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_ZeD_··on Memento Movi
> You are 101.38% through A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).

well, that's a percentage!

_ZeD_··on We're experimenting with advertising
are you joking? advertising is - by definition - that thing made to wash your brain to make you desire things it you originally wasn't interested to.
_ZeD_··on Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s
also are .mp3, yet they are hardly discernible from the originals
_ZeD_··on What's New in POSIX 2024
What is the encoding of the filenames?
_ZeD_··on Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
>>> Wouldn’t folks feel better making smart, reasonable, and incremental improvements? Consider cases like introducing Kotlin to gradually level-up a Java shop.

while I could agree on the "principles", specifically for this example I still have scars. Too much costs, no much gain, and you end up with a single project (the first and last one) that no one want to touch and that will be the first to be "engineered back" to java - years later and with a lot of loss

_ZeD_··on Musicmap: The genealogy and history of popular music genres
for sites like that temporary-containers[1] is the way I go

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/temporary-contai...

_ZeD_··on Inline Scope for CSS
That's because nowadays the "standards" is "just what chrome does", and the other browsers can only catch up. Witch is easy for edge, opera and the others chrome-clones, but not straightforward for the rest - aka ff.

as other as said this feature was already present in ff only, but then noone picked it up and so it was abandoned

_ZeD_··on Don't let dicts spoil your code
yet, again, most of the libraries already deal with extra fields... i.e. for pydantic https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/models/#extra-fiel...
_ZeD_··on America's oldest tombstone came from Belgium and belonged to an English knight
megalithic sites are everywhere, yet tombstones are a different thing
_ZeD_··on Java 23 Launch Stream [video]
...and here I am, literally this morning I've downgraded my project from using java 17 to java 8 as it was too "fancy" for our servers...
_ZeD_··on What Firefox trains are we in?
Like what happened with Slackware 7
_ZeD_··on The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)
it's the opposite. we are cynical, so we build that stuff
_ZeD_··on Our Git Hash Bug
infinite is a valid ieee float value. this is a yaml issue, not a dynamic typing one
_ZeD_··on Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
why would you try to do that?
_ZeD_··on Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
what were you using as pc? a moka pot?

windows '98 - even on a semi decent machine - was fast

_ZeD_··on Mini imported Japanese vehicles may soon be banned on Massachusetts roads
given the reduced size, weight, and top speed, and the huge visibility of the kei cars, then it makes still less sense to ban them
_ZeD_··on Git: The Stupid Password Store
> If a system relies on "passwords" (or any similar shared secret scheme) it clearly doesn't really care about security.

that's ... one of the dumbest thing I've ever read

_ZeD_··on Null-Restricted and Nullable Types
Finally! I tried many other solutions/workarounds in the past years, like using the eclipse/intellij notnull annotations and the various efforts of projects like https://www.lastnpe.org/

I was wondering how "enforceable" these nullness check will be and how they will affect generics (will a "List!<String?>" be treated like a non-nullable list of nullable strings? and a List<String!> ? is the "unknown nullables" forwarded to the elements?)

_ZeD_··on Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read
Dude... every Italian kid read the divina commedia.

Dante wrote it in 1321. In poetry.

Oh, and he basically "invented" the Italian language.

that is difficult to read now.

_ZeD_··on Wikipedia is rolling out dark mode support
I might be at a loss here, but I cannot use dark-themed webpages. They are totally blurred and unreadable for me... My only hope is that light-themed documents will be kept
_ZeD_··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
what do rye offers to a pdm-based project?

https://pdm-project.org/

_ZeD_··on I have no constructor, and I must initialize
dude, java constructor are easy... that C++ stuff is really black magic

and from what I understand rust constructors are basically the same as java, no?

_ZeD_··on My philosophy of exceptions: they're always ambiguous (2021)
yeah.. StopIteration is not an instance of Exception, is a subclass of it :^)

no, really:

   help(StopIteration)

   class StopIteration(Exception)
    |  Signal the end from iterator.__next__().
    |  
    |  Method resolution order:
    |      StopIteration
    |      Exception
    |      BaseException
    |      object
...
_ZeD_··on My philosophy of exceptions: they're always ambiguous (2021)
>>> When I shifted from Rust to Python, I tried to write matcher-style code. It wasn’t legible. I became irate.

so, in other words... rust developer tried to write rust in python, and it didn't work.

wasn't that the same story for each combination of two languages? I remember people criticize other people for "always writing java in any language they work with"...

_ZeD_··on It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry
truck is your identity?
_ZeD_··on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
For the nostalgic... https://github.com/glreno/oneko

packaged for debian :)

_ZeD_··on Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles
The very old Qc Na koan is still relevant -- http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
_ZeD_··on NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16
why are you so amazed? software is not apples, doesn't rot by itself.
_ZeD_··on Silicon Valley salaries are shrinking, leaving workers in the lurch
yeah, they're not even true Scotsmen
_ZeD_··on Rare and Amusing Insults, Volume 2
>>> An Italian or Spanish person insulting another is almost like a song

more like "there are songs that are basically just insults" :D cfr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8o7VcBr4I&t=28s

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