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by jakub_g 2y ago
It usually disappears way faster than that, often ater a year or two. Could be useful to photocopy. However most of warranties those days are not really longer than this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Agree, the original article could benefit from a concrete "explain like I'm five" example.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Check https://www.manyver.se and look up Andre Staltz.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Nowhere as much and as tall, but villages in Georgian mountainous region of Svaneti also used to have many tall towers for defensive purposes. There's still a bunch remaining. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svan_t
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'I Am Not a Typo' campaign fights autocorrect bias against names(techspot.com)
2 points by jakub_g 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Opera on Android supports reflowing text (in settings).
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Everyone enforces phone numbers everywhere now due to spammers and scammers and other assholes. We can't have nice things.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Firefox on desktop supports "zoom text only" feature. But it's the only browser doing so. Because obviously it can break designs. OTOH Opera mobile supports text reflowing after zoom (to be enabled in settings). It's a c
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Re: try-catch x const, this is indeed one of top annoyances in JS those days. I hope this proposal makes it to the language one day: https://github.com/nzakas/proposal-write-once-const?tab=read...
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by jakub_g 2y ago
A gem in the middle of the article: > A wristwatch Type-1 variant was also produced, though a pocket-watch movement on your wrist makes for an enormous wristwatch, and it was very outdated with a noisy ticking sound. > The old joke wa
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by jakub_g 2y ago
> The first idea was to change the username to one that does not contain Polish characters. It turned out that Windows does not rename the user’s folder when changing the username. Manually renaming the folder was not an option. This way
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Side note: DataGenetics has been my favorite blog in mid-2010s. Lots of great posts: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html
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by jakub_g 2y ago
I always feel like those comments are written by people working on 2-person projects who never worked in a 50+ people shared codebase, and not understanding that the world different than theirs exists, and what challenges that brings.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
In worst case, Ozempic patents expire in 2031, which is not that far.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Re: "mounting concern" about the profits of processed food & tobacco companies, here you are also the 2018 classic of the genre: > Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business mo
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by jakub_g 2y ago
IMO the biggest problem is simply that nothing is tested anymore on big inputs, and that frameworks and the modern way of writing code hide the complexity. Also, in the past you had to care explicitly about how much memory you allocate etc.
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by jakub_g 2y ago
Anecdata but I went with the process once with Lufthansa (EU internal flight) and once with Delta (flight from EU to US) and in both cases got my 300/600e compensation in a few days via a bank transfer, no questions asked, no 3p compan
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by jakub_g 3y ago
> if 51% of the other countries don't Laws in EU don't get passed if just 51% of countries agree.
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by jakub_g 3y ago
An interesting possible usage of this was that it allowed to open a link in Edge from within IE11 (which is better than just saying "IE not supported") - although I never spotted this being used in the wild on real websites.
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Not sure if the problem is "being senior", of the kind of companies one works for. If you work at FAANG as senior dev and apply elsewhere similar as senior dev and they are actively hiring, I expect things would go fine. If you wo
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by jakub_g 3y ago
If you're ever in south-east France, there's a bunch of nice via ferratas of varying difficulty. A nice one to start is in Lantosque, it's very easy and low and beautiful with river a few feet below (except a vertical climb a
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Fun fact, expanding the Spain/England remark of misaligned calendars from the article: Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same date, but not the same day. They died 10 days apart. [1] [1] https://www.dw.com/en/s
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by jakub_g 3y ago
archive.is is known not to work with Cloudflare DNS (google it for details).
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Powerball sued $340M after testing in production(bbc.com)
5 points by jakub_g 3y ago|1 comments
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I never saw the tax not being included in Europe. The only thing that is not shown up on the shelf is the deposit for beer & soda/water bottles that some countries have (usually around €0.10-0.20 that you get back when you return
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Apple has 61% mobile market share in US, and in 2023 it shipped worldwide more phones than Samsung. Having a hefty margin on each device, avg price being way bigger than average Android; on top of that, their % share of total revenue coming
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by jakub_g 3y ago
> [EU] are only 7% of Apple's revenue *citation needed. Looking at [0] it seems to be around 25%. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382175/quarterly-revenue...
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by jakub_g 3y ago
There is even a dedicated wiki page for 2022+ deaths of Russian businesspeople https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian...
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Raman Pratasevich / Roman Protasevich. He was pardoned by Lukashenka last year, since then there was little news, but this week he showed up in a video stream. I found out in Polish media, was very hard to find an English article about
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Not monopoly but oligopoly. Only a small # of entities have enough resources to train the models on tens of 1000s of GPUs.

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