jakub_g

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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   If I had a choice and had to choose between (1) high-pay, not-safety-critical at FAANG, vs. (2) low-pay, safety-critical, I can't imagine why I'd go for (2), outside of maybe hobby when I had too much money already.
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   Here's a fix for the git blame part: GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Czeslaw GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=czeslaw@januszex.com git commit (obviously, just kidding)
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   As a CEO of a railway company, not sure I'd want folks to patch the binaries on my trains. Pretty sure an insurance company wouldn't like that in case shit happens. Rather, the companies with botched trains should demand from Newa
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   Buried in the comments are links to longer write-ups with additional details: Polish: https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/o-trzech-takich-co-zhak... https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/awarie-pociagow
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   Note the sibling comment. You've read a stripped down blog.
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   Didn't notice the "read on" link and got confused why the article finished before it really started :)
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   This is indeed the biggest annoyance of mine. I quite often end up rewriting code or changing variable names to counterbalance prettier making code ugly/unreadable.
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   Interestingly, ING Bank in Poland just introduced the same, as well as U2F key support. https://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/istotne-zmiany-w-aplikacji-mo...
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   by jakub_g 3y ago

   > should use standard video player You fine with YT downloading all of an hours-long video on mobile and draining your data plan, even if you're paused after a few seconds? Or not being able to jump forward until whole MPEG is downl
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    The API is only supported in Chromium browsers [0]. It was removed from Firefox and Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    - Whatsapp mobile native app warns the user (and the other party of the call) when your battery level gets very low, to expect the end of the call. One could image similar webapps could do the same. - Warn the user to save their data when t
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    For historical context, check this paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_18.pdf (page 3 has timeline of events). The API was implemented in Firefox, Safari, Chrome but it returned too precise data, so by rea
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Yup this is really bizarre. No iOS support at all, and Google Pixels only from Pixel 5. (for storing the tickets on the device).
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Coming from Wroclaw, Poland, those pools look very similar to this one [0] which turns out to be German-built in late 1800s (Wroclaw used to be a German city before WWII). [0] https://www.yelp.com/biz/wroc%C5%82awskie-c
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Works for me: click microphone icon in search field, then click "Search for a song" in the bottom.
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    > I came to realize that I had joined the wrong version of the team There was another blog post here on HN a few days ago from a different person at G which used very similar phrasing. (Can't find it though)
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Phone sizes nowadays make me furious. I bought a Pixel 6 one year ago, because "on paper" it looked similar to my Pixel 3a. Just 1mm here, 1mm there. But it actually feels way much bigger and heavier in reality. Impossible to conv
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    For fellow Europeans: turmeric = curcuma.
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    The upside of this is, when I have a bad humour, I go to git-man-page-generator, and one minute later I'm laughing my arse off. https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    All browsers already heavily throttle js timers execution in background tabs. You also have specific apis like requestAnimationFrame to decouple UI timers from non-UI timers like setInterval. Stopping it entirely and then suddenly restarti
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Talking about exotic TLDs: An overlooked aspect is that some of them may be way slower to resolve on DNS level: https://blog.nameshield.com/blog/2020/04/30/choosing-the-rig... For example .io is about 50
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    When GDPR took effect in Europe, a bunch of (mostly US) websites started serving "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" responses [1] to EU users. I wonder if there'll be another spike after this announcement. [1] https:/&
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    Also, Revolut has pulled off a super shady move this summer where they moved EU customers' US stock accounts to EU, and in the process, changed the insurance from "500k per account" to "500k overall for all customers&quo
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    This is an interesting observation, and a bit similar to mine: - in job1, I redid the same thing three times (!!) using different tech stacks and/or different designs; got tired and found new job - in job2 I was working on performance
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    The app sounds like Kramer's idea actually :) KRAMER (slides in to the Jerry's place) (with the excited voice) Jerry! I have an idea. An app that does nothing. (screams and shakes his head) NOTHING!
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    ".yu domain expires today (30/Sept/2009)" 24 points by blazzerbg on Sept 30, 2009; 23 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=852194
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    I can't tell about Mexico situation, but living in France, you can see offers for imported phones (often shipping directly from China or other countries, with large shipping delays) on all platforms like Amazon, Rakuten, Fnac etc. (apa
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    > After years of bureaucratic delays, the domain was finally shut down in 2010. Over 4,000 websites, some of the earliest examples of internet culture from the region, suddenly became inaccessible via their original domain. For many, the
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    GH still has a split view available. Above the diff, you have a settings icon which shows dropdown where you can changed between unified and split diff.
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    by jakub_g 3y ago

    FYI if using GitHub, on github.com pull request page, press `.`, or change domain name to github.dev. This will open VSCode in browser, with the pull request in diff view. Advantages: - you see whole files there - diff algo is different tha