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by shrikant 2y ago
I was a bit puzzled initially by the phrasing as well, but I've listened to that podcast episode and what parent commenter means is that quiz shows in the UK (like Only Connect, Mastermind, etc.) are doing really well in the TV ratings
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by shrikant 2y ago
I'm confused -- are they just closing the issues because they're outdated for various reasons, or are they yanking those features entirely where there's some attempt already made? For example, the top one in that list is the
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by shrikant 2y ago
What a fun read! I should point out though that the movie Saina definitely needs a "name" icon next to it, as it's a biopic of badminton player Saina Nehwal.
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by shrikant 2y ago
Google's audio search tells me that it's a stock sound effect: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2wLKlWPkcOM&si=Sle4B04wAoV... https://secure.dewolfemusic.com/page/digiffects_sound_effect.
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by shrikant 2y ago
Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown. https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
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Lafarge: The cement company that paid millions to Isis(theguardian.com)
2 points by shrikant 2y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 2y ago
13 hours of (work + commute) -- that's 5 hours of commute + 8 hours of work.
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by shrikant 2y ago
I'm not seeing that colour combination -- are you sure you don't have Dark Reader or some such add-on enabled..?
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by shrikant 2y ago
https://zen-browser.app/ is a browser based on the Firefox engine.
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by shrikant 2y ago
I thought Phoenix may have just made that up because they were miffed about someone in tech using their name, but no, they actually did have a "BIOS web browser"! https://web.archive.org/web/20020618092004&#x2
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by shrikant 2y ago
It's enterprise anti-malware that [in addition to other bits] has a client component installed on all PCs in the corporate network. An update to that client component (called an "endpoint") is causing those Windows machines t
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by shrikant 2y ago
Fivetran charges by "monthly active rows", which quickly adds up when you have hundreds of millions to billions of rows that are constantly changing. https://fivetran.com/docs/usage-based-pricing
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by shrikant 2y ago
I vaguely recall a LiteStep theme for Windows back in the day that did something like this -- hadn't heard of it as a Mac feature before!
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by shrikant 2y ago
They also changed the News Feed on Android phones so that clicking on the story takes you to a search results page instead of the actual link.
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by shrikant 2y ago
...only in an American accent.
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by shrikant 2y ago
When I moved to the UK, I figured this out and used this for a month or so of free internet while waiting for my own internet connection to be set up.
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Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist (2012)(arcade.stanford.edu)
22 points by shrikant 2y ago|15 comments
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by shrikant 2y ago
> I would have liked to call the language Mondrian, but someone beat me to it with a rather mundane-looking scripting language. I'm dating myself with this reference, but some of us old data fogeys might be wondering (well, I am, a
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by shrikant 3y ago
There's too many "legacy" vehicles still on the road for these to make a noticeable impact. I was in Bangalore recently and in various popular and upcoming parts of the city, it's basically unbreathable toxic sludge at r
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by shrikant 3y ago
I was still relatively new there -- I'd likely only have thought of this potential downside a couple of years into the job!
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by shrikant 3y ago
I had access to a Windows server VM at a previous job that was commissioned for a piece of work. The actual work was then stopped, but the IT folks never decommissioned the VM so I had a nice little server on the local network to play aroun
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Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist (2012)(arcade.stanford.edu)
8 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
₹59,954 crore is roughly USD $7.2 billion.
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by shrikant 3y ago
> They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!) Seems about par for the course for big tech these days. There's currently an issue affecting the Google Ads API causing timeouts when sending data to it, but the G
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by shrikant 3y ago
> quirky and underwhelming Describes Stonehenge perfectly. Which I suppose could be some sort of ancient pylons?
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by shrikant 3y ago
Whart's this based on? If anything, this is among the more concise set of interface guidelines I've come across. Design guidelines typically run into hundreds of pages long when PDF'ed -- this page is just about thirty on def
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Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transport(dhl.com)
56 points by shrikant 3y ago|13 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
You owe me a new keyboard and monitor tyvm
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by shrikant 3y ago
If the government could find a way to make it work for the homosexual activity convictions, I'm sure they can find a way for this miscarriage of justice as well. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan&#x2F
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by shrikant 3y ago
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

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