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Re:Fq: Jq for Binary Formats on Saturday June 03, 2023 @01:02PM (#36178334)
I'd also like to throw https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex in the mix here.
Re:Do McKinsey and other consultants do anything useful? on Saturday October 15, 2022 @09:22AM (#33214557)
Responsibility sink.
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:47AM (#31375638)
> tesla does not need to advertise

What do you think Elon's shenanigans are exactly?

> 2x memory looks like a naive implementation of just allocating an std::string from heap for each line. Due to heap fragmentation and various overhead it would quickly blow up.

Looks more line Qt's internal UTF-16 encoding in this case.

Re:Sweden sends just 1% of its trash to landfills on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:19AM (#30958256)
"Recycling" means "the landfill is on the other half of the globe".
> Barcode scanners are hilariously bad

Aren't they just USB HID (previously: serial) devices that literally just output key codes for the numbers detected?

In the Challenger case, the bad information has been deliberately hidden within the structure. They could just as well have pulled it up in the structure.

It's like saying variable font sizes are inherently bad because due to them, contracts can have small print sections.

Re:Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:25AM (#30597319)
A small set standardized data structures (vectors, maps) would do so much good for C.
Re:What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling? on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:46AM (#30451411)
For me, The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption had the most compelling environments. I spent probably half of my play time just walking-riding around.
Re:Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020) on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:48AM (#30297896)
> it's a book filled with solutions to imaginary problems.

Have you even read it? I'd say it has more deep real world examples than almost any other SW engineering book I've read.

Re:DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:52AM (#30203625)
Obligatory plug for Simon Tatham's (the author of Putty) puzzle application.
Re:Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:44AM (#30177374)
Love it!
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:40AM (#30112177)
Trade shows are a particular kind of crazy.
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology.

Like I wasn't forced to participate in the resolution and the fallout of the housing crash?

Re:I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:41AM (#29996015)
> For a while I felt guilty, like I was ripping the law-firm off

Laughed out loud at this.

Re:1Password Has Raised $620M on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:40AM (#29995989)
620M is too much for a password manager, so we can safely assume it is no longer one.
Re:I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:37AM (#29918218)
You could get hundreds of thousands of European developers (West as well as East Europe) by offering 80000 EUR comp and a reliable contract.
> Anyone that's worried about autoimmune phenomena after vaccination should look at autoimmune phenomena post Covid infection

Hard to ignore, what with this being shoved down my throat 24/7 for 1.5 years.

Re:Three ways of handling user input on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:32AM (#29837030)
Using Statecharts or FRP is completely orthogonal to the choice of polling vs. event driven.
Re:How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:53PM (#29716674)
Sophistry and rhetoric are not "thinking". They are intellectual sleight of hands.
Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019) on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:33AM (#29638318)
I hope you use the standard Windows OS.
Re:Toddlers are harsh judges of moral character on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:49AM (#29636460)
> and only add nuance later

When would that be?

> These core values won't change.

The Abmahnwesen never dies.

Install it on a spare laptop.
> Betting your life it's mild is dumb.

But keeping the panic dialed up to 11 for two years is very healthy.

Signed, someone who probably now has a cardiac neurosis.

A support forum for a commercial product is not a "community".
> Um. Is high hazard and death ratio for obese people something that needed explaining?

Some people might argue that convincing people to not get fat is much lower hanging fruit than transforming every democracy into an authoritarian apartheid state for effects that are well below any statistical significance threshold.

Re:Advent of Code 2021 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:47AM (#29404880)
> Not sure if this is indicative of other years

It is.

Re:JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor on Saturday November 20, 2021 @03:39PM (#29291644)
There was a time when a Swing application felt heavyweight, but today, it feels extremely lightweight (including JVM startup).

(Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.)

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