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ickyforce

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    Comment #49013873

    I tried this with Gemini 3.6 Flash Me:how many P's are in the following text? [Pasted text with 10 P's] Gemini: There are 9 "P"s (1 uppercase P and 8 lowercase ps) in the provided …

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    Comment #48578335

    Mostly 30 years of people writing code.

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    Comment #48510207

    seriously, what was the point of this comment?

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    Comment #48072119

    What's wrong with Apple push notifications in China?

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    Comment #47555113

    > and any decent formatter will split up long lines Any decent editor can wrap long lines on demand. But it's even better not to have to do either of those if not necessary. > I've…

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    Comment #43008785

    > So unless those pools are full of primitive data types, you’re going to cause more frequent full GC pauses, and longer due to all the back pointers. If you have enough objects po…

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    Comment #41105777

    > each world was spherical (...) suddenly orienting the map was a challenge The other downside was the fact that it was possible to assault arbitrary points - e.g. drop units from …

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    Comment #40761084

    CME documentation states: "LMM – CME Designated Lead Market Makers are each allocated a configurable percentage of an aggressor order quantity before the remaining quantity passes …

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    Comment #40708001

    I have tried various approaches and here's what worked best, assuming that there is some natural way to partition most of the data (e.g. per account): 1. Init the DB with some "def…

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    Comment #39975494

    I don't know, it wasn't generated by me, I just found it in the "explore" tab. I tried to generate something similar and this came out: https://app.suno.ai/song/24dddb7b-5a10-45a2-…

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    Comment #39938650

    Some of these are just "nice" but I'd probably buy this one: https://app.suno.ai/song/abddd209-4ad7-469d-82b9-f0117db0e51...

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    Comment #39588866

    > GIT is already best model for keeping history of textual changes Git doesn't even keep history of changes, just snapshots before and after the changes. A very common problem is v…

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    Comment #39487802

    It's not just the type of work but also experience. Here are two cases: 1. After working for many years in Java I needed to build a service. I spent few days designing it and then …

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    Comment #39243389

    Oh, nice, thanks. I haven't been using github recently, it looks like this option was added ~1.5y ago.

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    Comment #39219735

    In my opinion PR/changeset description is exactly what should be in the commit description. In cases were we had 1 commit per PR (i.e. squashing before merging) just copying the PR…

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    Comment #38672430

    > I don't see how replacing the "it works on my machine" with "it works in this VM" is much better. It is the same problem. It's not that. It's replacing "it works on my machine an…

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    Comment #38005604

    > I'm very curious to hear from someone who likes DI in a non-OOP language - why? The alternative to DI is keeping dependencies in a global state (global variables, singletons, wha…

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    Comment #37893806

    Time from enqueue to start isn't a good metric - it completely disregards the queue size. Enqueuing 1M jobs won't change this metric as it only updates once the job reaches the fro…

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    Comment #37799262

    Looks interesting, I'll probably try it. I think that the area where I'd love some tool to help me would be keeping track of phone calls - ideally even attaching recordings to a pr…

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    Comment #37793965

    I don't think her conclusion is correct in this case (that it's all about chronological order). It's not about what happens first but about levels of abstraction. It doesn't make s…

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    Comment #37540555

    "What OOP users claim" -> https://i.imgur.com/KrZVDsP.png

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    Comment #37249959

    > but nothing really production-ready that I'm aware of Here are some: http://hdrhistogram.org/ https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/ (Victoria Metrics is also worth loo…

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    Comment #32034483

    Ha, that's true, thanks! I guess my Java-fu is weak these days :)

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    Comment #32014670

    This is completely another level of "issues" than other problems in this thread. During code review I'd only mention it as a nit. The longer form is correct and the only downside i…