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ameen
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About ameen
Software Engineer, Design lover, Usability enthusiast, Pretend Game developer.
Email: ameen.in@gmail.com
Github: github.com/amxn
Twitter: twitter.com/amxn
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Comment #49030540
I don’t see why this isn’t the norm, if you build something “destructive”, you absolutely need to compensate those affected by those actions.
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Comment #48947051
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Comment #48691252
Midterms
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Comment #48691232
How is Musk/xai even in the conversation here? It’s a lowly, also-ran AI company, not a “frontier model” company.
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Comment #47944627
We all know Israel isn’t party to it either.
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Comment #47612575
I wonder if part of this is usage by newer Android based emulators [1] used for emulating x86-based PC games on powerful snapdragon based devices (Retroid Pocket 6, AYN Odin 2 line…
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Comment #47096748
Does this block something like Obtainium? https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/ This is sad as there’s been a real resurgence of gaming devices (Ayn Thor/Odin, …
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Comment #47083189
Weren’t foreign nations gonna pay the tariffs? What is this with requiring each customer to pay $10 per watch? It’s funny how these very tariffs were introduced to “combat inflatio…
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Comment #34155428
That’s a biased inaccurate hashtag. A sensible person would say yes to personal freedoms - it’s their choice. Don’t impose either world view on them.
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Comment #34152758
Thank you for the contextualization - but Iran’s handling is nowhere close to Islamic, not observing the hijab doesn’t take you out of the fold of Islam (also where have men been h…
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Comment #34148538
It is, unfortunately the "Islamic Republic of Iran" is anything but Islamic. Show trials, murdering innocents, etc. They're emboldened by their Soviet allies, CCP, etc.
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Comment #34148500
Funny thing is, as a practicing muslim - there is no compulsion in religion (direct quote from the Qur'an). Iran literally is using the ignorance of the populace to push their own …
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Comment #29545339
Thank you for sharing this. I've often wondered how some folks deal with misfortune, take it in stride and work through them than abandon all hope for an easier route. Perseverance…
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Comment #29498283
As someone who did the same move with the release of Pixel Pro 6, I deeply regret it. Google Maps in a minimized view fared worse than my iPhone 8 plus for multitasking, that is bo…
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Comment #29315128
Thank you, will check it out.
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Comment #29298977
A lot of old 90's "hacks" are still commonplace in current email design. Thanks to Outlook's reliance on a brain dead MS Word-based rendering system rather than using actual modern…
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Comment #29298938
I'm thinking of changing jobs and the need for me to do leetcode and answer trivia gotcha questions vexes me. More than 10 years of professional experience and like 5-6 years of ho…
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Comment #29075893
To be fair, shirtless men are a lot less common in urban India. Not the same in the "countryside" or villages as we refer to rural areas. India has certain public decency laws whic…
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Comment #29075877
As an Indian in the states - my observation was that obesity in the US seems like a class issue. Most well-off folks are fit and working out is woven into their lifestyles. Others …
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Comment #29020992
Would this also not affect angel investing/seed investing by individuals? If there's no huge incentive for an investor once a company makes it to hold their stock, every successful…
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Comment #26952961
Chromecast Ultra has an Ethernet port. But the color accuracy is off and the video quality (atleast on Chromecast YouTube) seems poorer (overblown highlights, inaccurate colors, et…
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Comment #26952946
Chromecast video quality is atrocious though. I have a Chromecast Ultra on my Roku TV (TCL 6-series QLED) considered to be a mid-range panel and has decent color accuracy, but on C…
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Comment #26833408
Facebook has literally hired BJP aligned individuals: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/27/21536149/ankhi-das-faceb...
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Comment #26833400
Facebook has hired BJP aligned individuals to run top country posts for a while now. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/27/21536149/ankhi-das-faceb...