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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 some…

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 yo…

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…

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…

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 e…

You can test them to a certain extent using a USB tester device like RYKEN RK-X3

> 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 q…

> 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.

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.

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. …

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 …

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 cr…

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 hardw…

> 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 …

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 b…

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.

> AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ 395 PRO Gosh that name is a mouthful

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 t…

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 s…

What is considered "modern state management" these days?

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 wo…

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 tr…

Too bad there still isn't a way to delete recursively a folder without manually traversing it.

"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.