fareesh

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by fareesh 5y ago
Can it show transparent aluminium?
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by fareesh 5y ago
Given the recent track record for lies coming out of both Ukraine and Russia, it's probably best to treat everything as propaganda unless proven otherwise in some meaningful way.
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by fareesh 5y ago
I write markdown via Obsidian and sync it across devices using syncthing. Works very well.
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by fareesh 5y ago
I find the serverless frontend to be way more tedious than a monolith approach.
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by fareesh 5y ago
What's the latest hotness to do this? IntersectionObserver?
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by fareesh 5y ago
People have more than 1 unread email? In the regular inbox? really?
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by fareesh 5y ago
As a consumer, Valve comes across like Google. They build products and features and then they often sit untouched, sometimes for years. They are terrible at communicating to their playerbase and even their contracted talent. The DOTA2 commu
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by fareesh 5y ago
Are all violent criminals on the No-Fly List?
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by fareesh 5y ago
Good at explaining concepts bad at convincing people who believe otherwise
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by fareesh 5y ago
Roll safe tapping head meme Can't switch to Rails if you never bought the SPA hype in the first place
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by fareesh 5y ago
I'll believe it when I see it
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by fareesh 5y ago
On Android I just star the contact and turn on DND mode. Works flawlessly with one exception - WhatsApp calls.
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by fareesh 5y ago
Xournal is a great WYSIWYG Linux program that can edit PDFs for this sort of thing and similar use-cases.
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by fareesh 5y ago
I read the article and everything in there I would summarise as company culture
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by fareesh 5y ago
In my social circles I know a grand total of zero GNU/Linux users. I am the only one
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by fareesh 5y ago
Is it possible to FOIA how much it cost the US government to build this page?
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by fareesh 5y ago
Now you know me too Do you folks in the west offer diversity funding to Zoroastrian founders? We are provably a dying breed.
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by fareesh 5y ago
Im not familiar with all their problems I assumed there were more than one. Not everything has to be drama, it was just a word with no hidden cunning evil meaning
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by fareesh 5y ago
I really wouldn't boycott anything over workplace culture. If their product is good I will buy it. In the case of Blizzard their products haven't been good for a long time. I'm ok with supporting a company that's evil. I
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by fareesh 5y ago
The 37% number is based on political dynamics like the popularity of regional political parties and whether or not the political machinery is contesting in all parts of the country. If you look at polling organizations that do "approva
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by fareesh 5y ago
I am not a fan of any of our political parties because they are all crooks. Having said that, I don't consider The Wire to be a dispassionate source when it involves he who you don't want to name. I'm not interested in who wi
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by fareesh 5y ago
Sometimes folks do things like "The <span> in the <p>aragraph of the <article> will be font-weight: 300" and that stuff is more difficult to keep track of than classes. Beyond the existing HTML tags if everything
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by fareesh 5y ago
Ah interesting, I end up doing this manually, i.e. File.write followed by what I want to scrape
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by fareesh 5y ago
Well the way I imagined them to be is two extremes
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by fareesh 5y ago
My toolbox of choice for web scraping is either Nokogiri or puppeteer Can someone sell me on beautiful soup or scrapy or any of the others? Do they provide any advantages or features that I'd be missing out on?
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by fareesh 5y ago
OCaml I am but a fool
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by fareesh 5y ago
Not true, however, I'd wager that the opportunities won't be trendy and hip. You are more likely to be working on some dashboard for a 70 year old corporation as opposed to building parts of the stack for the next new hotness.
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by fareesh 5y ago
I decided to build all my new projects on postgres a few years ago. I am often reminded of why that was a good decision.
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by fareesh 5y ago
iMessage seems like the WeChat of America. It has a ton of integrations but if you exist in any other part of the world, it really doesn't make any sense to use it, since maybe 1 out of 5 people will be reachable. SMS is like a spam gr
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by fareesh 5y ago
When I moved to University in Canada I was introduced to "Wake Ups" caffeine pills. I am not a coffee drinker, but I liked to stay up late, and I had to go to class, so I decided to try these out, since at that age you feel like y

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