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by jakub_g 8mo ago
The thing about mobile apps is that majority of people likely prefer it . Native apps make it much smoother (or just possible at all / with much lower friction) than webapps to do things like taking photos, scanning NFC, doing payme
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
A potential problem I see with "LLM=true" being set by claude and friends is that some tools whose authors don't like LLMs might be tempted to e.g. don't output anything at all (and don't do what the CLI is supposed
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
> In early December, a 35-year-old passenger from Tanzania was impressed to see that all the handles of the suitcases on the conveyor belt in the baggage claim area were facing the passengers. > After the luggage is unloaded and colle
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
It's quite interesting that "boiling water" in many Slavic languages is actually a separate word (and not derived from "water", but from "boiling"; similar how the author mentions "ice" being use
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
FYI: you may want to check `git rev-parse --show-cdup` - in root of the repo, it prints empty string - if you're 1 level deep it prints `../` - if you're 2 levels deep it prints `../../` One minor drawback: inside `
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Oops, I've glanced over it too fast. Thanks - updated my post.
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
I'd like to emphasize the `.git/info/exclude`, which is a "repo-local gitignore", i.e. only for you and only for this repo. Useful when you want to create a temporary file to help you e.g. with a bug investigation,
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Update: it seems they're backtracking. Confusing, to say the least. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/02/22/tsa-pre... https://www.reuters.com/world/us&#x
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US DHS to suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs(theguardian.com)
5 points by jakub_g 8mo ago|1 comments
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
The main issue with `git branch --merged` is that if the repo enforces squash merges, it obviously won't work, because SHA of squash-merged commit in main != SHA of the original branch HEAD. What tools are the best to do the equivalent
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
> The product is the sales demo that impresses VPs. Meanwhile, recruiters are still shuffling candidates around in Google Sheets. This gave me a chuckle, because a colleague who talked with HRs just told me exactly this last week.
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
I was surprised recently when browsing on Amazon (I rarely buy clothing/shoes there, but I did a few times). I chose my usual size, but Amazon told me "nope we think you want one size smaller, based on your history and our data f
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Semi-related thing that suprises me as a man (this is in Europe): I go to a clothing shop at the start of a new collection, and look at men's shirts for a given type: - there's 10 XS, 10 M, 10 XXL versions I go towards end of the
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
To me, the main problem is that inevitably, any SPA with dozens of contributors will grow into a multi-megabyte-bundle mess. Preventing it it's extremely hard, because the typical way of developing code is to write a ton of code, add a
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Oh, the Dock. Try to have a setup where you have two displays vertically, BUT you want the Toolbar and Dock both be on the top one, stably - impossible. Workaround I found: you can configure the monitors to be a pattern like this instead:
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Since we talk resizing windows, for months I was _sometimes_ unable to resize windows at all, and couldn't figure out why. I thought it was a random bug of macOS. Finally I realized the issue: if a window spans across two displays, it
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
Actually, npm supports "provenance" and as it eliminated long lived access tokens for publishing, it encourages people to use "trusted publishing" which over time should make majority of packages be auto-provenance-vefif
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
For those of you on macOS who still want to benefit from arguably the best drawing application ever conceived, https://jspaint.app/ is THE way. Use it all the time when editing screenshots. Bonus point: that Windows 95 styl
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
https://updog.ai/status/github
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by jakub_g 8mo ago
With Macbooks Air M4 starting at $1k/€1.1k, and apparently soon some even cheaper Macbooks coming up, it's really difficult to justify buying a Windows laptop those days and having to deal with all Microsoft bs, unless you have sp
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
Just to put things into perspective: Visa and MasterCard interchange fee in EU is 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. Apple taking 100x this is just ridiculous.
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
*I meant "app Z on mobile screen", can't edit anymore.
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Yarn 6 Preview (written in Rust)(yarn6.netlify.app)
6 points by jakub_g 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
I do have it in Pixel 8 after enabling in developer options. It's a bit buggy and low resolution, but does the job when e.g. I want to connect some video I'm already watching on mobile to the external display via USB-C. (You can c
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
Flying with connections mostly within Schengen, or EU<>US via CDG, I never had to clear security again at layover, but I recently learnt this is rather an exception, and apparently it's a very common thing in most airports to hav
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
Re: iOS apps being easier to develop: device sizes are the minuscule of the problem. The real problem is that Android vendors mess up with the OS in weird ways by adding custom ultra battery savers, removing APIs etc. which is much less pre
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
> Basically, you need to follow the tracking regularly until the package is tagged as lost or failed delivery, which is the cue to pay import fees. > It’s the normal procedure to buy things from Europe since Brexit 2020. It’s actually
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
The people who pay for the apps vs people vibecode them are largely a different demographic. Linux is free, but most people don't mind to pay the Windows / macOS tax.
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by jakub_g 9mo ago
Same about traditional French. In my first company, to be hired you needed a degree, preferably from a French "Grande École".
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by jakub_g 10mo ago
> checks user agents and won't show the links to legitimate search engines, so Google and Bing won't see them. Serving different contents to search engines is called "cloaking" and can get you banned from their indexe

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