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Papers: Safe - yes. Easy to lose/misplace: also yes.

Duplicate tools and data within Amazon is as old as Amazon. It is even mentioned in the Leadership Principles or related documents somewhere.

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 w…

A vast majority of wheelchair users in the US are car users.

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 part…

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?

Until recently a rando app could prevent a Mac from shutting down or logging out. I think it was changed in Sonoma.

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…

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…

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.

> 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 diff…

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 ano…

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 t…

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 …

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 t…

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.

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…

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I think the point is in spite of decolonization being orders of magnitude more messy countries like India have established fully functioning peaceful societies.

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 …

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 t…

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 …

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 inclu…

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 …

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 schoo…