Alterlife

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by Alterlife 4y ago
I feel like you're trivializing a complex issue. Developers have the right to say how they want their code to be used in the same way that authors have the right to say how their books can be used. The code in a public repository doesn
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by Alterlife 4y ago
I'd recomend qutebrowser. It's not exactly what you're looking for out of the box, but it is very customisable. There's a learning curve but once you're used to it, no need to ever reach out for the mouse.
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by Alterlife 4y ago
This has been going on for atleast a year. There's a long video from Techlore which presents the CalyxOS side of the picture and places the blame with GrapheneOS leadership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
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by Alterlife 5y ago
As an Indian living in India, I've heard some of these stories: a. They are asked to get admitted "for observation because they are at high risk". If they ask to leave, the doctors ask them to sign a very scary sounding wavie
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by Alterlife 5y ago
Let's rewrite this article in a sentence or two: "Reliance Jio will soon start selling an Android phone which they have called Jiophone next, and it will cost Rs. 3500... probably." This is total spam. The title has nothing t
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by Alterlife 5y ago
> making sure people don't need to call. Almost every IVR I have ever used makes me believe business invest in making sure people can't call or at least have a very hard time reaching a human.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
> Edge I think that's OP's point. Edge uses chromium.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
It isn't technical debt any more if you can default on it. It's stable? It's fast? It works? No bugs have been reported on it for years? Regardless of how I 'feel' about that piece of code, I objectively should _not
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by Alterlife 6y ago
I hide the front page and recommendations with ublock rules and go directly to the 'subscriptions' page instead. It's the only way to see new videos from creators I care about.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
This is a lot worse than it looks. https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/status/1330455721897443329/p... Shame on Whitehatjr and on Byju's. This is outright fraud.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
Or... if your old laptop doesn't boot up, you can (apparently) pull out the laptops display panel, attach it to a control board and use just the display independently. This DIY perks video was eye opening for me: https://www
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by Alterlife 6y ago
To add another perspective, I purchased a Maruti car in India about 4 years ago. On paper every variant from the lowest to the top has an 'optional' version with airbags. In practice, the waiting period for any variant with safety
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by Alterlife 6y ago
Is there really such a difference? Older people tend find excuses to accuse younger people of being inferior. We're older people now. Perhaps we should be careful not to fall into that trap.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
I'm in a smaller town in TN. Lockdown was respected, but people have all but forgotten about it now. 9/10 people on the street are no longer wearing masks. I would be surprised if we don't see an uptick soon.
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by Alterlife 6y ago
Does this article qualify as 'hate' though? The author acknolwdges that he's new to react and is simply pointing out two things that he found challenging. Nothing surprising. Infact, I don't understand why the article is
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by Alterlife 7y ago
Seriously though if somebody else posted your secret mushroom spot on the map, it wasn't a secret to start with.
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by Alterlife 7y ago
Truecaller is one of those "it just works" apps. It is completely transparent to the user. You can use it as a dialer to make and receive calls. A lot of people don't understand that it's silently uploading their contact
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by Alterlife 7y ago
This article focuses on the problems that truecaller poses for 'non-users". As a non-user of truecaller in India myself, I find myself in the minority. It seems I get none of the benefits (improved spam filtering, the chance to se
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by Alterlife 7y ago
As /r/showerthoughts once put it: Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.
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by Alterlife 7y ago
That makes no sense. By your logic, Uber drivers should be criminals.
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by Alterlife 7y ago
It would be interesting to know the outcome the other way round: still use the numbers and the upvotes in the back end, but hide the up one count from everyone including the poster. My guess would be a higher quality discussion, but a less
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by Alterlife 7y ago
In some ways, every third-world country in the world SHOULD do this. I say this as an Indian iPhone user. iPhones are a luxury product. A tax on imported high end electronics is a tax on the well-off. Not only that, it's the best kind
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by Alterlife 7y ago
> a 64 GB iPhone X is currently selling for around 1100 dollars. That isn't right. The iPhone X costs (just under) 1,00,000 INR retail in India, which is over 1400 usd. This includes taxes. For reference: https://www.flip
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by Alterlife 7y ago
There's definitely a problem with fake or badly made goods on Amazon India. Scanning through some of the phone reviews a significant percentage of reviews will be talking about having received refurbished goods. I bought my iphone from
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by Alterlife 7y ago
Based on the article, they're not trying to entice technologists with this particular move. They want to go after 'traditional industries' -- Oracle's customers.
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by Alterlife 7y ago
You're getting down-voted, but I agree with you on this particular point. The vendor is providing a full refund to customers including an additional $25 credit for customers who used the annotation service. DRM is an annoying customer
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by Alterlife 7y ago
As a side note, I generally like reading, but I cannot for the life of me pay attention this circus of an article. The animations give me motion sickness. I see comments here which indicate there may be something worth reading in there, but
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by Alterlife 7y ago
That makes me feel a lot better. Thank you.
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by Alterlife 7y ago
You have to put both terms in together to be able to compare them in the same scale: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...
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by Alterlife 7y ago
I live here too. I like the 'new' name, it has grown on me. I think it's endearing and friendly -- like a petname. "Namma Bengaluru" vs stiff-upper-lip British Bangalore. Putting my personal opinion aside, it'

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