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by jakub_g 5y ago
Semi-related: I've had a basic ergo keyboard (MS sculpt ergonomic) for a while and it's much much better than regular keyboards; However I think all ergo keyboard companies are missing the point those days: "Just-a-keyboard&q
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by jakub_g 5y ago
FWIW, 2021 has been probably the best year ever to change the company in IT: - Remote work is now standard, you don't have to relocate - US companies and well-funded startups opening up outside of US and hiring remote devs (though th
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by jakub_g 5y ago
The reason people add third-parties is the same why big companies outsource cleaning to a cleaning company: pay someone else to own a subproblem of yours. Even the analogy is similar: evil cleaner can steal secret documents and wreak havoc
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Edit: DeGiro seems to have it now.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IIRC Brave and Vivaldi stated they will keep Mv2 support. I wouldn't bet on other vendors though.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Previous big spike at beginning of chart was also in November, in 2019. Can someone knowledgable explain why is this the case?
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IPv6 adoption graph: 32.59% as of today, as measured by Google https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Question to EU folks: do you see HCP at your stock broker? Out of curiosity, I checked the two stock brokers I have accounts with (Revolut and DeGiro), and it's not there yet. Do you know what EU (or French) brokers have the Nasdaq com
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I'm an outsider but it seems to me the difference between academia and opensource/hobby forums is massive: In opensource the attitude is "See bug? Send a PR!" Whereas academic papers are like publishing software into a b
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by jakub_g 5y ago
TIL! There's similar thing in Poland but with wax and on 29th November (St. Andrew's). Arguably, less harmful than using lead :)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
FR gov asked Google and others last month to shadow ban Wish as they're basically a hazardous materials shop. https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-take-steps-against...
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Crypto made producing ransomware a viable business model. Touching real economy in real ways!
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There's been quite a few reports of unused coal burning power stations being revived and dedicated to mining crypto.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/zURR7m... > 10:40 AM UTC The problem with Google Calendar has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and con
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Way more money to be made -> more developers get hired -> more features get shipped. Also, faster dev machines & better tooling make iteration faster. There's also a cultural shift from shipping mega features into small incre
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XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress (2018)(apenwarr.ca)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
> Anyone can mine gold Bizarre comment - there's only a handful of places in the world where gold is located (most countries have close to zero), and they're probably controlled by some powerful private entity and probably unde
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Cliqz wanted to build new search engine but failed. It's just too difficult to operate at that scale and break the existing monopoly of big G. https://www.burda.com/en/news/cliqz-closes-areas-browser-and...
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Personally I prefer people to provide dark themes themselves. Dark Reader seemed to be CPU hungry last time I tried, and it would entirely crash some pages even.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Yeah, it feels like an evil cycle. And since no one reverts anything because ego and stuff, they just keep digging their hole. "The numbers started going down... We need to throw even more random shit to catch users' attention a
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IMO fundamentals win long term, but I also think that company being hyped is often a self-fulfilling prophecy: they suddenly get crazy amounts of capital for free when they stock is high which they can use to for securing loans, transaction
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I prefer Twitter personally, but in Poland it's also FB where everyone is, + Messenger and FB groups. Twitter is only really used by journalists and politicians in Poland.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
All social media-ish platforms are increasingly awful. FB, Twitter, Reddit, IG - all aggressively trying to make you create account and log in, hiding/clobbering content if you're not. Less and less content from people I explicitl
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by jakub_g 5y ago
> It’s just a stream of awful content that isn’t from your friends. 100% this. So much "promoted" content (aka ads), or "suggested for you" viral content, or people I know promoting their businesses / blogs etc.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Can confirm, at least for France - the interviewing experience at Datadog was amazing. Everyone was very humane and very responsive. I accepted the offer.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
For me (both logged in and not), for many short & simple tech queries Google fares better than competition (for example, googling some package name or API method shows GitHub repo or official docs as first link, while in DDG it's o
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by jakub_g 5y ago
> if I want to buy a $200 washing machine that falls apart in 3 years, then it should be my god given right to do so The $200 unrepairable washing machine has a massive negative externality for the planet. Most people don't think in
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by jakub_g 5y ago
As a front-ender I also have this feeling. The key to overcome this feeling of being overwhelmed is to specialize. Some people like building whole thing from scratch and gluing a bazillion of technologies, but this is not for me. I prefer t
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by jakub_g 5y ago
You could design HTML website in the same way, to be printable (although getting pixel perfect A4 format is tricky with HTML) Meanwhile, PDFs internally can be as accessible as JPEG in some cases; difficult for screen readers because it&#x2
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Github graphql API seems to be throwing error responses for me still

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