Jakob

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by Jakob 2y ago
TIL that signal speed in copper and in fiber is roughly similar, around 2/3 c. Thanks!
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by Jakob 2y ago
I prefer wired too, because of the much reduced latency and better sound quality both in and out. Especially important with calls around the world, where electron/light speed already adds 150 ms. I would hope that my call partner acted
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by Jakob 2y ago
I wish all API doc generators test the doc code examples like this https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/cli/test.html Even if the code example works today, it might not in the future and tests prevent people getting
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Abstracting Away Correctness(fasterthanli.me)
1 points by Jakob 2y ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 2y ago
This shows the keyboard shortcut configuration: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Keyboard-shortcuts#ac... The setting is called "Relax blocking mode" and will enable JavaScript (but keep all a
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by Jakob 2y ago
I do that, too. cmd-J as shortcut to enable JavaScript without needing to reload. In my experience once I hardcode which websites I need JavaScript on, browsing becomes painless. And much faster obviously.
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by Jakob 2y ago
As a counter point, I think Singapore is a good example of well-educated, appreciated and well-paid teachers in public and private schools. Even starting at kindergarten. Education is on a different importance level there both for the gover
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by Jakob 2y ago
Yes that is unfortunate. Safari had the option to toggle JavaScript via Shortcut until recently, but it was removed. The only browser I know which can easily toggle JavaScript now is Brave. But uBlock Origin has that functionality, too, and
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by Jakob 2y ago
I once wrote a Chrome web browser extension that removes these duplicated browser history entries. The Chrome store denied it, citing that it didn’t have enough functionality to be valuable. That means your problem is obviously not big enou
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by Jakob 2y ago
It works for me. Maybe the author fixed it in the meantime? Example: https://yuanchuan.github.io/intro-to-css-doodle/#13
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by Jakob 2y ago
Competition has such a beautiful origin of the word "com-" (together) + "petere" (strive): > to strive alongside another for the attainment of something Not necessarily in opposition, how it is often interpreted nowad
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Rr: Lightweight Recording and Deterministic Debugging(rr-project.org)
2 points by Jakob 3y ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 3y ago
I like https://www.redmine.org/ . It’s stable, contains all features I expect from issue tracking, fast, easy to export and configure. And if you must, very easy to go into the code or database and change.
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by Jakob 3y ago
That’s not apples to apples. You can host the spreadsheet online to solve the syncing issues. When doing that, Jira becomes much less advantageous. When things need to get done, I see people writing spreadsheets for fast adaptive tracking a
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by Jakob 3y ago
Nearly all spreadsheet replacement software is worse though: it’s seeming clarity comes from being overly rigid or overly difficult to configure. I don’t get the hate for spreadsheets. It has APIs, great primitives, good automation capabili
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by Jakob 3y ago
Possibilities to receive cashless payments while the company's network is down: - printed, static QR code: customer scans it with their payment app and enters the amount - have an NFC enabled phone that receives payments (most android
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by Jakob 3y ago
I like 1Password `op run` which works without copying. You put environment variables in your code, and when run with `op run` these variables are replaced on runtime with the actual credentials: https://developer.1password.com&#x
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by Jakob 3y ago
It’s a bit obvious, but you could contribute to make pygments an optional dependency, and then not install that. Or you fork it outright.
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by Jakob 3y ago
I assume it’s a mix of cheap Hetzner/OVH, a bigger inclination for decentralisation and privacy, and an early adopter mindset. They lead many tech stats per capita. Another example is the amount of French and German wikipedia pages, pa
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by Jakob 3y ago
iCloud removes files from local storage randomly and downloading them again is very slow and gets stuck often. I think that is the main reason why obsidian hangs at the start on the iPhone. I have not yet figured out, how to keep iCloud fil
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by Jakob 3y ago
You could exchange the font with one that has the illegible blocks you want as letters? There are web sites that help with creating such a font.
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Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications(dl.acm.org)
3 points by Jakob 3y ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 3y ago
You can remove folders from spotlight under "Spotlight Privacy". I removed my source code folders, which vastly improved search results.
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by Jakob 3y ago
We apparently live in very different societies. Of course a random Indonesian would know Indian, Chinese, and French presidents, and vice versa. Young people I see hype up Korean bands. Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Indian companies
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by Jakob 3y ago
That seems to be an isolated standpoint. While the US and UK undeniably have a big influence on global thinking, they are surely far from dominant in any than some specialised categories? Going through some the biggest countries by populati
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by Jakob 3y ago
There are different tiers of highschools and different tiers of higher education. The first tiers are more targetted towards craftsmanship (e.g. arithmetic and trigonometry you can quickly do in your head, you start working earlier in life,
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by Jakob 3y ago
Simplicity adds value not by denying complexity but by providing a means to navigate it. However it must be applied judiciously to ensure that the richness of the complex system is not lost. Complex systems are often more resilient to shock
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by Jakob 3y ago
ChatGPT subtitles the image “German and Italian officers exchange greetings in Norway.”
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by Jakob 3y ago
It would be great to categorise this list by origin language. It seems like a third each are just relatively modern French or Latin words pronounced in an English manner; of little interest to people who know Roman languages, but then there
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by Jakob 3y ago
Personally, I would use the terminal, too for a throwaway use case like this. But GUIs are very good at that and faster when you do more than the naïve case, they also allow to see intermediate steps. For your use case, on macOS open Automa

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