jakub_g

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by jakub_g 9d ago
Yup, having _two_ active devices which are logged in to Google (and possibly other services that you rely on that opt you in to app-based 2FA) + with backups of 2FA is a must at this point. When I buy a new phone, I make it a "primary&
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by jakub_g 10d ago
I dislike reduce because people sometimes do wild things in the callback that take a lot of mental effort to understand. Sometimes people abuse .map as well to do things that are not obvious (i.e. instead of mapping elements of an array to
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by jakub_g 1mo ago
Possibly inspired by: https://red-squares.cian.lol/
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by jakub_g 1mo ago
One thing worth mentioning is that a law was passed around 2017 in France that as a tenant, if you want to install fiber, the landlord can't prevent you from doing so (because e.g. they don't want to drill holes in the walls or ot
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by jakub_g 3mo ago
Semi-related piece of advice for younger folks: When you join a new team, don't try to change team tools, processes etc. starting in the very first week. Most things are the way they are for a reason. Your "obviously better"
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Ask HN: GitHub OAuth Flows Failures?
2 points by jakub_g 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jakub_g 3mo ago
I've heard stories like "fine, we'll take your debit card, but only if you also pay a non-reimboursable $$$ deposit in cash" for car rental. (Mostly in central/eastern Europe.) (From what I was told, the thing in fa
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by jakub_g 3mo ago
The animations and comparisons of current vehicles with two-three decades ago are extremely informative indeed.
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by jakub_g 3mo ago
I don't believe so do for two reasons: - everyone assumes their program / website is the only thing running at the machine at a given time, and dev machines are always more powerful than user machines - it's not really lack o
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by jakub_g 4mo ago
Talking the "Sleep" button... Back in 2000s, there were some popular cheap external keyboards with three extra buttons between the delete/end/pgdown row, and the arrows. The first of those buttons was "power off&quo
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by jakub_g 4mo ago
I used to check a few times per month, but recently the number of submissions went through the roof, which makes me less likely to check.
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by jakub_g 4mo ago
One annoying thing is that those "non-standard" ETF variants have much higher management costs than basic S&P500 / All World ETFs.
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by jakub_g 4mo ago
Note: it's about Bolt.com (fintech), not Bolt.eu (taxi).
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
> ... While most enterprises were nationalized, authorities gave permission to small-scale private workshops like his to operate Fun story: the city of Nowy Sącz (80,000 habitants) has a very high percentage of millionaires compared to o
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
There's a famous table with what Brits say vs mean: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/ha0rz/britis... e.g. "very interesting" -> "clearly nonsense"
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
I have the same observation, when I need to ask someone to repeat, it's usually not because I didn't hear the sound, it's that my brain CPU struggled to process and decode the sound fast enough. Sometimes I ask to repeat and
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
Reminded me of this old, pre-LLM git docs generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
According to [0] the military was basically doing under-the-radar preparations in the last few weeks before the attack, because the official narrative was that nothing's gonna happen. > A small group of officers at HUR, Ukraine’s mi
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
I tend to document some tricky non-obvious pieces of knowledge directly above the relevant code. "We have to do X below instead of obvious-first-idea-Y because Z". Any time a refactoring comes up which moves code around, AI (or my
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
My favorite are the systems where you can only issue one token, so that you can't do a zero downtime rotation by creating new one, making it active in your system, and only then removing the old one. In some cases this makes rotation a
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by jakub_g 5mo ago
I always wanted to make feature flags system where each FF must declare an expiration date max 1 year in the future and start failing CI beyond that date to force someone to reevaluate and clean up. It's just too easy to keep adding ne
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by jakub_g 6mo ago
FWIW, IBM has been increasing TPF costs dramatically since mid 2000s, which prompted the GDSes to go through decade-plus efforts to migrate away from it, to the cloud.
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by jakub_g 6mo ago
> 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data Just FYI how this generally works: it's not developers who add it, but non-technical people. Developers only add a single `<script>` in the page, which loads Google Tag Manager,
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
"Everything is beta or deprecated."
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
Semi-related, something that kind of irritates me is the usage of "as" in online newspapers headlines: "$Something-is-happening as $Something-else-is-happening" It's usually written in a way that might be su
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
One correction about interviews: if the interviewee comes up with an overengineered solution without asking any questions, it's definitely a red flag. In a good interview, the interviewee would ask clarifying questions; perhaps get tol
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
I remember kkrieger being impressively small but also requiring insane compute :) it would render at like 0.1 fps on my poor machine. (Aligns with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14415567 )
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
I know. It sounds like a perfect task for AI to do it though (wasn't the whole premise of AI do to mundane things for us), yet they fail to do it, and I need to use an external tool.
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by jakub_g 7mo ago
Since talking images, are there any AI models that can output real transparent gifs/pngs? And not a (botched) fake white/gray grid background that is commonly used to visualize transparency?

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