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by korginator 3y ago
The article misses the other very important points - brewing time, and water:leaf ratio. The taste of your tea depends a lot on the quality of the leaves. I've used a wide range of Sencha leaves, some of them absolutely hate high tempe
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by korginator 3y ago
The interactions between the Indian and Greek civilizations during the fourth century BCE and later have been quite well studied, and what the article describes is not surprising. For some context, the emperor Ashoka, scion of the Maurya em
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by korginator 4y ago
"We lied". There, summarised their public relations spiel for you.
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by korginator 4y ago
Theravada was not the most widespread school at the time, nor were its doctrines yet systematised and formulated into the Vinaya and Abhidhamma the way it's read and practiced today until Buddhaghosa started his work on the Visuddhimag
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by korginator 4y ago
You are somewhat right. Right from the earliest days, intoxicants were disallowed in any form even for lay-people taking refuge in the faith, this is in fact the fifth of the five precepts that __every__ person who's taken refuge in th
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by korginator 4y ago
It's very common for young men to spend a year or two at a monastery in Thailand, and this is indeed quite respected there. These are young men in their teens and twenties, with the same emotions, feelings, temptations, and even suscep
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by korginator 4y ago
It would help to say a few words in the submission about what bun is supposed to be and why anyone should care. The name sounds like a recipe app or something for my culinary experience. From the docs [1], "Bun is an all-in-one toolkit
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by korginator 4y ago
I was fortunate to come across Fresh Cream's version on a 45RPM record in the 1970's. I thought it was great, until I heard the second side, a brilliant number called "Cap Horn" by Guy Boyer [1]. [1] https://y
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by korginator 4y ago
Been using BearSSL in side projects on and off, and it's an excellent little library. That said, I use MbedTLS for production work on embedded hardware because it just integrates better with the other bits and pieces of code, and often
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by korginator 4y ago
My experience with QR-code menus has been nearly always terrible. Little to no thought goes into the format and presentation for a small screen device. Many restaurants just return a large PDF with microscopic fonts that you have to struggl
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by korginator 4y ago
The report reads like the OptiFi folks were trying to figure out how the different bits of the puzzle on the fly. Did these folks even know how to use their tools? Towards later in the article they say "Here it turned out that we didn’
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by korginator 4y ago
A related article [1] says that (a) ARM granted licenses to Nuvia with terms that disallowed any transfer to Qualcomm, but (b) the licenses were transferred to a newly formed entity and not to Qualcomm. Wouldn't the outcome of the case
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by korginator 4y ago
Hopefully there's more clarity on the official stance over the next few months. On one hand, it's easy to start and run a cryptocurrency business in Singapore, and there's a lot happening [1][2]. The effort by Mojaloop [3] it
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by korginator 4y ago
Sorry, but I don't see a single thing of value here but more sensationalism from the purveyors who've been at this for years. People like the authors Gebru and Mitchell, and now Lemoine have contributed negatively to the field whi
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by korginator 4y ago
People can (and often will) be vindictive, specially people with the power over you and your career. Call me cynical, but in my few decades of work life I've come across more than a few such people. Say what you will about how you wish
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by korginator 4y ago
GoLang works for my team because it's boring, small, compact, not fancy, easy to pick up and start writing real production code in less than a week. It hits the sweet spot with regards to language constructs, performance, features, sup
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by korginator 4y ago
My first gripe is about how finder responds to the Option + left arrow and Option + right arrow keys when renaming files. It appears to have been designed by a drunken lobster. Hitting Option + left or right arrow while playing with a filen
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by korginator 4y ago
I remember trying to purchase a Gateway desktop PC in the late 90s or early 2000s since they offered a range of AMD processor options that other vendors did not. When the machine was delivered, it would keep trying to boot up and freeze. Th
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by korginator 4y ago
I feel this approach has the potential to increase the number of successful attacks. According to the article, users would merely need to unlock their phones to complete the sign-in process. Most people tend to automatically unlock their ph
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Singapore Government Tech Stack(developer.tech.gov.sg)
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by korginator 5y ago
This is band-aid for a fracture. Suing Intuit does not address the underlying problem. It's not hard to collect income data automatically. Here in Singapore (as in many other countries) I get a message reminding me to check my tax data
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by korginator 5y ago
By now I assume that any service where I've registered for an account is being actively targeted and that any organisation that's not a Google, Microsoft or the likes has already been breached. MFA is your friend, and even plain v
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by korginator 5y ago
I've seen a version of this behaviour in Lopburi, Thailand and in some places around Bali. Make no mistake, these primates can get ferocious, they carry several diseases and can cause serious bodily harm to large sized human adults. Do
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by korginator 5y ago
The real story is far less sensationalist than the title on HN, "Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022". Reading through the actual notification titled "Tokenisation – Card Transactions: Permi
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by korginator 5y ago
This brings back memories of their 1990s shenanigans. I guess expecting ethical behaviour from them was always a pipe dream.
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by korginator 5y ago
Glad to hear your positive experiences. Could I share your feedback with a few colleagues in DBS here? As you say, it's about context. Here we keep pushing the message that Singapore is an ideal place to do business, that the regulatio
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by korginator 5y ago
The regulator MAS is already starting to make a noise about "appropriate actions" [1] once the dust has settled. It's also a matter of national pride, DBS is very iconic and there's been a lot of publicity about the bank
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by korginator 5y ago
There are ORMs available for Golang, but my experience has been better with packages like sqlx [1] or dat [2]. We've since been using SQLX for pretty much all DBMS related work, and regret nothing. In my experience SQLX gave us the rig
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by korginator 5y ago
From what I've been reading, System76 takes security seriously, they're already using gtk-rs that's a bridge between the Gnome libraries and rust, and this effort by System76 appears to be a natural direction for future devel
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by korginator 5y ago
This is not just about the loss of PRs or citizens. Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world to live in. More people in SG are choosing to marry later, have kids later, or have fewer kids. Many people register a marriage j

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