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New comment by ivolimmen in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

ivolimmen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:26:06 +0000

I remember I have my first computer that could actually play MP3's. The computer I had before it could store them but not play them. So yeah I remember those times...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

ivolimmen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:24:24 +0000

This looks really nice, I also have a weird love for this kinds of GUI's. Windows 95/98 & CDE are my thing, and I really miss it.

New comment by ivolimmen in "LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft"

ivolimmen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:01:45 +0000

I left the site over a month ago, I closed my account. I only receive weird emails from recruiters from it.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers"

ivolimmen — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:44:34 +0000

It's like making directories called 'only for jack' etc. and expecting everyone to follow the rules

New comment by ivolimmen in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

ivolimmen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:54:10 +0000

Since LLM's are mimicking our code my guess we do...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?"

ivolimmen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:44:33 +0000

Two articles on the site are already bookmarks in my app. I completely agree. Not all applications become hugely populair to actually need all those tooling. Plus since I always work in a DevOps team installation and maintenance of all those things are on our team; I don't want to learn to maintain and install all those things. If a team member suggests to add some random tool; the first thing I ask is who will be maintaining it? I'm not.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

ivolimmen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:49:43 +0000

Both screenshots of Windows 2000 and OpenVMS are in my opinion the peak UI's.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Pi squared is nearly 10"

ivolimmen — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:52:36 +0000

> In the US and countries with a similar date format

Humm that's like 2 or 3 countries?

New comment by ivolimmen in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

ivolimmen — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:53:11 +0000

I recently got a 1Gbit fiber and I have been very happy with it. I do not know if I am a heavy internet user but I have DisneyPlus, Netflix, HBO, Prime. I game and those games use a lot of data (80GB is normal now). I don't pirate stuff. I work from home 95% of the time. I do not see ANY reason to go faster. If I download a game and it is large I have to tell steam to cap the speed to 200 Mbit otherwise my machine freezes (I download games to a normal SATA drive and the machine is a Ryzen 9 9900X). I have to option to go to 2Gbit or even 8Gbit but I don't want to buy more expensive switches/routers and network cards for my computers.

Who (not including geeks) would want to go faster than 1Gbit?

New comment by ivolimmen in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

ivolimmen — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:13:26 +0000

It's a typo: I meant consultant

New comment by ivolimmen in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

ivolimmen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:35:50 +0000

One of the pillars of Domain Driven Design. I love working on a pure DDD application but I do not often convince my team (I am a constant) that this is the best way ...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Sony erases digital content from libraries"

ivolimmen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:09:41 +0000

They should drop the word 'buy'. There are several reasons your purchase will be gone at some point. There is no guarantee the company will not be bought by another company that reverses some policy or it goes bankrupt, etc.

New comment by ivolimmen in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

ivolimmen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:52:39 +0000

I think it does if enough people try this. I will.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ivolimmen — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:41:28 +0000

Yes ASP.NET core is a big improvement; I recently tried .NET again on my Linux machine and was able to run .NET and skip using Mono.

If we want to compress a file we normally just wrap the file ouputstream in a GZIPOutputStream so we add features by wrapping it.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ivolimmen — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:36:05 +0000

I mostly blame it on Linq but you are right it mostly because bad documentation on both the provider and the general stuff on how Linq works.

Yes Java does not have an alternative for Linq and jooq is a poor knock-off compared to this but then again: I do not care much for JPA/Hibernate.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ivolimmen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:30:41 +0000

Same for me. I have worked with Java since 1.2.2 and used .NET for something like 10 years (don't remember the versions). Most important differences are:

  -Java always has an API, .NET is about extending an existing application (Servlet API vs IIS)
  -Java has a nicer IO as .NET has bidirectional streams (You can't wrap streams in .NET).
  -Linq is nice but has a huge caveat: if a Linq provider does not implement it fully to falls back to the .NET collections. So trying to 'Skip' and 'Take' on a ActiveDirectory will fall back to collections in memory and cause a crash on a huge AD in production (Yes had the pleasure).
  -Java's Eco-system is way bigger.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

ivolimmen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:18:26 +0000

I have a Chromebook lying around that is cheaper than this... memory prices are crazy!

New comment by ivolimmen in "GeoLibre 1.0"

ivolimmen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:13:05 +0000

As far as I remember, when I was working with GIS I never had to use ArcGIS; there are very good free alternatives like QGIS.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

ivolimmen — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:07:56 +0000

Same can be said for learning an OO programming language or a procedural programming language. I learned C++ at school and started using Java on my first job. I forgot how to work correctly with pointers but I have tried multiple languages (using the same paradigms) and managed to build working software

New comment by ivolimmen in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

ivolimmen — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:58:38 +0000

It's not just 'a person' or 'a student', we as a collective become more dumb. Very simple example to highlight this: Most developers use(d?) stackoverflow. Everything related to software development is stored there. The LLM's trained on it. Now a huge set of developers now longer go to stackoverflow to get answers. Or add to the collective. Stackoverflow is losing money (ad revenue). If / when stackoverflow goes away we will lose a huge amount of collective information on software development. We, as a group, will take a huge step back.