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Someone linked this third-party "honest" status page:

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Seems more accurate with my experience of GitHub.

Just like the article mentioned, he has become almost synonymous with fairy tales associated with stories for kids, but for anyone who has ever read from a collection of his stories, a majority of them are most certainly not appropriate for kids. Some of them are incredibly sad, and as another comment says, the fate of the characters often can change for the worse in the last paragraphs, when you least expect it.

I can only recommend reading his works, they are deeply profound.

Hardly the first conical burr grinder. Niche Zero has been available for quite a while; https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-zero

Edit: Misread cylindrical as conical

That's the most cyberpunk laptop/tablet I've ever seen, without it looking kitsch or gaudy -- very impressive!

With regards to NIF being a military facility, I'd very much think that energy production (cheap, safe, limitless?) is very much a military needs as much as a civilian need. Even if said energy goes further to power laser weapons or other exotic power hungry systems; energy is energy, and something has to produce it.

Hi jgosar, and thanks for joining into the discussion :D

I figure you noticed the drastic increase in repo activity and stars. What's your own opinion on java-ness of the code? Do you feel it is an accurate assessment?

I hope you didn't take it personal, I've most certainly done similar things when I learned C# after doing java for the initial university courses.

Ye this commit [0] imports a "local repository" with Visual Studio 2010 .sln file.

The original README mentions .NET Framework 4, so C# has progressed a fair amount since.

[0] https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000/commit/f1cbe98601c4...

Don't get me wrong, it's not "bad" code (from a brief glance) but it's just clearly written as if it was Java code, and probably not in a usual IDE like Visual Studio, Rider or VSCode /w C# plugin (as that would typically scaffold a more C#-esque style).

Here's what I've noticed so far:

- Uses camelCase instead of PascalCase

- Uses setter and getter methods instead of C# properties.

- Uses reverse DNS namespace com.mc2k.SimCityReader instead of e.g. JGosar.MineCity2000.SimCityReader.

- Lack of LINQ (It is such a big part of C#, that not using it at all is strange).*

- Lac of using generics e.g. List<string> instead of string[].*

- Excessive use of arrays (you'd typically use a simple IEnumerable<T> or List<T>).

- Lack of `var`.*

- Casting integer literals to short, byte, etc -- these all have equivalent literal notation.*

- Lack of extension methods.*

- Lack of maps (pattern matching).*

There could be more, but those are what I noticed.

EDIT: * Given that the original code was done with VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4, its fair to say that a few of the points above do not apply, but the code is nevertheless very java-esque (just from the first two points).

Very cool idea and execution.

Slightly off-topic; if there ever was a excellent example of what it means when a C# program is being written by a java developer, this would certainly qualify.

Was this ported from a java project?

In Denmark, which took a different strategy similar to most countries, we never quite had a full lock-down as seen in many other countries.

Majority of retail continued throughout the "lock-down", but with an abundance of care taken in terms of keeping a 2m distance, limited number of customers in a shop (queue stretching out of stores is a common sight), and alcohol sanitizers everywhere.

The majority of businesses and institutions have reopened (schools and kindergardens being the first ones), and restaurants, café and cinemas have just recently opened (with appropriate restrictions).

What is interesting is that Sweden has seen the roughly the same level of economic contraction as Denmark, despite the vastly different policies.

Hi Torkel,

First off, Grafana is amazing! So keep up the good work.

Question: Currently alerts are fairly limited both in applicable panels and how they export/share relevant data to the chosen notification channel, as well as more advanced conditions. Is there any work going on with improving alerts?

I can recommend trying this out with the Spotify web app.

It is genuinely difficult to spot that it’s actually “just” a website.

When you lock windows while it’s playing it shows up with media details like album art, play/pause etc.

It is additionally “registered” in the start menu, and correct icons and windows taskbar behaviour is used, making it virtually indistinguishable from a native app.

