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by gdmka 4mo ago
>And the free version is really, really good too, and then a premium version is $20/year which is very reasonably priced. I've been paying a flat $10 since 2022. Today, I got an email saying my renewal price goes up to $20 plus
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by gdmka 5mo ago
The main problem with why mobile apps aren't very convenient is that even on Octal, in heated debates on HN it becomes extremely difficult to read nested comment threads. Personally, I lack focus when a parent comment generates a comme
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by gdmka 5mo ago
For macOS, there is native SwiftUI Voxa[0]. By the looks of it, it has been unmaintained since the last time I tried it. Honestly, after the story with Reddit and Apollo, building a third party client is a risk. TOS can change any moment, a
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by gdmka 7mo ago
Lots of valid points in the article. What I like about Brave Search is the quality of its AI answers compared to rivals. For quick fact-checks, it's pretty decent when I only need to extract 1-2 sentences. Best thing of Brave search wa
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by gdmka 8mo ago
Yep, I've used the € sign for a reason, to make sure people won't get confused. The article goes into considerable detail about the EU tech industry. My comment relates to that context. I also want to note, that EPP isn't the
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by gdmka 8mo ago
Throughout my career I’ve run into this approach a couple of times. All in all, it’s a fairly unusual practice—I was surprised myself.
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by gdmka 8mo ago
I'd add that companies write off their equipment investment over a 3-5 year depreciation period. After that, when the laptops reach EOL, employees can often buy them through the company's EPP (employee purchase program) usually fo
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by gdmka 8mo ago
Wonderful! I also run a Hugo blog, running on a very old version. I'll be honest, I'm tired of editing it in VS Code with the Markdown Rendering on the side. I was looking for something new, completely separate. Really hoping this
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Running Cloud LLMs Inside LM Studio(blog.gdmka.me)
1 points by gdmka 9mo ago|0 comments
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by gdmka 2y ago
>>Microsoft did brain teasers like "How many ping pong balls fit on a bus?" questions. Then Google copied that to start. Google later realized that performance on these questions didn't predict performance on the job
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Ask HN: What factors laid the foundation for tech interviews as they are today?
9 points by gdmka 2y ago|5 comments
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Attemtps at Immutability with Dataclasses in Python(gdmka.me)
1 points by gdmka 2y ago|0 comments
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by gdmka 6y ago
Well... if you assume safety is basic human right as well then this is relevant[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Saint_Kitts_and_Nev...
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by gdmka 6y ago
My point is he's accustomed to cutting corners. >>Fighting an obviously lost right against SKN and jeopardizing your whole life sounds even more stupid than fighting windmills. He could've applied for maltese or cypriot pass
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by gdmka 6y ago
I don't feel like he's living in an exile. For starters, the citizenship that was acquired for $ 250k something is from Saint Kitts and Nevis, known for it's abuse of human rights. To me it's a classical double standard
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by gdmka 6y ago
You guys aren't seeing the bigger picture. TG LLC got 1.7 bil USD with two rounds of investment. US based investors are returned 72% of original fund. Those 28% are 500 mil USD. It's rumored that TG CEO got 300 mil selling his sha
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by gdmka 6y ago
Thank you! This is exactly one of the reasoning pillars i'm using in arguments about the "innocuous" nature of telemetry and tracking. Any new product that collects telemetry/does tracking requires storage that is bought
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by gdmka 6y ago
>> Since when does the telemetry even send out any contents of any files? To me it's not evident otherwise until i'm capable of observing bare data itself. Not obfuscated, not in some proprietary format to secure it in-trans
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by gdmka 6y ago
>>I have zero personal information in the IDE and all the code I work on is already in the public domain with an open source license, so why should I care? Off the top of my head: API tokens and other credentials that live right in th
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by gdmka 6y ago
>>You are defending why phone numbers are useful, but are completely choosing to ignore the point I am making about the tradeoff of who you trust. You're swiftly jumping to conclusions on a comment that only describes a point of
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by gdmka 6y ago
According to Google Play it’s out[0] [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
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by gdmka 6y ago
Correct.
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by gdmka 6y ago
The extended emoji reactions were rolled out couple of days ago.
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by gdmka 6y ago
There were mentions of multi-device coming later on Twitter. While it's not the desired backup feature but a mean to duplicate data at least and backup with Android.
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by gdmka 6y ago
Moxie addressed the phone number issue[0]. To save time he mentions that owning a SIM card or a smartphone with a Contacts application that holds phone numbers is a portable social network by design. Pushing his idea further it's much
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by gdmka 6y ago
>They will very likely not care about authorities to see our messages as they have nothing to hide from that perspective. `Nothing to hide` isn't the point of my message but the willingness of Telegram to collaborate with 3rd partie
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by gdmka 6y ago
Telegram isn't really a subject to compare to Signal. I own a cellphone number for an Eastern European provider and had been using Telegram solely for news reader purposes. None of the people i communicate knows the number. Much to my
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by gdmka 6y ago
Actually iOS can transfer message history to a new iPhone https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba... Not having a backup is seen as a disadvantage by many but i literally feel it's f
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by gdmka 6y ago
I love Signal. I've convinced a multitude of people to switch and some use it day to day currently, but mostly to talk to me. So i feel my contacts do it out of respect and `compatibility` of communication. What baffles me is the the i