This is a good live map of how Europe is partitioned into zones and what their prices are. Right now you can see a large price difference between Sweden and Denmark and also with Norway. Britain is often suffering high…
Commodore 64 in 1982 cost US$595 ($2,059 today). ZX Spectrum in 1982 cost $200 ($692 today) for 16 KB model and had a 48K model for 40% more. It was the difference between affordable and unaffordable for many people.
Very limited: as soon as you have cleared a notification it is gone forever and old notifications are also gone rather quickly. https://www.lifewire.com/iphone-notification-history-1189516...
I think this comes from the same problem as notifications on iPhones: if you dismiss them accidentally then it is very difficult to find out what it was. It is missing the equivalent of the "history" in e.g. browsers…
I'd really wish I could force ISO format for the date input as the current "platform native" is confusing for some users when the OS use a different language than the web page that is shown. For some multi-country…
PostGIS is also another very useful addition for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data. http://www.postgis.net
In the old days 25 years ago, x86 hardware was the main source of unreliability. Today x86 hardware is super reliable and unneeded complexity in the software stack is the main source of problems.
Los Angeles has mountains/water on all sides so it can't grow in size. It also utilizes the space extremely inefficiently. Single level single family houses everywhere and the rest is parking space. The few parks are…
precision loss in floating point is often exponential. If 64 bit isn't enough, then very quickly 128 is also not enough. If precision is important then you will very often want systems that represent every number as an…
When looking through all the other commits the user has made: they all lack a good commit message. This is systematic for that user. Either the user needs to improve or let go. The organization needs to learn that good…
One of the most interesting innovations in the Ukraine war is their internal market place for drones, letting each drone group decide which drones they want to procure and use in battle. It is not a top-down decision,…
Supermarkets often have so low margin that building for the 98% of customers means that all of the profit has disappeared. Profit is often at the margin.
The KISS version of regulation would be that stores are not allowed to use the word "buy" when you don't get full ownership and must use the word "license" instead. Also it should be marked clearly that the company can…
Denmark does not have a problem with age. It has gone the other way: members are younger today than in the old days. Graph: https://www.ft.dk/-/media/sites/ft/billeder/infografikker/ta... Average age is 44 years !!! The…
Perl has the negated if statement: return unless fooOK; return unless barOK; return unless bazOK; # do something
> trains about the same amount The nice thing about trains is that they can run on electricity. It does require investing in overhead wires.
Problem is that PostgreSQL does not support LIMIT on the DELETE command. I have no idea why, it seems such an obvious feature for supporting large databases.
It is like writing novels: it is not the spelling or typing on the keyboard that is the bottleneck. It is always the creative world building part. The main criticism of the Harry Potter books are not spelling or…
This is a very nice and fresh page layout.
Good trick is to prefix all such keys with magic, i.e. a couple of letters that identify type type of key. Then it will always be a string and you will be free to change the format/type of the key in the future to UUID…
I'd really like a collection of unit tests for parsers. There is a lot of details that can differ between parsers. E.g. in "Section C" the resulting KeyThree is "value 3▵▵▵▵▵▵▵value 3 continued" where each "▵" symbol is…
XML would have the advantage of having a grammar so we could validate the config files. It would also make it much simpler to make good GUI editors for the files instead of the Notepad approach most unix config files…
In Danish: https://danskebank.com/da/news-og-insights/nyhedsarkiv/press... or translated: https://danskebank-com.translate.goog/da/news-og-insights/ny... TLDR: power supply failed completely and DB2 failed running…
A Danish bank found out that this can bite you in the ass. When you hotpatch the system for years then you have no idea if the system can boot up or it will fail somewhere in the booting process. i.e. you can only trust…
iOS 26 is very late to have acceptable performance in the framework that Apple promotes as what you should use. It should have had good performance from the day it was introduced. WebKit have had great performance for a…
This is a good live map of how Europe is partitioned into zones and what their prices are. Right now you can see a large price difference between Sweden and Denmark and also with Norway. Britain is often suffering high…
Commodore 64 in 1982 cost US$595 ($2,059 today). ZX Spectrum in 1982 cost $200 ($692 today) for 16 KB model and had a 48K model for 40% more. It was the difference between affordable and unaffordable for many people.
Very limited: as soon as you have cleared a notification it is gone forever and old notifications are also gone rather quickly. https://www.lifewire.com/iphone-notification-history-1189516...
I think this comes from the same problem as notifications on iPhones: if you dismiss them accidentally then it is very difficult to find out what it was. It is missing the equivalent of the "history" in e.g. browsers…
I'd really wish I could force ISO format for the date input as the current "platform native" is confusing for some users when the OS use a different language than the web page that is shown. For some multi-country…
PostGIS is also another very useful addition for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data. http://www.postgis.net
In the old days 25 years ago, x86 hardware was the main source of unreliability. Today x86 hardware is super reliable and unneeded complexity in the software stack is the main source of problems.
Los Angeles has mountains/water on all sides so it can't grow in size. It also utilizes the space extremely inefficiently. Single level single family houses everywhere and the rest is parking space. The few parks are…
precision loss in floating point is often exponential. If 64 bit isn't enough, then very quickly 128 is also not enough. If precision is important then you will very often want systems that represent every number as an…
When looking through all the other commits the user has made: they all lack a good commit message. This is systematic for that user. Either the user needs to improve or let go. The organization needs to learn that good…
One of the most interesting innovations in the Ukraine war is their internal market place for drones, letting each drone group decide which drones they want to procure and use in battle. It is not a top-down decision,…
Supermarkets often have so low margin that building for the 98% of customers means that all of the profit has disappeared. Profit is often at the margin.
The KISS version of regulation would be that stores are not allowed to use the word "buy" when you don't get full ownership and must use the word "license" instead. Also it should be marked clearly that the company can…
Denmark does not have a problem with age. It has gone the other way: members are younger today than in the old days. Graph: https://www.ft.dk/-/media/sites/ft/billeder/infografikker/ta... Average age is 44 years !!! The…
Perl has the negated if statement: return unless fooOK; return unless barOK; return unless bazOK; # do something
> trains about the same amount The nice thing about trains is that they can run on electricity. It does require investing in overhead wires.
Problem is that PostgreSQL does not support LIMIT on the DELETE command. I have no idea why, it seems such an obvious feature for supporting large databases.
It is like writing novels: it is not the spelling or typing on the keyboard that is the bottleneck. It is always the creative world building part. The main criticism of the Harry Potter books are not spelling or…
This is a very nice and fresh page layout.
Good trick is to prefix all such keys with magic, i.e. a couple of letters that identify type type of key. Then it will always be a string and you will be free to change the format/type of the key in the future to UUID…
I'd really like a collection of unit tests for parsers. There is a lot of details that can differ between parsers. E.g. in "Section C" the resulting KeyThree is "value 3▵▵▵▵▵▵▵value 3 continued" where each "▵" symbol is…
XML would have the advantage of having a grammar so we could validate the config files. It would also make it much simpler to make good GUI editors for the files instead of the Notepad approach most unix config files…
In Danish: https://danskebank.com/da/news-og-insights/nyhedsarkiv/press... or translated: https://danskebank-com.translate.goog/da/news-og-insights/ny... TLDR: power supply failed completely and DB2 failed running…
A Danish bank found out that this can bite you in the ass. When you hotpatch the system for years then you have no idea if the system can boot up or it will fail somewhere in the booting process. i.e. you can only trust…
iOS 26 is very late to have acceptable performance in the framework that Apple promotes as what you should use. It should have had good performance from the day it was introduced. WebKit have had great performance for a…