SpacePortKnight

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by SpacePortKnight 9d ago
This is one of the reasons why people have stopped installing software and moved all programs to web.
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by SpacePortKnight 9d ago
It's far easier to disable annoyance of windows than deal with linux for most people and especially for large organisations.
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by SpacePortKnight 1mo ago
I have been a software engineer for 8 years and not once I have had a jira ticket handed over to me by a senior engineer. I have worked in startups before and currently work at bkng, and have friends at uber. Everywhere it is expected that
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by SpacePortKnight 2mo ago
It'll be fine, especially in EU. It's much easier to adapt and to make renewables more economically profitable than to accelerate decarbonization by raising cost of living. Even if few days get 10C hotter in the summers, more and
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by SpacePortKnight 3mo ago
But the apartments which people can afford has gotten smaller now and also with the rise of the minimalistic culture, I have no space to put movie and games discs. I am ok with renting media. Like most people I don't re-watch movies a
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by SpacePortKnight 6mo ago
I disagree. Windows is still a very capable operating system. Is AI nonsense annoying? sure, but so are the ads on internet and only a tiny fraction of population uses adblockers. Consumer buy laptops and smartphones, not operating systems.
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by SpacePortKnight 7mo ago
Anthropic can now no longer buy new hardware and probably will be kicked out of all cloud compute. They can not also move to a different jurisdiction as exporting model weights is now considered same as exporting ICBM technology. Wow, compa
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by SpacePortKnight 1y ago
Vancouver is very close to Seattle. Would restrictions in H-1B result in increased hiring in Canada or a higher usage of L-1 visa perhaps?
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by SpacePortKnight 1y ago
Next up, all software produced in foreign lands would be subject to tariffs.
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by SpacePortKnight 2y ago
Apple could make a search engine but by the same logic, they wouldn't be able to make it default on their devices.
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by SpacePortKnight 2y ago
All these fancy AI laptops and all I want is a fanless laptop like MBA from Intel.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
My work is 20 minutes away which consists of a 10 minute walk and a 7 minute tram. I also get free lunch at work and since I'm single, it's also the only place where I can talk to people in real life in the weekdays. Furthermore,
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
I don't understand the negative comments towards Chrome. Doesn't adblockers on Safari work the same as V3?
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
Microsoft couldn't convience people to use Edge, so it is now converting Windows into a web browser.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
I pay for Youtube Premium. I don't mind paying for things which provide me value.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
tbh if ads on a website can not be blocked by a simple content blocker, then I'll just simply stop using the website. Safari and Chrome V3 blocker are much more privacy friendly since the extension does not need to access the entire DO
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
iPhone 15 looks better than 15 Pro. I wish the base 15 had a higher refresh rate.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
That does not include any tax.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
USA emits almost 8 times more C02 when compared to India per capita. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita In that sense India would need to be 10B+ people to poluate as much as US / west does
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
A better solution would be if most people turn vegetarian [1] https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/02/01/global-elimination-of-m...
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
Only emissions per capita counts. Just because those countries have more population than entire continents of Africa and Europe, does not mean it's their fault. USA emits almost 8 times more emission per capita when compared to India.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
India's largest denomination banknote is now just Rs. 500 or $6 after their recent ban on the Rs. 2000 notes. Thus, online payment becomes the only way to transfer any meaningful amount.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
It's both. You can transfer/receive money to/from anyone with either a QR code, a UPI address like `batman@upi` or a mobile number. You can also setup mandates (autopay) for recurring subscriptions like Netfix. Unlike Credit
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
Years of autocomplete has already made my second language i.e. English poorer. I know words but I often forget to pronounce them because I can no longer remember their spelling. A tool like this would completely obliterate all of my skills.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
Just like existence of MariaDB does not prevent Snowflake from being worth $50B, just being good enough on laptop is not enough to replace the need for the cutting edge.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
Safari already has a long list of content blockers which blocks ads by supplying a list of urls to the browser. I use Ka Block! for iOS and it works well enough.
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
I really like how the post has been aided with the colourful illustrations. Not many people know this but India has the most arable land in the world despite being a smaller country than Canada, Russia, China, USA, Brazil [1]. India has eve
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
I don't like copying my passwords to clipboard becase of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/r... and other clipboard hijacking techniques.
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Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari (2019)(zdnet.com)
8 points by SpacePortKnight 3y ago|1 comments
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by SpacePortKnight 3y ago
There is no other brand on the planet with a consistent and comprehensive product lineup as Apple. Just going to apple.com, one can see everything the company does. On top of that they made $387B in revenue last year. That is more than the

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