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by marvelous 2mo ago
A guy told me once that he used his interrail ticket to sleep in the trains and save the cost of a hotel. He'd spend half the night going to a random destination and the other half back. The issue he faced once was that some border gua
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by marvelous 4y ago
This article is very ironic: it is written by the CERN's Ombud, who has a lifetime employment contract like all of CERN's management, and probably obtained it at a time when CERN was printing them like hot cakes. Today's real
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by marvelous 4y ago
Yes. As Sartre said: The cloud is just other people's hell.
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by marvelous 5y ago
Yes, it's serious for _most devs_ who have code that could run on k8s: back-end devs. And _most_ devs who touch anything in FE, mobile apps, IoT, DBAs also have to touch the corresponding back-end and its associated platform tooling wh
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by marvelous 5y ago
IMO, it's not silly at all. Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll integrates with automatic restarts, ingress, etc. With k8
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by marvelous 6y ago
My university did ban p2p, no matter the content. Officially for upload bandwidth savings.
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by marvelous 7y ago
I find the gigatron very interesting for this. It bypasses all the vhdl/tooling complexity. https://gigatron.io/
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by marvelous 7y ago
I wish more language constructs used postfix notation. It looks so natural to me when reading from left to right. Consider: [a+2 for a in as if a > 3] Vs as.filter(a -> a > 3).map(a -> a + 2) Sometimes I even wonder why variable
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by marvelous 8y ago
I really wish I could whitelist which contacts each app could see, so WhatsApp only sees the ones I want on that app.
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by marvelous 8y ago
I wonder if a fix to many "too big to fail" and "winner takes all" market and public/private power imbalance issues, isn't simply this: mandatory split up beyond a certain size.
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by marvelous 8y ago
Everybody's Right by Paolo Sorrentino. He's better known for directing movies.
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by marvelous 8y ago
And I was sure they would give it to Archimboldi this time!
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by marvelous 9y ago
> This brings to mind articles and discussions I read in the early 90s about differences in performance between running in real (or "unreal") mode and protected mode I remember a 10 years old Microsoft Research project that imp
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by marvelous 9y ago
The 6 universes are not equiprobable. 1+2, 3+4 and 5+6 are equiprobable (1/3 each). 1 and 2 are equiprobable (1/6 each), 3 and 6 are impossible (0 each), 4 and 5 are equiprobable (1/3 each). You should switch in 2/3 of t
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by marvelous 9y ago
The Motos are well supported by aftermarket ROMs if you want updates. They might be among the cheapest with this.
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by marvelous 9y ago
We use the prostitute analogy a lot with my techie friends. Just don't tell my parents that I write software. I pretend to work at Starbucks.
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by marvelous 9y ago
I use Firefox sync for my web needs and a plain text file (on my encrypted laptop) for everything else that doesn't fit into that. The more sensitive stuff (credit card, computer unlock) is in my brain with a hidden paper backup.
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by marvelous 9y ago
I am not into mechanical watches at all, but I see a big point that is common with software: the incredible scale of the complexity that can be reached by a craftsman. You often have to go into large scale engineering to find that in other
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by marvelous 10y ago
Your first point is IMO too often understated. The fact that our executive branch comes from most parties in the parliament, instead of a barely-reaching 50% coalition like in most countries is a huge factor. It has nothing to do with the d
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by marvelous 10y ago
Oh dear, it's WGA all over again
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by marvelous 11y ago
There is no amount in the vote. What people will vote on is to add the following article to the constitution: Art. 110a Unconditional basic income 1. The Confederation shall ensure the establishment of an unconditional basic income. 2. The
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by marvelous 11y ago
With gnome-terminal, I get a notification when a command finishes in a terminal that isn't on the foreground. It's very useful.
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by marvelous 11y ago
Yay! The language module is a 1.5MB JavaScript beast and people routinely complain about 150KB frameworks on HN. Are there plans to have a whole program optimisation pass to prune dead parts of that module (a ceylon webpack or ceylon closur
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by marvelous 11y ago
I don't think knowing that is usefull. "Single processors" are all superscalar or pipelined these days, so the colossal single-thread FLOP numbers are counted as an aggregation over many arithmetic units and one has to coordi
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by marvelous 12y ago
A killer feature of the Ceylon programming language is its typesafe metamodel. Metamodel references are refactored like everything else in eclipse.
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by marvelous 12y ago
At least get the grammar right, please!
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by marvelous 12y ago
I have been working in big companies that do only local-language hiring, and they definitely use local business terms mixed with english programming terms in identifiers. formattedZugNummer in german or montantFacturé in french for example.
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by marvelous 12y ago
This book is good at explaining these language tools: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947256.A_Short_Course_in...