xingped

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by xingped 4d ago
Wow, screw me for actually being honest, I guess. I'll remember to sound more authoritative next time so no one questions my statements rather than trying to honestly invite others to share additional clarifying information. Thanks! Yo
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by xingped 4d ago
> Once you come to terms with the idea that translating an exact specification into decent code isn't a unique skill any more, you can start looking at the larger set of problems that you face as a software engineer and realize that
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by xingped 4d ago
It is possible to intercept text messages and phone calls in such a way that the recipient never even knows a text message or phone call was sent to them in the first place. SMS is an extremely insecure channel for handling authentication c
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by xingped 5d ago
Okay and where are yours or literally anyone else's citations in this thread? Because I don't see any citations on any other comments and every other explanation could be just as equally as wrong without them. Why don't you g
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by xingped 5d ago
I thought I heard once it was because diesel might be more polluting than regular gas and thus has extra taxes on it? I could be entirely wrong though.
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by xingped 5d ago
I think a lot of HN commenters are way too disconnected from the average person. You're making a big assumption that a user will even connect the dots until the same thing happens multiple times, if even then. The average computer user
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by xingped 8d ago
Why would they? They're firmly in the "too rich to care what the peasants think" bucket as well as not being culturally relevant for 20 years. Honestly, the fact that someone even posted here is pretty cringeworthy.
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by xingped 9d ago
Once in a while I decide to try letting an AI solve a programming problem for me. I have rarely had it actually manage to do so without immediately careening off the road into a ditch and then refusing to get out of the ditch because this i
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by xingped 9d ago
You have to be super careful about how insidious "both sides are the same"/"what-about"-ers can be with false equivalences.
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by xingped 9d ago
That has never stopped companies from spamming me with marketing even when I didn't agree or even explicitly disagreed (unchecked). Not a single company has been or ever will be held accountable so they just keep doing it.
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by xingped 14d ago
I love how most any RTO-proponent always presents RTO as "well I'm glad you're back in the office with me because that's better for me". Ask most any WFH-proponent about going to the office and the answer will read
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by xingped 15d ago
The last time it wouldn't update an app, I could see in the app store and on the website that my app had a new version, but no matter what I did, I could not make it update the app. I don't know what I was doing "wrong",
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by xingped 15d ago
This is not me simping for Google, I would honestly prefer literally anyone else with an acceptable app store experience, but I can honestly say I've never had that experience with the Play Store. If there's an update, it updates.
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by xingped 15d ago
I have not, but honestly, at this point, I just don't really care anymore. I can only try and be rebuffed by a product so many times.
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by xingped 15d ago
I've honestly never understood why F-Droid even still exists. Every time I've tried to use it (as recently as half a year ago) it's still a shitshow and never displays or updates apps correctly. Half the time an app showed up
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by xingped 16d ago
I think the problem is with the word feel . Reducing how much you get while saying it'll feel like you're getting more isn't usually a good thing. It's very weasely wording hoping most people will miss that and think wh
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by xingped 17d ago
Found the manager.
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by xingped 17d ago
It's not like they ever hesitate to do that to you when it benefits them in some way.
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by xingped 19d ago
As usual, the automated HN title mangler strikes again.
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by xingped 20d ago
As far as I could tell from everything I've read from multiple sources, every Pixel since Pixel 4 _has_ the chip, it's just not enabled and you can enable it with rooting. https://xdaforums.com/t/global-pixel-
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by xingped 20d ago
Pixel phones bought outside Japan supposedly can if you do a little adb hacking to enable it, but I don't have a Pixel to try it myself.
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by xingped 21d ago
>...sustainable engineering, correctness, and keeping DuckDB open and MIT-licensed for everyone Hah. Never have I ever heard a sentence that described Amazon less.
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by xingped 24d ago
Thanks for saving the rest of us the time of day.
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by xingped 27d ago
Yeah, it's a weird comment you see repeated too often that must be serving some agenda, but I don't know what. China's already moving towards chip independence as fast as they can. Nothing the rest of the world does or doesn&
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by xingped 1mo ago
That's another name for it, yes. Similarly, yuan is sometimes colloquially called kuai. Sort of like dollars vs bucks.
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by xingped 1mo ago
That would most likely be the most correct way to say it, yes.
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by xingped 1mo ago
Yeah, you're right, you just literally never see any transaction using the 0.01 unit (fen) and only very rarely see any transaction use the 0.1 unit (jiao).
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by xingped 1mo ago
Oh yeah, you're right, I forgot about that. It doesn't really get used much except occasionally for very small transactions, usually ones less than 10yuan.
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by xingped 1mo ago
It's a little confusing, but technically RMB (renminbi) is the official name of the currency and CNY (yuan) is the base unit of the currency. Think of it like the difference between USD ("US Dollar") vs "dollar and cents
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by xingped 1mo ago
Yes, that's my point exactly. It still bears the name of Mars bar but isn't the same. Whereas two different games do not share the same name, gameplay, story, grapgics, anything, and cannot be compared like this.

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