ComSubVie (u/ComSubVie)

ComSubVie commented on Understanding the Odin Programming Language odinbook.com/... · Posted by u/dsego

haspok · 9 months ago

> A floating point number is a method for storing decimal numbers...

I'm sorry, what?

ComSubVie · 9 months ago

What do you mean? It's exactly that in almost any programming language.

What is it you don't understand: "method" (a representation) or "decimal" (a number that consists of a whole and a fractional part)?

ComSubVie commented on The withering dream of a cheap American electric car wsj.com/business/autos/th... · Posted by u/voisin

bloomingeek · 9 months ago

Absolutely! The biggest problem is the average American allows themselves to be duped and challenged by advertising. New tech in cars is great, but spending $40K and up is stupid. I've said it before: my $27K base model Ram truck will go from point A to point B just as well as a $70K(!) model. Is it just as shiny? No, but the money I didn't spend on all that shine won't be wasted on depreciation.

My credit union recently sent me an email telling me I can be approved for up to $70K for an auto loan, this is insane! When we allow competitiveness or temptation to decide how much money we spend, we lose every time. The only way to get Tesla to offer that $25K car is to stop buying the more expensive ones.

ComSubVie · 9 months ago

And American prices are already insanely low. If I want to buy a RAM in Austria for $30k I get a used car with 150.000km. If I want a new one it's (much) over $100k.

ComSubVie commented on Arduino IDE 2.0 blog.arduino.cc/2022/09/1... · Posted by u/rcarmo

wejick · 3 years ago

This is the problem with vscode that I'm sure many are experiencing. I hope they add easier way to manage and run multiple profiles of the IDE.

ComSubVie · 3 years ago

I do have set up different workspaces for different development tasks where only the necessary plugins are activated. If I do embedded development I open my platformio.workspace, if I'm doing Java I have a workspace and if I'm doing JS/Frontend stuff I have a workspace as well as for LaTeX. It really works well and isn't really difficult (although I'm not really sure that workspaces should be used for this)

ComSubVie commented on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation politico.eu/article/europ... · Posted by u/riffraff

lamp987 · 4 years ago

are you willing to send money over paypal to each website you ever visit?

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

Depends on the content. For some: yes, for sure.

For some others I should get money back because I couldn't find what was advertised before (for example recipe sites that contain mostly Blabla with interspersed ads and only a rudimentary recipe that isn't reproducible).

ComSubVie commented on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation politico.eu/article/europ... · Posted by u/riffraff

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

Why not ban ALL ads?!?

ComSubVie commented on Omicron Update: Nov 27 yourlocalepidemiologist.s... · Posted by u/0x008

koheripbal · 4 years ago

Isn't it obvious? The narrative is that the vaccine continues to works (period - No more thinking allowed for the audience), thus they omit that someone who caught and transmitted to new variant was fully vaccinated.

The truth is nuanced, but CNN doesn't like to report nuances because it detracts from their oversimplified narrative.

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

Nobody ever said the vaccination will stop transmission. It reduces the symptoms and hospitalisation rate (successfully).

ComSubVie commented on Omicron Update: Nov 27 yourlocalepidemiologist.s... · Posted by u/0x008

theduder99 · 4 years ago

Italy has a confirmed case from a guy who brought it back from Mozambique. Gave it to five family members already. https://www.italy24news.com/local/280042.html For the record he had received two doses of a vaccine..a detail suspiciously left out of CNN and other media reports as it doesn't fit the narrative.

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

How long ago was the second shot? There's a reason why Europe accelerated the start of the Booster vaccinations (third shots). Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that didn't receive their first shot willingly although it's freely available.

ComSubVie commented on Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData hewellapp.com/... · Posted by u/sonicrocketman

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

Looks great, just tried it.

One feature that is missing: "reload map" or something. It's only showing things near my "real location"; but I'd also like to explore different locations (e.g. a city I'd like to visit next weekend).

For example "Komoot" is doing that really nice for hiking routes and similar activites: explore at my location, explore near a given location, use the map, ...

ComSubVie commented on Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score browser.geekbench.com/v5/... · Posted by u/mv9

adrianN · 4 years ago

> It might be a long time before it makes sense to buy a non-Apple laptop.

...if you only care about the things that Apple laptops are good at. Almost nobody needs a top-of-the-line laptop to do their tasks. Most things that people want to do with computers can be done on a machine that is five to ten years old without any trouble at all. For example I use a ThinkPad T460p, and while the geekbench scores for its processor are maybe half of what Apple achieves here (even worse for multicore!), it does everything I need faster than I need it.

Battery life, screen quality, and ergonomics are the only thing most consumers need to care about. And while Macs are certainly doing well in those categories, there are much cheaper options available that are also good enough.

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

I'm still using my 12 (!) year old 17" MacBook Pro as daily work machine. Yes, it's not the fastest computer but for my usage it works. Granted, starting IntelliJ needs some time, but coding still works well (and compiling big codebases isn't done locally).

The one thing that really isn't usable anymore is Aperture/Lightroom. And missing docker because my CPU is too old (but docker it still works in VMs ...) is a pain.

ComSubVie commented on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones xda-developers.com/eu-pla... · Posted by u/0xedb

ComSubVie · 4 years ago

Why not wireless charging?

I don't mind the connector (lightning works well), better would be mandatory quality of the cables (the iPhone cables are regularly breaking).