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New comment by eddtests in "JDK 21 Release Notes"

eddtests — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:11:42 +0000

I think most corporations use Java, probably "primarily" Java too.

New comment by eddtests in "JDK 21 Release Notes"

eddtests — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:10:17 +0000

Anyone know when homebrew installs will be released for JDK 21?

New comment by eddtests in "A Conversation with Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown"

eddtests — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:32:16 +0000

His dad was a congressman but he died in 1964

New comment by eddtests in "CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification"

eddtests — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:30:54 +0000

This is really cool! But I guess it’s biggest drawback is being unable to deal with case law?

New comment by eddtests in "What Silicon Valley “gets” about software engineers"

eddtests — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 10:35:15 +0000

> Either way, the easiest way to look at it is, do parents tell their kids to aspire to become bartenders?

That sounds incredibly elitist and cringey. If I had a child earning six figures as a bartender I’d be very impressed, and even if they weren’t earning six figures but were enjoying life I’d be happy… And taking it from another perspective, I know people who’s parents would be disappointed their children are ‘lowly software engineers’ too. With that sort of attitude you can rarely win.

New comment by eddtests in "What Silicon Valley “gets” about software engineers"

eddtests — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:56:12 +0000

A manager at an In-N-Out burger restaurant makes more than most developers outside of Silicon Valley ($160000) - and tbh I don’t complain about that because I’ve seen the speed those guys put out burgers in Mountain View on a busy day!

New comment by eddtests in "Cache line alignment in C++ – How it makes your program faster"

eddtests — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:46:24 +0000

gcc has some compiler arguments to automate this from what I understand (-falign) https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html

New comment by eddtests in "We forced our company to allow work from home again"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:51:35 +0000

Or suing for a nice pay check - I am not the most Covid-conscious person, but if I had time tracking AND a potentially illegal activity I’d sue

New comment by eddtests in "We forced our company to allow work from home again"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:47:45 +0000

There’s a fun anecdote about Bell Labs where an electrical engineer, Nyquist, was found to be one of the connecting points for patent output in the company. Having lunch with him seems to have outputted greater numbers of patents. I know there’s going to be so many other factors but I know I’ve learnt a lot from hanging with colleagues over lunch or at the pub, what’s the replacement to that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist

New comment by eddtests in "How does Linux start a process"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:31:34 +0000

I just hope they catch this Sauron before it’s too late…

New comment by eddtests in "Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:53:23 +0000

Why does it cause such higher margins?

New comment by eddtests in "Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:21:48 +0000

Yeah I looked at conan and you can specify git projects to install which is nice. I expect vcpkg to be great for a Windows / Visual Studio setup but I'm on Mac/Linux so haven't really looked. Even with Conan I've not found something as nice as gems/pip/npm for ease of use and it's one of the reasons I end up looking at Rust - because cargo is so familiar to me from a Python background.

Edit: I saw a project recently written in C++ and they had subrepos in a `deps/` directory and then linked to those, so it was all manually managed. If I were to make a new project in C++ I think that's how I'd go too.

New comment by eddtests in "Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library"

eddtests — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:03:09 +0000

Someone more experienced at C can jump in and correct me but from my understanding you're correct, you download the files. You could use git to create subrepos for dependencies in a directory in your project, too. When I've asked this question before those were the answers I got.

New comment by eddtests in "M5, the largest single-masted sailing yacht in the world"

eddtests — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:09:45 +0000

Not for a Texan!

New comment by eddtests in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

eddtests — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:32:48 +0000

25kg is the average weight of a 7 year old girl, so I think it’s fair to say the youngest lightest average child in school.

Id be interested what Grade 1 girls are carrying around that’s totalling 5kg - that’s three hardcover undergrad physics textbooks lol. And even if they do combine to 5kg, there’s no evidence it causes any harm to children!

New comment by eddtests in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

eddtests — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:11:27 +0000

I wager more children get issues from bad posture on computers than carrying a mildly heavy bag from class to class… Honestly to me the worry of children’s backs carrying a couple textbooks is the epitome of the ‘nanny state’. Say a child has five different classes in a day, that will be five textbooks, some notebooks, a pencil case, and a packed lunch. Maybe also sports clothes. If a child can’t carry that (and I’m thinking 7+ here, but realistically you carry larger text books later in your school life) then they have some health issues already.

If they do have health issues accommodations should be made of course! But the vast majority can carry a couple books.

I agree fighting obesity is not going to be solved by carrying books BUT I think this attitude towards coddling children is partly responsible, along with food as you mention which is also very important.

Edit: Just so this isn’t anecdotal points, here’s a survey that found no evidence backpacks cause issues in children https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/19/1241

New comment by eddtests in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

eddtests — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:10:17 +0000

That’s not unhealthy, that’s good! Carry a moderately heavy bag to and from school is hardly difficult, or shouldn’t be, and that sort of weight will be from larger books meaning older children anyway. We have an obesity crisis in most countries - now is not the time to worry about older children/teenagers carrying a couple kilos for a short period each day.

I cannot remember a single person complaining about a heavy rucksack when I was in school a decade ago - by 13 we had CCF so had to go hiking with much heavier bags on the weekends. At 15.5 you can join the military schools and you’ll be carrying 25kg. This shouldn’t be a worry unless you’re physically disabled or something. Duke of Edinburgh involves hiking 13k a day with all your camping equipment and food at 12 years old over a weekend. Etc…

New comment by eddtests in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

eddtests — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:06:39 +0000

Do 20kg children ever really carry 5kg bags though?

New comment by eddtests in "Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack"

eddtests — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:58:03 +0000

I created a few twitter accounts this year for various reasons and all of them had the same number requirement after around 24 hours!

New comment by eddtests in "Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack"

eddtests — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:18:08 +0000

Nowadays if you create a new account it’ll get briefly banned while they do additional checks to ensure you’re human, which is fixed by giving a phone number. Id almost appreciate just asking for one on signup then the charade