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by green-bottle 6y ago
A bit tangential to the main topic of the post. They mention that they are working on another optimizing compiler Ion which will replace the cranelift compiler (which is still in nightly) as the new compiler for WebAssembly. They link the
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by green-bottle 6y ago
The article makes an argument for why you should consider Pixel series phones that still have official support from the vendor if you are in the market for Android phones. While it may not have been the point of the article it gives no reas
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I noticed today that youtube-dl was no longer working. I am on the latest version so there is no update that will fix things right now. It wasn't hard to whip up a cli wrapper for NewPipeExtractor which I am already using on my phone f
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by green-bottle 6y ago
There is correlation between surnames (or the lack of one), language dialects, dietary habits and caste. But the signal here is very noisy and unreliable except for a few cases like having a well known surname. To my knowledge there is no c
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by green-bottle 6y ago
Most of the Indian population lives in small towns and villages where everyone knows one another. People would notice if you suddenly start claiming to be from a different community. The classification of higher and lower caste itself is an
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by green-bottle 6y ago
If you are living in the more progressive parts of the country (generally more urban) being found out things will make things... awkward. Not in the sense that there will be consequences, but you will have aired out your insecurities to oth
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about. It just seems so for native spe
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I have noticed a tendency among people to rationalise things that suck in life to actually be good for you. Phrases such as "It builds character" or "It is necessary for the society/people/..." are not too unco
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by green-bottle 6y ago
Android Chrome and Firefox (via add-ons) have dark mode options. I do not know about iOS Safari. While a dark mode option made by the website itself may be able to handle certain edge cases that the browser dark modes may miss, for most par
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I am a bit tired of seeing this topic come up again and again on Reddit or HN. You may have as well, asked if someone preferred blue or orange. The choice of a programming language (without considering specific details of the application) i
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by green-bottle 6y ago
My aunt and mother use a bunch of websites I've never heard of for free streaming of movies and TV shows. They may not be the most informed about potential hidden costs of these services, but they are definitely resourceful in finding
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by green-bottle 6y ago
Like all other internet bans in India I doubt this one will have any teeth. Everyone has a "Free" VPN app that they use to bypass these restrictions. Most people own Android phones where they can sideload apps downloaded from some
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I doubt Xi's going away anytime soon. He got constitutional term limits on Presidency removed. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I do not think a typical Indian farmer would own anything close to 2000 acres of land. Most farming in India is not mechanised but is instead highly dependent on human labour. From what I know a typical farmer would probably own only a coup
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by green-bottle 6y ago
The majority of Desktop browsers support extensions that provide support for dark mode. On mobile I know Android Chrome (via chrome://flags) and Firefox (via extensions) support dark mode. Don't know about Safari and other mo
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by green-bottle 6y ago
https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=<PhoneNumber> I use this link which will open in WhatsApp by default to send a WhatsApp message to someone who is not in my Contacts and don't want to add to my Contacts just t
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by green-bottle 6y ago
I don't have much of an idea about Windows or OSX. Regarding Desktop Linux, I think I wouldn't be far off if I said it has no desktop security model. The permission system on *nixes (and Linux by inheritance) were formulated in th
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by green-bottle 6y ago
Due to the planned obsolescence (via stoppage of security updates) of Android phones within 2 years I had been seriously been considering buying an iPhone SE2. But I can't really justify myself buying it at the hefty price tag of $555
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by green-bottle 7y ago
Firefox. When I first got to use a Computer to surf the internet I remember using Firefox and that is what I have used ever since. A lot of people here have said that Firefox was a slow and bloated mess pre-Quantum. I suppose I stuck to Fi
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by green-bottle 7y ago
I feel this is a problem in the majority of Indian cities. Perhaps Mumbai stands out here as it has more Traffic hence greater levels of unnecessary honking. Having worked at Bangalore and Hyderabad, living along/nearby any road with r
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by green-bottle 7y ago
Perhaps a bit tangential to OP's question, but in a similar thread on HN in the past someone had posted that you will probably be more successful if you try to fit in your hobbies/ side projects (tech or not tech related) before
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by green-bottle 7y ago
Last I checked Kiwi is not open source. There are bits and pieces of code lying around in the Github repo, but not the full source code. The browser seems to get regular enough updates on play store, has decent ad blocking (at least good en