it make more sense to have sub-minute resolution? Or is sending a location ping more complicated than I think?
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by j_jochem 8y ago
I know this is anecdotal, but I‘ve taken about 8 years and 10 attempts to successfly quit smoking. On half of those attempts, I made it past the 28-day mark, even past five months on one attempt before relapsing. Physical withdrawal is easy
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by j_jochem 9y ago
I was thinking of dealers selling heroin in particular, since that feels like the appropriate thing to compare fentanyl-pushing MDs to, but in a broader sense, your point is if course correct.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
> That just means we should treat low level criminals humanely. Four years is plenty. And the street dealers’ customers know full well that they’re buying a very addictive substance which is not medically indicated.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
The same can probably be said about US citizens’ relationship to their own country.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
Maybe they want to evaluate VR commerce. That’s the only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me right now.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
I’d say cars to belong to that category. Oh, and guns sold to private citizens maybe?
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by j_jochem 9y ago
Did you get a lot of crashes before?
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by j_jochem 9y ago
The article states that Kaby Lake is affected, too. Maybe except not the Kaby Lake versions used in MBPs?
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by j_jochem 9y ago
This is subjective and very anecdotal, so take with a heap of salt: My 2016 Skylake MBP used to crash very regularly when waking it up from suspend (sometimes multiple times a day). When I first heard about this issue a week ago, I used XCo
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by j_jochem 9y ago
Out of interest, what makes you not want to rely on auto-renew?
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by j_jochem 9y ago
And I only clicked because I actually like JavaScript and the title made me angry.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
`val` is never an appropriate name for a variable because it tells you nothing at all about what the variable contains.
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by j_jochem 9y ago
To be honest though, that stuff confuses the hell out of me too and I have an MSc in CS from a highly regarded German engineering university. So while I agree with your general sentiment about depth of knowledge, basic computer graphics lin
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by j_jochem 9y ago
In Germany, when an employee has been sick for 6 weeks and is still unable to come to work, the employers obligation to pay them for their sick leave ends and the employee is moved over to Krankengeld, which is about 75% of their monthly ne
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by j_jochem 10y ago
What is that C you're talking about?

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