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adra

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    Comment #44063113

    I love java and kotlin. The gap has certainly swayed way more in Java's favor over the last 5 years, but there are still a ton of great features that kotlin does first and if that …

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    Comment #44063036

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    Comment #43947714

    It's not great, but you can always catch and retry if your belief is that the GC will free enough memory to allow the attempt to continue after the memory pressure subsides. Let's …

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    Comment #43938573

    Erm, maybe file based? JSON is the king if you count exchanges worldwide a sec. Maybe no 2 is form-data which is basically email multipart, and if course there's email as a format.…

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    Comment #43850298

    The unemployment rate is what, 3%? Where are you going to find the millions of people needed to make the iPhone domestically? Immigration? Hah, that would be an interesting stance.…

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    Comment #43850213

    I'm sure that China will suffer greatly from any trade war, and I'm positive the US will blink first. Chinese consumer and workers are already significantly less likely to revolt, …

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    Comment #43807570

    The benefits of education on a country are decades long to fully see the positive outcomes. How do you expect differently by destroying said institutions? Your kids or likely kids …

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    Comment #43772611

    The two OS kernels and API are super close (outsider perspective). I used win2k for like 10 years mostly on the back of applications and games supporting XP for so long. I can't re…

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    Comment #43595363

    You know, the Nissan that has two feet i to the grave... I Surrre.

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    Comment #43584441

    And they don't even bother holding their noses tightly sealed as they let them pass. Source of income (you know what I mean) has no bearing on these places. Enjoy your neighbours, …

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    Comment #43547604

    Why, because 90% of her job is talking to and appeasing shareholders, grand standing with fat whales, and what else.. what do you think a CEO at these companies actually does? They…

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    Comment #43424576

    Make builds in docker by mounting volumes and have your sources, intermediate files, caches, etc. in these volume mounts. Building a bunch of intermediate or incremental data IN th…

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    Comment #43390111

    At the very least, they can provide a full log of all interactions and recording in an audit log. Have that verified with researchers conducting their own analysis on dial home act…

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    Comment #43363752

    Framework made a tiny desktop form factor version with this chip in it, so we'll if it gets much traction (at least among enthusiasts).

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    Comment #43349777

    I don't care if this works or not it makes me giddy with glee at the idea. Thanks for making my day.

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    Comment #43345466

    To be somewhat charitable to GP, if their climate for research and development leads to actually objectively better outcomes then yes I'd say it's fair to make the claims that a na…

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    Comment #43168480

    Google gives attribution and maybe provenance, while AI gives you smoke and mirrors. I guess we'll decide if copyright has any legs left to stand on in the modern world, or if it f…

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    Comment #43097485

    Don't forget about their REAL expenses: credit processing fees and chargebacks.

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    Comment #43084274

    The windows kernel is old. The Linux kernel is old. These are both old code bases, but they're not "legacy" at least in terms of how many would phrase the term. A codebase let to r…

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    Comment #43066339

    I'm still waiting for file upload API v2. V1 was only made EOL like what, 9 months ago.. Its totally fine to gut your company when all you need is maintenance mode.

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    Comment #42925928

    The rationale is to damage Chinese commercial interests. Otherwise, the billions of IOT devices that dial back to Chinese manufacturers would be way higher up the list than an AI t…

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    Comment #42893516

    There is also an Adblock plus filter to stop the AI from ever showing up. Can't remember what it was at the moment, but it worked great.

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    Comment #42879113

    Reasons for fad status IMHO, things companies are wanting to charge for that I'm willing to pay for: none. Features added to existing products that have made the product worse: act…

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    Comment #42751547

    Member berries when the internet was hip and cool and UUCP was the only game in town, and everyone was a wonderfully insightful ray if sunshine? Yeah, me neither.

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    Comment #42535135

    You do have some options in the JVM world. As mentioned, you should still be able to kill threads if you really wanted to, but if you wanted to pivot to JS/LUA, there are still jsh…