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by harikb 7mo ago
1. If alternate UX exists, the user can easily replace them with another model as soon as it comes out. 2. All 'all-you-can-eat' plans everywhere comes with clause. Whether it is lunch at a restaurant or it is token-proxy-provider
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by harikb 7mo ago
I thought you could only do it if you have own TM backup. Do they offer cloud recovery for older versions?
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by harikb 7mo ago
Apart from the mess it caused for iPhone and Mac, my watch upgraded last night to 26 flavor. I am not kidding - I can't see anything on the screen now before coffee. Watch has become completely useless for my early morning eyes. What t
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by harikb 8mo ago
Installing an app that silently intercepts SMS/MMS data is a persistent technical compromise. Once the app is there, the attacker has ongoing access. In contrast, convincing someone to read an OTP over the phone is a one-time manual by
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by harikb 8mo ago
I’ve lived the Microsoft Access times. The downfall of those tools was the refusal to keep the interface simple. They kept layering on features and UI cruft until they became massive apps pretending to be databases
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by harikb 8mo ago
Google Fiber was struggling for a while because cable companies are in bed with power companies and wouldn't let them run fiber through their easement areas. In fact, even cities couldn't run their own fiber. What you envision mig
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by harikb 8mo ago
Haha... I think gp meant touch-screen, but thanks for the chuckle :)
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by harikb 8mo ago
Ian Duncan, I was imagining you on a stage delivering this as a standup comedy show on Netflix. My pet peeve with Github Actions was that if I want to do simple things like make a "release", I have to Google for and install packag
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by harikb 8mo ago
If the web-interface of a website can serve same HTML to all browsers, these UI can as well. I don't think we have IE6 level incompatibility these days. I have no idea what specific incompatibility you are talking about. I am writing m
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by harikb 8mo ago
As I outlined in a sibling comment. You can still use React and your JS developers. Just don't ship a whole browser with your app. May be an app that is as complex as Outlook needs the pixel-perfect tweaking of every little button that
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by harikb 8mo ago
I have been building Desktop apps with Go + Wails[1]. I happen to know Go, but if you are ai-coding even that is not necessary. A full fledged app, that does everything I want, is ~ 10MB. I know Tauri+Rust can get it to probably 1 MB. But i
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by harikb 8mo ago
Sorry I am confused. I have a "WhatsApp Business Account", tied to an "Business" (verifications all done). What I am talking about is registering a phone number that acts as the "Sender/Responder" of the m
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by harikb 8mo ago
I will look into it. But my user base is either WhatsApp or plain SMS text messaging.
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by harikb 8mo ago
As a developer, I tried building an app that needs to use Whatsapp for communication. Unfortunately my phone number got blocked by the second test message. No Spam. Not marketing, just a test message to my own number. Along with it, they bl
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by harikb 9mo ago
Products don't necessarily win on merit. Microsoft Teams "won" entirely because it was given away free with Office. Even though it is acceptable these days, it was horrible when it started. There is no way it could have won w
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by harikb 9mo ago
Afraid of precedent? Your comment gave me a chuckle, but not in the way you think.
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by harikb 9mo ago
Recently, all these agents can talk LSP (language server protocol) so it should get better soon. That said, yeah they don't seem to default to use `ripgrep` when that is clearly better than `grep`
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by harikb 10mo ago
Somewhat related, from 3 years ago. Unfortunately, original blog is gone. "Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default" 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34179426
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by harikb 10mo ago
History suggests it won't be that clean. 1. High-severity accidents might drop, but the industry bleeds money on high-frequency, low-speed incidents (parking lots, neighborhood scrapes). Autonomy has diminishing returns here; it doesn&
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by harikb 10mo ago
Sometimes I think, it should be illegal for these government contracts to last beyond 5 years for exactly this reason. Who know what kind of deals are being made. Some administration could sign away the whole country on their last day.
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by harikb 11mo ago
Watch 'Pop' (Malcome McDowell) in Son of a Critch :) . I don't remember the episode/season.... where he goes on and on about some $1 bill that will be decommissioned and goes to the bank to get some...
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by harikb 11mo ago
There is a simpler explanation - HVAC jobs are directly influenced by the push to covert everything to heat-pumps. And good heat-pumps are expensive . So when you install a $15K to $25K, installation fee also goes up. I am surprised Sola
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by harikb 1y ago
"Not my fault.. I asked them to save everything in G-Drive (Google Drive)"
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by harikb 1y ago
Please read the article. Since 2019, they had a program that was means tested. The new proposal is to expand it to all parents > With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of
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by harikb 1y ago
+1 This whole mentality of voucher system is selfish. Even if we consider it as an "efficiency" problem, it is far cheaper for a person to be paid to take care of N children (where N is not too large), rather than have the have t
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by harikb 1y ago
It shouldn't require a fancy forward-lookup-capable editor / language-server to show type. That is the point I am trying to make var/declare x; 25 lines later call f(x); // ** Reader has no idea what x is ... even
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by harikb 1y ago
+1 white space significance brings back whole tab vs space preferences and make it much harder for automatic re-formatting as well
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by harikb 1y ago
> Flow-Sensitive Type-Inference imho, I don't consider Type-inference as a good thing when it happens from 50 lines ahead/below. How would regular people follow along? Good case x = "hello" // infer type as
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by harikb 1y ago
Forget lakes, it can be interpreted as any airport with an international flight. We are all within "100 miles of a border" even when walking our dog in the morning.
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by harikb 1y ago
So long as they don't make it very hard to get an ID approval, I don't see why people shouldn't know who developed an app. Currently the entire ecosystem is riddled with malware, spyware, or adware with shady source informati

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