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KoenDG··on New Mac Pro
Seems like they're not announcing the CPU just yet?
KoenDG··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
> Lack of comments

json5 to the rescue: https://json5.org/

> It’s just not that readable. Sure, it’s readable for a data-interchange format, but not readable for a configuration file.

I'm of the opposite opinion. I find json to be the easiest to read, as opposed to yml and xml.

KoenDG··on Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I thought this was going to be about stuff like Ubiquity: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

Loved that back when they tried it.

Here's an old screenshot: https://imgur.com/O8rN9fK

Since there doesn't appear to be any on the site.

It was great. Just directly interact with all kinds of apis from a commandline-like environment, within your browser.

KoenDG··on PostgreSQL's Explain Analyze Made Readable
Came here to say this. The visualization is really nice, and it provides a lot of explanation of what specific keywords mean.
KoenDG··on Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people
I was just thinking. If they gave me this test back in the '90s, but replaced it with a Pokeball and the face of a character from the Pokemon show, I'd probably have done better too.

Those would have been things recognizable to me. Things I liked a lot.

Also, they would have put my mind somewhat at ease, I think.

I wonder how much of the inability to answer some questions is actually down to feeling slightly intimidated by the onslaught of questions, their sterile aura, not knowing the person presenting them, etc...

How much does the subconscious feeling of intimidation influence the ability to think?

KoenDG··on In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
I'd very much prefer buying online. I don't have room to store those books, but I do want to read em.
KoenDG··on Lombok makes Java cool again
So, like Spring?

ba dum tish

KoenDG··on Advice to new programmers
"Good" being the key word. Most professors I had in my day were probably masters of the material, but their droned explanations bored me to death and were overly theoretical.

Asking for help was a sure way to be mocked by your fellow students, who for some reason lived by the idea that it's okay to mock people for not knowing something they do know.

And then lab professors saying it's not their job to explain things, just google it. I was literally told several times by the lab professors that "we're just teaching you how to effectively google things".

I wonder if that contributed to my hating bad documentation and guides.

KoenDG··on Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)
Google has DRM? Called Widevine?
KoenDG··on Scratch 3.0
Going to that link, AntiMalwarebytes reports it blocked 2 urls because "spyware" and "trojan" respectively.

both from a site called "cubeupload"

KoenDG··on Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
Plenty of countries have unions and their industries have no such problems.

Not saying those things you describe didn't happen.

However, one should wonder why almost the entire rest of the world manages to do this just fine.

KoenDG··on People with Depression Use Language Differently
Well, the article and the research it discusses is exclusively focussed on language.

Of course, there are more factors to depression beyond just language. Your body's internal chemistry is also going to factor in.

You say cutting carbs and fibers from your diet helped you. It might help some other people as well. For yet another group of people with depression, such a change might not help at all.

There's no magic solution and there are many, many possible causes for why a person is suffering from depression.

KoenDG··on Please do not attempt to simplify this code
Ah, I love this so much.
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