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deelly··on Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
I imagine it will be like this:

12.00 - Hello

12.01 - Hello, what's up?

12.02 - (long text explanation with some urgent changes)

(you just returned from another urgent 3-hours meeting)

14.40 - sorry, just read your message?

deelly··on Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
I always hated this signs. I can't take a picture of some interesting place, but in most cases I can buy picture made by someone else.
deelly··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
Honestly, one time is enough.
deelly··on Arguing from compassion (2021)
Oversimplification from which point of view? Russians, Ukrainians, or some outside observer?
deelly··on The collapse of complex software
I could be wrong but using JSON as format for name is not a solution, its abstraction over possible solution. Suppose we store all names as JSON structure. Question - how people will create such structure from their names? Using form with dozens of fields and checkboxes? Second question: how we will display this structure? We have to find a way to convert this JSON into string to show name. And as result we will surely need function to convert this shown strings into JSON for sure. And how we can solve issue when some names could be presented as a bit different JSON structures? And how we can validate that these slightly different JSON structures are equal?
deelly··on Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
As far as I know (from some coworkers) they do. But last name is only the first step/flag in identifying to which caste person belongs. Sorry, I don't remember exact details, but there some additional steps like special clothes I think?
deelly··on Two envelopes problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
deelly··on Asking robots to design stained glass windows
I`m not sure that I agree or understand. All things around me is a result of hundreds (thousands) years of development/culture/science/manufacturing etc.
deelly··on Asking robots to design stained glass windows
If I use state of the art laptop, but funs are noisy, does it really matter how many thousand of thousand of thousand of hours spent to develop it?
deelly··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
Sorry, I still don't get it. How exactly KYC is responsible to crappy web search results? Should it be other way around?
deelly··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
You right, but Google at least can try to fix it. For example: allow users to hide sites from search results, allow users to downrank sites in search results, etc. etc.
deelly··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
Could you show some examples of search results?
deelly··on Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)
Yes? You are not Egyptian. And one Egyptian should not be forced in any way to apologize for others Egyptians.
deelly··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
Agree. Sometime I really struggle to see a difference between Reddit and HN.
deelly··on How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house?
Quote from article: > lists lots of other foods with more potassium-40 than bananas, including coconuts, peanuts, and sweet potatoes
deelly··on Venmo forces binding arbitration unless you opt out by mail before June 22
Who and how will define that TOS agreements are bad and that there no alternative?
deelly··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
> Since leaving social media

Oh, irony..

deelly··on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
But who will verify results of this conversation? Who will be the one to make changes, create changes, verify that changes are correct? Who will take blame if error happens?

Customer or user of this software?

deelly··on Amazon Pip Horror Story
Honest question: how to prevent abusing this system?
deelly··on Amazon Pip Horror Story
Cool, basically, "I can abuse you in any way I want because I`m paying you a good money". So, why this is shitty? Mainly because thats inside thing, and there no way to learn it during interview.

>> Not a single engineer in Amazon that has or is getting PIPed is losing their livelihood.

Can you provide source for this claim?

deelly··on Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure
Inoreader is good Google Reader replacement (at least for me).
deelly··on A delightful quirk of relativity theory
I can't say that buying IPhone with preinstalled Twitter app is very convenient way of reading twitter post.
deelly··on Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
Wait, but DRM free means that there no license check..
deelly··on “Zero fucks given” in other languages
Yep, yep.
deelly··on Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
China too.
deelly··on Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
Off-topic: As a person with astigmatism I just don't like black themes..
deelly··on I lasted three minutes at Amazon
So, basically, just like any other social platform? Good to know.
deelly··on Books that changed my career as a software engineer
1984
deelly··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
Species count put at 8.7 million: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14616161 So, we will have what do in next few hundreds years..
deelly··on How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
Oh my....
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