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chupchap

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About chupchap

https://balanarayan.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49235838

    Okay that makes sense

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    Comment #49235749

    Do you ask for height as a manual input?

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    Comment #49029888

    Why do you buy used books? You sound like the person who would prefer new books.

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    Comment #49015931

    Restaurants used to have stock images everywhere from menus, to flyers, and posters. I don't remember much talk about it to the extent we have with AI generated images. I prefer to…

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    Comment #48900586

    It was a good UX in FriendFeed as it was still a chronological feed. However once it was mixed with algorithmic feed it shifted from better UX to keep em' hooked.

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    Comment #48811794

    As an occasional gamer I hate modern big budget games as it takes me 15minutes to get gaming between launcher, updates, loaders and other distractions. It then takes me another 15m…

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    Comment #48743262

    This person made it from scratch with no prior experience, so the bragging rights are well earned.

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    Comment #48681894

    I used to be tech-journalist in an earlier avatar and Om was someone who I always turned to for inspiration and context. I learnt a lot from the way he wrote, thought and perceived…

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    Comment #48640122

    Does this also cover all other employment agencies creating listing for the same one job, making it look like there are 20 openings while there is just one?

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    Comment #48534599

    Most loud voices get obsessed with a specific definition of a dish and I think for the sake of creativity we should/would shift to using creative names to accommodate preferences.

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    Comment #48455062

    People who use ChatGPT have fed so much data about their own lives and interests into it. This includes a lot of information about personal lives, interests, plans, business and ev…

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    Comment #48454869

    All of them have US subsidiaries and Cognizant is an US listed company.

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    Comment #48452198

    In Australia, tea and spices are imported predominantly from Asian countries.

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    Comment #48378344

    Ai was trained on news and journal articles and this is the reason we see so many em-dashes as well. The side effect is that good writing is now classified as AI generated, which m…

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    Comment #48303214

    No, I was just checking it out on Google Fonts and I could not see a way to change the colours of the sub-pixels which is affecting the readability.

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    Comment #48303086

    > ban interest-based loans to private individuals LOL, read up on how baking and loans in Islamic countries work. Banks buy whatever you want and then sell it to you partially at a…

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    Comment #48302879

    There is such a large discrepancy in the number of recipes in the training data for South Asia vs other macro regions. I wonder what that impact that has on the study. I also wonde…

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    Comment #48287318

    Coral Pixels is pretty nice with a lighter background, but unreadable with a dark one.

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    Comment #47843933

    I was wading through water with a 3310 in my pocket in 2006. Battery was fine and it worked after it was dried. There was a problem with the keyboard though but that was a cheap sw…

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    Comment #47745745

    Good point, I think in case of Figma the idiomatic design was set by Sketch and other UI design apps, which in itself was a step away from the idiomatic design established by Photo…

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    Comment #47698313

    I cannot agree with this after reading transcripts of Trump's speeches. It does make sense in some scenarios, but writing like one speaks only works for people who speak clearly an…

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    Comment #47685191

    Bot traffic is crazy even for smaller sites, but still manageable. I was getting 2,000 visitors a day on my infrequently updated website, but after I blocked all the bots via Cloud…

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    Comment #47512190

    Haha I came in to write the exact same thing. Such a weird choice

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    Comment #47342420

    > People in other parts of the world tend to think that they are just as protected from their government as we are in the USA No one in a modern democratic country thinks this way.…

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    Comment #47329719

    Being the registered owner makes the person responsible. The owner can state it being stolen, or driven by someone else as valid reasons