Nadir - Slashdot User

Comment Re:TFS is an odd read. (Score 4, Insightful) 41

by Nadir on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:26AM (#65289717) Attached to: India's 'Frankenstein' Laptop Economy Thrives Against Planned Obsolescence

Friends don't let friends use the abandoned Apache OpenOffice, but suggest Libreoffice instead

Comment Re:Give Windows a try...see if you still dislike M (Score 1) 85

by Nadir on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:10PM (#65265773) Attached to: 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia'

Intellij crashing daily ? I run it on Linux and it never ever crashes (I have 4 projects open, one of which with 1M lines of code).

Comment Re: A Razzie Award for UI (Score 2) 72

by Nadir on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:58AM (#65206295) Attached to: Blender-Rendered Movie 'Flow' Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar

Yes.

Comment Meloni has denied this (Score 2) 27

by Nadir on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:13AM (#65074927) Attached to: Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Deal

In an interview today, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has denied talking to Musk about Starlink in her recent trip to Mar-a-lago to discuss the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Iran.

Comment Re:Y2K was a PC/Windows problem..... (Score 1) 134

by Nadir on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:41PM (#65050489) Attached to: 'Y2K Seems Like a Joke Now, But in 1999 People Were Freaking Out'

The problem was with databases, mainframes, all sorts of stuff. And Macs.

Comment Re:ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison (Score 1) 76

by Nadir on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:15AM (#64632579) Attached to: Latest MySQL Release is Underwhelming, Say Some DB Experts

Yeah, that's because it supports MVCC. And vacuuming is automated unless you want to control it. Go back to your toys.

Comment What about Tiny-LFU ? (Score 2) 24

by Nadir on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:29AM (#64591469) Attached to: Caching Is Key, and SIEVE Is Better Than LRU

Where is the comparison with Caffeine ? https://github.com/ben-manes/c...

Comment Wing Commander III (Score 1) 148

by Nadir on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:15AM (#64557267) Attached to: The Short, Happy Reign of CD-ROM

On 4 CDs. That was a lot of data for 1994...

Comment Re:SAT (Score 0) 31

by Nadir on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:25AM (#64226830) Attached to: Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps

Props to Apple that, although they kept a lot of the bad legacy code in there (the aforementioned Symlink thing), iTunes still rips CDs and still syncs with old iPods.

Props to Apple for not implementing USB mass storage support ? You fruit users are weird.

Comment Re: Just use python (Score 1) 109

by Nadir on Sunday October 15, 2023 @06:28AM (#63926139) Attached to: C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity

Yeah while python is getting shit done, the JVM is running around in circles.

Yeah, Python is taking a shit, because it's not doing much else https://www.techempower.com/be...

Comment Re: Just use python (Score 2) 109

by Nadir on Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:27AM (#63925943) Attached to: C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity

The JVM runs rings around python

Comment Re: Don't do stupid! (Score 1) 81

by Nadir on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:46AM (#63501487) Attached to: EU Warns Apple About Limiting Speeds of Uncertified USB-C Cables for iPhones

They mandated an industry standard. It is then up to the industry to come up with a decent standard.

Comment Re: And for new bugs (Score 1) 143

by Nadir on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:52AM (#63487954) Attached to: 'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety

Iddqd

Comment Re: Why did they even listen (Score 1) 9

by Nadir on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:26AM (#63485100) Attached to: ChatGPT Back in Italy After Meeting Watchdog Demands

They have no business presence in Italy? Do you know how the Internet works?

Comment Re: Those are not the problems with java (Score 3, Insightful) 145

by Nadir on Sunday April 16, 2023 @04:09PM (#63454248) Attached to: Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn?

Minecraft proves you wrong

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