Lab has the cool effect that you can smoothly change the luminance of a particular color in steps (usually scale is 0-100), where each step has an equal perception of change to the user.

Very useful when making gradients.

I used this for my MSc thesis project :)

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Same can be said of Android, but most simply people don't.

Definitely.

And it also makes a difference for a company, as you can set a € price, and it can work for more or less the entire EU.

E.g. in Denmark (although not part of €, but pegged to 100€ ~ 745kr.) you can with full support, do all your bookkeeping/accounting denominated in Euro if you so please, as the danish state allows for bookkeeping denominated in DKK and EUR.

It's a cost on society, not on the individual pupil, just like how the education is a gain to the society at large, while the individual effort of the individual may seem negligble.

So of course it's free. You are not paying. And you don't pay it over taxes, society does. Think of it this way: If you didn't go to university, and just learned on your own, then you still pay the same taxes if you reach the same income level. So taking a university does not increase your taxes. Ergo free.

I believe that a contributing factor to the pay gap in Europe is the fact that we have so many languages, that we are too segregated to create the same level of competitiveness as seen in the US. This means that each country is fairly protective of its people, and even though EU has free movement of labour, the language and culture barrier is strong, and internationals have a harder time to get hired, unless the speak the local language.

So the end results is that talent is spread across, and no single country has ability to become the place to be.

In Copenhagen it's the only DriveNow car available, and I must admit that although I am a petrolhead, the i3 grew on me.

What might look silly from the outside is an unparalleled experience in accelleration on the inside. Only Tesla's, motorcycles and proper sport cars can match the 0-50 km/h (which is everything you care about in a city commute).

In all honesty, a lot of this “directness” comes down to the fact that literal translations sound a lot harsher in English than what the non-native speaker necessarily meant.

In Denmark there’s the same sort of experience by foreigners, and I’ve heard it happens in Germany as well.

The situation is that in the local language, there’s a lot subtlety that simply gets lost in translation.

You can probably throw a little culturally bluntness on it as well, but the majority is down to translation.

Microsoft used centralised servers because the Skype prior to that was a curse to mobile devices running on battery power. Particularly cellphones.

Skype worked as a p2p network, where some peers where marked as super peers and would help with peers behind firewalls (UDP-holepunching), and routing through the super peer. If your phone became a super peer, you could expect to essentially work like a server, with the "benefits" of increased bandwidth usage and power usage. Not exactly what you want as a mobile user.

So Microsoft had to change the architecture (which wasn't designed with mobile devices in mind) into a more centralised approach that could work with mobile devices.

Invasion != Liberation

Although the submission is a bit tangential to HN content, I've found this article which describes it more:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-bay-a...

That's actually a really brilliant idea.

We have people sometimes produce the software equivalent of a Picasso, but it so rarely comes to light, and even more rarely codified to guidelines/standard-practice.

Would be very good to have "greatest-hits" of a company's codebase, that could serve as internal knowledge-sharing.

I always use the mantra that power points should only be used when you need to show something you can't draw in 5 seconds.

If it's not strictly needed, then it does more harm than good, by distracting listeners.

Here's an intersting question; Would an economic recession be a boost for Bitcoin, or would it be dragged down?

My intuition tells me that Bitcoin would see a surge, as it becomes a stronger pillar of monetary value that crosses country borders, similar to the dollar, but not tied to the US.

Explicit and implicit rating systems will never fit everyone.

But I will go as far and say that implicit rating fits a lot more than explicit, because it doesn't require the user to do extra work on top of the base goal of listing to "good" music.

I feel like explicit rating scales very poorly with catalogue size. So when you have music, and as much music as Spotify has, then the work effort of explicitly rating your taste becomes too big, you start to not bother, and quality of rating becomes poor.

Apple technically does show the difference, but it is very very subtle, and most users would never notice unless told so.

Connected state = Blue background color

Disconnected state = Gray background color (Force Touch shows "Not Connected")

Off state = Gray background with gray slash across the icon (Force Touch shows "Off")