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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser. That’s a strange design. If you sent just ~10 lines of JavaScript to the browser, you could achieve an
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Windows PE is based on real Windows 11, it's not a custom thing.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Instead, we burned months trying (and ultimately failing) to get Nvidia’s host drivers working to map virtualized GPUs into Intel Cloud Hypervisor. At one point, we hex-edited the closed-source drivers to trick them into thinking our h
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Because it’s a Scala project, written by a Scala fan, simple as that. No need to come up with extra justification.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
A prefix/suffix for views is maaybe acceptable. But definitely not within database functions and procedures.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
1980 called, they want their Hungarian Notation back.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Some ORMs will use a "camelCaseNameInQuotes", in which case PostgreSQL will preserve the case (as will other databases), and manual querying will require quotes everywhere. Alternatively, you can use camelCase without quotes in yo
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Here are recommended naming practices: Recommended by whom, based on what? Everything in this article seems to be blogspam, with zero links, sources, or rationales for the decisions provided.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Make a point come out of the top of the p, to distinguish it from a rho. Or make it \varrho (ϱ). > Keep the slash in the phi vertical; keep the slash in the empty-set symbol slanted. Again, \varphi (U+1D711 which HN doesn’t seem to
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
That would mean the train driver spends the night in the middle of nowhere, I doubt they would agree to that.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The depots for this train seem to be in areas that are much more populated (Wikipedia says Mitaka and Toyoda [0]). If Otsuki Station is the station of despair, this would suggest the trains ride empty from Otsuki to the depot. Why couldn’t
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Java IDEs can debug third-party code just fine with decompilation. C# IDEs can get the original source code ( https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Debugging_External_Code... ). Having to build all dependencies would
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This is not a dark pattern, this is illegal. Even the US has introduced click-to-cancel recently.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Almost nothing, it scrolls horizontally to show the selected time zone in the middle.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
And United Nations defines national borders, but countries disagree with that and complain to Microsoft, not the UN. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> It's a pain to phrase, but: There is no reason to use the Swiss flag to indicate a language. French has the French flag. German has the German flag. Etc. There are dialects, as a nuance to this, but you can solve that by e.g. usin
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> using an (often expensive) feature flags as a service platform I have no idea why anyone would actually do that in real life. Feature flags are something so trivial that you can implement them from scratch in a few hours, tops — and th
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Upgrades between modern .NET (Core) versions are simple and painless. It’s just a single-character change in the .csproj file, plus maybe upgrading some dependencies (but old versions will usually work). Upgrading from the classic .NET Fram
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Setting up a mail server isn't hard. Making it trustworthy enough for Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook.com to accept your messages and not put them in the spam folder is the hard part. Especially if whoever had your IP address previously was s
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This probably refers to emojis made out of multiple codepoints (e.g. skin color + person, or flags which are built out of the country code in a special range).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
403/404 seems to be the response to GET, not POST. In which case 405 Method Not Allowed would be better.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The calendar thing is working correctly. Every event has a time zone attached, even if you didn't notice it or change it. If your appointments involved other people and you had sent out calendar invites, they would have noticed the wro
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
UNIX time ignores leap seconds, so every day is exactly 86400 seconds, and every year is either 365*86400 or 366*86400 seconds. This makes converting from yyyy-mm-dd to UNIX time quite easy, as you can just do `365*86400*(yyyy-1970) + leap_
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
How did blogspam with zero screenshots get upvoted? Actually seeing the product helps understand why it flopped.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> And HMD is one of the better respected mobile brands. [citation needed]
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I doubt people will pay for willpayforthis.com. They could just type "will pay" into Xitter search themselves.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It doesn’t add value. It fills them with LLM-generated code.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The title ("Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report") is a misrepresentation. A coding-LLM-as-a-service startup got banned by GitHub for abusing it by creating thousands of repositories.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Most applications that ship with Windows are not written in C#/.NET. Microsoft tried to rewrite everything this way around Vista, but they failed hard due to stability and performance issues. In Windows 11/Server 2025, the only
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Microsoft considers VB.NET legacy as well. Most notably, ASP.NET Core applications cannot be written in VB6 due to missing language features.

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