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That's just the JSON equivalent of "we have data, and it's null" vs "data is missing", and consistency could be enforced using a constraint or by making it non-NULL in the first pl…

Previous discussion (with some calling it a scam): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559

I have a power bank that is PD capable, but I cannot charge it from my MacBook even if the MacBook is plugged in to power. I get around it by using a USB-C/A dongle and correspondi…

Use (and shipping via mail) is allowed according to this article, so one of the articles is wrong/outdated: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/iphone-16-allowed-...

It looks a bit like a handwritten Polish ą

> (by the way, by the time you have checked in and your boarding pass has been issued, a lot of companies just don't allow you to cancel anymore, so it's really a non-issue?) Which…

A while ago I was helping a friend pick a cell phone plan with T-Mobile USA. If you study their plans, the "Essentials" plan does not include "taxes and fees", but their "Magenta" …

I wish cookie settings were part of the browser (e.g. I want to reject all marketing cookies but not essential ones), have a way in JS/HTTP to indicate the type of the cookie, and …

Careful. My friend used Revolut virtual cards and forgot to deactivate the card after the purchase. Months (or a year) later he got a fraudulent charge and Revolut refused to waive…

To be clear, it's completely unacceptable they are charging for this repair. My intent was to give some perspective on how the repair process went overall, I needed the device back…

Honestly, if I had broken the screen, this seems like a fair cost for a new display like this. Apart from the the cost, I'd also like to mention the repair process (via mail at the…

My 14" M1 MacBook Pro screen repair cost was $809. Supervisor refused the waive the fee. The screen cracked for no apparent reason and then completely stopped working. Some firm al…

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That's my main worry with Tesla not using LIDAR as a backup. Sure, the image recognition will work in almost all the cases, but occasionally (hopefully very rarely) there is going …

That's a false rumor. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-16-17-comes...

See https://hack.close.io/posts/ciso8601 on the use case.

I had similar issues in Python, where the available date parsers weren't fast enough. With my C module, I got 320ns, which was 62x faster than Python's less flexible strptime. See …

I need to switch between two windows of different applications. Cmd+` only switches within the same application.

Some other keys that work while using Cmd+Tab: - Press "q" to quit the selected application - Press "h" to toggle hiding the selected application - Press "1" to show all open windo…

What's "dumb" about the hash ring, and how exactly is your solution faster/simpler? One nice thing about the hash ring is that it nicely rebalances when you add or remove nodes. Th…

I did all the timeit benchmarks on the latest 13" retina MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5. The profiler screenshot is from one of our serves on EC2. Of course there is always pot…