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by piyush_soni 3y ago
I don't know because I've never taken a one day prepaid card, but had I been visiting India as a foreigner I'd just buy a local prepaid card for a month considering it's so cheap.
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Wow. 1.95 euros a day for the non-ad version? In India (where I live) I pay less than 3 euros a month for a 1.5GB everyday 5G connection and unlimited nationwide calls. So it's definitely not a "fair local rate" as they c
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
One day everyone will realize, Apple is one of the most toxic companies ever.
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Tried Zed some time back, the performance was pretty good as compared to VS Code, though gave up when they chose to implement other fancy / collaborative features before implementing the most basic requirement from an 'editor&#x27
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
While I understand your argument about IE6 which was shipped with Windows, Chrome didn't have that advantage for a long time - it's only now that Android phones and Chromebooks are shipped with it, but I don't know of a singl
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
But then again, everyone says Google is evil to have made their own browser, but most of the world is using it - one would guess they must have done some good things with it (so taking humanity forward in some capacity etc.). Some are eve
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
This always surprises me. While as an Indian I'm ashamed of the level of corruption we have in every government system of ours, at least it's still called corruption (and is illegal) what US calls lobbying (and is legal).
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
I don't understand. Youtube is not forcing you to watch their videos, and that they show ads is an information you are already aware of before watching them. So I don't understand how it is YouTube's "Entitlement".
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
No, it used to show me September '21 as well, but today it's showing January '22 for me on the free ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) version in India.
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Of course, to the level of other saner countries?
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Ok, I don't know if I'm doing it correctly, but there is no way to type some letters to jump to the folder starting with that name right? Also, no Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete yet I guess. Also, the one reason I run away f
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Wow. Thinking about it, there are businesses built, peaked and destroyed in that time frame. :)
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
That's probably what they wanted too, but they couldn't as European regulation had mandated them to move to USB-C before 2024 gets over.
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
It's funny how they show USB-C as a giant leap forward while they were literally forced to use that port and were never interested in doing it otherwise. All that transfer speed bump they're now advertising with USB-C, would they
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
When I moved back to India from the US, I was pleasantly surprised how cheap and fast the internet here is (which should have been the characteristic of a developed nation like USA). I currently have a 300 Mbps home broadband, TV, Unlimited
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
That's why I always believe Google's Glasses and their vision were way ahead of their time - they were not strapping a big device to your head like all these other ones. Unfortunately, for legal and whatever reasons it didn't
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
It might be great or not, the title is NOT correct and is blaming the government without having any proofs. Posts like these should not even be allowed here. This is actually propaganda.
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Wait. It's shared here as a matter of fact, is it proven that it was done by some 'IT Cell' of the ruling party? It's HN, not Reddit, Twitter, Facebook or Whatsapp. I'm not denying their existence, but unless it&#x2
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
I understand it could have just been a 'regular' automated task and not necessarily an LLM task (at least if tried hard enough). But isn't the general promise of these LLMs that we don't have to program a separate automa
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
I'm not yet, because I haven't got confidence in ChatGPT's answers or abilities so far (e.g. the fact that it 'lies' with a straight face when it doesn't know the answer is especially troubling for me). I hope
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Hmm ... I wish with all these new agents my regular tasks become a bit easier, but so far it didn't work, it 'ran out of loops in the free plan'. Not going to pay without even executing one successful example (I know this one
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Well, at least it was some hours on near-latest phones with specialized hardware and software (latest and Pixel phones are missing from the study for some reason). Looks much safer compared to Apple's FaceID which was unlocked under 12
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
No, they now do a lot of processing for each individual frame (and imagine doing that for 60 frames per second).
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by piyush_soni 3y ago
Prediction: Gitlab will be acquired by Google.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I think Firefox users have now reduced to geeks and some 'real FOSS' enthusiasts etc. I still use Firefox as my primary browser, but I haven't seen any non-tech person installing it for a long time now. They all just search f
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
That's exactly what I think. I personally also find him very uninspiring, it looks like he's basically just 'maintaining' the company on auto-pilot mode. No out of the world new ideas, and now the company is losing on th
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Couldn't have explained better! Just because some people are well accustomed to working in bash files and terminal, they assume it's a child's play for everyone. There are multiple types of shells alone with each having diffe
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I use all three - Windows, Linux and macOS for work (and macOS and Windows for personal use). Last I had these problems with Linux was 2022. We don't use the more user focused Ubuntu/Fedora distros. We use RHEL/CentOS which s
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
These kind elitist comments surprise me. Tech should make one humble, you seem to have gone the other way round. This was the kind of condescending behavior I was talking about in my comment, and you just proved my point. Calling others &#x
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I'm totally for computer tinkering, but at the age of learning something like 'MIT Scratch' or even C/C++/Python, if they have to deal with all these problems, a lot of potential computer scientists might actually

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