srk_hn

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by srk_hn 4y ago
This is a lie that often gets repeated over and over, but I have firsthand anecdotal experience of how this is not true. My mother has no formal education and when she was given an Android she struggled to do basic things. Once she got an i
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by srk_hn 4y ago
GPA, letters of rec, honors, and personal essays are all subject to the inherent privilege richer students and students in stable households have. Got to do something cool over the summer because your parents can afford to give you that lux
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by srk_hn 4y ago
That's an ostensibly incorrect POV to take. This is government doing what it does best: legislating things they don't understand to score cheap votes, not to solve actual problems.
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by srk_hn 4y ago
How is that any different from the relationships between AirBnB/Uber and the respective authorities?
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by srk_hn 4y ago
Real question: Strictly speaking from a software engineering perspective, who cares? Why does a framework of taxes created by people who don't understand technology get to decide where I move around to? I signed up for your job in a ce
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by srk_hn 4y ago
So India is a population of over 1B, and the US+UK is about 400m. Why should I assume I know better what the solution is for the problems plaguing a country in a completely different part of the world housing 1/8th the world population
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by srk_hn 4y ago
I use MacOS / Linux all the time. I still use Windows for gaming because nothing comes close.
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by srk_hn 4y ago
I too am privacy conscious. I run adblockers, I use a VPN, I use a MacOS firewall and every connection has to be explicitly allowed. I teach my partner how to do the same. That's about the extent I can do. If you want to go further suc
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by srk_hn 4y ago
I've tried Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Linux Mint. They all have issues you won't discover in the initial honeymoon stages but will randomly discover issues like sleep mode not working consistently, wifi disconnecting,
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by srk_hn 4y ago
I would cal it valuing my time. I don't want to spend an hour or two a day learning something new when I've already invested in learning something that solves my problems good enough. Can I have gripes about the quirks and how som
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by srk_hn 4y ago
That's a discussion because by and large those two choices are equal with minute differences in perceived social status and comfort, but the fundamental function is the same. On the other hand if I'm spending 2 minutes debugging w
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by srk_hn 4y ago
Linux has been around for 30 years and still has not acquired any significant consumer share. Yet you've decided that the best solution for her is an OS that requires debugging miscellaneous hardware and driver issues and runs a mishma
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by srk_hn 4y ago
That's really not a fair comparison. There are plenty of people who are elderly or dealing with disc injuries where they are prone to losing their grip or slipping a phone when moving about, picking it out of their pocket, etc. While y
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by srk_hn 4y ago
Can someone tell me why this page needs 13MB of resources to display?