ncann

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by ncann 9mo ago
I had email address X (gmail) that I hadn't logged into for a long time. One day I tried to log in to it. Correct password, but Google, for some reason, simply decided there's something suspicious about my login and blocked it. X
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by ncann 1y ago
I am looking into using Git for my photos/videos backup external HDDs and the reasoning is simple. It's not about keeping track of changes within the files themselves since like you said, they (almost) never change. Rather, it&#x2
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by ncann 1y ago
I needed an implementation of debounce in Java recently and was surprised to find out that there's no existing decent solution - there's none from the standard library, nor popular utilities libraries like Guava or Apache Commons.
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by ncann 1y ago
DJI drones are nowhere near "bad", they're the best and nothing else comes close. It's a shame how they're sanctioned given there's no viable alternative. I always wonder why there's no Western company tha
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by ncann 1y ago
I guess this is only partially true, as I have a A-to-C charger cable from Huawei that works with everything except my Pixel 4A phone. And my Pixel 4A phone works with everything except that specific cable.
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by ncann 1y ago
You can test them to a certain extent using a USB tester device like RYKEN RK-X3
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by ncann 1y ago
> Here's a naive, faulty implementation For this first implementation, I don't see anything ever added to the queue. Am I missing something? New task is added to the queue if the queue is not empty only, but when the queue is e
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by ncann 1y ago
> So I would like some data about whether similar options were bought on other days in similar volumes. The volumes are there for all to see and the answer is no.
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by ncann 1y ago
Hibernate is great, except for the part where it wears down your SSD much faster, especially if you have a machine with big amount of RAM.
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by ncann 1y ago
The non-buggy sleep (S3) isn't even supported in the BIOS in many new laptops now (in the Dell I'm using for example). So MS probably decided to kill that option off for everyone. To be honest it's a very confusing situation
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by ncann 1y ago
Troubleshooting sleep is an exercise wrapped in pain. Figuring out which program prevents sleeping is the easy part - there are tools that show that, and you can also usually just brute force it by killing programs one by one. Then comes fi
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by ncann 2y ago
Somewhat unrelated but I believe the dupe issue with node_modules is the main reason to use pnpn instead of npm - pnpm just uses a single global package repo on your machine and creates links inside node_modules as needed.
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by ncann 2y ago
With how much trouble I had with trying (and failing) to make my brand new Dell laptop sleep properly and not the "Modern Standby" crap, plus my desktop randomly breaking GPU hardware acceleration in browser after waking up, I wou
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by ncann 2y ago
> Robyn: To give YouTube a sense of motion, we created a dynamic red-to-magenta gradient. For the second color, orange and yellow were strong contenders, but magenta felt like the most natural pairing with our new red. Interestingly, mag
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by ncann 2y ago
So I checked out the original report: https://semianalysis.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-debates/ They cite themselves as the source, and throughout the article are just a bunch of "We believe...". A
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by ncann 2y ago
They managed to put Max, plus, and Pro into the name, which is kinda impressive in a way. Now we just need Ultra to complete the set.
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by ncann 2y ago
> AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ 395 PRO Gosh that name is a mouthful
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by ncann 2y ago
Doctor hygiene and seatbelt and the like are mandatory because they save lives, and can be very easily proven using basic tests and statistics. On the other hand, there is no way to measure the "effectiveness" of TDD as compared t
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by ncann 2y ago
The only thing that should be said about TDD is that it's incredibly polarizing, one of the most polarizing things in software development in fact. It's incredibly personal, some swear by it, some loathe it. Thus, every TDD introd
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by ncann 2y ago
What is considered "modern state management" these days?
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by ncann 2y ago
Yeah, and because the "common" way of pronouncing these words/letters have become so entrenched in our minds, it often feels pretentious to hear people actively try to pronounce words in a way that they feel is "correct&
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by ncann 2y ago
That's not quite true. There are many letters that sounds mostly/exactly the same, especially in everyday pronunciation. For example, "gia đình" vs "da đình", or "lý trí" vs "lí trí", or &qu
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by ncann 2y ago
Too bad there still isn't a way to delete recursively a folder without manually traversing it.
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by ncann 2y ago
"self documentated code" is probably the biggest lie that the Clean Code gang has managed to indoctrinate generations of programmers who just don't know any better.
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by ncann 2y ago
Could it be that RDBMS is just inherently very complex? Reminds me of this classic comment about Oracle Database: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 To quote part of it > Oracle Database 12.2. > It is close
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by ncann 2y ago
It always strikes me as odd that we have housing crisis everywhere but these cheap 3D printed houses or ready-to-assemble houses from Amazon never took off. Does people find it off-putting to live in these? Or is it more of a regulation iss
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by ncann 2y ago
The main issue is the battery. If you keep a phone plugged in 24/7 the battery will eventually die, and most phones don't support power passthrough.
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by ncann 2y ago
The practical answer is that, if 99.9% of people out there has system that mitigates these issues, no one will bother using these exploits in the wild and you can turn off these mitigations to get the perf benefit and be reasonably sure tha
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by ncann 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying the author is wrong, but if all his job search was in 2023 this may very well be the case. When in a tough job market employers can cite a million different things to not hire you, and you start to double doubt you
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by ncann 3y ago
Pretty sure anything you encrypt client side can be decrypted client side, as long as you have control over the binary and OS/hardware. It's just a matter of effort.

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