olaf | 6 months ago | on: GNU Midnight Commander
I preferred snappy XTree
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olaf | 9 months ago | on: Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo
AFAIK ‚let‘ was removed from the language, for me it‘s a big turn-off that the Python compatibility aspect has such a high priority.
Or did I overlook something?
olaf | 1 year ago | on: 40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent
misleading title
olaf | 2 years ago | on: Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
I agree, makes me wonder if anybody is actually thinking in that company.
olaf | 3 years ago | on: Disallusioned with Julia anyone got thoughts on Carbon?
I didn't find a solution to read in a .png-file and iterate over the rows and in every row over the columns, is the low level stuff somehow hidden?
Found some higher level stuff libraries here and there, but if it's not easy to do some low level operations, the language would be useless for me.
olaf | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding
Maybe you want to try out Assembler programming/assembler-alike-freedom
or write your own prog lang
olaf | 3 years ago | on: Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?
to paraphrase a german …
olaf | 4 years ago | on: In Norway, electric cars make gas-powered car sales vanish
made me smile :-)
olaf | 4 years ago | on: The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit
I agree, UI and usability design look amateurish to me.
It is time for me to look for a better alternative, their speed of improvement in above mentioned areas is just one big disappointment.
olaf | 5 years ago | on: Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
AI exists, but not necessarily Artificial Intelligence.
olaf | 5 years ago | on: Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform
Until this is done, you could just give your visitors the download links you used to download the frameworks.
Doesn't seem to me overly complicated.
olaf | 5 years ago | on: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
maybe they mean 12 with base 3, that would be 5 decimal years ;-)
olaf | 5 years ago | on: The Day AppGet Died
what do I learn from that?
I will not talk with a Microsoft representative before they pay me at least 5000 US$ consulting fees.
Never give them something for free, not one minute of my precious lifetime.
They seem to me as 'friendly' as the aliens in the "Mars attacks" movie.
olaf | 6 years ago | on: New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
Maximum RAM is 16 GB, that is not, what I would consider future proof for 5-6 years.
olaf | 6 years ago | on: Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
It has LOOP and EXIT, I remember that turned out to be the most used repetition construct when I was using (IIRC) JPI Modula-2.
For me, it was so easy to think about loops that way, with an EXIT/condition in the middle of the loop body.
olaf | 6 years ago | on: Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out
highly unlikely, so unlikely, that it’s
not worth discussing IMHO.
OTH, Elon ... maybe believing that you can game the system helps sometimes ... (significantly)
olaf | 6 years ago | on: Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says
if humankind (best minds) is not able to build something better in every aspect today, we as a species are on the wrong trail and should change.
We already need to change a lot (carbon free and many other problem areas) and like the Apollo program was a challenge for engineering we could start an effort in the domains of architecture and arts (and maybe others) to build something better, spiritual etc. ...
olaf | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?
I see a bike much more than a metro (passengers have almost no control) as a 'freedom-' (you can ride wherever you want) and an 'expression-of-my-will-' (when to ride and where to ride to) device.
It's not only the benefit of physical exercise which often makes riding a bike more enjoyable.
olaf | 6 years ago | on: Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice
I think that is self contradictory.
olaf | 7 years ago | on: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
Chances of getting decent customer support by Google seems to me like a lottery.
Please act accordingly and don‘t make business with such an entity.
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