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by jakub_g 10mo ago
Staff+ work is not that much (exclusively) coding anymore, but identifying correct big things to work on and keeping focus on it, making Bob and Steve from different teams talk to each other instead of building the same stuff twice, making
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by jakub_g 10mo ago
Fixing deprecations is unfortunately the lowest prio of any kind of work for majority of the projects. Part of the problem is probably lack of pressure to do so it if the timeline is unclear. What if this is actually never removed? Why goin
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by jakub_g 10mo ago
My favorite is "have trouble logging in? click here" which redirects you to a contact page which is behind the login wall.
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by jakub_g 10mo ago
> “Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example,” he said. “Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald’s promote the video release of the
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
The interesting part: After rolling out a bad ruleset update, they tried a killswitch (rolled out immediately to 100%) which was a code path never executed before: > However, we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an a
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
From newspaper reporting on this, they are rolling back a software update. I wonder what was the original cause or the update? How often are flight computers software updated and why?
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
In my first big job in a big legacy company, 30% of ongoing effort was "how to implement this feature which needs a database without a database". We also paid some security company to use it as a proxy in front of our server to im
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
> 3-5 years That's maybe in Europe. Plenty of US developers those days have a litany of ~1-2 year stints at FAANGs and startups du jour in their CV.
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
> European Commission wants browsers to manage cookie preferences instead of pop-ups on every website. Better late than never, but it's insane it took them almost a decade to figure this out.
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
Semi-related: Datadog recently created https://updog.ai
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
> as reliable as you want We self-host GitLab but the team owning it is having hard time scaling it. From my understanding talking to them, the design of gitaly makes it very hard to scale it beyond certain repo size and # of pushes per
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
My company self-hosts GitLab. Gitaly (the git server) is a weekly source of incidents, it doesn't scale well (CPU/memory spikes which end up taking down the web interface and API). However we have pretty big monorepos with hundred
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
I hate it as much (and the challenge time seems to be getting longer, 10s lately for me, what the hell?) But we can all say thank you to all the AI crawlers who hammer websites with impossible traffic.
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
Previously: 2018: 448 points, 370 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16827248 2021: 104 points, 100 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184116
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
> "If X or Y or Z... you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport" After queueing for 1.5h in a single queue for the entire flight, served by one service crew person.
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
TIL about App Pinning! It's also available in Android on Pixels.
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by jakub_g 11mo ago
Most of the answers are here: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa... Re: the "their server is flaky" (I believe you mean at the gate) case, I think any airline might be
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Less technical newspaper article: > AI helps couple conceive after 19 years of failed pregnancies > With the STAR system, the AI analysed 2.5 million microscopic images in two hours and detected seven sperm cells, including two viable
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AI helps couple conceive after 19 years of failed pregnancies(thelancet.com)
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by jakub_g 1y ago
According to this article from just a few weeks ago there were 56 active MD11 (well, 55 now), split almost evenly by Fedex and UPS, and scheduled to be replaced within next 5-7 years: https://simpleflying.com/why-mcdonnell-d
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by jakub_g 1y ago
And interestingly, the person he replies to is taviso [0][1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taviso [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Ormandy
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by jakub_g 1y ago
> It had approximately 50% of my trips, and frequently only had only one leg of the journey Relevant current news: Home Office denying child benefits to 1000s of people because they had incomplete data of people vacation trips, so people
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by jakub_g 1y ago
There's SPXT (S&P 500 excluding tech sector), +79% in 5y, vs full S&P +110% in 5y. Obviously, in tech/AI bull market it can't be not underperforming.
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Regarding how Google safe browsing actually works under the hood, here is a good writeup from Chromium team: https://blog.chromium.org/2021/07/m92-faster-and-more-effici... Not sure if this is exactly the scenario
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by jakub_g 1y ago
The good thing is that a new player entering the arena allows a fresh look at certain problems, and some solutions then get backported to the OG project. I've read it already happened that jj inspired some changes in git. Same happened
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by jakub_g 1y ago
In some ways, this reminds me of Bernard Tapie, called "a man with 1001 lives". It's a really interesting story from 1980s/90s of a self-made-businessman, turned politician, getting to the very top, doing deals with Afri
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by jakub_g 1y ago
I feel like I went through this stage ahead of time, a decade ago, when I was junior dev, and was starting my days by: first reviewing the work of a senior dev who was cramming out code and breaking things at the speed of light (without LLM
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by jakub_g 1y ago
The article (quasa.io, first time seeing this domain, first time ever on HN) doesn't inspire confidence with those AI generated images (which seem to be all over other articles too). It seems to be AI slop to me. Although googling on t
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by jakub_g 1y ago
You can check inside the hook if you're in the middle of the rebase, and exit the hook early. This is what we have in our hooks: if [ -d "$(git rev-parse --git-path rebase-merge)" ] || \ [ -d "$(git rev-par
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by jakub_g 1y ago
As far as I can tell, it's still the case if the video is DRM-ed. Then any screenshots of it will be black square, because the OS can't "see" the video, it's sent directly to the monitor, similar as in the article.

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