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Current smartphones are highly optimized for content consumption a.k.a doom scrolling. Nothing serious exists for programming. On top of that, a touch keyboard and hard to reach sp…

Works perfectly on my machine!

The commentary mocking people for their poor English, followed by disparaging remarks about an entire country as if the email senders represent a typical sample from that nation, s…

It's always interesting times at OpenAI!

ncmpcpp is a TUI based music player for your audio file collection. It's actually a frontend to the mpd (music player daemon) https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp https://wiki.archlinux.org…

But you do sign in to use an Android phone, or iPhone. Although, I agree with the point that someone would never want to sign in with their Facebook account there, with FB account …

With fail2ban setup and ssh auth with only keys and PermitRootLogin no, you don't even have to worry about the pentesting bots.

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This comment has so many factual inaccuracies. 1. Vote share for BJP in urban areas have been consistent with rural areas in the most recent national election of 2019. Source: Offi…

BitLocker would still ask for recovery key when attempting to boot Windows after Arch install is finished. This is because of the disk configuration change that it detects.

+1 for search engine with blacklist feature. There are some annoying sites (like GeeksForGeeks) with substandard content that come in top results of Google when I search for progra…

"Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an interesting listen on Audible. Surprised that nobody has mentioned it he…

That reminds me of a very important aspect of distributed systems (computer science) - there is no global clock!

You need to setup ublock origin on every browser on every device. With pihole, all your devices automatically get adblocking, even your friends coming home and connecting to your w…

I can confirm that. My Nexus 5X died with bootloop after the warranty was over and all the googling led me to make peace with the fact that it was a soldering issue, hence a manufa…

Do you plan to run something more serious than github, basecamp or shopify? Usually it is not rails, which is the bottleneck, but the architecture of your application.

Isn't that mathematically exponential, just with a larger base?

99% is actually a lot below SLA for these services. It means the services are down for 3 days 15 hours in an year.

Jio has INR349($5 USD) plan which gives 84 days of unlimited calling with 1.5GB data per data. For 399, less than $USD8 you get 2GB per day. Airtel also has a similar plan. This is…

In all tier 1 cities, which are at least 10, you can get 100Mbps broadband with about 750GB to 1TB data for close to 20 dollars a month. In villages (at least 100 thousands of them…

What are the red flags to quickly bucketize relations into toxic?