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by jakub_g 1y ago
Uh, it felt weird indeed reading those super verbose descriptions of what airline X did in year Y and what they changed in year Z, repeated like 5 times in slightly different words. Note: it's a content marketing article on a blog of a
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Just from a few days ago: > Microplastics ... in glass bottles contain more microplastic particles than those in plastic bottles, cartons or cans. This was the surprising finding of a study conducted by the Boulogne-sur-Mer unit of the A
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by jakub_g 1y ago
> QOTD DDoS attack > How it works: Abuses the Quote of the Day (QOTD) Protocol, which listens on UDP port 17 and responds with a short quote or message. Does any reasonable operating system those days support this protocol? Sounds lik
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by jakub_g 1y ago
The main reason for this is to force the publishers to stop relying on deprecated APIs that have way too much access, and migrate towards new APIs that offer more fine grained permissions and control to the user. BTW The stores requirements
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by jakub_g 1y ago
FWIW things have dramatically improved in recent years. For example, latest Pixels claim to have 7 years of support [1]. I wonder how it will work in practice though, as often the quality of QA for system updates for old phones drops over t
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Relevant parallel thread: "Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to massive blackout, report finds" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301186
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by jakub_g 1y ago
On Pixel 8 + Android 15, I can already connect an external monitor via "screen mirroring" feature. My keyboard and mouse, which are plugged into USB ports in the monitor, do work. However the annoying thing is that many apps which
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by jakub_g 1y ago
> iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26 Bumping from iOS 18 / macOS 15 etc. towards year-based naming, nice. I wish more projects followed this.
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Dammit. So sorry for you and your wife. Take care.
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by jakub_g 1y ago
(EU person) From my reading, the cost is just the start. Others are: insurance companies rejecting claims for stupid reasons; providers overdoing treatments to maximize their bills; the stress involved navigating all this hostile system etc
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by jakub_g 1y ago
For me the mental fatigue is mostly related to context switching, being disturbed (slacks, meetings etc but also side quests to the original problem), and working on a fuzzy problem. Working a few hours in such environment is very fatiguing
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18% of all new music uploaded to streaming is fully AI-generated(newsroom-deezer.com)
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by jakub_g 1y ago
The lockers in Poland can be used for both receiving and sending items. It's a massive QoL improvement in many ways over old school: - you can receive things while you're not at home, don't have to carefully plan to be there
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Opera Android does support reflowing.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Sounds similar to China / WeChat situation, from what I've read previously
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Very interesting to get some historical context! Thanks for sharing Scott. Small remark: > As far as I can tell, this is the first time the phrase “rebase” was used in version control ClearCase (which I had a displeasure to use) has been
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Let me update what the OP wrote: "How do we run arbitrary code on client hardware in a way that's safe for all parties and without installation step ?" 15+ years ago, installing software on customers' machines could tak
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by jakub_g 2y ago
The chart with car colors has been famous for a few years. However I'm seeing an inverse trend in past 1-2 years (at least in France); new cars are getting very colorful. For example: - Renault Clio is very popular in metallic orange -
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by jakub_g 2y ago
> DSJ is really fun, but it also increased the risk of mouse strain. How much pain do you think you’ve caused your players? > I was aware of the potential risks – not to mention neck stiffness from players tilting their heads to the r
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Semi-relatedly: How does this look like for Whatsapp and Telegram? Can a stranger send me an attachment? Never saw this happen, I always receive short messages from scammers like "Hello" w/o attachments, but I wonder if this
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Did anyone make a large TypeScript codebase work with ESM + TS + node (together with IDE support and yarn pnp support?) The thing that is annoying with ESM is that it requires to have extensions in imports, i.e. `import .. from '/
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Counterargument: my colleague with 15y exp (10 C++ & 5 Angular/Vue) has been unemployed for 2yrs already because he has no React on the CV and no local company wants to hire him (secondary size tech hub in the country, EU). He&#x27
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Almost same weight as 8 and 8a - FWIW I have 8, and the size and weight are very comfy, as a previous 3a owner (I "downgraded" from Pixel 6 which was too big and too heavy to fit in one hand and in the pocket, though I actually go
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by jakub_g 2y ago
I tried two jack-to-usb-c adapters in $5-$10 range (tbh there's very little choice) and it's not great. - first was working with Pixel 6 but no longer with Pixel 8 - the other works with Pixel 8, but sometimes cuts the output for
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Oh, interesting! Tbh I don't fully understand what "--reapply-cherry-picks" really does, because the docs are very concise and hand-wavy, and _why_ it doesn't need the fetches? Why it is not the default?
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by jakub_g 2y ago
GH Actions generally need a throwaway clone. The issue with shallow clones is that subsequent fetches can be expensive. But in CI most of the time you don't need to fetch after clone.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Nice timing! Thanks!
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by jakub_g 2y ago
scalar and msft git (whose many features made it into mainline by now) addresses mostly things like improving local speed by enabling filesystem caching etc. It doesn't address the issue of "how to clone entire 10GB with full hist
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Indeed, `git ls-remote` produces 14MB output; interestingly, 12MB of it are `refs/pull/<n>/head` as it lists all PRs (including closed ones), and the repo has had ~200,000 PRs already. It seems like large GitHub repos g
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I had a very bad experience with - tbh don't remember, either blobless or treeless clone - when I evaluated it on a huge fast-moving monorepo (150k files, 100s of merges per day). I cloned the rep

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