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SJetKaran··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
I just moved to a second hand iPhone. My next mobile won't certainly be an Apple one.
SJetKaran··on Insulin Prices Are Sharply Higher in the United States Than in Other Countries
Yeah, true. Don't understand why one needs a prescription for contacts here in the US
SJetKaran··on Insulin Prices Are Sharply Higher in the United States Than in Other Countries
I found contact lens to be cheaper here than in Sweden
SJetKaran··on Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'
I just bought my first ever Apple device - a second hand iphone. After seeing the Apple's behavior in the last couple of weeks, don't think I'm going to buy another Apple device.
SJetKaran··on YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
Aame, I'm willing to pay for just the Ad free YouTube, without the tie up to YouTube Music.
SJetKaran··on Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
similar with vim vs neovim as well
SJetKaran··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
What are glasses with fogged edges? is it same as rimless/frameless eyeglasses?
SJetKaran··on Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I've been using Yabai for 2+ years now, super happy that it exists!
SJetKaran··on Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
are you on Linux since you mentioned a tiling window manager, or are you using something like yabai on mac?
SJetKaran··on Matplotlib
Yep! even started using python clone - plotnine
SJetKaran··on Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
Indeed, it might take few days to weeks to do enough ML model iterations to get to the final few lines of model config changes that go to production.
SJetKaran··on U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-b...
SJetKaran··on Bram Moolenaar has died
I use vim almost every single day, and use vim-dialect in every other editor I use. I'm thankful for its existence and to Bram for developing it.
SJetKaran··on Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
The indoor monitor looks really interesting! I bought a Aranet4 recently, so don't think I'll invest in another Air Quality monitor soon, but I'm interested in checking this device for next buy.
SJetKaran··on Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
Seems like it is missing PATH (NJ <-> NYC)
SJetKaran··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
Exactly, I would buy YouTube Premium if they have a cheaper option without music here in the US
SJetKaran··on India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
So, India has different systems of curriculum, at national level CBSE/NCERT and ICSE, and many states have their own. Each school individually is affiliated to one of the curriculums.
SJetKaran··on Beans are protein-rich and sustainable. Why doesn’t the US eat more of them?
Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians. Indians eat way less meat than other countries, sure. Part of this is due to cultural, religious, and cost reasons, but the fact that most Indians are non-vegetarians is un-disputed.

Here is one post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yaspf6/19_of_populat..., but you can easily find better references online regarding the same.

SJetKaran··on A Case Study on the Uber Alumni Network
I wonder how this looks in relative terms to Netflix
SJetKaran··on 2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
Interesting, has some similarities similarities to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_identity_of_soma%E2%...
SJetKaran··on Coding with Character
Iosevka Aile is my go-to font for note taking!
SJetKaran··on Improving Firefox stability on Linux
You can try one of the Arch derivatives like Manjaro. That might help with this issue a bit.
SJetKaran··on Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?
Reminded me of this song "I've No More F**s To Give!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
SJetKaran··on I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
I3's scratchpad would be one. And title bars when windows are stacked or tabbed is another nice touch.
SJetKaran··on I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
I moved from linux to mac for work stuff. Really miss the I3 functionality; yabai fills that gap mostly but not all the way.
SJetKaran··on 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
> What I read out of these benchmark numbers is: the ISA does matter far less than most people seem to assume.

This was my conclusion too. Does this mean, there is not much possibility of desktop pcs moving to ARM anytime soon? Perhaps, laptops might move to ARM processors, but even that seems iffy, if AMD can come up with more efficient processors (and Intel too with its Lakefield hybrid cpu)

SJetKaran··on Apple's Shifting Differentiation
I think people also forget the dominance of iPhone (and imessage) in the US market. iPhone is simply the most popular and go-to phone in the US market. Not so much in similarly richer areas like Europe.
SJetKaran··on The Importance of India
> It was an economic basket case, however.

true

> That’s why so many Indians left during the socialistic policies of Indira Gandhi.

don't know, i think more people leave India now than ever, but that is not necessarily a bad thing (in net).

> It was due to socialism that India regressed and fell behind China.

Questionable, even at the height of cultural revolution in China, India was growing slower than China. Perhaps India had more societal issues that it needs to solve, perhaps China has inherent advantages, in either case, this sort of question is for the historians to discuss.

> Had India adopted state capitalism earlier, as it has now, it would have grown at a much faster rate.

true

SJetKaran··on The Importance of India
I was actually arguing for India by the point I made - as in, India when compared to China comes out to be a super under-developed country that people consider India to be a basket case; which it is not.
SJetKaran··on The Importance of India
Any comparison of India with China generally leads to this sort of conclusions. If India and China were students in a class, China would be the topper of the class. India is a good student, just not a topper.

India has been making great progress on most fronts, just not as big leaps as China did.

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