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by jakub_g 2y ago
Thanks for this writeup. I hope the author recovers soon. Some of the situations feel familiar to my experience in other companies, so here's some advice to younger folks, which took me some time to grasp: - Communication with the mana
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by jakub_g 2y ago
An interesting piece that contradicts the early reports about crew leaving vents open: > The company speculated that the crew did not close a watertight door between this hatch and the engine room. (...) > But witnesses, an Italian o
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by jakub_g 2y ago
I don't overuse LLMs for now; however when I have a complex problem that would require multiple of searches and dozens of tabs opened and reading through very long docs, asking LLM allows me to iterate order of magnitude faster. Things
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by jakub_g 2y ago
MS has had their fork of git for years, and they contributed many performance features for monorepos since then to the mainline.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
The article mentions Derick Stolee who dig the digging and shipped the necessary changes. If you're interested in git internals, shrinking git clone sizes locally and in CI etc, Derrick wrote some amazing blogs on GitHub blog: https:&
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Paraphrasing meat of the article: - When you have multiple files in the repo which have the same trailing 16 characters in the repo path, git may wrongly calculate deltas, mixing up between those files. In here they had multiple CHANGELOG.m
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Actually I did see a few long awaited improvements landing in gdocs lately (e.g. better markdown support, pageless mode). I think they didn't deliver much new features in early 2020s because they were busy with a big refactoring from D
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It's the same in Europe as well. It's maddening. Every year I read of massively missing doctors, and at the same time, universities reject 90% of applicants or so because they don't have more places. So those doctors get &quo
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> Lead isotope analysis of the bronze alloy provided indisputable evidence of the Chinese origin of the materials used in the statue. Is there some more detailed source explaining how this conclusion was reached? What's distinct abo
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I use profiles on desktop, but also use multiple browsers, and multiple versions of browsers, especially on mobile, for different purposes: - Firefox Focus as default browser when clicking links from native apps to always open it with an em
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ACDSee - wow, it's been a while since I saw this name! For the not familiar: it's been one of better photo viewer apps on Windows in early 2000s. At some point I learnt about IrfanView though and moved to it. (And then moved to Ma
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by jakub_g 2y ago
> implicit returns Oh man, that brings memories. When I joined a coffee-shop (pun intended), and learnt about implicit returns, I was screaming internally until we got rid of all the coffee (which was massive long team-wide migration eff
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by jakub_g 2y ago
For whomever is interested, IIRC, this requirement of random layout came up in late 2000/early 2010 due to: - keyloggers (safer to click instead of type instead -> on-screen keyboard then) - but then it turned out Internet Explorer
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I feel like the full self driving cars should have a "budget". Every time you drive, say, 1000 km in FSD, you then need to drive 100 km in "normal" mode to keep sharp. Or whatever the ratio / exact numbers TBD. You
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It doesn't have to be a nefarious plan to put the bug in, but once it's there, it's guaranteed to be in the very bottom of the backlog to fix it.
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This exactly where my distinction about "what the passkey actually is" is important: if it's only a password, then I assume I can do the recovery. Whereas if it's 2FA, I assume I can't.
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Something that is not clear to me about passkeys and makes me uneasy to start using them: Are passkeys replacing passwords, 2FA, or both? What if I created a passkey on some device, lost that device, and my passkeys aren't cloud-backed
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I can see how frustrating it might be, but the overall idea of SO is "no duplicates". They don't want to have 1000 questions which are exactly the same but with slightly different phrasing. It can be problematic for total new
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Fun weekend project idea: create an MDN docs clone with a spirit of above and https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ It could also include babelrc and eslintrc generator as proposed in another comment below.
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The author is probably a rather busy person ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky ) and I appreciate they took time to share their thoughts, even with typos. Yeah I also got caught with the one above, but did
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by jakub_g 2y ago
This is Australian website. No EU manufacturer is in top 10 selling of brands in AU. From quick search, the top EU brand is VW (11th) + there are a few premium brands (Mercedes, BMW etc) behind it.
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Netscape went on first to become Mozilla ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite ), but it was a big and bloated; and only then came Firefox as a slimmed down Mozilla only for web browsing.
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> I don't even understand how you end up running Windows Server on GCP. Never ever heard of a corp that does this. That's the whole point here. It's so expensive due to licensing terms that no one even tries.
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Interesting. In EU, I never saw a business accepting only Visa but not MC or vice versa. The only two semi-exceptions: - during a MC-sponsored event, you had extra fast lanes when paying with MC (Roland Garros in Paris) - Ryanair (low-cost
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Not exactly what you want, but https://www.flightconnections.com is nice to learn "where I can fly from airport X in 1 hop / 2 hops".
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When I saw "deminifier for shell commands" in title I had exactly the same in mind.
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The forever-sprinting approach indeed is unmanageable long term. In my prev job we used to have a cycle of 2-3 sprints followed by 1-2 weeks of rest (to handle tech debt etc.) In other companies it could be named "innovation week"
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by jakub_g 2y ago
For people who didn't read the linked article: Pinboard is not shutting down, just the OP is tired with outages and unresponsiveness of the owner.
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I believe this can work in slow paced opensource projects which do squash-merges (one PR = one commit), every commit is green and beautiful and well described with properly formatted message. I worked on such project in my first job and I c
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Apart from what/why/why not: Something I started doing recently is to put URLs in the comments: - URL of documentation for a complex feature - URL with a dashboard with telemetry - URL of a monitor which checks if the given featur

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