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by saimiam 8d ago
DuckDuckGo browser on iPhone 14
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by saimiam 8d ago
I tried it on mobile. Far too many screens to click through to get to the good parts. And then, the good part starts and is immediately interrupted with some error. On retrying, o start getting a long answer which seems to make sense but o
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by saimiam 8d ago
So true. My son wanted to wear his undies on the outside a la Captain Underpants and I tried war gaming this with him - hmm, so your undie on the outside is going to require another one inside your pants and we are out of fresh pairs etc et
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Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him(nytimes.com)
111 points by saimiam 8d ago|76 comments
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by saimiam 8d ago
Completely random but o remember reading back in the day that Nostradamus had predicted the rise of a Hitler like figure except he had named a Hister, not the actual. https://www.history.co.uk/articles/did-nostradamus-r
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by saimiam 10d ago
Only a society which doesn't want anything, needs nothing, demands nothing can do without ads. While privacy invading ad tech is obviously a bad thing, ads - namely the thing used to introduce you and others like you to a new idea - is
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by saimiam 11d ago
Seems to me that your positions are in opposition to each other. 1. There’s a traditional visual language that people instinctively prefer. 2. Modern architectural sensibilities have superseded traditional visual language through repetition
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by saimiam 11d ago
"O can" instead of "I can" on the iPhone is the one which has been driving me bonkers for at least a couple of years now.
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by saimiam 15d ago
A bad driver never misses an exit.
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by saimiam 17d ago
Ohhh, that’s why Google gave up its “dont be evil” stance!
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by saimiam 17d ago
I don’t understand this story. What lesson/joke am I seeing here?
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by saimiam 18d ago
This sounds roughly at par with Y2K in terms of “you need to fix your shit right now wherever it is” complexity except every day is Y2K for your code base.
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by saimiam 19d ago
(from the trailer) Holmes' mouth reminds me of the Amazon logo. Not just the shape. Also the complete disconnect between the commonly held meaning of a smile and the entity which is currently using it.
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by saimiam 19d ago
Isn’t alignment ultimately an ethics question? Given a strong enough incentive, most humans will also rationalise their shortcuts/crimes. E.g., the hardest part of running a marathon is suppressing the voice in your head telling you th
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by saimiam 19d ago
Who’s “Bobby” mentioned in the article? Did the writer just mix up Billy Evans with Bobby?
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by saimiam 22d ago
It’s not a linear growth problem. Acceleration is quadratic. As per your intuition, how many seconds later will you hit 10% of c?
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by saimiam 22d ago
How is this a joke? Knowing exponents and how to apply it is not the same as having any intuition about what the actual value of a certain exponential function will be at a certain point and when it crosses a threshold.
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by saimiam 22d ago
All Indian banks use bankname.bank.in as their domain. I’m not sure who owns bank.in but this is a common suffix which is different from the .co.uk pattern.
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by saimiam 22d ago
If something at rest is accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, how long in seconds will it take to reach 10% of c? Answer to the nearest order of magnitude - will it take approximately 1000, 10k, 100k, 1000k seconds? I’m sure you know this is an e
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by saimiam 26d ago
According to UNICEF, globally, Diarrhea causes 444k deaths of children under 5 or ~1200 per day. Globally, 1.2 million people (all ages) die of diarrhea every year. India accounts for 120k deaths of children under 4 or roughly one fourth of
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by saimiam 26d ago
Such anti patterns are like Nostradamus’s prophecies - you see a company flopping then curve fit a narrative to justify the antipatterns. How do I, as a founder, know that I am falling into an anti pattern? I don’t believe it is possible to
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by saimiam 1mo ago
> external point of view So time is localised? I’m not sure what localised time means but I’m hoping the question makes sense.
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by saimiam 1mo ago
Does time accelerate just for the astronaut approaching the black hole (meaning they would be witnessing the future) or does it accelerate for everyone (meaning approaching a black hole is going to make everything end quicker)?
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I honestly thought concubine would fit in here to make the joke but without other clues, dismissed the idea. I wonder why the writer picked this as an example of the author’s supposed humor skills. It seems rather contrived. Even charitably
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I got the second one. Jack’s saying that since he’s a seafarer, navigating by the moon is important. It’s standard British-understatement-as-comedy trope.
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by saimiam 2mo ago
Just up thread from your comment, someone commented in a positive way on the infinite customisability of vi. So which is preferable - customisability or very limited feature set?
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I think you’re trying to ask the person you are replying to not to use medical terminology to make a point in a catchy way but I honestly have no idea what the Michael Scott segue was supposed to mean.
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by saimiam 2mo ago
In my circle, some people certainly thought computers were basically magic.
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by saimiam 3mo ago
What does saving face as a collective mean, in your estimation? When Americans apologise to non-Americans for the behaviour of American tourists abroad, is that collective face saving? How does a “diverse enough” media diet give someone the
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by saimiam 3mo ago
What, in your estimation, is the difference between saving face in China versus keeping-up-with-the-Joneses in America?

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