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by devsda 4y ago
how does it work in practice? Are you expecting to offset the potential value of your donation(billable consulting hours) against your actual income ? If true, this has so much potential for fraud and abuse that I doubt this is allowed. Im
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by devsda 4y ago
Nasa found out about the "turn it off and on" trick to fix bugs and decided not to send a dedicated software engineer :) On a serious note, some of the best programmers I know had education and experience in non-cs disciplines and
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by devsda 4y ago
Limiting a company's influence (by lobbying or otherwise) has been one of the arguments for breaking up big tech elsewhere too.
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by devsda 4y ago
I guess the idea could be that with this the govt has chosen a company to set an example and with it the criteria for crackdown. So, there's no uncertainity regarding who will be picked next and why.
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by devsda 4y ago
> Let’s think of it this way: would you switch to a phone that didn’t have a native Gmail app? Or Twitter? TikTok? Instagram? It would take an inordinate amount of time just for those companies to port over their software — and they’re s
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by devsda 4y ago
*spoiler alert*: The television show Mentalist explores this idea of serial killer law enforcement officer. But, the crimes are committed with support from a network of accomplices (some coerced).
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by devsda 4y ago
When you have strong methods of surveillance and identification it automatically leads to scope creep. One egregious example is that it is effectively mandatory to share Aadhaar ID to visit the popular Venkateshwara temple(often considered
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by devsda 4y ago
May be I misunderstood the article but the tmux behavior I see is slightly different. The env vars from the shell where most recent attach happens are inherited when creating a new pane or window. This is the case even when multiple termina
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by devsda 4y ago
The title sounds like its a vulnerability that allows a random process access to qemu memory but it is not. Its a 2021 tutorial that describes how to configure qemu to share memory between a host process and a qemu machine through /de
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by devsda 4y ago
Nice feature set especially the Contextual keymapping. Can think of some interesting use cases it enables. Offtopic: The section "Declaration for Applicable Regions" from ReadMe, this is the first time I've come across it. Sh
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by devsda 4y ago
The home page doesnt make it obvious but there's a port for Firefox too. It does not compare directly with the old vimperator addon but it works great for regular browser navigation. The only occasional glitch I saw was in UI for addin
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by devsda 4y ago
It could go the other way too. Lots of people spending more time & resources trying to recreate something similar in real life. I just hope this does not increase the already ridiculous social/peer pressure among young women to mat
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by devsda 4y ago
It is a reasonable business decision if we think of it as combining the enterprise branding of Akamai and the solid product behind Linode. Instead of throwing away the brand, I just wish they retained the Linode name as a sub brand targeted
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by devsda 4y ago
It is impressive that that they were able to run linux without making permanent destructive changes. Had a pogoplug that I was able to repurpose as a linux server for some odd cron jobs and occasional backups. Assuming there are no such con