blntechie

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by blntechie 4y ago
Horizontal sandwich toasters are the popular kind of toasters around my parts. It can make from plain toasts to fully stuffed sandwiches and are not that hard to clean either. I guess Americans will consider them more as a grill though.
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by blntechie 4y ago
They need to go the way of Telegram and build parallel products themselves and let the better one prevail after some time. Basically build your own competitor in-house.
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by blntechie 4y ago
We used TFS in 2010 to create issues and stories and development workflows and i remember it worked fine with no major complaints. Especially as a full VS shop ,it even had very good integration for everything which can be done inside the V
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by blntechie 4y ago
In college, viva-voce is a significant part of non-theory exams. It’s another matter it was not run well by many colleges but I always loved those chit chat sessions with some of the good professors. Some professors treat it like a boring Q
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by blntechie 4y ago
This is not new for anyone who had used Ubuntu with GNOME on low RAM machines (<2GB). earlyoom is the answer. I upgraded to 22.04 (with GNOME) in my 2GB laptop and still is very usable.
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by blntechie 4y ago
Image Capture is really not good even with 20GB of pictures I have. It just crashes or freezes and have to start over.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Seems expensive for just curation even though I don't discount the work required for top quality curation.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Very nice aggregation blog. Is it possible to have a rss feed for your blog I can add to the readers?
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by blntechie 5y ago
Coconuts fall at different stages of their life. We have 4 trees surrounding our home and we have a net around the trees which catches the fall of the coconuts. Also parking under a coconut tree is always risky, I have had my parked car alo
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by blntechie 5y ago
Because for NYTimes e.g. they don't allow online cancelation and need to through the phone retention loop. RBI mandate thing could have been implemented better but I absolutely support the idea that recurring payment control should be
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by blntechie 5y ago
UPI works on USSD[1]. You need a phone but not necessarily a smartphone. [1] https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/99/product-overview
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by blntechie 5y ago
I have been burned couple of times by them. I thought it's a genuine and useful feature. First, they offered a poor conversion rate. Second, they said they will charge in INR and hence no further markup by banks which was an outright l
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by blntechie 5y ago
Wise is too slow (especially for transactions involving the US) and still expensive.
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by blntechie 5y ago
I believe UPI of India and Pix of Brazil actually cross absorb features from each other which is nice to see. UPI is getting from 1st December a way to send payments by phone number or random number(key) which I believe are partly inspired
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by blntechie 5y ago
Twitter videos for e.g. is pretty dumb. It tries to do adaptive bitrate for a 10s video. By or before the time the video quality improves, the video has already ended. Also before the recent PWA app, their mobile site used to very bad. PWA
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by blntechie 5y ago
It might sound repetitive that recently only I wrote a similar comment. Sometimes it makes me wonder why are people in FB or LinkedIn put on a pedestal when the output (we can see) is bad quality websites and apps. Maybe I’m trivialising th
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by blntechie 5y ago
> P.S: I'm someone important at LongShort.Finance So I opened the site and it pretty much only asks me to connect to the wallet. No explanation of what it does, what it’s for etc. which are even standard in scam websites. They sure
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by blntechie 5y ago
I was thinking about this the other day and a wasteful solution to the packaging problem in open source is the decentralized build solution on a blockchain like platform. Either with PoW or PoS. In PoS, a node builds the code pulled from so
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by blntechie 5y ago
Of course the US is not a poor country. Sorry if my sentence structure meant that way. The US is in a special cohort when it comes to healthcare where rest in the group are all developing or under developed countries.
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by blntechie 5y ago
It’s simply astounding to me that if someone runs for an election saying they will reduce home prices, they are guaranteed to lose as land and homeowners simply don’t want that to happen. They don’t care about people who don’t have homes or
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by blntechie 5y ago
Germany is public-private healthcare insurance driven healthcare model compared to the pure play private insurance or out-of-pocket driven healthcare model in the US and other poor countries. Germany has statutory public insurance while the
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by blntechie 5y ago
I don’t understand why LinkedIn is and need to be so heavy and slow at all. In a way, similar to Facebook I guess? Even though they provide several services - social network, jobs (for hiring managers and jobseekers), learning etc., none o
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by blntechie 5y ago
Distinctive thing I found in the US is that hospitals are always big and do everything under one roof. There are some smaller clinics run by chains in some states but they operate primarily only for insurance money and are not common. At th
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by blntechie 5y ago
>The main reason this is likely to be bad financially is that your house won’t appreciate like a house in Seattle. So the only solution then is endless appreciation of house prices and salaries?
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by blntechie 5y ago
Paid every 2 weeks is still the norm in the US. It’s nice, I wish I get paid every 2 weeks in my country.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Your reward is basically money paid by the poor routed via the merchant and bank.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Only solution is to build more houses but NIMBYs and people with vested interests in the keeping the home prices appreciating will never allow it.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Can relate on the freak out part. Recently I logged in and generated an app password and it triggered 3 emails per action and to 2 different emails I had as my backup.
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by blntechie 5y ago
In Iceland, I believe one can’t give the baby a last name not following the -son or -dottir format even if the parents are not Icelandic I believe. Atleast it was the case until few years back. Not sure it changed recently or they need to g
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by blntechie 5y ago
Well, I don’t know. I don’t want to pass on my preferences and likings to my kids. I’d like them to figure out things from a clean slate without my opinionated views on top of it, good or bad. On the other hand, children have to learn thing

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