because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web
What about QT? I've used that in the past and it's really good for native apps.
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Is OVH not a European cloud provider? There are also smaller players like Hetzner.
> [than] having a function which calls out to lots of other functions and I'm jumping around the code base, back and forward.
i agree with longer functions and less jumping around, but there's also some nuance i find. I sometimes find converting a complicated multi-line condition into something like the below is much easier for me to read, so long as the function is named in a clear way and the function definition is just above the big function it gets called by (never in a different file!)
def is_something_valid(something, foo, bar):
return something > 0 and something != foo and something > bar
if is_something_valid(something, foo, bar):
then again, can also do it the grug-brained way
gt_zero = something > 0
ne_foo something != foo
gt_bar something > bar
if gt_zero and ne_foo and gt_bar:I mostly agree, but for short one liners and where there will be no reuse elsewhere, instead of a function I prefer;
something_is_valid = something > 0 and something != foo and something > bar
if something_is_valid:
# ....
robert_dipaolo commented on At least 20 dead as walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1
Are we supposed to feel sorry for terrorists who's lives are spent working out how to murder and blow people up, then when they get blown up with minimal collateral damage caused, what?
Honestly, I'm surprised at how great these people are at invoking emotional responses in their favor. It's incredible. They're certainly smashing the information war.
When the 11 kids got actually blown up by a missile strike while attending a soccer game in Israel, where was all the sympathy then? Do people even know about this?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-tragedy-kids-killed-in...
I think your first point could plausibly be made by either side, not just about this specific incident. I don't think killing people is ever a justifiable solution to any issue and almost always makes things worse.
I think, no matter who the perpetrator is, it's undeniable that exploding electrical items on this scale, is an act of terror and aggression.
People aren’t going to pay more so it is in fact not worth more.
I know every artist thinks their unique vision is infinitely priceless but things are actually worth what people are willing to pay for them. If you can’t convince people to hand over money for it, then it’s not worth that much.
Exactly, things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them and for a lot of people music is relatively low in the pecking order. I pay for spotify but would leave it they raise the prices.
Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month, more than I have ever bought in my life. And they don't even have to spend any money to burn and distribute them. So they're already making more money than they would otherwise. The only issue is that the money isn't going to those who actually deserve it. Don't encourage these greedy jackals to charge even more.
They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free.
However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.
robert_dipaolo commented on Home Assistant 2023.11 home-assistant.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/looperhacks
This is false. While you can set a lot of things through yaml, some like setting the MQTT broker have to be done via the UI.
Ah interesting, I didn't realise that! I often drop into the YAML to configure Automations, etc. I'm not using MQTT at the moment.
robert_dipaolo commented on Home Assistant 2023.11 home-assistant.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/looperhacks
I've tried getting into Home Assistant a few years ago, but it was right at the switch from declarative yaml files for (almost) everything to most of the stuff being set up via the UI. I would love to give Home Assistant another shot - is that still the case, or is there some way to set up the Home Assistant config via code?
All the config can be done via YAML still. The UIs are just another option that makes it easier, as far as I can tell the UIs just build the YAML.
Annotations are a great way to get rid of boilerplate and noisy code.
For instance, I find Spring @Transactional a much more effective, less bug prone and productive way of dealing with db tx vs having to manual code and handle exceptions, rollback, connections etc ..
Same goes with JAX-RS.
I would choose annotations over having to code all that manually any day.
You can easily test and debug. Yes, it will cost some time to understand how aspects work and how it is all wired up, but it is worth learning.
The problem with an annotation for that is it causes people to keep transactions open for too long. It's best practice in DB programming to keep tx's open for as short a time as possible. The longer it's open the more scope for deadlocks and contention. So we never use it in our prod code. We've put all the boiler plate code for creating the transaction, error handling, retires, etc in a helper function that takes a lambda as a param (that being the code to run in the tx). That way you can only wrap the code that needs to be in the tx, without copying and pasting all the boiler plate everywhere.
I still use an iPhone X (with new battery from last year). The Pixel 2 was released around the same time and is e-waste.
Almost all apps run well with the exception of Google's, which have consistently gotten worse. The camera still starts up quickly, and the fact that most apps are still performant compared to an iPhone 13 is impressive.
Google Docs is unusable - even small documents can't be opened, and the app hangs when opened more than half the time. Google Maps keeps adding misc features which adds significantly to startup time and responsiveness.
The Pixel 2 had a launch price of $649 vs the iPhoneX at $999, so ~35% more. That's not really a fair comparison, I imagine if you compare to a similarly priced android phone released at the same time, it'd be a closer result.
Where apple does do well is supporting devices for much longer with software and security updates. So running older android phones is prob not a good ideas from a security perspective.