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johnc1231 commented on State Farm says 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in LA nola.com/news/crime_polic... · Posted by u/hnburnsy

lordleft · 3 years ago

I was (and still am) considering buying a Kia Forte, but only a 2023+ model with an immobilizer. There are rumors that Kia is planning to install immobilizers for free on impacted cars, but it's shocking that it's taken this long. I can't imagine how much reputational damage they'll sustain because of this.

johnc1231 · 3 years ago

Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.

johnc1231 commented on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/... · Posted by u/oenetan

tjpnz · 4 years ago

johnc1231 · 4 years ago

How do they identify a crawler? Can a user not masquerade as a crawler somehow?

johnc1231 commented on Slack is down status.slack.com/2021-01/... · Posted by u/gpmcadam

politelemon · 5 years ago

Subjective... I've found Slack and co's interspersed conversations far too chaotic, and temporal; threading is a great way of organising many different concurrent topics.

And to be clear I don't mean Slack's implementation of threads which is hiding it away in a separate panel and which doesn't get used by everyone either.

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.

johnc1231 commented on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? · Posted by u/karamazov

matsemann · 5 years ago

What I loved about Super Mario 64 was that it used the same area for 6 stars (+ coin star). But for Galaxy for instance, you would just land on another area of the same planet and kinda follow "rail tracks" to the star. Haven't played Odyssey, but that's because I was a bit put off because of this. Is it better in this regard?

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.

johnc1231 commented on Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work newyorker.com/culture/cul... · Posted by u/jseliger

StavrosK · 5 years ago

This ignores the fact that defaults matter, and defaults shape the usage of the tool. I want to reply in threats, but often don't, because it requires me to let go of my keyboard and fumble around with the mouse to do it. That's why I vastly prefer Zulip (which additionally isn't slow as molasses).

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

Another plus one for Zulip, huge improvement over Slack for me.

johnc1231 commented on “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life” github.com/amzn/selling-p... · Posted by u/paradisevoicez

MattGaiser · 5 years ago

We need a way to unit test documentation to see if the code snippets still compile and the things that are referenced still exist.

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

We do this for our project (https://hail.is) and it's a game changer. Saves so much time and so many bug reports.

johnc1231 commented on Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance status.slack.com/2020-10/... · Posted by u/testplzignore

dannyw · 5 years ago

Dear Slack: Your service is down, it's not "slow performance".

Be honest to your customers, or I will make sure our team switches to Microsoft Teams.

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

Zulip has been great for our team

johnc1231 commented on Tribuo, a Machine Learning Library for Java github.com/oracle/tribuo... · Posted by u/samcolvin

mumblemumble · 5 years ago

I suspect the (L)GPL is a big part of why Java has more-or-less completely ceded the data space to Python. Corporate policy makes it painful for me to take a dependency on GPL (including LGPL), too, and that makes building and maintaining data applications in Java an absolute minefield, because so many projects are copyleft. Even the packages that are Apache, MIT or BSD licensed often require you to plug in netlib-java (LGPL) if you want decent performance.

It's encouraging to see a project like Tribuo come along, but it also feels like too little, too late. I'm already well underway on jumping ship and migrating to Python, and have yet to encounter any particular reason why I should look back.

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

I don't think netlib-java is LGPL. Where does it say that it is?

johnc1231 commented on JDK 15 jdk.java.net/15/... · Posted by u/aib

skrebbel · 5 years ago

I'm clearly missing something, but why is this so hard? I thought Java made a point of being fully backward compatible, both at the source level and the binary level (.class/.jar)? Is that true? If so, why is upgrading to a later jdk more work than, well, installing the newer version?

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

Having Apache Spark as a dependency kept us locked into JDK 8 for ages. They've finally got things updated now, but I don't know what their hold up was.

johnc1231 commented on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Book mitpress.mit.edu/sites/de... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

swiley · 5 years ago

My girlfriend has told me a couple times she wants to learn to program but this is the only intro book I own. I feel bad giving it to her because it just beats you with recursion right from the beginning (that isn’t to say it’s bad, I love it, that’s why I own a copy. I just feel like you’ll appreciate it most if you already know a little of some non functional language.) On the other hand she took it with us on a picnic the other day and didn’t seem to mind, in fact the simplicity of scheme’s syntax actually seemed to help a lot (she tried python once and there were too many different syntactic structures, but that was me giving her a tutorial rather than going through a book so maybe I’m just a bad teacher.)

Does anyone have any suggestions?

johnc1231 · 5 years ago

I'd also recommend "How to Design Programs", newest version is here: https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/index.html. It's a much more accessible version of SICP.

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