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Seems to be run by a married couple of (maybe) burnt out account managers. That, in combination with some AI help, explains the empty "LinkedIn slop" writing style I think. It's no…

The game Overwatch is a pretty great contemporary example of this [1]. It has some excellent fluid animations, which look really weird if you freeze frame them. [1]: https://youtu.…

I don't think GPUs ever had branch prediction in the first place. You can however run into poor performance due to thread divergence, which is a similar kind of issue (with much le…

Yes. I'm sure it would feel nice to pay off my apartment loan, but the interest rate on that is 2.75%, which is way lower than what I can (reasonably) expect to make on the stock m…

> Product owners and engineers could initially collaborate on this spec and on test cases to enforce business rules. Those should be checked into the project repositories along wit…

A couple of quotes from one of the employed baristas (translated from a Swedish local news article) [1]. "I'm worried every time there's a delivery, I never know what she's ordered…

I don't think so. The cafe is a real place and it's owned by the company mentioned in the article. It was in the local news the other week [1]. If you're going to do an experiment …

Considering the size (and significance) of the VSCode user base, it feels like someone should be in charge of ensuring that default behavior doesn't change without good reason. Doe…

See also: the distinct shape of the flap and landing gear levers (which are often located next to each other). https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22680/why-is-th...

How do you read a number like 17? "seventeen", small endian. Language is messy, some more than others [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#Numerals

There's an old German short film called Nicht löschbares Feuer (Inextinguishable Fire, 1969)[1] that I'm fond of. It was a protest film against Napalm and how some companies wouldn…

I like em dashes—and sometimes overuse them—but 37 times is absurd in that amount of text.

I would go even further and state that "you should never assume that floating point functions will evaluate the same on two different computers, or even on two different versions o…

Unless you compile with fast-math ofc, because then the compiler will assume that NaN never occurs in the program.

It's already eroded in many countries right? Gendered patronymic names used to be common here in Sweden - Katarina Gustavsdotter (Vasa) was the daughter of Gusav Eriksson (Vasa), w…

> Digital payments are very convenient and deeply integrated, so long as you have a local ID which allows you use the local payment system Swish etc. Just to reiterate how ubiquito…

I'm in Sweden and the only time I've ever come in contact with a check was when an American company sent me one as a refund. Most of these reasons just sound like fee-issues to me.…

That is partially why the banks/government in Sweden have been happy to phase it out. Companies also don't like dealing with cash because it requires extra accounting, security, an…

Swedbank offers debit cards to kids as young as seven [1]. Depending on the kid's age (and what the parents configure), there will be different limits on how much the kid can spend…

This is also partially due to hacking incidents in recent years. In 2021, all 800 Coop grocery stores were closed for a few days due to the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack [1]. [1]: h…

And a lot of the time it makes the syntax more compact than it would be with 0-indexing. for i=1,#arr do foo(arr[i]) end I don't feel that strongly for or against either way of ind…

I don't see how kilowatts would be more sensible than kilowatt-hours here, especially since the power output might not be consistent. See also, "Power is not Energy": https://youtu…

Despite being written in 2009, it certainly still feels relevant. And thank you for posting this, because it made me think of Sir Noël Coward's banger song "There are bad times jus…

Ran into the same thing. Changing to a non-default DNS fixed it.

> the algorithm will wrongfully report "false" for arrays like e.g. [INT_MIN, -1] If you have INT_MIN along with any other negative number in the array then your program has undefi…