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by sometimes_all 6mo ago
> the BBC is required by its charter to provide a “balanced” view I find this hilarious; the BBC has rarely provided a balanced view on many things. Indians (at almost every point in the political and social spectrum) will easily notice
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by sometimes_all 6mo ago
There are few things in life more satisfying than forcing bureaucrat lifers to expand their minds.
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by sometimes_all 6mo ago
Could not get through the article because it looks like LLM generated text squared. But I assume people will have protections against this? One can just let their credit card company know to block out the next payment, or dispute the charge
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by sometimes_all 6mo ago
I'm just here to say this was impressive! This was a scary find and you looked deep.
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by sometimes_all 6mo ago
In Mumbai, a fiber plan with 300 Mbps symmetrical is around USD 20 with tax. A 1 Gbps is about 50 USD with tax. Also includes a landline number, Netflix (plan depends on which fiber plan you use, the 1 Gb ones have Premium) and a bunch of o
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by sometimes_all 7mo ago
Yeah, I got the email that they removed them from the student plan: "As part of this transition, however, some premium models, including GPT-5.4, and Claude Opus and Sonnet models, will no longer be available for self-selection under t
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by sometimes_all 7mo ago
> India is facing a weird problem Corporate India is facing way too many weird problems, not just 90-day notice periods: 1. Refusal to provide leaving documents if you leave on less than excellent terms, but you absolutely need pristine
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
The Call of Cthulhu seemed to have a bit of language construction and world-building, if you are into that. But my knowledge of Lovecraft lore is limited, so I wouldn't know all details; I just read his short stories from Standard eBoo
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
Really interesting! Somewhat reminds me of the ending of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls", where the main character, a scion of a very old family which has done some really bad things, goes mad and progressively star
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
The problem comes when rote learning actually is the be-all-end-all. Too many Asian students experience rote learning without any focus on actual learning. Our job used to be regurgitating paragraphs from textbooks, exactly as they were, in
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
Claude 4.6: ``` Drive. The car needs to be at the car wash. ``` Gemini Thinking gives me 3-4 options. Do X if you're going to wash yourself. Do Y if you're paying someone. Do Z if some other random thing it cooked up. And then ask
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
I saw this pattern a few years ago, with Trump and cryptocurrency. Oh, Trump is a joke, on the cusp of crashing out. Then Trump is a danger to society. Cycle as convenient. Oh crypto is a joke with no uses. Then crypto is a danger to societ
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
I am not American. I pay for news, specifically business news. I subscribe to US, UK and Indian news websites. Both the US and UK feel free to show me ads even when I've paid a bomb in terms of subscription costs. Not subtle ads of the
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by sometimes_all 8mo ago
> You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something This is EXACTLY what I want. I need my tech to be pull-only instead of push, unless it's communication with another human I am ok with. > Having so
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
> It has a brutal work culture, and if you can survive it long enough After my first few years of experience, I specifically started filtering out companies which have people from Amazon in a leadership role. Their work culture is poison
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
Given the current state of global work, for me the more lucrative stuff is internet-related, since it's possible to get developed country rates for software work. I do volunteer in the physical world, so that I can be connected to my l
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
Today, if I had to do a regular job, which demands more and more out of me while slowly giving me less and less, then I better have a very solid offer to consider it, otherwise it's not worth the hassle, considering half of what they&#
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I cannot take podcasts seriously. I tried, but for the more serious topics, I'd rather read a book, an article, or just watch a video. So I listen to one totally unserious podcast, and ignore the rest. Makes my day.
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I didn't exactly quit tech: I quit big tech and moved back home. Now I freelance, and I'm happier than I've ever been. There's a certain joy to being with family in an environment everyone is familiar with and has a hist
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the legendary Office Space scene yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2HhlTEHMc
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I put in exactly as much time as a recruiter takes to check out my application. That means, very little time. >200 applications? Don't apply. Nonsensical questions asked for a job or company that isn't high-profile? Stop editin
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
Why would anyone region-block a country which gives them a ton of users? OpenAI actually has India-specific plans alongside their regular ones, and I use Claude Code every day with zero problems.
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I'd just wish they'd give me some sort of N8N/IFTTT-like capabilities a bit more powerful than the filtering/tagging stuff they have right now. I'd be happy to use AI as one of the blocks within custom flows for dec
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
Post title is a bit misleading. I see that Microsoft 365 still has the same name. The one-time purchases are still called Office 2024 or some such. It's just the umbrella android/iOS app where you can do all of office that's
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I see. I was thinking more on the general low-athletic consumer side of things. Thanks for the explanation.
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
> Donahoe accelerated the direct-to-consumer transition, terminating hundreds of wholesale accounts I'd love to know the reasoning behind this transition. When I want to buy some shoes, I'd like to go to a physical store, and I
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
> but dont want to relive middle school I did not think it'd be this horrifying!
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
While I'm not an American, I read a bit of American literature, and sometimes I feel that many American children/teenagers are exposed to the classics slightly early, before they can accurately pick up nuances, understand the soci
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
> I'm assuming the rest of your comment is written by AI because it sounds like AI, so I'm not going to bother responding to that. Should I also assume that you're going to just dismiss stuff you do not want to talk about
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by sometimes_all 9mo ago
I am assuming that the downvotes are less about the fact that your parent comment is wrong, and more about the fact that the grandparent is not "categorically" false. It has some accurate aspects, but cannot be easily dismissed aw

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