RajBhai

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by RajBhai 22d ago
Whenever I've seen an explanation of UX (to differentiate it from UI), one classic example was Tesla's supercharger network. We all remember Steve Balmer's comments about the iPhone when it was launched. That, without a physi
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by RajBhai 8mo ago
NAFTA bad. USMCA good.
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by RajBhai 9mo ago
I have a couple of thoughts about this. Firstly, I thought sans-serif typefaces were encouraged for digital media because they read better than serif fonts. But now that high pixel density displays have permeated the market, this might be a
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by RajBhai 10mo ago
I don't even care that much if they want to handle the 2FA with their proprietary methods. There are Android APIs that broker the OTP SMS delivery to the app without the app needing full access to the phone's messages. If they can
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by RajBhai 10mo ago
All the banks I have an account with here in India require SMS permission to use their apps, along with . The last straw was HDFC with their latest app revamp. I've resorted to using the online web app.
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by RajBhai 1y ago
If I recall, Watson was fed the whole text of the answer as soon as the other contestants could see it. Personally, I thought it would be fairer to have it do speech-to-text and/or OCR to level the playing field. But I suppose these co
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by RajBhai 1y ago
It would be cool if the Macbook can figure out the relative position of a newly connected external monitor. It would help in setting up the monitor with little manual adjustments. Since covid, we no longer have assigned desks at work --- it
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by RajBhai 1y ago
I'm thinking of closing my ICICI bank account because the app requires granting SMS permissions.
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by RajBhai 1y ago
I remember hotmail before gmail. Attachments had a 2 MB limit. I couldn't even share HQ photos using hotmail. And the whole inbox had a 25 MB capacity. I do believe there were paid alternatives with more storage. Gmail came in with 1 G
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by RajBhai 2y ago
I said that this implicit use of 10 or some other number shouldn't be allowed. So log, ln, lg (i.e base 2) shouldn't be allowed, but log_b(x) where b and x are states is OK, just as 10^x, e^x, and 2^x require you to explicitly exp
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by RajBhai 2y ago
I would say that any function that implicitly favors a single number must be explicitly stated, and thus, if used for this game, be the number 2. So all uses of the radical must state which root (2). Dirac's solution then wouldn't
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by RajBhai 2y ago
I didn't say it was. Browsers display an alert when full-screen mode is activated. Full-screen mode isn't a security feature, but the browser does something the website developer can't control so that users can conclude that
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by RajBhai 2y ago
Sounds like a security flaw that browsers honor this.
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by RajBhai 2y ago
Parties should be able to place age restrictions on the candidates. That can't stop an elderly candidate from running third party to spite the eligibility rules, but that's already the case.
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by RajBhai 2y ago
How about the login service send the code encrypted in the SMS such that it can only be decrypted on the phone of the actual user? Still vulnerable to phishing attempts, but better than relying on deficiencies of SMS technology .
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by RajBhai 3y ago
When exporting an Excel doc, for example to CSV, the app makes the new file (CSV) the active document. This has serious consequences if I continue to make changes in the new doc when I think I'm still in the native doc (xlsx). I find m
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by RajBhai 3y ago
If I recall, the automatic download didn't work. I had to click the manual download link. The pop-up said Edge was based on Chrome with the added trust of MS. I really wish I could get others to use Firefox, but they're too used t
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by RajBhai 3y ago
The other day I tried to install Chrome on a new laptop. (Insert joke about what Edge is good for.) However, Edge wasn't letting me actually download the Chrome installer. When I clicked the download button on the Chrome website, inste
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by RajBhai 4y ago
Can they just not turn the active document into the file I just exported the workbook as?
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by RajBhai 4y ago
I think most people were just used to the old UI and resistant to change, so they complained about it. Yet, if you asked someone completely new to computing which UI they'd prefer, they would choose the ribbon. If anything, placing the
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by RajBhai 4y ago
Perhaps if people were more literate in programming, they could demand more from software vendors. Think spotting BS/over-promising by vendors. I think too many managers/execs sign off on software that's of such low quality b
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by RajBhai 5y ago
Probably not the right forum for this, but does anyone know if it's possible to mail merge into separate Word docs, one for each recipient in the data source? I can only ever get a single document with all the outputs concatenated. My
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by RajBhai 5y ago
Ah, the Stack Overflow gambit.
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by RajBhai 5y ago
Android hasn't needed any printer plugin to be manually installed for a while now. Since Oreo I believe. I've printed from my phone to my pi CUPS server. Even Windows 10 understands IPP.
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by RajBhai 5y ago
Looks like the desktop site, but somehow being responsive to the mobile screen. Try m.reddit.com
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by RajBhai 6y ago
And conversation view. Hiding the quoted email being responded to. Email before always looked like how Twitter threads do today.
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by RajBhai 6y ago
If cars were cheaper due to less taxes, people would just pocket the savings instead of spending on safety features. Seatbelts are standard in all modern cars, yet many don't even wear them. Imagine if they were optional too. You need
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by RajBhai 6y ago
I've long thought that U2F should be incorporated into phones, since everyone has one of those. Even not well off people in third world countries. In order for U2F to proliferate, everyone should have access to it. A $10 FIDO key proba