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extrememacaroni··on Representing the Impractical and Impossible with JDK 10 “var”
`getAddressWhichIsOfTypeString()`?

`str_GetAddress()`?

`GetAddress_STR()`?

extrememacaroni··on Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
Wow, you summed up the dangers of AI so concisely!
extrememacaroni··on Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone
Well if Sweden doesn't want to bring it outside Sweden, someone else will, right?
extrememacaroni··on Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language
If you have money you can afford something above "budding".
extrememacaroni··on Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming Netflix
With shows that good, fewer and fewer couples manage to reach the "chill" part before falling asleep.
extrememacaroni··on Probability and Statistics Cookbook [pdf]
A google away, with the term being "probability cheatsheet". There are cheatsheets out there for many subjects.
extrememacaroni··on A Pragmatic Introduction to Signal Processing
There is no need for latex, it's not like open office can't output readable documents.

Increasing the spacing between lines in these huge chunks of text to 1.5 would be a good start.

extrememacaroni··on Bobby Tables
It's one article out of about 100, which also ignores all of his other writing. Is this insight you think you can rely on?
extrememacaroni··on Bobby Tables
This article has nothing to do with the books.
extrememacaroni··on Munich confirms switch to Windows 10
Not necessarily, one investment buys you the software that meets your needs now, the other is a donation that buys you at most a promise for software that maybe meets your needs sometime in the future.

This assuming they had a need that OSS Office didn't cover, of course.

extrememacaroni··on Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy
It crashed with airbags on.
extrememacaroni··on Ask HN: How do you read programming books?
With books that teach a language or advanced stuff about a language, like, say, C# in Depth, I read from start to finish, without actually doing any exercises or really anything else.

I trust my memory enough to rely on remembering that "C# in Depth was talking about this thing", when I run into something IRL. Then I go back to the book and see what it had to say.

extrememacaroni··on Ask HN: How do you read programming books?
+1 for multiple sources. I've yet to find a single source that is clear and understandable across the board. Switch between sources when a topic seems to be unusually difficult to understand. Then go back to your original, favorite source.

Note that I do not think this applies to books that simply showcase and act as a more advanced reference of programming languages. Those are normally plain enough, I think.

For others subjects, like math or CS, multiple sources have always proven invaluable for me.

extrememacaroni··on Freelancer.com has ruined my life
Only for the currently active project, nothing stops you to not use their service for the next project with the same client.
extrememacaroni··on How to ace your next job interview
You read up on using bitwise operations to perform the usual ones, "how about you do some multiplication without actual multiplication" is one of the main interview inventions you want to know how to handle.
extrememacaroni··on List of price of medieval items (2006)
30 minutes is a long time. What if there's a tiny bit of inconsistency in the format, and you spend even more time working around it? Then there's the need to spend time to be sure that the transformed data is still correct.

By the time you've realized the thing is going to take much longer than you thought, you've already wasted enough time.

extrememacaroni··on Freelancer.com has ruined my life
I always thought of freelancing websites like freelancer.com as being platforms to meet clients with the goal of removing them from the platform and establishing long term relationships. Basically, meeting clients and then quickly getting them to use a service where you and them work and manage payments directly.

There's no way I could consider freelancer.com to be a worthwhile long term investment, the fees they take are preposterous to say the least.

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