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by pyeri 3y ago
Indian English has to be one of the easiest accent/dialect to understand. The way we speak isn't much different than how a Spanish, French or Italian would speak English, a bit slowly and trying to emphasize each consonant as we w
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by pyeri 3y ago
Once they get fully trained then how will websites ever distinguish between an intelligent bot and real human? At least now, they are outsourcing that filtering to services like cloudflare. But with this kind of training, how will even clou
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GPL or Apache license for an upcoming PySide2 project?
1 points by pyeri 3y ago|1 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
Silicon Valley equivalents are brimming up in other parts of the world, Taiwan is very much known for its hardware technology. There are documentaries about Shenzhen becoming a tech hub too. Even here in Bangalore (India), there are many te
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by pyeri 3y ago
By "developers" you mean the core CPython developers here? Because CPython itself is very slow, Java runs circles around it on most benchmarks you'll find such as this one[1] from Debian. If you observe the computation time t
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Node's programming model seems highly deceptive and farcical
13 points by pyeri 3y ago|16 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
This totally. This is one of the reasons that classical RDBMS paradigms and software like MySQL still survive despite however people want to talk it down in favor of "Nosql" or non-relational databases like mongodb citing how fast
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We are not creating the "right" kind of AI(prahladyeri.github.io)
20 points by pyeri 3y ago|26 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
> For example, on this HN page that I'm writing, and you're reading, the only graphical thing really is the orange bar across the top. Actually, the world has evolved slightly as even the text is rich text-today. Many people li
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by pyeri 3y ago
The "write once, run everywhere" was actually a genius paradigm for the applications they were intended to, the predominant success of Android OS which is mostly based on the cross-platform JVM runtime is proof of that. Java EE an
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by pyeri 3y ago
Security matters only when you're using the Internet or "crossing" the firewall. Within a corporate or enterprise LAN, people still use desktop apps more heavily, or at least should be using ideally. Web's utility is as
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by pyeri 3y ago
Install more RAM, why don't you upgrade to a 32GB RAM! /s
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by pyeri 3y ago
That and the difficulty of going cross-platform. GTK is good on Linux but taking it to Windows is usually an uphill battle and that too with a language like C. Same with Qt with C++ for that matter. On the other hand, you can choose a high
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Desktop GUI Is an Efficient and Fulfilling Way of Human-Computer Interaction(prahladyeri.github.io)
36 points by pyeri 3y ago|42 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
I see some hope in Vivaldi. Even though chromium based, I don't see them getting more and more intrusive into your life and machine like the other big tech are doing. Plus it is also open source now[1], so no different than firefox, et
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by pyeri 3y ago
It should be left up to them users to post a linkedin or github on their profile should they choose to, the present way works good I think.
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PySide vs. .NET WinForms for a Desktop GUI App in 2023?
2 points by pyeri 3y ago|4 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
They're also obsessed with pushing Snaps down the user's throat these days. The height of their attitude happened when they made firefox available ONLY as a Snap package and took it out of Ubuntu APT repository entirely! That&#x27
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by pyeri 3y ago
But sadly, the permissive ones don't have this ideological defense mechanism built into them. That's why Apple was able to eat FreeBSD for a lunch. But there are few exceptions where permissive projects can also sustain and defend
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by pyeri 3y ago
GNU and GNU/Linux are the only systems which respect user privacy and freedoms, this is a classic and practical precedent where adherence to ideology and principles (of commons) clearly demonstrate a resistance to crony capitalism (of
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by pyeri 3y ago
The most popular theory I've heard in this regard is that top European politicians are constantly corrupted and bought off by American lobbyists backed by Big Tech companies. Read articles and watch documentaries related to LiMux Initi
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by pyeri 3y ago
Plus Visual Basic is a very powerful language on its own. Given an environment such as Excel Macros, its power can be unleashed and utilized to a great extent and that's what power users in many enterprises do. This is quite reminiscen
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by pyeri 3y ago
But tiktok does have an "agenda" of sorts. From what I've read, if you open tiktok app outside of China, most videos will be about ordinary folks celebrating a very liberal or open way of life, being an anarchist, anti-author
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by pyeri 3y ago
For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap paradigm down our throats. At this point, it's virtually im
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by pyeri 3y ago
Well, even the 3.0/3.1 versions worked under direct supervision of MS-DOS and Windows wasn't a true OS on its own. The Windows-95 is what I'd call birth of the "real Windows"!
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by pyeri 3y ago
Is this new Outlook part of that new age Metro Interface or Windows Store apps? That's one of the first things I recommend everyone to get rid of as part of the windows de-bloat process.
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by pyeri 3y ago
I was disillusioned almost a decade ago and switched to LibreOffice back then itself. The only caveat is that the Microsoft's DOCX format isn't fully compatible with open ODT, so documents saved with one word processor may have sl
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by pyeri 3y ago
Is this the same company that once created remarkable technological innovations like Windows XP, .NET Framework, Visual Studio Express, etc? I really hope it still is!
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Why do so many developers provide only 64-bit builds of their software?
2 points by pyeri 3y ago|2 comments
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by pyeri 3y ago
That's cool. My Redmi phone makers won't even send it a few miles across this same planet!

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