shaan7

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by shaan7 7d ago
Can attest to that. My wife always complains how big phones don't fit well in her shorts. But when I remind her of that when she is buying a new phone, she goes "Yeah well its annoying, but videos are nicer on a bigger screen&quot
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by shaan7 9d ago
Yeah which is why its imperative that you _never_ connect to the Internet.
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by shaan7 3mo ago
> Corporations lobby the government to implement laws that seem to hurt them but in actuality create an uneven playing field where marketshare becomes available due to the higher implementation cost (nit: I assume you meant "markets
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by shaan7 3mo ago
> I feel like other commenters are being obtuse on purpose and avoid the point? nah, people are just built differently. Not everyone gets frustrated with "learning to remember", and then some do. Both are valid. The people who
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by shaan7 3mo ago
> The point was that this bothered me when I used git for the very first time and that is fine. From your original comment, you "just" wanted to save things and got confused why you had to `add`, `commit` and `push`. Its just t
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by shaan7 5mo ago
or, if you are replaying a single-player game that you saved+loaded (i.e. the replay only worked if the full game happened in one go without any loads).
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by shaan7 5mo ago
Well thats good then, it means that they'll always need the likes of Scotty, LaForge, Torres and O'Brien ;)
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by shaan7 7mo ago
> plenty of projects changed licenses lol. They usually did that with approval from existing license holders (except when they didn't, those were the bad cases for sure).
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by shaan7 7mo ago
> that it would be "simpler" to just... not do what I asked That sounds too close to what I feel on some days xD
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by shaan7 7mo ago
That and PROGRA~1 brings back memories.
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by shaan7 7mo ago
Yep it was rebranded: https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/429582...
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by shaan7 7mo ago
Well the current US Administration would agree - the law doesn't matter, we need to be "pragmatic" and do what we think is right. Rules be damned. Once you deviate a bit from the standard, you're down a slippery slope. I
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by shaan7 10mo ago
Qt has provided a solution for this since its early days: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/i18n-source-translation.html#handle-p...
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by shaan7 1y ago
That only happens for the datetime metadata of the files (modified, created, access etc). The EXIF metadata will still remain the same.
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by shaan7 1y ago
Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies. Its weird to say "I don't want to stop a website tracking me because the UX is terrible. I'd rather get tracked instead.". Of c
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by shaan7 1y ago
Same in Germany, unfortunately. Was on HN a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003033
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by shaan7 1y ago
I describe it slightly differently. Similar to what the author described, I'll first plan and solve the problem in my head, lay out a broad action plan, and then put on music to implement it. But, for me the music serves something akin
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by shaan7 1y ago
Yep there's no need to apologize, you've been very courteous and took all that feedback constructively. Good stuff :)
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by shaan7 2y ago
I think you and the parent comment are onto something. I also feel like the parent since I find it relatively difficult to read code that someone else wrote. My brain easily gets biased into thinking that the cases that the code is covering
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by shaan7 2y ago
Indeed! Bollywood makes it to HN xD
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by shaan7 2y ago
I use Firefox simply because the address bar UX is better. It prioritizes my history over search results, I almost never have more than 3-5 tabs open, so I rely heavily on typing a keyword in the address bar to go to a page in my history. A
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by shaan7 2y ago
Reminds me of Plasma's ball widget: https://store.kde.org/p/1172489/ Apart from amusement, this served as a nice example when you are giving talks at universities trying to motivate students to tinker. Just m
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by shaan7 2y ago
I'm sorry we let you down :(
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by shaan7 2y ago
I find going through monthly statements quite cumbersome, so instead what works better is to enable notifications for each transaction. That way I just get an email when something is charged to the card, makes it easier to notice unused sub
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by shaan7 2y ago
I'd argue that your latter point (optimizing background apps) is majority of the improvement and this is something you can do in the OS regardless of where an app comes from (excluding rooted/jailbroken devices from scope). This w
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by shaan7 2y ago
That is an interesting take, so basically in your opinion the main thing that makes iOS better than Android is that Apple has tighter control over the apps? What I've heard from most iOS users is other things like smoother interface, b
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by shaan7 2y ago
My guess would be Voice Control
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by shaan7 2y ago
Yep that is exactly the feeling which prevents me from buying Apple products for private use. I have no motivation of paying a premium if the manufacturer is going to make things more difficult for me. I want to make my experience easier, n
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by shaan7 2y ago
I'm more excited for the day we can have robot do that for the analog stuff instead. I'd rather sit and enjoy organizing files on my computer than loading the washing machine, the dishwasher, folding clothes, packing for vacations
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by shaan7 2y ago
The notice helped me realize that Yahoo! Search still exists xD

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