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by twawaaay 4y ago
Probably you are busy because 99% of your customers do not face any possible threat but are just paranoid, that's it. I am personally fine if all those paranoid people will generate enough market to make open source firmware/hardw
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by twawaaay 4y ago
If I understand this correctly it is essentially doing second presentment preemptively. ("Hey, Visa, just in case the client questions authorisation, here you have some additional data to shoot those down immediately without you having
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Chargebacks are used as a kind of punitive measure directed at merchants. The idea here is for merchants to figure out the only way to deal with chargebacks is to not get chargebacks at all. For now this works because for some reason relati
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Ships run at constant power for entire journey, there is no occasion to store energy for later. It only works with cars because we constantly slow down and speed up. The battery helps to smooth out the output of the engine. Cargo ships alre
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is just an example. Simplification is a useful didactic/communication tool. Project I normally work on span tens to thousands of people but they are usually very complex to give as examples without spending some more time thinking h
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think long term projects typically correspond with appropriately larger challenges. That's why I used losing weight as an example. Even with losing weight, it is much easier to understand what you are getting into when you want to dr
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am sorry that I caused you enough discomfort to point it out. I will try to do better next time. In the meantime I am still learning English -- not my native language.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I disagree. I think there is no single reason for why long term plans don't work. It is more like you need to do this dozen things right for the plan to work. The longer the plan the more things you need to be doing right to be able to
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Well, that's true. But if performance is more important to you, just skip it and go for binary formats that can be orders of magnitude more efficient. In general text formats are a compromise. They are bulky and and inefficient to pars
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by twawaaay 4y ago
In my experience it should not make much or any difference. I had devs try to "optimise" the JSON our services were returning by doing things like abbreviating field names that were repeated very often or replacing long string con
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Seems like a problem that can be easily fixed with a software update. Just add a little bit of jitter into start time. Do people need their thermostats to be punctual? I don't think so...
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Honestly, all I am hearing is whining. There are so many ways to transport material up. Miners transport ROCKS, upwards, from kilometers beneath Earth surface. They then crush those rocks into fine powder to extract tiny specks of gold from
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Umm... People who cannot envision other people may have different value system are "fucking idiots".
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by twawaaay 4y ago
For starters, I have responded to a comment from a user, not to the submission. And second, using distilled water to clean your glasses must be strong contender for least practical glasses cleaning technique. Blow the water off vs Find that
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I have this theory that cameras do not reduce crime because "amount" of crime depends on supply of people willing to do crime. If you are a person that is willing to do crime and you see a camera, you do not stop doing crime. You
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Do you get scratch resistant frames, too? The scratches on the glass do not have to be visible. The surface just gets a tiny bit matte, reducing the contrast and also making cleaning a bit bigger problem. As to the frames, except for the un
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That's bad. You don't want to dry it, you want to remove the water BEFORE it has a chance to dry out. If you just dry it out, the mineral residue from water will be left on your glasses. More than that, mineral crystals are incr
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think you miss the whole point of why this landed on HN. Why would somebody need to buy another laptop just to be able to attend the exam?
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I use similar method, except: - Do not apply soap to the lenses. Soap is too thick. Apply it to your fingers and rub between fingers to dilute with a bit of water before applying to glasses. - Use your fingertips as abrasive. Soap is there
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think the main issue is that testing is misused to create better version of something when it should be used to create knowledge. So if you do testing and it gives you some kind of result, the crucial step is trying to understand what it
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You add 1 day (not 24 hours) to beginning of day. If you have a good library it should handle it correctly.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My working theory on why this happens is that there are two different models and people sometimes have problem choosing the correct one. When you say "Thursday" you mean entire 24h period. It is not a point in time, it is a label
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> It's going to be fun to watch developers wrap their heads around that one... No, it will not. Nobody gives a damn. Nobody will implement it. I am still trying to get people to correctly denote beginning and end of a day (much more
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I can confirm. I was preparing from marathon some years ago and the fastest improvements I have seen were when I started going for runs on empty stomach in the morning. But, I would make sure to give all my body needs immediately after the
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Very strange understanding of the word "evidence". No sane SSD manufacturer would do such thing on purpose. You do it and you loose business, that's it. The simplest explanation is that somebody made an honest engineering mis
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There is very basic, simple reason for it and has nothing to do with the company being evil. I believe it is possible to use Roundup safely and the reason it gets into our food is misuse. (disclamier: "possible to use safely" does
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am sorry, I made a mistake, it was PipeWire not Pulse. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/pipewire-config-files-just-d... I normally don't edit the text substantially after somebody responds but this time I correct
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I agree, if you install and never do anything with it it will usually work. But that isn't very high bar for usability. What about people who actually use their machines for anything else than just browsing Internets? I had people brea
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Unfortunately, you are wrong. I have quarter of century experience working on Linux including running it on all my laptops and desktops for 23 years. Over the years keeping it working started becoming what seems like a full time job and I j
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So I have always had this rule for software I get for free: If I don't plan on helping to make it better, I stay quiet. I think this is quite good rule. The author is working to provide something for free. If you don't plan on hel

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