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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Eh, idk, I wouldn't classify these fixes as hacks nor as technical debt. It's labels that only work from a partial perspective. IMHO a solution that expects perfect compliance is not really complete, it's not good enough to put all the burden on the client, idempotency keys are part of the solution, but not the solution. So, in this sense I would say it is a technical problem.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Well.. it was ~6 years and ~10 billion payments ago, the clients have been fixed but the "hack" is still there, it has caused no harm as far as I can tell. Worst case scenario it's useless, best case scenario it prevents regressions.

The issue with things that client must not do is that they might still do them, and users don't care whose fault it is. It's important to have auxilliary mechanisms to mitigate these.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

IMHO it's more: fix problems, or at least mitigate them, regardless whose problem it is.

I've been in this situation, a clientside bug meant that different requests arrived with the same idempotency key.

In my case, updating the client would have taken weeks, in the best case scenario. Updating the backend to check for a matching request body would have taken minutes, maybe hours.

It took me a surprising amount of arguing to convince people that, even if it was a clientside bug, we couldn't let users suffer for weeks in name of "correctness".

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hace 7 mesesdiscuss

It kinda works both ways, just yesterday I tried to play the Linux native version of 8bit.runner and it didn't work, I had to install the Windows (beta) version and run it through proton.

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hace 7 mesesdiscuss

Don't you find it excessive to imply the above regarding a G7 country?

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hace 7 mesesdiscuss

When I upgraded my PC to the same CPU, I had the same problem of crackling/buzzing speakers on my USB DAC (externally powered, but from the same strip/outlet) when the system was under load.

I had a hunch it was power related because my PSU was nearly 10 years old and probably with just barely enough wattage. I bought a new one and all the buzzing went away.

IIRC when I was researching possible causes, beefy Ryzen CPUs were the most commonly mentioned in various forums and reddit threads.

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hace 8 mesesdiscuss

This is also my experience, it's not necessarily Apple fans, people just get used to some garbage but necessary workflow/ritual and forget they are doing it. I witnessed multiple colleagues and friends, who are avid and experienced MacOS users, struggle with basic tasks like ..finding the window of an open application after it was minimised, fullscreening applications, screensharing. Yet, somehow, none of that registered for them and their experience was still reported as flawless.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

None of my claims disagree with what you just said. People posting the "gotcha" also likely don't disagree with you.

In fact, I suspect that most hate firearm-related violence and have worked to stop/curb it, and were opposed by Kirk who undeniably unfairly got a taste of his own medicine.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

One could argue that advocating against firearm control and regulation has resulted in significantly increased societal harm, which could also be identified as not fair, if not even evil/hateful, especially from those who have directly suffered from it.

Of course two wrongs don't make one right, and people can be more classy than this, but it's a totally understandable sentiment and response.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

It's being posted as a gotcha because he fought against firearm control and he was killed with a firearm. His death, like many firearm-related others, would have been significantly less likely to occur if firearm possession was properly regulated and curbed, like it is in many other countries.

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el año pasadodiscuss

IMHO the incentives are disproportionately in favour of everyone doing something that hurts consumers (= "something that I don't like"), thus regulation in favour of consumer rights is appropriate.

There isn't a scenario where, at scale, someone can offer a product that respects consumer rights and is successful, because it's too profitable to not respect consumer rights just like it wasn't in many other cases.

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