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by harikb 6y ago
Whether UK citizens approve this or not, logistical challenge of making this happen is immense. I think UK politicians know this is just a threat. Moving people & jobs physically to UK, when people have physical investment in a house, s
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by harikb 6y ago
Not only that, Little Snitch of all things. I can understand if people downloaded pirated a game or word or photoshop (before they went all cloud). Little snitch is literally for the ones who are paranoid about these things in the first pla
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by harikb 6y ago
Wait! Are we becoming less immune with this isolation :o
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by harikb 6y ago
Similar to how people were all about supporting Firefox in another thread, there is also a need to support entities other than the dreaded cable monopoly and support those companies that bring about innovation. Even if they happen to be com
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by harikb 6y ago
While I agree with your statement, the lack of binary linking has been a blessing in Go and Rust. The inability to give a binary "SDK" forces many companies to provide source (and in many cases open-source their library). I would
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by harikb 6y ago
Do proper use of ZFS also require ECC memory?
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by harikb 6y ago
What could potentially happen with a malicious dependency added knowingly by the original author or unknowingly because his account is compromised will one day make leftpad look like a harmless warning / near escape we ignored. Sure, l
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by harikb 6y ago
From fcc.gov site > Q: Does the FCC regulate the rates charged by Internet Service Providers (ISPs)? > A: No. ISPs are considered "enhanced service providers" under FCC rules. The FCC does not regulate the rates that enhance
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by harikb 6y ago
I was running Lineage on the tablet and I am usually very careful about what I allow. I have no idea how it got set to take over main screen at charging time. Btw, all these distributions (Lineage and Cynogenmod before that) don't bene
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by harikb 6y ago
Apparently it is not new change [1]. I just happened to notice it now since I rarely used it before. Now the tablet functions as a handy Zoom whiteboard [2] drawing tablet. Good thing I didn't throw it out. [1] https://www.a
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by harikb 6y ago
Even if one were to ignore Google’s data collection, any non-vanilla android installation would have been butchered by the vendor (Samsung, Motorola, etc) to the point any expectation of security (and in turn privacy) is lost to the least s
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by harikb 6y ago
As someone who grew up in southern India in a house literally surrounded by at least few dozens of these trees[1], most of them also hosting black pepper creepers, I wonder how this became Thai Fruit? Come on, we even have a western name! [
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by harikb 6y ago
They are indeed a monopoly in a certain market segment - aka, those who are more than willing to pay for apps. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-users-spend-twice-apps... Their existing monopolistic actions like “preven
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by harikb 6y ago
Is it possible it is being made as “breaking news” as support for any other narrative? Just saw on BBC breaking news > Regrettably, this activity is not new. Frequency has been increasing.”
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by harikb 6y ago
It would have been great (at least from a social good view point) if the “savings” from not cleaning up went to the poor workers, even if the state has to pick up the bill. Meaning, we just live with non-green sources of energy so we don’t
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by harikb 6y ago
Targeted advertising literally made propaganda 10 times cheaper. This means I can spare a few bucks and target whatever sh*t I want at whoever I like. I don't need to a big business with a big budget. Most orgs who have an agenda can e
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by harikb 6y ago
> It's easier to get ahead by building a new Z framework than to become a core committer on X framework from 10 years ago? Sometimes, yes. This particular angle is explained in the article >> This is ego distraction in action
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by harikb 6y ago
Isn’t it what one would get by running screen or tmux? Am I missing something? I guess you mean each command not affecting the very next command that follows?
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by harikb 6y ago
I think such “stockpiling” will first create mediocre reimplementations of DBs & web frameworks before fixing all issues by sticking a redis up front. I don’t think Twillio is that kind. In this case though, this looks like a genuine ex
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by harikb 6y ago
It should be no surprise that these people might retire from military and join local state police and enjoy killing similarly less fortunate American citizens > helicopter pilots exchange banter about the slaughter in the street below: ‘
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by harikb 6y ago
The only projects I can accurately forecast is the one I have already implemented elsewhere. Meaning 90% of it is a rehash of something done elsewhere. Companies do this because... well.. reasons. Anything else novel/unique/innova
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by harikb 6y ago
If you can picture yourself to be this guy, you have nothing to worry https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjb1H_j8D8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=woCg2zaIVzQ
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by harikb 6y ago
Anecdotal - One of favorite YouTube live-streaming personalities, Jon Gjengset[1] is a Ph.D student at MIT CSAIL. His talks are very detailed[4] and captivating[3] [1] https://thesquareplanet.com/ Talks [2] https:/&#
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by harikb 6y ago
My backyard backs in to a strip mall with an auto mechanic shop. We hear a high pitch sound some times of the day and when we step outside to inspect, we only hear a different sound from the shop behind - a typical machine running, but not
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by harikb 6y ago
My only ask is that you see the difference between free-speech as intended in the constitution vs free-speech under an unverifiable and easily forged online pseudonym. You may not even be defending free speech of an American citizen/re
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If the cost (monetary and one’s credibility) of publishing a Social post matched that of publishing a book, we wouldn’t be here discussing this. If we allow anyone with opposing thumbs to spew garbage online, platform have some responsibili
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by harikb 6y ago
Unless you know some specifics that is not public, he would be leaving significant money on the table. That is, financially sacrificing. If a portion of salary is paid as RSU, that portion would have unvested portions carried over from prio
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by harikb 6y ago
If the senators use this data and that argument to prove they didn’t make too much money or didn’t do anything wrong, then please remove all insider-trading laws. Right now, it only hurts the law abiding minority that accidentally makes a m
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by harikb 6y ago
I digress, but I think the real turning point that helped YouTube was Apple requiring data plan for iPhone and convincing AT&T to offer unlimited data plan. So sometimes help will come from your rival :o
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by harikb 6y ago
“managed services” don’t necessarily save you the headache of making sure backups are usable. But other points are valid.

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