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by fareesh 5y ago
Question for folks who work at large technology companies: In the peasant world, some of us use various combinations of software to go through our logs and monitor errors - 500 and others, as part of our day-to-day. There are products built
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by fareesh 5y ago
This assumes that COVID-19 deaths are equally distributed across the entire population, regardless of obesity. Without evidence, it is not accurate to assume this equal distribution.
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by fareesh 5y ago
Different groups get mad at Facebook for different reasons, so inevitably they get a lot of hate. In the context of the whistleblower: One of the popular methods of manipulation is to use "harmful to children" as a basis for maki
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by fareesh 5y ago
As someone who is always interested in learning new things, their blog post is informative and helpful. Not everything is about optics, their intentions are of no interest to me, because I got some value out of the content.
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by fareesh 5y ago
Since DDG uses Bing does this factor in the carbon emissions of Bing?
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by fareesh 5y ago
So they are... helping members of congress make money?
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by fareesh 5y ago
Is it worth upgrading for any performance improvements for a typical Android/Flutter workflow? Any improvements in compile times, running the emulator, running Android Studio, etc. ? How about gradle? I really dislike gradle.
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by fareesh 5y ago
I remember reading the founder's blog post about this, very unfortunate
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by fareesh 5y ago
I've never owned an apple product that didn't have a defect, and I've owned nearly one of each at some point or another. Unfortunately I am in India and there are essentially no consumer protections here, plus we pay about 30
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by fareesh 5y ago
Is Gnome still painfully slow/laggy? I switched to KDE about 5 years ago and never looked back.
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by fareesh 5y ago
It was a common workflow for us to chat on Hangouts and refer to emails at the same time over the phone. This workflow is now terrible with the merger of chats into gmail, because it's the same app. The app switcher made this very easy
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by fareesh 5y ago
Many such cases
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by fareesh 5y ago
This story is generally not discussed openly because there's a silent acknowledgement amongst people that distasteful things were done from 2016-2020 for obvious reasons. Behind closed doors plenty of people say they think it's fi
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by fareesh 5y ago
Is voice transcription accessible to mere mortals yet? I have tried pretty much every API offered by big tech, and also various open source models. All of them seem to have incredibly high word error rates. This is mostly for conversations
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by fareesh 5y ago
What seems useful to me is the ability to type in "function that takes the path to an image file and returns a new image file with rounded corners". These are not groundbreaking problems - I'm generally looking for solution o
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by fareesh 5y ago
How does one even know if they are using EC2-Classic?
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by fareesh 5y ago
Essentially the same thing - ffmpeg syntax is very complex to maintain so I wanted to find out if there are better approaches to implementing this kind of solution. The use-case is mostly audio conversations converted to video with the rele
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by fareesh 5y ago
What are some good / mature / performant libraries to programmatically achieve compositions of text, audio and image files, perhaps with a timeline in which these can be declared at various timestamps, and the output is a video fi
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by fareesh 5y ago
I hope this TMZ era of politics has peaked. People make all sorts of extraordinary claims and predictably people who have their existing biases will eat it up and add to their already slanted view of the world.
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by fareesh 5y ago
My guess is that a lot of this is driven by the climate in the USA, so with that in mind I have some examples that I am curious about, as an outside observer. > It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government offi
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by fareesh 5y ago
Came here and CTRL+F Damore, glad I wasn't the only one disappointed with that framing. We are now living in an age where it is simply not possible to discuss some topics without someone twisting the discussion into one of the various
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by fareesh 5y ago
For folks who are operating at this layer of bounds and overflows and such, are you relying entirely on a mental visualization of the data structures when reasoning about them? Or does this kind of exercise require some sketching etc? I fin
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by fareesh 5y ago
Made me think of this https://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/
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by fareesh 5y ago
No that is not accurate, I am arguing that if the goal is to tweak an algorithm to reduce "harmful" information then the criteria for what is considered harmful should not be narrowed down on the basis of one's personal polit
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by fareesh 5y ago
You are selectively highlighting part of the comment. The full context is that it should be rejected outright IF other forms of harmful information are allowed to remain. Any selective enforcement of this nature is insincere because it blat
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by fareesh 5y ago
I have used financial ruin as one of the criteria for harm. There are far more examples of people who have been reduced to financial ruin because of astrology, so I am correct with regards to the quantitative comparison.
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by fareesh 5y ago
There are concepts like equal enforcement and equal justice which by definition require what you are terming as "whataboutism" to highlight. If there is going to be selective enforcement of content, then call it what it is - polit
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by fareesh 5y ago
It's not harmful to watch Alex Jones videos, lizard people videos, deep state conspiracy videos. This premise should be rejected outright. It is more harmful to be watching videos about religion, astrology, etc. In some cases, these
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by fareesh 5y ago
Disney and the marketplace are private companies and they can do what they want Are many of the users in this community still singing that song?
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by fareesh 5y ago
How does one design a system that has a redundancy for when the CDN goes down? Paying for more than one CDN is probably too expensive isn't it?

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