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by ncann 5y ago
onunload/onbeforeunload doesn't work?
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by ncann 5y ago
Your comment is downvoted perhaps because it sounds so cynical, but after thinking about it I agree to a certain extent. Throughout my career I've noticed the biggest pushers for more unit testing are usually middle managers who love t
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by ncann 5y ago
10-15 years ago me and I assumed most people here viewed Google in a very positive light. At that time they seemed to be doing everything right and were somehow at the top of everything they did. Gmail was game changing, Search had no equal
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by ncann 5y ago
Reminds me of Nine familial exterminations in China back in the days: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations
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by ncann 5y ago
No ads/no privacy/no customer service are fair game for a free service, but there's no reason why it should include no customization as well.
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by ncann 5y ago
Data storage can't be the reason. No matter how you implement it, the storage required is peanuts compared to things like Youtube/Drive/Google Photos.
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by ncann 5y ago
Wow, I'm surprised that I never remembered that feature existed. I wonder why they removed it, just like why they removed the insanely helpful "Cached" feature.
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by ncann 5y ago
Thanks, this seems much more detailed. I'll give this a good read.
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by ncann 5y ago
I'm very curious how we can attribute a threat to a particular nation state, given pretty much anything in code/IP/modus operandi/etc. can be faked by one party to look like another. I went through both links and all I f
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by ncann 5y ago
From a purist's point a of view maybe. But as soon as it's a non-trivial DB with constraints/referential integrity/triggers/etc. it quickly become impossible to test those without an actual DB.
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by ncann 5y ago
Same. I don't know why but there's something so intuitive and easy to use and yet so powerful about Sublime Merge's merge tool that it quickly became my favorite after having used a lot of different other tools in the past (T
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by ncann 5y ago
Also the ability to create custom menu items (e.g for any context menu) for whatever command you desire. It's a game changer for me that I haven't seen in any other git client. Also it's lightning fast and relatively bug free
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by ncann 5y ago
> since Dec 2021 It goes back way earlier than that. Russia has repeatedly expressed in no uncertain terms that Ukraine is the single one red line that they will never accept joining NATO. A very insightful article on FP on the topic: h
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by ncann 5y ago
- It's free - It's better than most alternatives, and in many cases there isn't even an alternative - People have amassed too much data on Google services and the cost of moving/switching is too high - People don't
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by ncann 5y ago
I share the same sentiment. TDD is one of those things that are really nice on paper for trivial toy code like Cat extends Animal, but quickly becomes impractical and falls apart against real world problems.
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by ncann 5y ago
Can someone explain to me how is this different from how money is in my bank account right now? Is the difference something like an int (just a pure number) vs something like an abstract data type like Money where you can have fields like s
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by ncann 5y ago
It's bad when you word it like that, but change it to "in a way designed to prevent you and your loved ones from great harm" and suddenly it's very understandable.
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by ncann 5y ago
The most important thing browsing reddit has taught me is to never believe in a piece of info right away if it seems to induce outrage in anyway. Now, anytime I read something that feels "too bad to be true", my bullshit detector
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by ncann 5y ago
When thinking about neutrality, it's worth comparing the Ukraine-Russia relationship to that of Vietnam-China, another case of dealing with an aggressive big neighbor. Despite having many disputes with China on the sea, as well as the
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by ncann 5y ago
And yet you have to wonder, on an alternative timeline, what if Ukraine says it won't join NATO and stays under Russia's sphere of influence? It would suck for national pride but maybe under that alternative timeline they won&#x27
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by ncann 5y ago
What can they realistically do? Send German troops there? It won't happen ever, we both know it. Shutdown Nordstream 2 earlier? It's unlikely to have any effect. Direct supply of weapons into Ukraine? Earlier and preemptive sancti
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by ncann 5y ago
Vanced is awesome, except for the fact that they broke casting to my TV a while ago so I had to downgrade to an older version and hasn't updated for a while. Not sure if they fixed it now. Also I tried to find something similar to put
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by ncann 5y ago
Country formation is a complex topic, and there is certainly no "objectively speaking right thing" like you said. Rebels/insurgent forces start to become legitimate leaders of their land and country at some point, though ev
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by ncann 5y ago
Searching reddit with Google is good, but also not that great. - The date, in many cases, is all wrong. Limiting search results to just last month, for example, will usually still return reddit posts from years ago - Search works great on t
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by ncann 5y ago
Same here, I got an email to my main mail account saying Google has blocked a login attempt to another old Gmail account of mine that I haven't used for a long time (the old account has the new account listed as the recovery email). So
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by ncann 5y ago
> Why did this happen? UI/UX people need to make their mark to justify their salary, that's why.
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by ncann 5y ago
Normally you can block any device's update if you figure out the server for the update content/update check, and block it out from your router and/or DNS.
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by ncann 5y ago
Initially I thought my account was banned, so I tried incognito mode and it didn't work either, so I knew it was not an account ban. Then I thought it was an IP ban so I tried on my phone and it worked, so I knew it was not an IP ban.
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by ncann 5y ago
I hate the sub-menu thing as well. Because of the way it works currently, a sub-menu doesn't auto-expand when you hover over the parent menu, you have to explicitly click on it, and same thing when you have to go back. I have to access
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by ncann 5y ago
> It just appears to have been changed for the sake of changing things Unfortunately it just seems to be the way things work now. People joke all the time about UI/UX designers needing to justify their salary, I guess it's not

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