blntechie

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by blntechie 5y ago
Linux is easily the worst (well, at least Ubuntu and Mint) with respect to Bluetooth pairing and remembering it for me. I use a multi-device Bluetooth keyboard to switch between a Windows laptop, Ubuntu laptop and a MacBook Pro almost daily
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by blntechie 5y ago
I always go through the search engine to prevent the off chance of me spelling the site or tld wrong.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Well, I have no sympathies to communism but the US also has not let any communist country alone without meddling in its affairs. So it’s hard to assess the true outcome, for better or worse. It’s like running a performance test while consta
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by blntechie 5y ago
Never had that as an issue in India as well for me. No one has questioned what I do in my desk or my computer, even in some of the large consulting companies.
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by blntechie 5y ago
There are nice cookie notice blockers lists for most of these sites. Just have to add to uBlock origin or equivalent.
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by blntechie 5y ago
> Every website I visit I need to go adjust cookie settings (enable essential and telemetry and remove targeting). Easiest way to not care about the cookie notices much is to always use incognito or private mode with each website on thei
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by blntechie 5y ago
That’s ridiculous. I can understand concerns about a dump yard or a concert venue or an industrial plant coming next to a residential suburban house but concerns about an apartment ? There will be legitimate concerns like increased traffic,
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by blntechie 5y ago
From a staunch opposer to government regulation in tech 4-5 years back, I have turned into someone who will cheer a break up of these big tech companies.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Ah Silicon Valley guys, saviours of the world.
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by blntechie 5y ago
With multi containers extension, it’s actually a better browser than Chrome for me. It’s perfect for my needs.
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by blntechie 5y ago
My first job was writing VB.NET code and it was hammered to us not to use GOTO. Once for a critical production bug, using GOTO was the quickest solution to fix and I used it with a comment to not fire me. And that code lived on for years.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Interesting. In India, there is a similar bus company called IntrCity which partners with other bus owning and operating companies and just apply their name to the service.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Might be a factor if taking in a plane or traveling overseas etc. taking it unopened.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Deleting as duplicate.
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by blntechie 5y ago
At this point, I believe everyone knows this. > The more accurate number is 290 million Why this is the only ‘accurate’ number? Both doses and people are perfectly accurate numbers. Maybe you meant more ‘relevant’ or ‘important’ number.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Yep, Telegram stopped sending messages a while back and not loading at all for me now.
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by blntechie 5y ago
All most people have to do now is install an app and it takes care. But messaging need to go from media and news.
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by blntechie 5y ago
The site is working fine for me. Speedtest CLI also is useful but doubt when DNS is down.
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by blntechie 5y ago
I guess you basically run a load test of randomized or usage weighted list of API endpoints for increasing number of synthetic users and see when things start breaking. Many free tools help run these tests from even your laptop.
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by blntechie 5y ago
There is this whole thing called ‘Lemon Law’ to cover what is a lemon and what protection consumers get for their goods if they turn out to be lemons.
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by blntechie 5y ago
With ZeroTier, TailScale etc. just creating a personal network of your own should help solve the issue I guess.
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by blntechie 5y ago
This snack has started appearing in Chennai as well. Pretty sure I have never seen it before 2-3 years here. I always was interested about the curiosity around it as a YouTube food reviewer asked some very specific questions and the vendor
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by blntechie 5y ago
Google Workspace is the default option for most small tech companies in India.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Exactly my thoughts, why not generate HTML in the server dynamically and send it across? I’m pretty sure such similar things are being done since the 90s.
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by blntechie 5y ago
HOA politics is a nightmare. Our HOA is trying to re-paint our condo as it had faded out and has been a 1 year exercise to vote for the resolution, get bids, choose vendor, approve vendor etc. There have been opposition in every stage by pe
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by blntechie 5y ago
Nail on the head about marketplace feature. Reddit doesn’t want to build hard products, they want to build easy dark features which aims for more profiling and resultant ad dollars.
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by blntechie 5y ago
Deleted as I misread the year in the article.
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by blntechie 5y ago
I remember reading from a Googler somewhere that exactly how Google Pay was built. Several regions were asked to build Google Pay product and finally the version built for India by Singapore team won so Google made that as the default versi
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by blntechie 5y ago
It destroys at least one team’s morale and increases attrition directly. If a company cares only about results and has a good supply line of employees like for FAANG companies have, it might work. But for most companies, it would only lead
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by blntechie 5y ago
> Why would I type my native language with a foreign language keyboard? Would you type Russian with an American keyboard? I don’t know the intricacies of the Chinese languages but typing foreign languages with English keyboard is pretty

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