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by jakub_g 4y ago
One thing you need to keep in mind is that if you want an app with strong security, the less code you have, the easier it is to achieve the goal. By definition, Signal is not going to have bells and whistles and niche features, to keep the
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If the problem is that your fork just looks like the upstream and you can't modify README in there because this would make sending patches to upstream painful, you could: - create a new branch in your fork, aside from original master&#
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The general rule is: the more affluent the country, the better off you're with paying with CC. The cost of exchanging paper money is proportional to the prices of other things in the country. Especially in big touristy cities in afflue
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Go to Firefox settings and disable auto-update? `about:config` > `app.update.auto: false`
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I always find those kinds of comments hilarious. Did you actually fly all of the airlines above, or you just hate LH because you normally fly Singapore Airlines? (perspective is important in those discussions). As a rule of thumb the olds
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Semi-related: "there-must-be-an-eslint-rule"-fetishism. Some developers seemingly can't live in a world where certain constructs can be used sometimes in the code, and others at other times, depending what is more appropriate
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by jakub_g 4y ago
In one of the later posts, the OP writes that the homeless will lose any physical thing after N weeks. So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution. Also, fully acknowledging Google and other bigtechs 2FA is far
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Also, understanding basics of statistics.
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Just a note note: the link the OP has put is from 2019. Quickly googling "gcp aws azure market share 2022" it seems that AWS has roughly 3x more market share and Azure 2x more than GCP.
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Someone making 100k per year but being an immigrant (=no inheritance) is nowhere as wealthy as someone making 60k and having a 500k family house inherited.
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Premium customers are premium ad targets.
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I will just drop this link here: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/
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The real issue, everywhere, is that the ordinary people are made believe those earning 100k are ultra rich, and should be taxed to death, and not those earning 10M+, or having inherited millions.
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My father recently got a letter from a law office. What it wanted to convey was "we saw you sent a bank transfer to Bob lately..." (this was not stated implicitly but it's the only way how they could get address to send the l
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by jakub_g 4y ago
There are some bugs in browsers that are decades old and they do not get fixed, precisely because of this IMO - no one knows part X of codebase anymore, learning it would take weeks, as it's probably written in idiomatic C++ from 2003
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by jakub_g 4y ago
> it doesn't tell you why the code exists in the first place, or what the code should do This is one of the worst things in most codebases I see. Today I was told to use function X to solve my problem. Checked: 0 docs on what it doe
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by jakub_g 4y ago
Decathlon is a French company, they are huge in France and many EU countries (basically the first brick-and-mortar go-to place to buy any sporting equipment if you're on budget, or just need to buy many sporting gear in one place), and
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I see this a lot browsing FB from France (with en locale though).
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Semi-related: Ever since moving from Windows to MacOS, I was desperately looking for a replacement for MSPaint for the following use case: "paste an image, crop it properly, crop further, put red bold square box around the interesting
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Similarly, long time ago you could have a personal/project website on <username>.github.com. A few years ago they moved all personal/project websites to <username>.github.io instead.
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Yep, server push is dead, as it was often misused and harming perf, and maintaining it was complex and not worth it, IIRC. It's also not playing well with caching, resulting in over-sending things that are possibly in cache. On the oth
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by jakub_g 4y ago
To be pedantic, "locks out derivates of Chrome" is a bit of a stretched interpretation. What most likely happens is that there is some fingerprinting JS running trying to weed out bots; and as Brave has a lot of anti-fingerprintin
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Before that (Android <5.0 times), you'd have a WebView strictly tied to the OS version and not upgradable if OS goes EOL. Even if device had Chrome 60, webview was based on Chromium 28-30 (depending on manufacturer). With no flexbox
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On Android, if you have more than 1 browser, and no default browser app (settings / apps / default apps / browser app), clicking a link will ask you which browser you want to use. For random one-time-usage links, I use Firef
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Uber experience is really different in each country. In south of France, Uber is half the price of taxis (for ride to airport I pay 30e from my place, while taxi is 70+), and cars are always very nice. In Poland, regular taxis are often che
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Question for folks who are knowledgable in the subject: Which car manufacturers have good security when it comes to those wireless keys? Are there any? I feel like most of those things are either designed by regular developers who lack the
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(if you're curious: Turkish has dotted and dotless "i": https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I )
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The difference is that "EUR/USD exchange rate" is a well-defined, known & real thing, tracked & used by millions of people and companies for doing business; whereas no one tracks "GOOG/MSFT exchange rate&quo
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Awesome! Thanks!
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Does this really work for jump to file? (we're not talking language statistics or supressing diffs on PRs, which is mostly what linguist readme is talking about). Quoting the docs on finding files: https://docs.github.com&

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