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akarambir

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About akarambir

a software architect and homelab tinkerer.

Social media: #karambir or akarambir

https://karambir.in/

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    Comment #48254544

    The official replies are addressing questions that nobody has asked. The main issue is why Linux support is being removed from the Basic tier while Windows is still allowed. To gro…

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    Comment #18514561

    Can you provide some info into how you typically use trackpoint. Which fingers do you use and how do you control the acceleration when going few pixels away or whole screen corner …

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    Comment #18484337

    A somewhat similar situation happened with India when in 1999, India-Pak Kargil war, the US denied India access to its GPS satellites. It forced India to have its own Regional Navi…

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    Comment #18354860

    But is it still sent automatically on ajax requests by browsers?

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    Comment #18263148

    It was sed substitute command on a ~800Mb file on Thinkpad T470 with SSD. It was taking around 40-50 sec for each substitution. Though as others have pointed, it may not be directl…

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    Comment #18262818

    What does linux utilities like sed, awk use for text manipulation because they were very slow when I was changing a few table names in a sql file.

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    Comment #17763703

    Same. Giving error "Corrupted content error" on Firefox 61.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

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    Comment #17615766

    For our company, we use: - Gitlab and Gitlab CI - Zulip chat(moved from Mattermost) - Metabase for data visualization(will be adding InfluxDB soon) - Self Hosted Sentry(error repor…

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    Comment #17612172

    Pycharm just released 2018.2 with support for pipenv :) https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/#v2018-2-python

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    Comment #16742514

    From New Delhi(Airtel), India test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average cloudflare 35 ms 58 ms 89 ms 14 ms 14 ms 42 ms 44 ms 35 ms 13 ms 29 ms 37.30 clou…

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    Comment #16452090

    I am curious if android has the ability to quickly disable fingerprint unlock if you are in adversarial situation. So it only asks for passcode.

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    Comment #15435303

    For India, they have just two areas: Mumbai and Anywhere else. I am living in Gurgaon(near New Delhi) and it is as expensive as Mumbai in terms of renting an apartment. So Mumbai(0…

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    Comment #14866119

    Yes. For this very reason, Mozilla was not porting Firefox to iOS for a very long time. Now, Firefox is also running iOS provided rendering engine.

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    Comment #14667784

    A good service. While registering, I noticed timezone as "Indian Time". It should be "Indian Standard Time(IST)".

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    Comment #14150500

    You can just re-structure your post and make it a blog article :)

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    Comment #14009988

    The parent example was saying about official ppa only, official as in the original software company providing that ppa. In this case, nginx ppa is provided by nginx developers. Oth…