jankotek

Joined 10 years ago

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Dec 22
Java/Scala hacker. Astronomy nerd.

www.mapdb.org

www.kotek.net

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Comment · 4 years ago
Perhaps it is just travel anxiety? I book hotels a few hours in advance and stats like "only 2 rooms left", are usually correct when I check with hotel reception. At least in Europe booking.com is much better than competition. It has loyalty discounts, transparent pricing and consistent experience. Reviews and descriptions are actually useful, not BS. Emails I get are usually "place you looked at become 30% cheaper".
Comment · 5 years ago
Does it make a sense to turn it into fuse fs, with transparent deduplication?
Comment · 5 years ago
Win95 had very strict and consistent UI style. Office2k and Win2k were peak of this consistency. After that came WinXP and mismatch of inconsistent UI styles.
Comment · 5 years ago
Java uses some memory for stack, about 1MB for each thread.
Comment · 5 years ago
For start they could provide private offices. Open-plan office is hygienically unsuitable for regular use.
Comment · 5 years ago
I had run LineageOS for some time. It works, but FDroid is missing too many apps, even opensource like Signal. I have to update apks manually every few months.
Comment · 5 years ago
Japan has very good public transport, and does not really need cars.

In america the question is why invest in carbon based transportation? It is "obsolete technology"! In japan cars are "obsolete"!

Comment · 5 years ago
Better to eradicate ticks.
Comment · 5 years ago
$10 nozzle repair requires new battery pack for $16,000. Call it what you want, but that is not green car.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why should people care about some 50 year old obscure cultural references? It is not 1980ies, when 99% unix users were from western culture.
Comment · 5 years ago
Many public institutions treat Google as public utility. Children can not attend school, unless they agree to privacy policy on school issued Chromebook. Town hall meetings announcements are only on FB...

If those are not public utilities, there should be law to prevent public institutions from using them.

I always seen it as public threat that politicians are on private social media, what if private company declares war on our behalf?

Comment · 5 years ago
OS author also distributes, maintains and supports project. Just compiling some opensource projects (Firefox, Chromium) is very complicated.

I am not sure what happened here. But if large project would use outdated or broken version, author may get bombarded with support requests for problem, that was solved years ago.

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