virtualmic

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by virtualmic 8mo ago
Can't say for GCP and Azure. But I run two small projects on AWS, with monthly billings of $8k and $150 respectively. I have always received very good support to any requests that I have made on both projects.
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by virtualmic 1y ago
> Anyone want to share why you currently choose KDE over Gnome? Just to give you an opposite perspective...I was a long time Kubuntu / KDE Neon user (almost 10 years) and shifted to Gnome couple of years back (Ubuntu 22.04), now run
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by virtualmic 1y ago
Yup, I have had similar experience too. Not only for coding, but just yesterday, I was asking Gemini to compose an email with a list of attachments, which I had specified as a list of file paths in the prompt, and it wasn't able to cou
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by virtualmic 1y ago
Not OP, but Notepad++ does restore open tabs. :-)
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by virtualmic 2y ago
> The article makes some great points about how iOS software is regressing, but it still feels so much better than almost any other software I use on a daily basis. I face none of the issues on my Samsung S23 phone, which the parent comm
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by virtualmic 2y ago
> This question doesn't even make sense I think the question makes total sense, as does your reply. :-)
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by virtualmic 3y ago
My recurring payment for ChatGPT (USD 20 + GST) is working fine with SBI credit card. Spotify and similar which have Indian presence work good of course (with SBI as well as ICICI cards). I do have a Jetbrains subscription, but I can't
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by virtualmic 3y ago
Others in the thread have already provided explanations of the features, but I would like to highlight how I personally utilize KDE Activities as a use case. I rely on it to create dedicated spaces for different projects or clients, complet
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by virtualmic 4y ago
> can you point to an example of what a true RESTful service looks like. Not OP, but there was an interesting article & discussion recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32141027
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by virtualmic 4y ago
pickle?
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by virtualmic 4y ago
I couldn't read the story, as it has been deleted from reddit and maybe I am missing something here, but why don't these companies offer reliable one-time human support for a suitable fee?
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by virtualmic 6y ago
This is a great list! > - System Thinking (Understand Everyone is Playing a Game) Any pointers on how to develop this in a kid?
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by virtualmic 6y ago
> FastAPI uses SQLAlchemy under it This is somewhat inaccurate. They use SQLAlchemy in the tutorial, but FastAPI is in no way tied to SQLAlchemy.
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by virtualmic 6y ago
Thanks, I will try Digikam too.
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by virtualmic 6y ago
Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, i
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by virtualmic 7y ago
From the description on homepage: > Wait until the countdown hits zero and your movie night starts So it does sync across viewers (I haven't actually tried it yet).
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by virtualmic 7y ago
ranger [1] is not mentioned yet. I had never used a console based file manager prior to starting using this 3 months back and I have stopped using Dolphin (I am on KDE) now. [1] https://ranger.github.io/
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by virtualmic 7y ago
Yes, I use this one regularly: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk (Binwalk is a fast, easy to use tool for analyzing, reverse engineering, and extracting firmware images)
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by virtualmic 7y ago
I just tried 3 latest features for Webstorm listed here: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/whatsnew/ All are working on my latest version of PyCharm Pro.
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by virtualmic 7y ago
> Now you better use WebStorm for the frontend part, right ? All functionality of Webstorm is included in RubyMine and PyCharm (I use PyCharm daily). Ref: https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/features/
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by virtualmic 8y ago
Both unit and integration tests have their place. This talk was excellent in explaining it to me (with functional cores, imperative shells). Unit test functional cores, use integration tests for imperative shells: https://www.des
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by virtualmic 8y ago
Yes, I am looking at it in Chrome on Ubuntu. Just tried it in Firefox 62 on Ubuntu. Works good there too.
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by virtualmic 8y ago
This doesn't happen for me, it is pretty quick. I am in India and on a 40 Mbps connection.
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by virtualmic 8y ago
I recently discovered it and started using it. It is pretty awesome and feature-rich. Thanks for this!
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by virtualmic 9y ago
Almost true for Chandigarh in India, as well.
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by virtualmic 9y ago
Spacemacs has a pretty great keyboard driven interface too and somehow it clicked with me more than both vim and emacs.
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by virtualmic 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion and this is definitely one option. However, I was hoping to gain more insight into improving my unit and integration tests (which have high coverage), to cover most scenarios and break, if the integration breaks.
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Ask HN: How to improve my automated testing skills?
3 points by virtualmic 9y ago|2 comments
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by virtualmic 10y ago
That's the good part. I don't have one.
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by virtualmic 10y ago
Getting an actual hourglass sounds really tempting. :-)

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