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by dartharva 8mo ago
That's what people back then must have talked about small offshoots like Google and Microsoft back when silicon valley was nascent
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by dartharva 8mo ago
The experience I have had with Thinkpads, both current-gen and old during my childhood, did not warm me up to the line. They are not particularly better in feel, thermals and screen quality against its cheaper alternatives including those f
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by dartharva 8mo ago
Apple leaves gamers alone, it does not even attempt to be a nontrivial gaming platform and makes no promises. Why would gamers and gamedevs hate it? It just doesn't exist in their market.
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by dartharva 8mo ago
See - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236336
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by dartharva 8mo ago
This means India's judiciary is operationally stunted because of low capacity relative to demand, which is a ridiculously urgent and critical flaw that should have simply not occurred in the first place. Why on earth are they not incre
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by dartharva 8mo ago
They are not there for the knowledge - knowledge is cheap and abundant. They are there for the credentials and subsequent potential access to offshore jobs.
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by dartharva 8mo ago
The scary thing is that Indian juduciary is infamous for being incapable of tolerating any kind of criticism against it and not hesitating to put people in jail for "contempt" for just calling out corruption. Imagine the official
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by dartharva 8mo ago
Can relate well. In my early days I used to jump around linux distros and editors and terminals too, but with time as I have converged down to actually working a tech job.. Windows 10 LTSC and VSCode (with its inbuilt terminal) have become
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by dartharva 8mo ago
Is it? Kids in India learn from black-and-white books in school all the same as colored ones. I think we used to have this UX problem sorted in the pre-smartphone days. Remember the classic Kindle with tactile keys? It's just a matter
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by dartharva 8mo ago
It's astounding to me that there isn't a cheap mass-produced e-ink device meant for kids to fill the need of paper books yet. We got mandated laptops in the hands of schoolchildren before this!
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by dartharva 8mo ago
> The military should be reigned in at the legislative level, by constraining what it can and cannot do under law. Is there an example of such a system existing successfully in any other country of the world that has a standing army?
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by dartharva 8mo ago
you say that as if they were supposed to do something else.
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by dartharva 8mo ago
Common rhetoric says the US's grassroots economics and job market have been consistently sinking to the point that falling back to that kind of "low margin" manufacturing is back to being feasible. Is that false? Are US wages
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by dartharva 8mo ago
I use LibreTube: https://libretube.dev/
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by dartharva 8mo ago
I tried this. Never managed to bother going back to those "organized" notes though; ended up being a waste of time.
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by dartharva 8mo ago
Likely because the high-productive people have already transcended basic hurdles like getting overwhelmed or distracted through sustained long-term practice, to the extent that they no longer feel having an uncluttered environment necessary
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by dartharva 9mo ago
That's a good question but preferably left unanswered, because trying to find the answer could easily lead to some very, very bad outcomes. Sub-Saharan Africa is an example of what happens when you allow balkanization through arbitra
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Just here to appreciate this article's clear and pleasant layout.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
"Poor governance" tends to be an easy catchall term to shift blame on for economic failures, but reality is, like you said, a lot more nuanced. India's socialist government looks justifiably horrible and inefficient when look
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by dartharva 9mo ago
What'd be the point of inflating market caps like this when it's obvious they'll crash the moment the owner tries to liquidate any of it before the promises are kept?
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by dartharva 9mo ago
I don't know about Windows, but it will take a lot more enshittification than that to burn down the Office brand. Excel alone carries it to dominance.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
You assume Microsoft is interested in offering Windows as a primary consumer product, and not the coercive cross-selling platform that W11 is for Microsoft's higher-margin cloud products. This assumption is wrong. As an OS, Windows die
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Wrong, most PC gamers do not build their systems
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Except depression rates are rising at similar or worse levels in other places too, including sunnier/tropical regions and the ones with "better" diets. The main instigator of depression is still societal as the postmodern era
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by dartharva 9mo ago
What aesthetics/practicality does Windows 10 lose against Windows XP or 7?
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Definitely, even Mumbai and Bangalore.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Now you see how easy it is for humans to "other" people to kill them
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Nothing ever transgresses economics.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
And why should liberal countries trade with genocidal regimes, so that they don't kill their own people? Is that seriously what you're proposing - appease the bully?
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Note that parts of this line are still manufactured by TSMC. Intel is still not there in terms of fab self-sufficiency.

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