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jankotek

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About jankotek

Java/Scala hacker. Astronomy nerd.

www.mapdb.org

www.kotek.net

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    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 Europ…

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    Comment #29277045

    Does it make a sense to turn it into fuse fs, with transparent deduplication?

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    Comment #29241751

    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.

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    Comment #29238091

    Java uses some memory for stack, about 1MB for each thread.

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    Comment #28729770

    For start they could provide private offices. Open-plan office is hygienically unsuitable for regular use.

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    Comment #28288628

    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.

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    Comment #28263880

    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 car…

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    Comment #28208667

    Better to eradicate ticks.

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    Comment #28072116

    $10 nozzle repair requires new battery pack for $16,000. Call it what you want, but that is not green car.

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    Comment #27994620

    Why should people care about some 50 year old obscure cultural references? It is not 1980ies, when 99% unix users were from western culture.

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    Comment #27985183

    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 announc…

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    Comment #27567787

    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 i…

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    Comment #26792523

    It searches content of referenced webpages. Also has filtering by year intervals (for example 2012-2016), domains, tags etc.. And I find usability better. I think it is great produ…

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    Comment #26759778

    Chariots were invented, but lightweight chariots were VERY hightech and expensive, something like Ferrari today. See youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loti-WBK_k

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    Location: Prague, Czechia Remote: yes, Europe Willing to relocate: no, remote only, preferably async Technologies: java, jvm, data, kotlin, scala, defi CV: https://github.com/janko…

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    Many databases can bypass filesystem and use block device (partitions) directly. But modifying NVMe drivers is pretty novel approach. Maybe Redis compiled into Linux kernel is not …

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    Comment #26557383

    It really depends on application and complexity of object graph. Short lived object usually have low overhead. Long lived objects with huge heap may cause a problem. In past GC had…

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    Comment #25774087

    Human brain. IP protocol is computable by humans. There is even RFC for transferring packets over pigeons.

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    Comment #25745697

    Saturating modern SSDs is not that hard, if datastream is constant. Write performance usually degrades rapidly after couple of hours/days, once caches are filled and fragmentation …

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    Comment #25669375

    > [a]: Obviously, for absolute security, a hammer and/or a shredder does much better. This still leaves large pieces of magnetic plates intact. At uni we could read some data from …

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    Comment #25647471

    Hell no! In this case Github is just unreliable piece of infrastructure. My phone provider bans me for receiving phone call from wrong country? Nice joke.

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    Comment #25629911

    Hm, yet another cloud based app with zero privacy and questionable life expectancy. Personal notes are very valuable and may go back 30 years. What I need: - self hosted server app…