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New comment by kunjanshah in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

kunjanshah — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:14:32 +0000

https://www.covenantairesolutions.com/post/what-is-a-furnace...

“At its core, it's a small motor with a fan attached that has one primary job: to vent harmful exhaust gases out of your home before the burners ever kick on. This is the very first step in the heating sequence, and it's non-negotiable for a safe startup.“

New comment by kunjanshah in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

kunjanshah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:53:31 +0000

This is the more robust way to go. Uses rsync under the hood.

New comment by kunjanshah in "Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft"

kunjanshah — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:08:47 +0000

In Austin, Waymo app directs you to use uber instead.

New comment by kunjanshah in "Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs"

kunjanshah — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:14:01 +0000

Any one have experience with this and inkplate EPDs?

New comment by kunjanshah in "Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs"

kunjanshah — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:49:34 +0000

Palm Foleo would like a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo

New comment by kunjanshah in "DJGPP"

kunjanshah — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:19:05 +0000

I learnt game programming with this and Allegro!

New comment by kunjanshah in "Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That"

kunjanshah — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:26:31 +0000

Look at hifiberry and the OS that comes with it. I use it to setup airplay to some passive speakers and it works great. Supports various sources including airplay 2.

New comment by kunjanshah in "iPad Pro M1"

kunjanshah — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:54:56 +0000

Dual boot is not even needed M1 can virtualize, you could run both side by side. Previous iPad Pros could virtualize too, it was disabled in hardware.

New comment by kunjanshah in "An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks"

kunjanshah — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:51:54 +0000

"It has become evident in the past two days that a bad actor is purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode’s business."

The timing of the DDoS was pretty interesting too, happening when not everyone is available.

New comment by kunjanshah in "Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter"

kunjanshah — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:08:10 +0000

They did for ATT atleast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854446

New comment by kunjanshah in "Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter"

kunjanshah — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:00:24 +0000

I wonder why ATT didn't C & D Netflix as well? Netflix had that notice for ATT too, just like Verizon. AT & T screenshot from a few days ago: https://twitter.com/kunjanshah/status/473152026147557376

New comment by kunjanshah in "Chrome is blocking wired.com"

kunjanshah — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:19:52 +0000

Does block for me OSX Version 33.0.1750.152

New comment by kunjanshah in "Facebook can now read your texts"

kunjanshah — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:38:23 +0000

The best way to prevent this in this app, and many other apps is to use "App Ops" in 4.4 or use CyanogenMod and enable privacy guard and then you can long press on the app and prevent the app from reading SMS and many other things while you are at it.

New comment by kunjanshah in "Gmail.com was down"

kunjanshah — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:05:44 +0000

yes it seems to be - I disabled syncing in prefs and it seems to have stopped crashing.

Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread

was on the crash log.

New comment by kunjanshah in "Gmail.com was down"

kunjanshah — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:04:43 +0000

Try disabling account syncing in preferences. Its crashing in Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread It has not crashed for me after disabling that.