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Rovanion··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
This is such an USA-citizen thing to write. Doing the right thing is never even considered.
Rovanion··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
You, is an interesting word to use given that you plagiarized it.
Rovanion··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
This article is plain wrong. It ignores that the largest amount of housing ever built in Britain was council housing post war through to Thatcher.
Rovanion··on Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect
The coal used for reduction of iron ore to iron can be replaced with hydrogen through direct reduction. See Hybrit which has working industrial scale demonstration plant today, though at reduced capacity. Full capacity plants are planned in multiple locations by 2036.
Rovanion··on VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting
Does anyone know of a software that can do motion detection and spit out timestamps in a video for use in ffmpeg or the like?
Rovanion··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
The solution is simple although cumbersome, disallow cars though The village.
Rovanion··on Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang
It would still have Musk.
Rovanion··on Remote work is gutting downtowns
Walkable cities with mixed use development. Change the use of downtown.
Rovanion··on MIT graduate students vote to unionize
Coming from Sweden I'm surprised they aren't already. Do you also not have student unions to represent you until you reach undergrad?
Rovanion··on PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
IRC tells me this has been fixed now.
Rovanion··on Clojure Macros and Metaprogramming
I think the lack of reader macros really help here. Macros in Clojure are much more "functions that run at compile time" rather than "look at this fun DSL I threw together".

What I think it comes down to though is adherence to convention. A preference hierarchy has grown together with Clojure and it goes:

1. Can it be expressed using data structures, do that. For example a map/dictionary lookup. 2. If that fails, express your more complex idea using a function. 3. If you absolutely must, write a macro.

You usually end up with very few macros except for those in the standard library, and those you end up with are more commonly of the convenience kind. One example would be the standard web routing library of the early 10's called Compojure that relied heavily on macros where my current favourite Reitit uses just data.

Rovanion··on GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
Absolute gc throughput and overhead.
Rovanion··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
They won't. Their margins on the services side are obscene so getting people into that ecosystem is worth much more than the sales of some processors.
Rovanion··on 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
Perhaps they should have?
Rovanion··on Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux
News just came out they will support it in the next release.
Rovanion··on “I will slaughter you”
<3
Rovanion··on Blender 2.80 release candidate
I know it sucks, but at least it sounds better than giving up an entire hobby: Couldn't you just stay on the last working version of Blender?
Rovanion··on Storm 2.0
While it is true that Java is statically typed and Clojure is dynamically typed it is perhaps one of the less important differences between the two languages. If you in fact would like to add a static type system on top of Clojure there is a way to do that: Typed Clojure.

https://typedclojure.org/

Rovanion··on Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels
You got to start with what's within your control, right? Then you may continue with others. But until you do that you're a hypocrite.
Rovanion··on SimpleSSR: Server-Side Rendering at Scale
Hi, I just watched through the first two parts of your three part intro to Texas on YouTube.

I noted that you restart the server process each time you make a change to the elixir application and coming from the Clojure universe I have the following question: Is it possible to insetad of restarting the server program each time you make a change to it's source code instead modify the program as it is running?

This is usually how I work on my Clojure programs and I find that doing that which results in near instant feedback while I am programming.

Rovanion··on Native Clojure with GraalVM
Did Leiningen compile through Graal without modification?
Rovanion··on New insights on pesticide exposure and autism
The study controlled for that:

> The odds of autism among offspring were significantly increased with maternal p,p'-DDE levels that were in the highest 75th percentile, with adjustment for maternal age, parity, and history of psychiatric disorders...

Rovanion··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
Yeah. I got a Dell for my day job and unfortunately the nipple is entirely unusable. I miss my ThinkPad :/
Rovanion··on Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
By exercising other parts of your brain you let those used for work recover.
Rovanion··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
Not just experiments. Neither Google Hangouts nor Meet worked in Firefox until the 22nd of May this year.
Rovanion··on Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
I heard there was a more user friendly FLOSS program called Homebank, though I've never used it myself.
Rovanion··on GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
I'm sorry? There's a difference between constructive criticism and

> I really do want to love GIMP, but it's completely unusable.

And you speak of being productive...

Rovanion··on GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Maybe because its hard. Maybe because the core developers can be counted on one hand.

My knee jerk reaction to your knee jerk reaction is: If its so easy, go fix it!

Rovanion··on GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)
Is it just for me the advisor to the deputy prime minister of a EU country does not work?
Rovanion··on ZFS for Linux
It is possible though, I set up a Ubuntu machine with ZFS root this christmas.
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