nogridbag

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by nogridbag 1mo ago
Yeah I'm confused. The title of the article is wrong. There was no "Flock Camera Glitch" according to the article. The human in the loop did not properly delete an invalid license plate number from one of the databases the fl
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by nogridbag 2mo ago
One misconception I had was that with value objects we could simply use `==` for comparison. But it looks like there's lots of gotchas with this especially if the value class has String fields for one or more fields. For example, compa
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by nogridbag 2mo ago
There's always this comment on every Java post. I expect the average HN member to be someone on the team who is either leading their projects or plays a significant role in driving the design of the software. You set the culture for yo
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by nogridbag 4mo ago
I wish I did something valuable. Instead I spent most of my time writing kick scripts for #warfactory pretending I was some l33t coder... I still have some of those scripts saved somewhere!
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by nogridbag 4mo ago
I have a feeling you're in the minority. I've been using computers for 35+ years and I feel like I still don't understand OK/Apply/Cancel buttons. I still click Apply before clicking OK even if I know it's unne
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by nogridbag 5mo ago
Back in the early dial-up era, when teachers were not tech-savvy, I went online and found a paper exactly matching what I was tasked to write about for a homework assignment. And I regrettably submitted it as-is with no changes. I guess I k
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by nogridbag 6mo ago
We have a medium sized Quarkus app (~200kLOC) and Quarkus has been fantastic. Startup in JVM mode for our app is around 10 secs. Not blazing fast - but likely much faster than a typical Java enterprise app. I'm sure a few of those secs
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by nogridbag 6mo ago
I wish we had a dedicated InstallShield engineer! I had to design and burn my own discs for the desktop apps I built. And for some reason, the LightScribe drive was installed on the receptionist's computer. I have no idea why, but I wa
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by nogridbag 6mo ago
I believe every UI developer that has used frameworks like Swing has reached a point where specific user interfaces, even those that look trivial, become too complex primarily due to things like event handlers. Trying to figure out a simple
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by nogridbag 6mo ago
The tire is the black rubber that's mounted to the wheel. Tire shops don't give you a new wheel when you get a flat tire.
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by nogridbag 7mo ago
This is a timely post. Just last night my 8 y/o asked if she could create a presentation on my laptop like they do at school. I have no idea what software they use at the elementary school. I've let her play around with Google Doc
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by nogridbag 7mo ago
lmao, I was just thinking about this yesterday. My parents would do the same thing and I would try to correct them and explain how they can get better results just typing keywords and not sentences. And here I am in 2026 typing full sentenc
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by nogridbag 7mo ago
These letters matter a lot to kids. I sent my video game idea to Nintendo as a little kid and I had the same reaction seeing that envelope from Nintendo in the mailbox addressed to me. I think it was also a bit more special pre-internet as
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by nogridbag 8mo ago
I had this same question recently. There's mesh networks like meshcore. But you would be limited to just sending text messages to other users. I would imagine the government would be able to easily identify and destroy such a network a
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by nogridbag 8mo ago
Programming a VCR was pretty trivial for me as a kid, but a bit annoying. But then VideoGuide [1] was released (available from RadioShack). I begged my parents for that and honestly it was the most amazing product and worked flawlessly. I f
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by nogridbag 8mo ago
I believe that's always been a thing. A long time ago I read this teardown article [1] of real vs counterfeit Beats headphones. And even the counterfeit versions had metal weight added to make it feel like the real Beats headphones! [1
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by nogridbag 8mo ago
I consider myself above average with UI design, but I still got confused with that dang "i" icon in the Preview app just yesterday. I had to add my signature and write in the date so it looks like it was handwritten. So the plan w
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by nogridbag 10mo ago
Those mini screenshots do not look like anything like what's in the "Screenshots" section: https://imgur.com/a/svQaeCa
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by nogridbag 10mo ago
Are there any plans for supporting other databases? Our company primarily uses and has experience managing MySQL deployments. I evaluated Temporal some time ago as it seemed like a good fit for what we're building so I'm watching
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
The OP is real time ray tracing which is running between 30-60FPS on my macbook air while moving the camera and objects around. Your link appears to be a basic ray tracer which anyone who has taken an intro to computer graphics course in co
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
The update loop occurs as a result of step 3 in which the UI updates itself from the model which then, due to a combination of developer inexperience, UI framework design/complexity, or application complexity, the UI then automatically
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
I've used several MVC UI frameworks in the past both on the desktop and web, and they all had the same problems. When the view becomes out of sync with the model, it becomes a nightmare to figure out why that's happening. You have
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
I went through the Crafting Interpreters book with modern Java. I posted this on reddit, but I basically used records and sealed interfaces. With modern Java there's no need for visitor pattern. private void execute(Stmt statemen
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
How does Magit handle complex merges? The website shows simple diffs. In my experience, merging is something where a great UI can vastly simplify the process. I personally use SmartGit which I find is fantastic for diffs and resolving confl
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
> accelerate slightly, deactivate cruise, drive as normal. That was also what I tried doing to try and remedy the problem. The problem is normally when you want to deactivate cruise, it's because there's a slower car in front.
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
Not the OP and driving my EV isn't a terrible experience, but I do find I struggle to drive it smoothly. I have a really hard time using cruise control in my Genesis EV. I usually use one of the regen breaking modes, and when you disab
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
I see. I think part of the reason why I don't see this (or don't remember it?) is I treat my work computer differently than my home computer. For my work computer, I honestly only restart my Mac maybe once every few months and nev
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
I haven't experienced this but I see you're the second comment pointing that out. I've been using macbooks for work for a long time and never once used iCloud nor do I remember seeing a confusing prompt. But I also rarely upg
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by nogridbag 11mo ago
If anyone else was confused, they're referring to the Audio Readers' Briefs. I didn't immediately recognize it as AI. To be honest the voice sounds exactly like my coworker responsible for doing our product video demonstratio
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by nogridbag 1y ago
Thanks for sharing Toshi. I've been very interested in Cosmic DE recently and have been playing with it with a Virtual machine. Will definitely try Toshi tonight! I used to use Windows and using control key for everything was leading m

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