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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Anyone who's used Windows recently can say it happens a _lot_ less now. And also, I see not a "Blue" screen of death, but other screens of death on my work macbook all the time (all official 2019 MBP, no customizations). :| .
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I do. We don't use Ubuntu / Fedora. We use the stone-age RHEL/CentOS distros. AND we have NVidia drivers to worry about almost everyday. And all our work-arounds go away as soon as IT updates the Linux Kernel. That never happ
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Not everyone is here to become a Computer Scientist or even a computer professional unfortunately, they want to study their favorite subject, do screen recordings, make nice presentations etc. Our company uses RHEL / CentOS distributio
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
> And of course it's Linux, so there's infinite opportunity to get under the hood and tinker. - Or keep trying to fix the environment + hardware compatibility issues and not do the actual work/study. Or keep editing some
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Yes, I was waiting for someone to write about it, but no one else did. I can see such a vast API that TamperMonkey offers in comparison to the competition. I don't have an immediate use of that extended API, but can definitely see usin
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
You can actually still use an offline Text editor with TamperMonkey as well (at least with their latest UI, I just checked it)
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
It does, now, but its developer took a really long time in porting, in that time TamperMonkey was developed and had really gained popularity.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
The benefit you say that bookmarklets have is in fact also the biggest drawback of bookmarklets as well - that you have to manually click on them - and you can't press that button in a loop like a script can do :). Personally for me us
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
What exactly is better in ViolentMonkey? Just want to know because I keep working with userscripts and after GreaseMonkey's collapse TamperMonkey has been my default userscript manager.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
IIRC, the developer initially resisted shifting to WebExtensions and then eventually (my assumption) half-heartedly did convert his extension to it, but in the meantime TamperMonkey developer got to it much sooner and worked hard for making
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Great initiative, but if it's sampling only the few seconds previews from the songs, then I doubt it will be useful. Also, a language filter is essential for both training the model and listing the results. I searched for a few Hindi l
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
But aren't they DRMed? Or does it let you download in mp3 or related formats directly (I'm not on Apple music)?
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
The Harvard Justice series (Michael Sandel) is one of the best ones I've seen. Very intriguing! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30C13C91CFFEFEA6
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
When iPhone started, it only got two years of updates. Then some got 2, 3, 4 or 5 years of updates. Android is fundamentally different and has to support thousands of devices, if a manufacturer is still giving 5 years of guaranteed updates,
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I'm not at all assuming all technological progress is an unadulterated good - in fact, nothing is, everything would have a downside if it has an upside. All I'm saying is it's still bound to happen and we can do nothing abou
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
"Android's" track record? Are you sure you don't mean a particular manufacturer or OEM's track record? Because every company that makes Android phones does it differently. Here, Samsung delivered more than they prom
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
You are saying it as 10 years of updates is a norm with Apple phones, but it's not. If you read the article, it says that they believe their security issue might have been 'actively exploited'. Companies do release security u
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
People are ultimately going to do that. And if we really can't figure out a book written by an AI from that written by a human, then what's the point of all of it? Eventually good authors will still succeed as their writing style
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Good luck! How do you make money from an Open Source alternative to UserVoice? Is it only through cloud hosting, or you get paid when they self-host as well?
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I still remember the small adrenaline rush we had as soon as we would detect the tone for a successful connection.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
And that's why I love HN! (sorry for a non-contributing post).
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I've observed something similar, and agree with so many other citing COVID as one of the reasons. I just have to think on things for a lot longer than before when I'd get solutions much quicker. This started happening after covid.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I never understood anti-trust. Isn't it punishing a legitimate company for working their ass off for years/decades and growing too big for people's liking? It's my OS, I don't want to put your app on it, I want to p
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I have friends who use say the word "LOL" as well, but as a sarcasm.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
You mean it's natural for CEOs to literally threaten other CEOs?
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
As I said above, it's about consistency. If you really believe Cmd+C and Cmd+Shift+V paradigm is what macOS has chosen for themselves in their Finder, they should then choose it everywhere else in their own OS, including in their text
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Again, it's to take care of which use case falls in the majority - to optimize the 364 days of the year when I'm dealing with folders not having 10000 files/sub-folders in a folder or 1 day when I have to open such a folder.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Forget about the 'return' key. My point is, for an operation one potentially does a hundred times a day (arguably the *most* common operation you can do in a File Explorer!), it should have required a single key press, I'm pr
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
No, it's not from "just my expectations". I can understand that things work differently in different OSs, and having the same expectations from it won't be correct. There are also many on the internet who defend this des
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: Windows UI has a lot of problems, but it's still much more intuitive and stupid-proof than macOS. Having worked with both, macOS is just inconsistent to the core (and Finder is an application one would have to pay

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