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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.
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 15minutes to get back to speed on which mission I was working on. By then I have 30 minutes left to game. Due to this, I frequently pick up older snackable games and skip AAA games altogether.
This person made it from scratch with no prior experience, so the bragging rights are well earned.
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 the world of technology. Om shanti, I wish you a great new beginning.
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?
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.
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 even family! Shifting to another AI app is painful as they would need to start from scratch.
All of them have US subsidiaries and Cognizant is an US listed company.
In Australia, tea and spices are imported predominantly from Asian countries.
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 makes it bad writing. What a messed up world we live in
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.
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 higher rate. The customer then pays a rent for the portion owned by the bank till the principle is paid off. No interest charged technically, but effectively they do pay; except it is now kosher/halal. We humans use language to work around every such restriction by debating on the literal meaning of any such religious restrction.
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 wonder why there aren't mor recipes available for this region with such a deep culinary tradition.
Coral Pixels is pretty nice with a lighter background, but unreadable with a dark one.
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 swap. And this was a phone without any water resistance.
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 Photoshop.
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 and effectively; unfortunately most people are terrible communicators.
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 Cloudflare it went back to the normal double digit visitor count.
Haha I came in to write the exact same thing. Such a weird choice
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. US is not a benchmark in any form other than grandstanding about rights. Government snooping and overreach is as much a problem in US compared to other countries.
The difference is that something as simple as a traffic rule violation is not linked to constitutional rights because the repercussions of over speeding and jumping a signal is a catastrophic and could lead to deadly accidents. The problem that was solved with the linked verdict was that the process of proving innocence was not easy and this could have been easily solved with process change, without all the legal wrangling. It is just legalese porn and an over complication.
Being the registered owner makes the person responsible. The owner can state it being stolen, or driven by someone else as valid reasons
In Australia you will get a fine and demerit points for speeding or for running through a red light. The points don't go away even if you pay the fine. If you go through a year without infractions, one point will be taken off. I think that's a fair system. More details here [https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/demerit...] and here [https://www.primelawyers.com.au/traffic-law/speeding-offence...]
Coming to the part about issuing fines to the registered owner, you can nominate a different driver online here, when replying to the fine. The person nominated need to accept this as well before it is taken off the person to whom the vehicle is registered to.
Type "Plants love Brawndo" to start chatting
Really like this translation approach and I had written about it just couple of days back (more from a testing and validation context). To see folks take that approach to something complex is pretty amazing! https://balanarayan.com/2026/02/20/gen-ai-time-to-focus-on-l...
If you're using gboard, you can resize the height of the keyboard
I was able to tame it on Instagram by actively blocking 3-4 accounts every day and then engaging with accounts of just one topic; I picked Cricket. That said, I don't use the discovery section much so when I revisit after a few weeks it resets to filth. So the way it works is if I go to the discovery tab and like a couple of random cricket videos. It keeps it sane to an extent. Facebook is a different story though
I haven't reinstalled Windows in years in my PC. The only place I see this issue is in my work laptop, but that also has multiple anti-virus, endpoint detection and other security things hogging memory in the background in the most inefficient way possible.
No. It was frustrating to use and had to be reinstalled every year. Windows 8.1 was good and so was Windows 10 to a degree.
You could create a separate pricing for demanding businesses that need to track multiple products/brands that come under its umbrella, while retaining the existing pricing for smaller businesses and individuals
Those QR codes are for a payment method called UPI that is managed by a conglomerate of banks (NPCI), with the blessings of the Reserve bank. Google Pay, PhonePe etc are apps that are interoperable and allow P2P or P2B payments by scanning a code. The payments are instantaneous and free; at least for P2P scenarios. Anyone with a bank account can sign up for any of the UPI apps and generate a QR code using which they can accept payments from anyone and this drastically reduces the effort it takes to join the digital payments economy.