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bkishan

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bkishan··on New York City hiring top rat killer
And also "This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends".
bkishan··on Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers
I absolutely cannot understand why any engineer would chose to stay at Twitter with the way things are.
bkishan··on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
Nothing beats this[1] though,

The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elo...

bkishan··on FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
> the US government likely looking to make an example of SBF.

Considering the silence from top officials, I don't think this is going to be true. Don't forget he donated ~$50M to the democrats for the mid-terms and was the second biggest dem donor.

bkishan··on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
If you port over those images to Apple photos, you can literally search the for the text right inside the photos app. It works pretty accurately for all printed text ime.
bkishan··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
Also worth noting that this did not work out, because their general counsel accidentally replied all to the email, giving everyone in the company a safe copy to leak.
bkishan··on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
Paying for email with money seems so weird. FTFY.
bkishan··on reMarkable 2
I get that its a dig on Amazon, but Im 100% sure they won't display ads on notes.
bkishan··on Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta
I think the first few lines are fear mongering. Apple is obviously not going to ask for a cut when you transfer money in a banking app, pretty sure that will borderline be illegal. Same goes for E-commerce.

> We slowly turn into a world where everything can be managed via an app

Is it not fair then, for a company creating a platform for the app, making your app available to billions of users, while also keeping the platform safe and providing new features and capabilities consistently to ask for a cut of transactions made on their platform?

bkishan··on Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta
> I don't see why Apple would do this other than to specifically harm Meta.

The policy applies to every social media platform with an app on iOS. Sure it costs the big players more, but if Meta were Apple I have no doubt they'd do the same, if not worse.

Also the article specifically states "the new policy shouldn’t have a material impact on the company’s revenue" as this only applies applies to the social media app itself, and not the ads manager app where advertises spend the big bucks.

bkishan··on Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?
OP, don’t worry, ProtonMail routes both email IDs to your inbox by default. You’re good.
bkishan··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
You can move the URL bar back to top like the previous comment mentions, but if you do you will miss out on the nice swipe gestures on the url bar to switch tabs or open new ones.
bkishan··on Alien Truth
Looks like PG was inspired by reading Project Hail Mary, and decided to be philosophical about it :)
bkishan··on The Graphing Calculator Story
Ironically the video is from Google's main channel, and not from 'Talks at Google'.
bkishan··on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
Unless you have something to suggest otherwise, yes it is true.
bkishan··on Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable
End-to-end encrypted calling is illegal in Dubai, so not surprising that WhatsApp does not work.
bkishan··on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
Mudge, maybe?
bkishan··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
How does Google lock you in when you could just export it as docx and move over anytime to Word/Libre?

You can even bulk download as many docs you like and there's even takeout.google.

bkishan··on iOS 16 Available September 12th
Well, in their defence the touchbar is still around and actively being supported on all native apps.
bkishan··on A look inside Feynman’s calculus notebook
Is it normal for individuals to index their (handwritten) notes? Atleast I've never seen anyone do that.
bkishan··on The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)
How did you manage the transition? I have tried unsuccessfully to migrate to Kindle a couple of times. Failed both times because I just love the feeling of a book in my hand so much. I'm assuming you had a similar attachment too, but you were able to overcome it?
bkishan··on Lichess: The free and open source chess server
> Can anyone point me to how they handle cheating detection?

You can listen to Thibault talk about here [0]

0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI

bkishan··on China's Foreign Ministry 'not aware' of situation of tennis player Peng Shuai
It is a good thing that Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are speaking up. The WTA has also shown impressive courage in dealing with the matter.
bkishan··on Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links
So ‘Meta’ is now taking the tried and tested route to gain brownie PR points - Try paint Apple as the bad guy.
bkishan··on India Counting Down to 1B Doses
Pfizer is still not authorised in India. Moderna is authorised but practically unavailable.
bkishan··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
Nope, only for photos in iCloud and destined for upload to iCloud.
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