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krtkush

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krtkush··on I Like That the Boat Is Stuck
I'm pretty sure that if the ship is stuck for a long enough time, conspiracies about it will start popping up and will lead to "alternative facts and truths".
krtkush··on Permission.site
I think the eventual limitations on 3rd party apps are coming. A major part of the community has used/ is using the superior 3rd party alternatives, and they need to figure out how to nullify those advantages. It is inevitable because they want that sweet advertisement money for which 3rd party apps are a barrier.
krtkush··on A call to improve London's lighting at night
I find white light depressing.

My home city has metro coaches with either yellow or white lights. Me and a few friends of mine would skip the white ones because we found the yellow ones more comforting. On the other hand, my dad prefers white and in a room with types of lighting he will always go for the white ones.

krtkush··on The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
I would add Nokia N9 too.
krtkush··on Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)
I agree with you about most parts; specially about more calories = delicious food.

However, most Indian dishes have a restaurant version and a home-made version. The former is enriched with all kind of ingredients that make it heavy and calorie rich but super tasty while the latter is simpler and more suitable as daily food.

Dal makhani is usually a "party dish" which is not consumed on a regular basis. However, it too has a simpler version that is not loaded with butter and cream.

krtkush··on Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)
I think you mean palak paneer [1] and with 21 ingredients you're certainly looking at a complex and the "party" version of the dish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palak_paneer

krtkush··on Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)
I'm Indian and for me saag is "leafy greens" too. Spinach to be more particular.

The thing is that in India some meanings change with geography and location. For example, for me bhujia meant this [1] for the longest time. However, when I moved to a different part of the country, bhujia also meant potato fritters. Then, there is bhaji which means fried veggies. But some people also call potato fritters as bhaji.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaneri_bhujia

krtkush··on Women dominated beer brewing until they were accused of being witches
Something very similar - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...
krtkush··on Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012)
Yeah, and we need to change that. This can't be a status quo.
krtkush··on Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012)
How about taking explicit consent before tracking users and not tracking them everywhere they go (both digitally and physically)? Users should expect a right to privacy and control over their own data.
krtkush··on Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
Add r/india to the list too.
krtkush··on India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark
Not really. Green is used by school principals too.
krtkush··on Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position
OP on reddit says that two of his offers got revoked! It must be so frustrating to give hours of interview successfully but still not getting that job.
krtkush··on Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?
Could you please list some resources that could help a complete n00b like me start from somewhere wrt resilient and self healing infra?
krtkush··on Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative
From what I have read and heard[1] is that these bills are mostly good and are what the country needs. Unfortunately, the current government's track record with implementing ideas is awful. Also, the country is divided and polarized to the hilt and therefore, no one is ready to listen to each other nor trusts one another.

The Current government failed to introduce these laws in an amicable manner and their ego won't let the farmers have any other way.

[1] https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2021/2/7/episode-211-the-trag...

krtkush··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
But will that heat pump mine bitcoins for me?
krtkush··on Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
As an Indian I'll say that annual health check-ups are now normal amongst the privileged class. In my opinion it is a good thing considering how unhealthy our environment and lifestyle is along with a lot of predisposed conditions.
krtkush··on DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
This rate of use is strikingly similar to mine[1].

[1] I made a small add-on for firefox which tracks DDG usage and lists the usage stat.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-stats/

krtkush··on Repairability
While I agree with your general sentiment, your particular statement about Apple services in India wrt staingate is incorrect. I got the same problem with my 2015 MBP screen and got it replaced for "free" (had to pay Rs. 2500 service charges) in Mumbai. My speakers got busted[1] too after 4 years but so did my previous laptop's (Dell XPS 13 - 2011). While neither is acceptable, my point is that it is not unique to Apple.

However, I agree that Apple services are crap in India where they'll charge you Rs.2500 for even telling you what is wrong with your laptop and then maybe ask you to get the motherboard replaced for a minor repairable problem.

[1] It is fairly easy to repair them by using rubber cement but don't expect the original audio quality.

krtkush··on Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat
India != dairy + vegan. Indians eat meat of all kinds; from chicken to dogs. So you really can't claim to represent all of us.

Me, personally, would love to switch over to lab grown meat as soon as it is declared safe and an environment friendly alternative.

krtkush··on Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
Model Thinking by Scott E. Page - https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking/home/welcome
krtkush··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
And in India, they are commonly refereed to as "Zebra Crossing". No one refers to them as cross-walks and most have no idea about that term.
krtkush··on Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day
Wow! Such synergy between two vastly different (IMO) music styles.
krtkush··on Amazon Sidewalk
Really tall walls around the data centers.
krtkush··on Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns
> Apple chose #2, which is best for customers, and got forced to pay $113M from it. It's ridiculous.

You're missing out the part where they did not inform the user why their device was being throttled and nor did their internal tooling inform the genius that a simple battery change can fix the issue.

krtkush··on Don't use third party auth to sign in
> What would be a better alternative? Use same credentials everywhere? No, because it is just a matter of time it would leak out of one service. Use unique credentials for each service in local password manager? Nay, because most of us at least want to sync between desktop an mobile. Use something like Chrome's password manager? That bears similar dangers like those the article points out.

I use BitWarden and it works pretty well on all my iOS devices and across major browsers.

krtkush··on Disaster prepping is mainstream again
After watching Steve1989MREInfo[1] eat decades old canned food dozens of times, I have stopped following expiry dates to the T.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA

krtkush··on On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
> and always looking at dates on Medium posts

While I'm not an iOS dev I have seen a trend where people have stopped putting in dates of their coding tutorials.

krtkush··on Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/iphone-backup-icloud...

Though, it is possible that WhatsApp is encrypting backups before uploading them to iCloud.

krtkush··on Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
No you can't. You can only use iCloud which is not 100% secure AFAIK.
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