zwieback

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Engineer at HP
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Comment · 5 months ago
In other words: nothing has changed since Henry James wrote about Americans in Europe.
Comment · 10 months ago
Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.
Comment · 1 year ago
As a former Swabian I'm a bit hurt that those beautiful Brezeln get such a low score
Comment · 1 year ago
Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember correctly.
Comment · 1 year ago
Learned from this post that Gmail web had POP! Now I'll be mourning loss of a feature I never even used.
Comment · 1 year ago
I find AI coding assistants useful when I'm using a new library or language feature I'm not super familiar with.

When I have AI generate code using features I'm very familiar with I can see that it's okay but not premium code.

So it makes sense that I feel more productive but also a little skeptical.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not sneering in any way, I love those groups and visit when I get a chance. Also a big fan of our local university's tree collections, they are on a mission to preserve variety of specimens.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds intriguing, want to try one now. This is the kind of thing Home Orchard Societies wet their pants over. Probably grown right next to their pawpaw tree.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe for the DB domain author is talking about but the nice thing about a bool is that it's true or false. I don't have to dig around documentation or look through the code what the convention of converting enum, datetime, etc. to true/false is. 1970/1/1 (I was four years old then, just sayin), -6000 or something else?

Nullable helps a lot here but not all languages support that the same way.

Comment · 1 year ago
The real vibe coding is when you hear the core memory vibrating
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm glad to hear that but only if the buttons, wires and connectors are high quality. Pretty sure one of the reasons for everything touchscreen is cost. My mom's BMW has a sort of joystick/knob/button that controls what's displayed on the screen which is an okay compromise.
Comment · 1 year ago
What happened, did you just get stranded and they came and replaced the car?
Comment · 1 year ago
Of all the many source control systems I've used git has the worst usability yet it's my favorite
Comment · 1 year ago
Windows is a good OS and Visual Studio (not Code) is the best IDE.

Also, I really don't like marine mammals at all. Possible exception for otters

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