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by signal11 3y ago
> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India and UPI is the most common means of digital payment. This is a very privileged (and personal) view. In terms of objective hard data, the percentage of Cash in Circulation t
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by signal11 3y ago
Re the subscription, it’s difficult to see how this is a step forward. Do computers (or, mobile phones & tablets) not exist? It’s sad, but Casio’s been “s*tifying” their calculators over the past year. Their 2023 calculators for high sc
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by signal11 3y ago
Some of these are preview features (main outside a class, string interpolation) and need a command line switch to enable, and can change. But they should be in Java by the next LTS release.
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by signal11 3y ago
This has to be taken in the context of electronics’ lifetimes. A smartwatch that was supported for 8 years is pretty great. Who’s doing better? But if competitors do better, that raises the bar for Apple and is a net benefit for customers.
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by signal11 3y ago
Or seafood, in some (coastal) parts of the country[1]. I’ve had shrimp pickle from Andhra Pradesh, it’s delicious but doesn’t seem to be as well known. [1] https://www.vahrehvah.com/shrimp-prawn-pickle
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by signal11 3y ago
The clock app in iOS 17 has added multiple active timers.
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by signal11 3y ago
I got a laugh out of seeing this supported in VisionOS.
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by signal11 3y ago
> in 90s there were tons of commercials on TV that said Mesothelioma is a cancer These were not targeted. The reality of the modern economy is that if your ad profile says "suggest <major disease> ads", you can be sure da
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by signal11 3y ago
> What's your basis for saying it doesn't work? Have you actually tried to get a prepaid wallet at the airport counter and it didn't work for you? Expecting incoming international passengers to queue up at a solitary shop
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by signal11 3y ago
> We are the first ones to focus exclusively on serving foreigners and NRIs in India and have issued the most number of international wallets till date. Awesome! I look forward to trying out your app!
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by signal11 3y ago
This looks really promising, thank you. (And oh, it’s a YC company!) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7094460... Is there a page which lists others like this?
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by signal11 3y ago
Except the ‘helpful’ steps you mentioned don’t really work. (Another commenter linked to some up and coming apps which are far more promising[1], I’d definitely urge interested folk to look into those.) > moreover UPI needs no defending,
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by signal11 3y ago
Those (before airport security) don’t perform UPI onboarding for foreign tourists. The usually-solitary shop/desk that does this is present in select airports for international arrivals (not departures) and needs to be used before you
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by signal11 3y ago
1) is somewhat impractical, because it’s easy to miss the airport desk which does this, and if you miss the opportunity it’s not easy to go back there (Indian airports don’t really allow you back in if you’ve exited) 2) opening an account i
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by signal11 3y ago
In the US, they went for exclusivity. You could only buy iPhone on AT&T, and they committed to that for 4 years. In Europe, people buy phones SIM-free as well, so it wasn’t exclusive, but many networks offered subsidies — undoubtedly be
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by signal11 3y ago
I believe the 3 year period was recommended keeping the 2 year LTS release policy in mind, the idea was that teams don’t have to upgrade to the new LTS immediately, they can spend a year in testing before switching their production JVM.
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by signal11 3y ago
> The only thing that matters in large + long-lived engineering organizations is organizational buy-in, and that's only remotely possible with LTS This is an archaic view and certainly not true for all Fortune 100 teams. Plenty of t
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by signal11 3y ago
> Most people would probably name it as Europe. And you would have to go looking in Eastern Europe. Affinity[1] is a good example, I believe that’s created in Europe and its very reasonably priced. Pixelmator too — based in Lithuania? [1
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by signal11 3y ago
There are um, significant challenges to colonising Io. It’s 400 active volcanoes to start with, in a body the size of Earth’s moon. If we could tap its flux tube for energy though—- now that’d be cool.
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by signal11 3y ago
I couldn’t believe it when Microsoft started using Wordpress for TechNet, Microsoft Blogs, News Centre etc. That’s almost on par with them shipping WSL and an LF-aware Notepad. Wordpress has come a long way since I played with it years
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by signal11 3y ago
Sorry, by “beyond those two” I meant “beyond Tintin and Asterix”, not “beyond the UK and India”. I’ve reworded my comment.
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by signal11 3y ago
Tintin and Asterix are pretty popular in the UK and India. Easily found in most bookshops. Beyond those series, it’s much harder to find other Franco-Belgian comics. Even the Adventures of Jo and Zette isn’t that well known. But Tintin and
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by signal11 3y ago
He could use Siri, as he noted in his blog post[1] But the issue he raises is quite serious. Getting your Amazon account locked out isn’t funny at all, given how many services they provide. [1] https://medium.com/@bjax_&#x2F
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by signal11 3y ago
That’s what the person affected here did: > I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri. Though out of habit I’d sometimes say “a
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by signal11 3y ago
One of my favourite Unix manuals: https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/manuals/COHER... (Coherent died in the mid-90s but it had a really good manual).
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by signal11 3y ago
> You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows. This will be interesting to test. When I last tried this on Windows 10, 7-zip beat Windows handily at decompressing large zip files.
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by signal11 3y ago
I don’t dispute most of what you say. I’ll only say that you’re a little optimistic re (3) and (4). Speak to regular (not well connected) people who’ve been through the justice system. It’s not pretty. But then maybe you’re lucky enough to
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by signal11 3y ago
> you can use UPI offline Yes, UPI Lite (local offline wallet) has a transaction limit of INR 200. Yes, 200. With a limit of 4000 per day and the Lite wallet can hold 2000 at any one time. Good luck doing anything serious with that. Also
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by signal11 3y ago
The UK’s Faster Payments system predates UPI. Free, near-instant payments round the clock. IMPS, the tech that powers UPI, came around 2 years later. But UPI as a layer on top of IMPS is great, especially the idea of providing an easy you@b
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by signal11 3y ago
> I’d never dispute a payment to my mortgage servicer or electrical utility, Er. “Never” is a strong word and it depends on scope. There have been numerous cases of overcharging. Sure, I might not dispute the payment itself, but the amou

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