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skneko··on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
For no apparent reason, here you can find my key ;P http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF7662...
skneko··on The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
I have the non-Pro edition (Home?) and I have the setting. I think this is a US-vs-Europe thing?
skneko··on How Async/Await Works in C#
For your information, in the Java world the equivalent of .NET is called JRE (Java Runtime Environment).
skneko··on Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
You might be interested in IntelliCode from Visual Studio. It's an AI-guided autocompletion tool, like Copilot, although dumber and less powerful. It can run in local mode [0], looking at your existing codebase (opened solution) to feed future suggestions.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/intellicode/ov...

skneko··on The erosion of the Mac experience
In my experience the Windows-Linux split is around 50-50, but I've only seen exactly two people with Apple devices in my entire life here. Western Europe.
skneko··on The erosion of the Mac experience
Don't worry I'm European and 90% of developers I know think exactly like you (and me). It's just that the HN crowd is typically North American, and people tend to like what they have grown with.
skneko··on .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm from Europe and there's a lot of .NET jobs here too. In my experience, the US is the outlier with a very small .NET presence.
skneko··on Microsoft Validation OS
As far as I know, Microsoft is the only big company I know that uses a gigantic, generic, combined EULA for all of its services at once.
skneko··on Two people killed after Tesla collides with semi-truck on I-75
It makes a very useful point: this is just another accident, but the media is reporting on it because the involved brand is Tesla.
skneko··on It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
As explained in [0]:

- To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. As an open source project, Godot does not have such a legal figure.

- Console SDKs are secret and covered by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the platform-specific code under an open source license.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/blob/master/tutori...

skneko··on A Spanish teen’s genome may hold the secret to lupus
I work in a Spanish university (yes, I'm a filthy academic) and just the other day we were running experiments using a research tool in relation to this new variation of TRL7. This tool is a genomic variation database aggregator that tries to act as an "oracle" of the clinical significance of the variations by running an AI algorithm on the harvested data. Very cool stuff, in spite of my area not being directly related to bioinformatics :)
skneko··on Settings are not a design failure
That is strange. My Windows is in Spanish and 2 years ago it found everything in English with no issues and today it still does (Windows 10)
skneko··on Spanish Wordle
God, the translation is horrible (native speaker from Spain here).
skneko··on Your code displays Japanese wrong
Both appear Japanese for me. Locale = es_ES.UTF-8
skneko··on Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
There is a "blind mode" that hides the font names.
skneko··on New language features since Java 8 to 17
ArrayList is not a linked list, it's an array-backed list like List in C# or other languages, like the name implies. Linked list is `java.util.LinkedList`.
skneko··on New language features since Java 8 to 17
> E.g., correct usage of arrays vs. ArrayList.

Arrays vs lists is a thing in all languages, not Java. They just have different names (list, vector, sequence...)

skneko··on YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
Those kinds of sites don't work. There are no operative workarounds as far as I know.
skneko··on WebGoat is a deliberately insecure application
Ah yes we used this and BadStore in the web security course of my university. Not very hard, but good for beginners.
skneko··on Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban
Geez I feel bad for the guy asking the question... it was an interesting topic and he was basically ignored. I was expecting better from an "official" Slack.
skneko··on Spanish Sketches
> The government also seized the healthcare competences of the autonomous communities, only to be revealed that they were incompetent, and make old people die in assisted living facilities.

Eh, there have been compaints from both left and right that the competences left to the autonomous communities have done more harm than good. To say they have not had a lot of competences is misleading, they do have a lot more decision power than in other countries. Spain is de facto very decentralized.

> There is an all time high unemployment in young people…

Indeed, but unemployment overall is not the highest in the last years. You need to be specific when talking about data.

> You can’t take the prices of the last year when many people started working from home, and leaving big cities, and hence rent has decreased.

Yet in most of other EU countries it has went up sharply. We're not doing as bad as you think.

> Left leaning propaganda is pretty much alive in Spain, where you can’t criticize the left without being labeled as “facha” (as this case).

Honestly I agree with you here, but still, you can't say misleading statements that contradict the data. If we want to see real improvement the first step is looking at data and being honest about it.

skneko··on Spanish Sketches
I am honestly struggling to understand why this publication is even being allowed in a forum about programming, computers, technology and such. This is just old politics of a very specific country.
skneko··on Spanish Sketches
> and most of the governments since them (and the current one) have been left-leaning (PSOE mostly).

False, they have been mostly alternating.

> And now, in Spain, the COVID-19 crisis has shown the inefficiency of the government

We are vaccinating way more per day than other EU countries, having surpassed in total vaccionations the USA and Germany (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations).

> the unemployment is the highest in the last years

False, it's actually lowest than in the previous economical crisis (it peaked in 2013) and now there's COVID going on (https://www.epdata.es/datos/paro-espana-hoy-epa-ine/10/espan...).

> and the price of buying or renting a home is high as ever

Spain is one of the few EU countries where house prices have went only slightly up this year, compared to the notable increases in others, which are more than double the net increase (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...).

> Ideological propaganda (left-leaning mostly) is very much alive in Spain.

To complain about propaganda, you're sharing a fair bunch yourself.

skneko··on Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
I am a research intern working in a group studying and developing formal methods. The tech we are working with has served to verify planes, trains and has been used in NASA. AMA if anyone here is curious about how the world around FM works.
skneko··on Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
An "end user" will not install the SDK anyway. You do not need it to run .NET, it's for making your own apps.
skneko··on Reclaim Windows10
This does not send personal files to MS, no. It sends executables that have been already flagged as a virus through other methods (e.g. heuristics). Also this is part of Defender, not of SmartScreen.
skneko··on Nano 5.7
Nano has syntax highlighting...
skneko··on The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
> How are you supposed to figure out that A happened before B in a multithreaded program using only a debugger? Setting printpoints, letting them be hit and continuing... this whole thread seems to arise from the fact people have not learned to use debuggers.
skneko··on Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
Custom version? Isn't `deno compile` what you want?
skneko··on Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)
I mean ELI5 is clearly hyperbolic, but explaining dispatch like "Just read a void* pointer and do a goto *p" is definitely 1st year of CS level. This wouldn't be valid for teaching actual VM implementation fundamentals.

Some may wish courses about compilers & VMs would be as easily (and naively) explained, but this style misses a lot of critical and complex details. Nobody likes complexity, but if it exists, it exists.