liquidwax

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by liquidwax 4y ago
In places where you pay upfront at the register and wait for your order, it almost feels like blackmail. Tipping happens at the time of placing the order. Not saying everyone does this but can't be sure that nothing fishy happens if so
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by liquidwax 4y ago
Don't know how big of a home you have but I've been pitched mesh wifi but I realized I didn't really need it (~3k sqft home). My ~$150 Netgear router works perfectly fine. My recommendation is to see if a regular router works
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by liquidwax 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32845229
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by liquidwax 4y ago
My guess is that it's a very different (and difficult) problem to generalize that way. Interpreting intent and taking action are different aspects. Someone needs to write code to call a vendor's API to execute those actions and th
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by liquidwax 5y ago
Important bit buried inside because … clickbait > We will then begin the hybrid pilot in full on May 23, with people coming to the office three days a week — on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday — and working flexibly on Wednesday and Friday
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by liquidwax 5y ago
Copilot also optimizes for speed to a degree. It's akin to advanced auto complete. IntelliJ auto-completion is great. As much as it pains to say this, I don't think I will be as effective writing Java in Vim as much as I am with I
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by liquidwax 5y ago
> proper remote work at Google/Microsoft Amazon's policy is exactly the same as Microsoft. Is Google proper remote now?
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by liquidwax 6y ago
AWS Amplify[1] actually has neat tooling for serverless projects and lets to deal with just the core of your product and worry less about infra. Admittedly, it helps if you know the underlying connections but in my experience that's tr
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by liquidwax 8y ago
If you are using gmail, you are already giving all of that to google. Google tracks all your purchases. Not trying to contradict your point but just saying that it happens irrespective of whether you use Amazon or not
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by liquidwax 8y ago
That's Centennial? I thought I read that in Alaska
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by liquidwax 8y ago
Saw a video by vox today where they argue that the points are also paid by increased retail prices. Even if you decide to use cash, you are basically paying for someone's business class upgrades https://www.youtube.com/
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by liquidwax 8y ago
It's a common misconception.
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by liquidwax 8y ago
I can vouch for this. Although I've been doing this with regular chrome (disabled javascript by default) and I whitelist sites with the click of on icon in the location bar.
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by liquidwax 8y ago
I first realised how heavy these pages are when I disabled javascript. Things load in the blink of an eye. \ Most\ pages work and the web remains largely usable.
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by liquidwax 9y ago
LOL. The second paragraph in the abstract starts with "m this paper a theorem is presented […]"
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by liquidwax 9y ago
Can confirm. Source: Grew up drinking Horlicks.
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by liquidwax 10y ago
Chewing neem twigs
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by liquidwax 10y ago
> Need a passport? You're going to have cough up cash to get the paperwork you need. It's insane. And just so incredibly sad. This is absolutely no true. I don't know about your experience but this is not the case everywhe
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by liquidwax 10y ago
If they are confused by US roadways, they'll melt when they come to India and see this - http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00397/20080331593...
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by liquidwax 11y ago
That's the first line in the link. It says "From VOX" and links to the vox article.
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by liquidwax 12y ago
There are two sides to this coin. What it probably means: He gave his 100%. So, the prayer is hope that whatever isn't in his control favours ISRO. What it mostly represents: Pray to God that things work out despite what ever vague amo
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by liquidwax 13y ago
North Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
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Teleportation on the command line(thecakeisalie.in)
44 points by liquidwax 13y ago|35 comments
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by liquidwax 14y ago
It looks like they're still using windows 98
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by liquidwax 14y ago
Thanks. The suggestions would be a great add. We thought of the dvd release countdown too but did this as a quick and dirty meteor experiment. Unfortunately, the code is not in a readable state. We'll clean it up and share it on github soon
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Show HN: A meteorjs app to track your favourite upcoming blockbusters movies.(blockbusters.herokuapp.com)
4 points by liquidwax 14y ago|2 comments
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Strange use of github(github.com)
1 points by liquidwax 14y ago|0 comments
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by liquidwax 14y ago
Indian Railways above Indian Armed forces. #peace