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by shrikant 3y ago
On a bit of a tangent, something very similar happened to me recently -- splashed out ~£300 for a product and after about 4 weeks of no further contact from the company, turns out it was a scam, and the sender shut down the corporation, web
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Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt Dies Aged 61(bbc.co.uk)
89 points by shrikant 3y ago|40 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
> Upholding the Original Principles [of AI] There's a UtopAI / utopia joke in there somewhere, was that intentional on your part?
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by shrikant 3y ago
What a great response. Often I find it's not even just nonparents, but also parents who have lucked out by having their methods work on their kids, so assume that's all it must take, and why can't other parents just do th
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Aggregator PWA for status pages of online services(github.com)
1 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
Nobody else has brought up the elephant in the room, so I will. OP: Your Substack is called "Thoguhts" and not "Thoughts" -- is this entirely because someone else is squatting on thoughts.substack.com? Or is there some a
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by shrikant 3y ago
You can get this information from the "System Information" app in macOS as well. (At least, that's what it's called in Ventura...) It should be under Hardware -> Power, in the section titled "AC Charger Informati
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by shrikant 3y ago
You still can't watch Sky Sports on a Linux machine, so that annoyance is still there.
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by shrikant 3y ago
> middle-aged dads who care about nothing other than practicality Damn dude, I didn't ask to catch strays like this :(
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by shrikant 3y ago
I think parent meant this one: https://status.twitter.com/ Looks like Twitter have just quietly deprecated this page, given that it's powered by a completely different service.
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Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried(theguardian.com)
2 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
It's very annoying -- I just concluded a job search recently after being made redundant, and what I found frustrating in some places that rejected me was weird stuff like not having enough experience with terraform/git/Github
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by shrikant 3y ago
> This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected. Well, Russia is pretty fine with carrying out extra-judicial assassination attempts of undesirables on UK soil, so it's not clear this line is true any more.
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by shrikant 3y ago
Is this crowd sourced, or is there an element of curation? My ex-employer is on there twice as Kape and Kape Technologies.
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by shrikant 3y ago
(Context for below: I live in London) I've grown to really appreciate and desire the "chilled out hybrid" model that some places are now offering -- primarily remote, but come into the office as much as or as little as you wa
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by shrikant 3y ago
> Make sure your manager, and maybe even your manager's manager, likes you. ..and sometimes due to sheer shitty luck, even this doesn't work. Like in my most recent job, where me, my manager, and his manager were all laid off (
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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
28 points by shrikant 3y ago|15 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes, preferably, but in a UK±2 hour timezone only please Willing to relocate: No Technologies: SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake, Airflow and its ilk (basically the modern data stack) Résumé/CV: https:/&#x2
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by shrikant 3y ago
How long does it take to actually remove your page from Google's search index? I just searched for the author's name and his site still shows up as the top result.
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Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads(theguardian.com)
5 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
Yeah. Please, FFS, I just want a chronological feed of people I follow -- not something that's been growth-hacked to death from the very beginning and stuffs my face with a ladbible and a memeczar and random brands with their Gen Z soc
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Giant, glowing geodesic dome became the show of the summer(fastcompany.com)
1 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
(Wow, I find the sheer volume of wannabe influencer rando blue-ticks whose replies are prioritised under that tweet quite off-putting) It's not that weird if you look at the circumstances of the people who first believed ~P and then mo
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by shrikant 3y ago
I also grew up in a family and cultural setting that didn't involve any alcohol at all until I was about 25. I've since done almost a complete 180, and now it's very unlikely that a week goes by without alcohol consumption of
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by shrikant 3y ago
Time to wheel out this old classic then: https://cuberule.com/
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by shrikant 3y ago
Well yes, but https://www.dontjustsayhelloalsoaskyourquestion.com is not as catchy.
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by shrikant 3y ago
I'm on Feddit UK ( https://feddit.uk/ ) as I realised that my primary use of Reddit was for the UK-based communities (DIY UK, UKPersonalFinance, Ask UK, UK Politics, Casual UK etc.) It feels a bit sparse at the moment, b
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by shrikant 3y ago
They were definitely visible as part of the default theme, and you can see this replicated in the other desktop environment themes that mimic this, for e.g.: https://store.kde.org/p/1290811
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by shrikant 3y ago
I really like, but now I'm wondering how much of this is because of the beautiful colour palette on the blog. Does anyone know what colour scheme is being used?
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by shrikant 3y ago
I guess you just needed the right search terms? I searched for "history of reddit fake user activity" and got this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi... ..and it turns out

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