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by fareesh 6y ago
I find everything other than KDE and lighter desktops really slow - even with good hardware
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by fareesh 6y ago
Is there a safe service I can try out to see how fast it can potentially be?
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by fareesh 6y ago
Isn't tor exceptionally slow though? I haven't used it in a few years - has anything changed?
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by fareesh 6y ago
Cognizant employees (contracted Facebook Moderators) are on camera admitting that they censor specific people based on their political leanings. Facebook sent them specific memos about which violent images towards which politicians were not
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by fareesh 6y ago
Wouldn't you also in theory be able to get a donor part from someone's laptop which is otherwise busted?
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by fareesh 6y ago
They are very specific changes for my use-cases unfortunately
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by fareesh 6y ago
I'm parsing PDFs and extracting tabular data - I am using this library https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX to convert the PDF into HTML and then parsing thereafter. It works reasonably well for my use-case bu
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by fareesh 6y ago
A lot of obvious features were missing Now they're all there
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by fareesh 6y ago
The fact that this is a relatively obscure story and the otherwise vocal western media journalists who screech about press freedom when someone is mean to them are so silent about it by comparison, is frankly really disgusting to witness. I
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by fareesh 6y ago
The houses seem really tiny
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by fareesh 6y ago
I've been all over the world, Singapore is my all-time favourite place to visit. It's too bad that it's so expensive though - especially housing, else I'd seriously consider living there. If you haven't been, you&#x
702.
by fareesh 6y ago
Bacon Reader is a good app for their platform
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by fareesh 6y ago
I'm currently using Twilio's programmable video for a mobile product I'm building. I did a lot of the same review and reached similar conclusions. The popular open-source self-hosted solutions seem incredibly bloated and bugg
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by fareesh 6y ago
If you build one of these things don't you also need to build an impervious shell around them so they can't be attacked? I have read that the existing reactors can withstand air crash impacts, etc.
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by fareesh 6y ago
"We do not store private messages on our servers" Are all messages "private" messages? Or is this intended to distinguish group chats from one-to-one chats?
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by fareesh 6y ago
The conspiracy theory is that the agency conspired to do this for political reasons. Even if you discount that entirely it does not take away from the fact that this is possible and happened, and that in itself ought to be cause for concern
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by fareesh 6y ago
In operation crossfire hurricane, the FBI doctored an email and used its contents as part of an effort to get a FISA warrant to spy on a member of the incoming administration. This gave them access to listen to conversations of anyone 2 lev
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by fareesh 6y ago
In the USA legislators and others in government have publicly voiced their support of, contributed to, and organized bail funds for specific groups of people based on their views on particular topics. One Presidential candidate's campa
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by fareesh 6y ago
Why?
710.
by fareesh 6y ago
Is there a single thing that has been defeated by prohibition and censorship? This is a losing strategy
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by fareesh 6y ago
I think TDD is a specific reference to the approach where you always write the test first, i.e. 100% coverage Could be wrong, but that's how I've always assumed it is intended.
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by fareesh 6y ago
Is DHH's Hey doing well? I couldn't really see the value in it because I handle my emails quite decently.
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by fareesh 6y ago
Are there any good empirical arguments for it?
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by fareesh 6y ago
Not sure why this is on HN - can someone fill me in? Maybe I'm missing something
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by fareesh 6y ago
Is there some empirical metric where this can be demonstrated as true?
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by fareesh 6y ago
Definitely but the conversation is about the use of ketamine, not prosecution of bad policemen, which everyone universally condemns.
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by fareesh 6y ago
Policemen do one of the toughest jobs in society, especially in places where crime is high. Society owes them a great debt for enforcing the law because there are some hard criminals out there who would run amok if a weak and ineffective po
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by fareesh 6y ago
1GB in India is pretty cheap+good. A small amount of stupid censorship but otherwise pretty solid. I lived in Canada for about ten years. It's a ridiculously expensive place in terms of food and internet costs. At the time I was please
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by fareesh 6y ago
If I were a Facebook employee with typical bay area California politics I'd just selectively apply my bias and be over zealous with the fact checking when I find something is being shared amongst folks who are being swayed to the Repub
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by fareesh 6y ago
Yes but in those cases would you really be looking to be Frugal like this? I figured the underlying assumption is that this is a tip for regular folks

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