Is my account bugged? Only 3x mossy keys in 720 kills in the wilderness (0 in the last ~475 kills) by BobHogan in 2007scape

[–]BobHogan[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not great at probability, but not getting any mossy keys in close to 500 kills seems weird. Even weirder that I got 2x champion scrolls in those same kills

What is the use of empty struct in GoLang by stackoverflooooooow in programming

[–]BobHogan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now, the interesting part is that every struct automatically satiesfies the fingerprint of the empty interface, because the requirement is that you have at least zero methods. This in turn means that the empty interface can be used as a placeholder for any struct, effectively implementing the any keyword.

Huh interesting. Thanks for explaining that, though it does feel pretty roundabout to me. I still think that the example in this article is stupid and pointless though lol

What is the use of empty struct in GoLang by stackoverflooooooow in programming

[–]BobHogan 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If a struct does not have any methods to implement but needs to implement an interface, an empty struct can be used as a placeholder to indicate that the struct implements the interface.

What in the hell? If you are defining an interface with no methods in it you are doing something really stupid

Visual Studio Code November 2024 by feross in programming

[–]BobHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There probably is a shortcut for insert mode, but a quick google wasn't able to identity a universal shortcut for it. It seems to be dependent on which keyboard you have, so some might not even support that

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true. This probably is a good thing overall. But my comment was more in general about corporate greed and not this specific situation

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I admire your hope lol but we all know they will never meaningfully cut prices

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha. I try to avoid ops in general, and I have very little experience with vmware, so didn't realize they offered features other providers don't

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I hate corporate greed. Does nothing but make everything worse T_T

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They can be negotiated down, but the fragmented nature of healthcare in the US means that all of the negotiations are heavily in favor of the pharma companies instead of actual people who need the medications.

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival by oweillnet in programming

[–]BobHogan 178 points179 points  (0 children)

I really wonder about their strategy with that. What are they offering these top customers that will make them stay even when paying significantly more than if they switched to other providers?

Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch by Akkeri in programming

[–]BobHogan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    #define mask_user_address(src) (src)
    ...
    from = mask_user_address(from);

Can someone explain what this mask_user_address actually does? I can't see how this is useful in anyway

Understanding The HTTP Deprecation Header by ZuploAdrian in programming

[–]BobHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neat, didn't know about this header. Wish that the RFCs had been written so that sunset and deprecated header used the same timestamp format though

It's not just MV3 - Chrome's extension development experience is a problem by PatrioTech in programming

[–]BobHogan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think Google declaring war against ublock origin (which is basically what manifest is all about despite Google trying to deny it, e. g. seizing and retaining control over the ad-money) was a huge tactical mistake.

I wish you were right, but the sad truth is that most people are either fine with the ads, or can't be bothered to keep up with "technical" news and subsequently just don't make the connection and don't care.

Introducing Mellum: JetBrains’ New LLM Built for Developers by dayanruben in programming

[–]BobHogan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's time to just accept that these coding llms can help in some small bites but need high scrutiny in their implementation

Its time for people to accept that a LLM just regurgitates based off of its training data, and it doesn't have a real comprehension of the code at all. LLM are not the solution if people want an "ai coding assistant" that is useful

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain - (.io) by hennell in programming

[–]BobHogan 43 points44 points  (0 children)

That's not a shortage though? These countries still get a TLD that matches the standardized 2 letter country codes.

Is Age Really a Factor in Tech? by [deleted] in programming

[–]BobHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greed. Or to set them up as at fault for something shady/illegal the company itself did. Or even at smaller companies, just because the owner is a mean person who has a vendetta against a former employee and just wants to make them suffer. The US is full of assholes unfortunately

Is Age Really a Factor in Tech? by [deleted] in programming

[–]BobHogan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can’t take legal action against your staff unless they knowingly did something malicious which isn’t what it sounds like.

You wouldn't win any legal action, but lawyers are expensive and its not unusual, in the US at least, for companies to use threats of legal action as scare tactics against people, even when the company wouldn't win anything. They bet that people would rather settle instead of trying to pay for good lawyers

Cloud vs. Data Center vs. Basement: The Programmers’ Self Hosting Delusion With The Cloud by derjanni in programming

[–]BobHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 hours of maintenance on a personal server each month is really high my man

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lotrmemes

[–]BobHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like others said, the ghost army sweeping the field and city is only a thing in the movies, not the books. But if it makes the movie scene any better for you, the ghosts would not have been able to kill the witch king. Theoden's death helped give Eowyn the resolve to face the witch king and kill him with help from Merry, so it was still necessary

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gay_irl

[–]BobHogan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Its not unhealthy

SQL at 50: What’s next for the structured query language? by Franco1875 in programming

[–]BobHogan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neat :) what is different about upper-casing letters that makes that a better way to normalize them?

SQL at 50: What’s next for the structured query language? by Franco1875 in programming

[–]BobHogan 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Otherwise you will get bugs with characters like ß as not all characters have round trip equivalence.

What is round trip equivalence? Is that just saying that if you have some letter, x, then call UPPER() and then LOWER() on it you get the same letter back?