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New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:16:58 +0000

I bet they just removed a wait(5s) from their client :D

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "The changing face of post-pandemic New York City"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:01:36 +0000

Why do you think the decrease in population is attributed to crime/lack of safety?

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile of nonsense"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:01:07 +0000

You would think HN would refrain from posting every single mistake for these things...

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:46:59 +0000

Also small enough to make preheating near instant.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:33:51 +0000

Might be a stupid question. What was the reason for ditching?

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:26:42 +0000

An almost hour long Dashcon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwgSXZJcok

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:08:25 +0000

Must be the first time courts have made the wrong decision then

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:19:25 +0000

What if your boss had a Nazi flag pin on at work?

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:17:19 +0000

The same reason most of us can't address customers and colleagues as idiots.

Employers fire employees who speak offensively even outside of work. Free speech doesn't mean speech without consequences.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student's pronouns"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:02:22 +0000

Sure they do. But not the right to say whatever you want at your job.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Europe's Software Problem"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:01:51 +0000

True. But I think the problems are more nuanced. It is just harder to scale across EU than US. You'll need localization, marketing, customer support separately set up for different languages/countries.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 20:16:31 +0000

^ This is right. It happened because of Peter the Great's westward alignment of the royal machinery and continued till the last Tsar.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "How To Be An Anti-Casteist"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:19:37 +0000

"felt like" Of course, you'll never know for sure if they meant to find out your caste. That's the point. If they wanted to be explicit about their objective, they could've asked for their caste.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:57:54 +0000

I just finished reading 'Born to Run' that talks about Tarahumara and ultrarunning. I would recommend it for anyone looking for more info on this.

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Fri, 25 May 2018 16:29:55 +0000

Apple has 60% of market-share in high-end phone market (worldwide, it's higher in US). Oh, it is a major player

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Google is always listening: Live Test"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:43:31 +0000

This was refuted in reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8bx9m7/google_is_al...

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:26:28 +0000

> As long as India periphery is culturally diverse from Hindi core, India is not going to get anywhere.

Could you elaborate on why that might be?

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 06:36:58 +0000

Commies Inc?

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "TransferWise announces $280M investment"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:22:07 +0000

Doesn't ICICI quote at least 2 rupees higher than the market rate? I have only sent money from INR to $

New comment by dgaaaaaaaaaa in "Google signs agreement with HTC"

dgaaaaaaaaaa — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:04:04 +0000

Or whatsapp. But then those were complete acquisitions