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by shrikant 4y ago
I got decent support from actual human beings for Google Cloud even when spending ~£100/monthly. Not sure if this has changed recently, but this was in about 2018/2019.
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by shrikant 4y ago
Very coincidentally, I also just came across a very nice write-up on the bezzle, written around a similar timeframe: https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/85179
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by shrikant 4y ago
Is... is this happening to you in the UK? I've been to pubs plenty of times with just a male friend/acquaintance/relative/colleague/whatever and not only have I never received strange looks, I've also seen lots
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by shrikant 4y ago
(You have an Indian-sounding handle, so you might identify with this problem!) I'd uploaded all of my offline library to Google Play Music, back when it was relatively easier to do so, and before it became YouTube Music. Unfortunately
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How Twitter will break in the coming weeks(technologyreview.com)
20 points by shrikant 4y ago|4 comments
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by shrikant 4y ago
I'm quite a bit unimpressed by (actual and armchair) UX and product experts' commentary jumping on Mastodon's rough edges -- yes, a lot of us know it's a bit clunky and the onboarding hasn't been A/B tested to
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by shrikant 4y ago
Shareholders were being offered a very nice premium on the stock price, so Twitter upper management would have been awash in shareholder lawsuits if they'd rejected the deal. Essentially, the Twitter board was snookered once Musk made
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by shrikant 4y ago
I downvoted and flagged this comment, because it's a brand new account shilling a shady-looking binary from a shady-looking website. Would strongly recommend that people not bother with this spammy nonsense, and indeed downvote and fla
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by shrikant 4y ago
TBH I'm a bit underwhelmed by this fraud. I went in expecting some super-shady shenanigans only to see that VMware had done what literally all salespeople do when they have a capped upside in relation to their targets.
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by shrikant 4y ago
HTTP "Referer" is the one that makes me sad.
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by shrikant 4y ago
This hasn't been the case in my experience interviewing at all of those three -- both Google and Amazon's comp for a similar role and level at Monzo were way higher. Edit: to clarify, I didn't actually end up interviewing at
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by shrikant 4y ago
Perhaps unwittingly, you've hit upon people's exact frustrations with Airflow! :)
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by shrikant 4y ago
> (Got laser-eye surgery eventually, biggest life enhancement I ever had). I will never not upvote a comment that mentions something like this. Laser eye surgery (well, LASIK, specifically) is biggest external boost to my happiness that
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by shrikant 4y ago
At least for the "top 5% of men" thing, it's an oft-repeated meme on this forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... In fact, it gets repeated so frequently in threads&
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by shrikant 4y ago
My favourite gripe about text editing in Jira is that the ticket body and ticket comments require subtly different formatting mark-up, and the wysiwyg widgets for formatting are also ever-so-slightly different. This results in a fun game of
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by shrikant 4y ago
FWIW, I've done some work in the UK public sector, including but not limited to the NHS. In my experience, any time the tech folks were in-house, the "doer class" (i.e. the boots-on-the-ground engineers) were some of the smar
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by shrikant 4y ago
Really wish this was the default, with an option to turn on "paste with formatting". It'd be interesting to see with telemetry how many users choose that. FWIW, in my many decades of using computers, I've never once want
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by shrikant 4y ago
Can concur, this broke Zendesk integration with Jira so I had to disable it for our Jira setup.
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by shrikant 4y ago
The wording from some comics get burned into your brain, and then you can just search for the text. For e.g., this one is the first result for "calvin hobbes everyone has his price" https://www.google.co.uk/search
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by shrikant 4y ago
Yeah good point -- and AFAIK, cricket is the only sport in which Hawk-Eye is used predictively, i.e., attempts to show what could have happened if the batter hadn't obstructed the path of the ball. Every other sport that uses Hawk-Ey
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by shrikant 4y ago
I use Kagi as well (and sometimes Andi, but I'm still waiting for their non-Assistant Mode interface to switch as a daily driver) -- I find their quality of results basically equivalent to Google, but without the SEO cruft. In fact it&
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by shrikant 4y ago
I was confused by your response and all the comments here, so I checked with my parents and I've just plain misremembered a shruti box! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shruti_box Shows how much my disinterested self
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by shrikant 4y ago
I'm puzzled by this though -- my music teacher definitely used a harmonium when I was learning Carnatic classic vocals and it didn't seem particularly incongruous to my (admittedly naïve) ears.
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by shrikant 4y ago
> "Credit card balances declined by $15 billion, in line with seasonal trends typically seen at the start of the year, but are still $71 billion higher than in 2021:Q1, representing a substantial year-over-year increase."
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by shrikant 4y ago
You asked "where did you all read that he agreed to the deal without any due dillegence", and I showed you where. Given that the deal has been agreed upon and the requisite SEC filings are in place, it's reasonable to assume
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by shrikant 4y ago
> I keep seeing people say this, but where did you all read that he agreed to the deal without any due dillegence? Literally every single news outlet -- just search online for "musk twitter due diligence" Some selected sources:
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by shrikant 4y ago
I use ZSH only because it's default on my work Macbook, and my workplace's IT provisioning has a bunch of stuff that assumes a default ZSH in place. However, on my personal machine and at my previous employer, I used a reasonably
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by shrikant 4y ago
My mind is blown -- that is quite some story (all of it, not just the bits in your comment!), thanks for the link! :-O
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Robyn – Continuous and Semi-Automated Marketing Mix Modelling(github.com)
2 points by shrikant 5y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 5y ago
Ah yes, but no true unreasonable man puts sugar on his porridge. (Ironically, the reference for this is an article titled "No true Scotsman starts a war" https://web.archive.org/web/20190105005853/http:&#

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