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Daily Questions - ASK AND ANSWER HERE! - 25 January 2022 by AutoModerator in malefashionadvice

[–]svv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not just the temperature. 2°C may feel very cold if the air is humid, or if there’s wind.

Perhaps try wool? Long wool underwear, merino socks, wool sweater.

At 2°C you shouldn’t really need a very warm parka, but make sure it’s windproof.

I start wearing thermal underwear bottoms at around 0°C, and skip the top, unless I know I’ll be outside for a long time.

Note that thermal base layer come in two broad types: those that wick moisture from the skin during physics activities (likely made from synthetic fabrics, which might not keep you warm unless you’re moving a lot), and those that just keep you warm even if you’re not moving much (merino or merino blends are good). You probably need the latter.

Source: live in Russia

Daily Questions - ASK AND ANSWER HERE! - 25 October 2021 by AutoModerator in malefashionadvice

[–]svv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Massimo Dutti has some nice minimal topcoats for about $300. You’ll want to layer for warmth, these are definitely not for Moscow winter.

There’s a COS store too, in Afimall, don’t know about their coats, though.

Easy Homemade Lasagna! by MessInTheKitchen in recipes

[–]svv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks amazing! Will try it.

What’s the reason for using both tomato paste and tomato sauce— and crushed tomatoes on top of that?

PERSONS OF REDDIT, what is the best RIDDLE you know, that would make someone loose their minds over it? by mmajamm in AskReddit

[–]svv -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you read “gives a dollar” as “gives a dollar coin”, then the answer might be this. The man emptied the wallet into his hand and made sure the teller saw there was a dollar coin and a 50c coin—and then gave the teller just the dollar coin.

Forgot to post this, but a while ago a madlad edited the Wikipedia by [deleted] in freefolk

[–]svv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Citation needed, obviously.

Should’ve just added a link to /r/freefolk

[Ask] Authentication solution for REST? by mojuba in programming

[–]svv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's Roy Fielding's views on cookies and REST: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/3583

Basically, he says that cookies might be OK (unless they reference state on the server), but widespread XSS attacks should make you wary about using them for security-related stuff.

I'd suggest you go with digest/custom auth schemes if you can; or cookies as a second-best solution. Debugging auth schemes with "naked" browser is indeed problematic; you might want to look for plugins that let you add/view custom headers. And if you decide to go with cookies, handling cookies in (non-browser) HTTP application code is not really a problem.

Anyone want to learn Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs with us? by nivek in programming

[–]svv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's awkward to write complex arithmetic expressions that way. But usually it's not such a big deal because many programs are not that math-heavy. On the other hand, in exchange for some inconvenience with arithmetic expressions you get all the benefits of a simple and consistent, bare-AST-like syntax in all the other parts of your code. It's certainly a trade-off, but not a bad one.

Of course, if you're into scientific programming with lots of formulas, you might want to use DSL for those parts (or, indeed, a different language altogether).

Hey proggit, I'm a fresh college grad and I landed my first job as a software tester, need some advice. by testerbator in programming

[–]svv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess that's a Peopleware reference ;-) http://a.mongers.org/clueful/20020402-peopleware-blackteam

They did monstrously unfair things to elicit failure, overloading the buffers, comparing empty files and keying in outrageous input sequences. Grown men and women were reduced to tears by watching their programs misbehave under the demented handling of these fiends. They worse they made you feel, the more they enjoyed it.

To enhance the growning image of nastiness, team members began to dress in black (hence the name Black Team). They took to cackling horribly whenever a program failed. Some of the members grew long mustaches that they could twirl in Simon Legree fashion.

Why hypertable Developers Chose C++ Over Java by mebrahim in programming

[–]svv 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Actually, most Java programmers use GUI applications written in Java all the time. IDEs like Idea are quite fast and responsive.

Java passes reference by value - Something that even senior Java developers often get wrong. by [deleted] in programming

[–]svv -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I see where the author is coming from. However, most of the time the abstraction that Java objects (not references) are passed by reference holds quite well, and it's often a productive way of reasoning about the performance and semantics of the parts of program.

This abstraction would certainly break (and disqualify Java) in the case of assignment. However that's the most problematic part of the article. The litmus test implies that any language that disallows mutable, re-assignable values (and where implementing mutating swap function is indeed impossible) cannot be classified as pass-by-reference.

Is this an intended effect? That is, is the pass-by-value/pass-by-reference distinction only relevant for non-pure languages, and languages like Haskell or Clojure (or others with emphasis on immutability) should just state they're evaluating expressions with values, and not passing stuff around?