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by harikb 6y ago
I thought one has to still buy/rent games on top of the $5/month. $5 is only the fee for renting “cloud hardware” - May be some games are included, but definitely not comparable to a Netflix for games. I guess it more like a Disne
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by harikb 6y ago
"15 minutes" to settle cash for next trade is enough "instant" for most traders I think. The part that irritates people is the "2 business days" problem in the regular account. I have heard it is complicated, b
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by harikb 6y ago
I get RH might be paying money to cleanup play store reviews, but how much is enough to justify the negative PR ? There is another angle though - may be RH or some higher power is threatening to sue Google if they didn't help cleanup b
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Another “500-mile email” story(twitter.com)
4 points by harikb 6y ago|0 comments
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by harikb 6y ago
It is not nearly complete https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/wisconsin-fo... > The village notified her subdivision’s residents that it would use eminent domain to seize their homes if th
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by harikb 6y ago
Well technically that is possible in any OS. You can mount the drive elsewhere or to a live cd, change root password. That is the recommended way to recover from lost root password (assuming FS is not encrypted - which was the case you were
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by harikb 6y ago
I wish pkg.dev had a signin and option to star/watch a package. I do this with GitHub repos I should revisit. Would have been handy for pkg.dev :) yes, I know - nobody wants yet another login
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by harikb 6y ago
Unfortunately, doesn't work for Macs. Not that Mac camera is bad, but this would have been usable as a better way to position the camera on to the external monitor using an old Android phone
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by harikb 6y ago
One cannot search channels one is not part of. Don't forget channels. Not everything happens on #general and #random. Also, even if I am part of the channel, there is no way I can search and locate what I want without knowing the right
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by harikb 6y ago
If it is fair for Apple to sell ads inside App Store’s search feature, it is perfectly fair for someone to buy a competitors keywords. This is also done all the time. I find the App Store to be the one to fault by making the ad look the sam
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by harikb 6y ago
+1 I bet cloud providers are incentivized not to provide detailed billing/usage stats. I remember having to use a 3rd party service to analyze our S3 usage. Infinite scalability is also a curse - we had a case where pruning history fro
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by harikb 6y ago
If a state actor really wants to do it and someone could get it past reviews, I am sure they could bribe any contributor from any country (including US). Why single out China? We never raised concerns with Russian contributors.
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by harikb 6y ago
> Patients who are not to be transported to hospitals include those whose hearts have stopped and, despite efforts at resuscitation, have no signs of breathing, movement, a pulse or blood pressure and would be declared dead at the scene.
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by harikb 6y ago
Can we please trade in centralized Slack and single-sign-on and get back the netsplit of IRC :) ? At least I can chat with half of my colleagues :)
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by harikb 6y ago
Just curious - can you explain #2 ? I get that someone can register some freebitcoin.xyz and point to your IP, but the content is still controlled by you, right? What is the security angle here if your host returned a static index.html to a
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by harikb 6y ago
While I get the point about data-races, a “GC” doesn’t make/help you leak memory - you have simply postponed the free to a later point in time. Assume you had some code that takes a file name and calls open on it. One day you decide yo
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by harikb 6y ago
File system corruption is unforgivable mistake, but FS work is really hard to get right. Even stuff like VMware corrupts shared folders ... wherever they try to bypass a driver translation layer. Just Google for “vmware shared folder corrup
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by harikb 6y ago
But then you are giving VISA a perfect reason to throw out all optouts and start fresh. Stuff like this happened during FTC net neutrality debate
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by harikb 6y ago
Hopefully this was cabin baggage and not something left unattended for minutes on the baggage belt
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by harikb 6y ago
I think you are right. `strlcpy` is only supposed to copy `n-1` bytes from src to dest. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/libkern/s...
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by harikb 6y ago
Edit: u meant encoded as Json - never mind. Just curious, how does Protobuf make it easier? Easier than Json? Protobuf doesn’t even include field names or readable descriptors - unless of course you are talking about reading client side JS
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by harikb 6y ago
Google charging higher for shorter domains or hey.com charging higher for shorter email handles is still way better than having to buy it from a squatter or lost-for-ever to a squatter who is unwilling to sell
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by harikb 6y ago
Nokia had a fairly successful Mobile operating system, Symbian, which had decent multi-tasking way before even Palm OS or Windows CE attempted such things. However there was a huge learning curve and it wasn’t for everyone. I guess abandoni
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by harikb 6y ago
Society can only function if those with opposing views at least agree on ground rules to debate on. Unchecked expression of view with no option for rebuttal from the other side will only destroy society. We have cases were US Senate candida
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by harikb 6y ago
This may be the biggest societal contribution from the pandemic, if and when we survive it
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Ask HN: Do you sandbox different uses of your laptop
6 points by harikb 6y ago|3 comments
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by harikb 6y ago
> emulating or translating apps compiled for a different architecture is necessarily going to be irritatingly slow and somewhat incompatible at best While it wasn't as popular, Palm OS did this beautifully when going from Motorola 6
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by harikb 6y ago
I am surprised there is no mention of Google Wave, the promising technology that did all of this, but died due to an unfortunate release/invite process. I logged in to Wave using my hard-earned early-invite in excitement only to realiz
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by harikb 6y ago
Dropbox never claimed end-to-end client side encryption. That said, neither do any of the popular cloud drive options - for example Google drive or One drive. End to end client side encryption is a tough problem from usability. Most people
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by harikb 6y ago
Did I walk into an editing session of inception 2?

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