draklor40

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by draklor40 6y ago
Work doesn't offer a M1 Mac. Not everyone can afford to by an M1 mac. I already invested some money in a laptop last year. not gonna write off a big chunk of that and spend MORE on top of that. Most of my work is on Linux based OSes. T
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by draklor40 6y ago
I never get work done at the couch. Youtube, surfing, browsing, yes. Work ? No. I like a work desk. Keeps work and other stuff separate. Got a height adjustable desk. keeps my back from going bad before I hit 40.
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by draklor40 6y ago
There exists a good solution. It is called a desktop. I turned my company provided laptop into an almost full desktop with external monitor, keyboard and mouse, speakers, a USB microphone, USB camera. At this point I am wondering why do I
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by draklor40 6y ago
> Despite serialized parts, soldered/glued components, and no available schematics, the MacBook Pro got a pretty good repair-ability score (7/10) because it was easy to open the chassis. Meanwhile, Apple certified repair partne
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by draklor40 6y ago
Adtech did not get bogged down. It just got consolidated into fewer, more invasive hands (google, instagram, amazon, etc), that have far more data and most importantly can mine and analyze it better than the 1000s of small ad tech firms.
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by draklor40 6y ago
On the contrary this is a praise of how good Internet in India actually is.
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by draklor40 6y ago
Used to work for a small Ad-Tech firm in Germany. GDPR massively dented the business WITH NO BENEFITS to privacy. Advertisers still collect shit tons of data, your website performance is still crappy and the end result was that EU users now
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by draklor40 6y ago
Only a matter of time before they modify the Law to introduce a catch that makes it practically worthless. A - A classification system that makes defines how "easy" it is to repair something, but necessarily doesn't mean that
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by draklor40 6y ago
So is Bill Gates' mega-mansion.
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by draklor40 6y ago
I like UBI, but before we implement UBI, we should stop the Central Banks and the governments from pumping money and pushing asset inflation, or otherwise, it will simply end up being a giant spiral of more inflation, more UBI , just as sh
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by draklor40 6y ago
Indian living in Berlin. Can confirm. Finding a new apartment is almost impossible and the rents on unregulated apartments is now through the roof. An apartment that would cost ~800 EUR for rent is now atleast 1100-1200 (even for a good dev
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by draklor40 6y ago
Its easy. You deliver the feature and then optimize its performance. What they dont say is that there is never an end to set of feature requests you will get. No matter how many crappy, unusable features you throw in, there will always be a
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by draklor40 6y ago
Whenever I bring up the topic of performance and speed of software, I used to get "Pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil", but in reality, companies are spending billions just to squeeze an additional 1-2% improvement in
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by draklor40 6y ago
Good riddance. I hate Big$G creepily tracking all of my internet search history from Chromium by default unless I explicitly turned it off. But its cute that people still think that Big companies contribute to Open Source because they want
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by draklor40 6y ago
Got it bro. Good luck with your F-35s.
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by draklor40 6y ago
No they are not. There are requirements for various configurations of planes (Single engine, Twin engine, stealth) and Tejas fills one of them. Besides they just ordered 83 from HAL. There is a Mark 2 also in the works , apart from newer tw
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by draklor40 6y ago
I can't be extremely skeptical of the story, the way it is written, almost like reading a US version of Pravada. BUT, as in the case of Scott Alexander from SlateStarCodex, people/personalities are just discardable pieces of stepp
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by draklor40 6y ago
Hmm, If I were the Indian govt. I'd atleast attempt to sell the Tejas to the US. Engine is American anyway (GE-404), Israeli radar and avionics compatible with a lot of Western block missiles. Would be an interesting reversal of fortu
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by draklor40 6y ago
They simply cannot handle business that require long term support, lower margins, and communication overhead. As you said, given how effective Stats and Math have been for Search + Ads, they approach every problem with the same Hammer, whi
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by draklor40 6y ago
Not related to Stadia, but I had some issue with my Pixel 3a yesterday that it just stopped charging and had to get in touch with Google's support to try initiate a repair (turned out to be a software bug, thankfully). My learning is :
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by draklor40 6y ago
Yes, but I find it to be too slow at times and IIRC, you cannot customize your domain, or can you ? (I can set a CNAME record , I guess)
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by draklor40 6y ago
You caught the writing vs tool part well :) I am kind of ideologically motivated about site minimalism (no JS, minimal CSS), which is why I didn't go down the route of medium. Medium is probably the simplest, but as a reader I hate th
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by draklor40 6y ago
Hugo is too complicated for me. It feels like a framework for setting up documentation websites, not blogs. I tried to make it work, but was put off by all the work I had to do. What I want is basically need is `$script article.md > art
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Ask HN: Paid/free lightweight solutions to host tech blog/site easily
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by draklor40 6y ago
You are paid the minimum the company can get away with. No more, but a lot less.
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by draklor40 6y ago
It is tricky politics. It is hard to explain to HR why someone with such good ratings has to be fired (or the potential of lawsuits), but OTOH, they might think that you are overpaid and classic ageism (atleast what I hear is that if you a
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by draklor40 6y ago
Partially been in that situation. Usually this is a sign that your Boss feels that your presence isn't wanted anymore and is doing his best to signal you that, without having to fire you. You could confront him directly, ask him to com
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by draklor40 6y ago
Isn't the term `Red Scare` ? Strange that I get called out for mixing up names :) Anyway, Guardian, Economist, etc, doesn't really make a difference. They all write the same subservient way about China anyway \__(:-/)__/
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by draklor40 6y ago
What do you mean by `Red Rage` ?
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by draklor40 6y ago
By the common understanding of the word, it is not. Just as “homicide” means killing a person and “suicide” means killing yourself, “genocide” means killing a people. China’s persecution of the Uyghurs is horrific: it has locked up perhaps

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