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by ulkesh 7y ago
Exactly this. I have divorced parents who each remarried. I have a mother who makes so much effort to make sure she stays in our lives. Calling/Facetiming every week at minimum. And she has visited at least once or twice a year the
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Even though many providers now have end-to-end encryption with web interfaces for messaging, Apple has maintained that it can't be done securely. We shall see if they have changed their minds.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I had two of the Sculpt keyboards die within about 6 months. Maybe I got a bad batch, but I'm not buying that one again.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I like the article. I just wish the senior software engineer also included teaching humility. The article isn't written with any ego, so I commend the author, but it would be ideal for any mentor to also teach what to do when being w
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by ulkesh 7y ago
No offense meant, and I appreciate the anecdote, but I don’t feel that skill level in the technology should indicate the usefulness of the technology. I’m trying to understand more objectively than that.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Serious questions... What does mercurial offer that git doesn’t? Is the transition to git difficult for projects currently housed in a mercurial repository?
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I live and vote in Georgia. It is insanely atrocious here using 20 year old voting machines with absolutely no paper trail. We had a Secretary of State, whose job it is to secure and maintain the integrity of voting, run for governor but n
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I’ll be happy to give it a go in a VM to start :)
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by ulkesh 7y ago
All I want is an OS that has as few of the weaknesses as possible and all the best things about all the current major operating systems; examples: Flagship gaming support from Windows, Stability and flexibility from Linux, and Design princi
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by ulkesh 7y ago
It won't be that bad, it'll just be with us around so our child at least knows to behave and adhere to what we've taught. When I said not allowed access, it's limited to Roblox. Will still have a Minecraft Realm, still
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by ulkesh 7y ago
That only works if the child hasn't yet figured out that all they need to do is create a new gmail account and get another Roblox account set up. Then they can do whatever they want. Kids are smart these days, so we've taken the
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by ulkesh 7y ago
And it's even worse because Roblox support is pure crap. Not only does it take a minimum of 3 days to reach anyone, they also have nothing in place to verify an account holder in case the account was compromised. They require the ori
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Not sure if you're being ironic, or are one who simply doesn't read anything but headlines. Hopefully it's the former.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
> Everyone realizes that. Based on some of the posts in this thread, I disagree.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Agreed, mostly. Riak was used in one of the first implementations of AT&T Messages (Web) as a secondary-index and key-value store. It performed so horribly that the whole thing ended up being rewritten using Oracle. The truth is, Ria
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Speaker said something very innocuous to the everyday, reasonable and sane observer, but someone took offense because they're too sensitive and is using some Code of Conduct as their "reasoning." While I completely agree ther
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by ulkesh 7y ago
There once was a time when a whole display was $999. How the times have changed...
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by ulkesh 7y ago
No, 7:30pm Pacific, 10:30pm eastern.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Scrubbed until tomorrow.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
While I agree that much of the time they do try to rule based on law, it is clear that precedent is being looked at as mere suggestions by this new court. I wonder what the score will be when the challenges to Roe hit their bench.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I said they’re experimenting with Windows simply being a desktop environment on top of Linux. Only the Linux kernel would be involved. NTOSKRNL wouldn’t be present. I suspect if they’re trying to get native Windows apps to run, some call
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by ulkesh 7y ago
And that’s really not an argument against the idea. Time zones are a construct that isn’t necessary any more. And it literally wastes people’s time with unnecessary legislation, unnecessary calculations, and unnecessary notions of displac
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Easily solved with technology that allows a person to specify when they're available. We've had such technology for decades in the form of presence.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Why? Because our preconceived notions of a "day" is that it must mean the sun has risen and set. I get past this pretty easily by imagining I'm in space where I would have to divorce that from my mind.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
We already have that problem now.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Interestingly, I have it on good authority from someone who works at MS that they are experimenting exactly with that: Windows as a desktop environment running on top of Linux.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I know my opinion is unpopular, but I sure would love it if the world would simply rid itself of timezones and stick to a singular time. Does it _really_ matter if it's broad daylight at 0200 Earth Standard Time? Circadian rhythms ar
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by ulkesh 7y ago
I suspect he means the WSL given the context of the previous sentence.
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by ulkesh 7y ago
Articles like this always make me feel like I missed out on all the geek going on in the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Of course I was a toddler when Xerox PARC was demonstrating their UI to Steve Jobs, and was in middle school when Linus
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by ulkesh 8y ago
Maybe, but I would like to see more than the one source. HN is becoming filled with people who tend to make such generalized statements without much to back it up. Your link helps, so thank you! I would love to see more data and less spe

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