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by odux 2mo ago
Papers: Safe - yes. Easy to lose/misplace: also yes.
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by odux 5mo ago
Duplicate tools and data within Amazon is as old as Amazon. It is even mentioned in the Leadership Principles or related documents somewhere.
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by odux 5mo ago
In Australia all coffee is pretty good. I visited Sydney fora week a couple years ago for business and the lattes and espressos blew my mind. I have had good coffee but that is a whole different level. After I have always been picky about c
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by odux 7mo ago
A vast majority of wheelchair users in the US are car users.
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by odux 1y ago
Exactly. The very existence of these apps and websites is based on such “user hostile” behavior. Same with the cat and mouse game between YouTube ads and ad blockers and third party YouTube apps. If the side wanting to completely stop Youtu
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by odux 1y ago
This is funny. So the captchas to detect scrips vs humans are so complex for a human to solve but are easy for a program?
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by odux 1y ago
Until recently a rando app could prevent a Mac from shutting down or logging out. I think it was changed in Sonoma.
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by odux 1y ago
I think there is something more than that. India is fairly homogeneous. Was high trust decades (5+) ago. Trust getting lower today. Similar practices (trusting a stranger with your child) would have been conceivable in the same timeframe as
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by odux 1y ago
I think there is something more than that. India is fairly homogeneous. Was high trust decades (5+) ago. Trust getting lower today. Similar practices (trusting a stranger with your child) would have been conceivable in the same timeframe as
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by odux 2y ago
I have used Affinity photo and it is a really powerful alternative to photoshop. Have not used any other products but have been very impressed with Affinity photo.
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by odux 2y ago
> I have never seen milk or cheese in my limited exposure to Indian cuisine. Indian cuisine is diary oriented to a point that while vegetarian food is super common, it is very difficult to find vegan food (especially North Indian food wh
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by odux 2y ago
Pop culture and mainstream politics affect people’s opinions in a weird way. Only in the USA and some part of the western world, people see wind turbines as “ugly”. Coming from another part where wind turbines are picking up very fast, the
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by odux 2y ago
Independence itself is a point in time thing. When there is a movement that results in something the movement doesn’t suddenly disappear after the success. The movement continues to influence power and how things are shaped. If a movement o
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by odux 2y ago
As someone who grew up in India but lives in the US, the situation is pretty comparable. US has a gun violence problem but only if you are at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or you are part of a gang. Otherwise you can spend years in the
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by odux 2y ago
Language, region and caste are different things though. Caste is a big problem in India but very rarely a problem for discrimination in the tech/highly educated Indian circles in the US. Caste is sometimes very closely related to “cult
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by odux 2y ago
As an Indian, this, unfortunately, is not true. Within India caste is very ingrained with the culture and in some aspects it is very difficult to separate culture from caste.
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by odux 2y ago
Famously iPhones and especially iPads have weird dimensions and they are primarily for up/downscaling[1] from the other iPhone sizes so that apps still look the”same”. While 16 pro max is 6.9 inch and 13 pro max for instance is 6.7 inc
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by odux 2y ago
I think the point is in spite of decolonization being orders of magnitude more messy countries like India have established fully functioning peaceful societies.
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by odux 2y ago
I am an occasional alt tab user and it is a great product. Thanks for building it. I am reasonably used to MacOS window management behavior but I still need something like alt tab once a while, that’s why it keeps running in the background.
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by odux 2y ago
I am categorizing them because each have their own background. For the law it is one big bucket. The theory is that there is enough demand and not enough supply of people to fill this demand. In practice there is a lot of nuance. It is a me
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by odux 2y ago
There are actually four large “buckets” on H1B usage in software. First are the “regular” software jobs. At the large tech players or other regular companies (eg a software job at a bank). Like you said, there is a lot of supply due to layo
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by odux 3y ago
The download from filezilla-project.org even now has “bundled offers” at least for the Windows version (the Windows download page even has this disclaimer “This installer may include bundled offers. Check below for more options.”).
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by odux 3y ago
It used to be “for the convenience of being able to buy a ticket from home” which is ridiculous by itself because online tickets makes things cheaper the venue. Now it is “for the convenience of the ability to buy tickets at all” because in
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by odux 3y ago
Basic was my second programming language after Logo[1] in the early 90s (I was in 5th grade) in a third world country, on very slow computers that a factory had donated to my school after they had passed their useful life for the factory. I
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by odux 3y ago
Wait, what? MFA - multi factor authentication- has existed long before Google was founded. RSA Securid tokens were introduced in the 1980s or so. MFA is a easy and good way to prevent hostile account takeovers. Especially with the amount o
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by odux 3y ago
I don’t agree. If a company creates jobs in a third world country which would have been otherwise created in their “own” [1] country if not for cost reasons is morally and ethically in a grey area. On the other hand, said workers in the th
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by odux 3y ago
What you said is true - a new lottery is not needed. However before offering a job to a H1B candidate the company should demonstrate that it advertised this job to the general public and no non H1B candidate (a US citizen or permanent resid
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by odux 3y ago
That article should be one line long: The new Desktop outlook is a bad idea because it supports only Office 365 and not on-prem exchange. (Which itself is a speculative claim with no substantiation except one anecdote)
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by odux 3y ago
It is part of the larger Amazon layoffs announced today though: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/update-from-ce...
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by odux 4y ago
I use BitWarden on iOS and it is pretty much same as the default iOS auto fill (which is iCloud?). It uses the system auto fill service and the detecting of password fields to show the auto fill option and filling the password is done by t

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