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by ncann 3y ago
> Before the pernicious or the insidious, we of course begin with the deeply, hilariously stupid: from screenshots I’ve obtained, an insistence engineers no longer use phrases like “build ninja” (cultural appropriation), “nuke the old ca
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by ncann 3y ago
This is sad, but honestly the expected outcome. Not only did they receive money from people, which is like the #1 in the not-to-do list when you're offering a product in a legally grey area, but also they set up a company in the US (TR
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by ncann 3y ago
pull.ff only should have been the default option, or at least pull.rebase true. I've helped so many git newbie at work and this is probably the thing that caused the most confusion to people. The merge commit resulted from the default
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by ncann 3y ago
> the heroine's father generally wants to make sure he is a good student & not a scamster from canada. That sounds hilarious, do you have some example films that I can check out?
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by ncann 3y ago
Yes, in the end these are (mostly) fully fledged android devices with all the baggage running in the background. Modem aside, wifi is usually the biggest battery consumer, keeping wifi off usually will significantly improve the battery life
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by ncann 3y ago
One thing that people tend to not expect for these e-ink smartphones is that their battery life, while good compared to normal phones, is nowhere near the "expected" battery life for an e-ink e-reader. This phone for example has a
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by ncann 3y ago
I haven't run into no-network situation with Uber ever since every airport has wifi nowadays, but in that situation with no network, how does local on-device Uber data help to book a ride?
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by ncann 3y ago
The only "AI feature" I use in Chrome is the live caption one for French (which requires Chrome Canary). I use it to get automatic live caption while listening to French podcast since I'm learning the language. It's bugg
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by ncann 3y ago
I think that's a rather low bar. Coming off of IE6, any browser that is advertised on the front page of Google just needs to not suck to be successful.
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by ncann 3y ago
> TCF seems to be closedly tied to Eclipse ecosystem. The Getting Started guide suggests several plugins for Eclipse as the main way to interact with tcf-agent. I tried installing these plugins on a new version of Eclipse and it is absol
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by ncann 3y ago
As far as I can tell, libcurl's support for websocket is fairly minimal with the main use case being "connect to this ws endpoint and send/receive data". Meanwhile libwebsockets allows you to do everything under the sun
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by ncann 3y ago
They said it wasn't reproducible anymore though. So if they make a bug report now and say "this used to cause a crash in an old version of Chrome while also having an old version of another software installed, but is no longer rep
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by ncann 3y ago
Silicon Valley has a scene about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXu4_K1tMQ
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by ncann 3y ago
Someone made a site for "cure or cause cancer" before, too bad it's not available anymore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495213
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by ncann 3y ago
What's that about with Eric Schmidt, Elon and Ilya?
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by ncann 3y ago
Don't they need access to the models to use them for Bing?
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by ncann 3y ago
The biggest problem with SO is that it is self-conflicting in its mission. It wants high-quality answers, it wants to avoid duplicates, it wants to be wiki-like or even something that can replace official docs/man page. All those are g
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by ncann 3y ago
The result is usually pretty good when it's outdoor. It's worse when it's indoor, but that's how it generally is with any 3D panorama/photosphere app.
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by ncann 3y ago
I like the Df better than the Zf. That aside, there's a certain satisfying feeling with using the film advance lever and the other mechanical sounds that it's hard to replicate with digital.
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by ncann 3y ago
I remember about 15 years ago there was a very convincing april fools called "Re-36" about this exact digital film concept, with website and fancy product pictures and all. Strange that I can't find any mention of it on googl
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by ncann 3y ago
Yugioh wiki also moved to Yugipedia a long time ago. It was a contentious decision at the time but absolutely the right one in hindsight. The obnoxious autoplay videos ads, horrible mobile layout, forced adoption of styles and features all
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by ncann 3y ago
Newcomers to Java usually dislike the "Variable used in lambda expression should be final or effectively final" compiler error, but once you understand why that restriction is in place and what happens in other languages when ther
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by ncann 3y ago
I went back to check and this is what the book says, verbatim: "Every function in this program was just two, or three, or four lines long. Each was transparently obvious. Each told a story. And each led you to the next in a compelling
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by ncann 3y ago
I think we all know at least some functions like this in a code base. All it takes is for a newcomer to come across a complex function that they need to update some logics for but also don't understand it enough to refactor, so they ju
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by ncann 3y ago
> In this case I hope nobody is proposing a single 1000-line god function. Nor is a maximum of 5 lines per function going to read well. This is the key. Novice devs tend to write giant functions. Zealot devs who read books like Clean Cod
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by ncann 3y ago
Obligatory story about Garry Hoy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
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by ncann 3y ago
Similarly, in order to fit stories into a sprint and not spillover, there is the constant fixation on making stories "as small as possible". So now people make a story for adding a button, then another story for the click handler
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by ncann 3y ago
Too bad https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ isn't loading anymore. Anyone knows an up to date guide for disabling all mitigations? I found https://gist.github.com/jfeilbach/f06bb8408626383a083f68276
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by ncann 3y ago
Funny how because these are "donation" and "lobbying" but not "bribe" there is no consequence for the receiving party and also no recuperation of the money.
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by ncann 3y ago
In case you didn't know, you can have full extension support on Android with Kiwi Browser, which is based on Chromium.

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