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Statement following the discovery of a metallic fragment of a space object

sdiq — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 07:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Asmali77/status/1874353295189565964

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564521

Points: 1

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New comment by sdiq in "Why Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware's Standalone Products"

sdiq — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:32:37 +0000

What happens to Spring and suite of family?

New comment by sdiq in "Henry Kissinger Has Died"

sdiq — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:34:27 +0000

I think many people from the Global South would agree with you and not just Africans. That was also exactly my thought when i read the headline, even though he did nothing against my native Kenya. Also, the phrase "Third World" isn't the most appropriate one to describe a good chunk of the world.

New comment by sdiq in "New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages"

sdiq — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:35:13 +0000

>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us.

Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is just the Red Sea that divides these two countries from the other Semitic speaking countries. Yemen, across the sea has other Semitic languages other than Arabic. Also, just like Indo-European is a large grouping of languages, the Semitic languages are ordinarily grouped under Afro-Asiatic languages. Thus, besides some of the Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, we also have two other subgroups of Afro-Asiatic namely, Cushitic and Omotic languages that are also spoken in Ethiopia. Amharic thus is well contextualised for Ethiopia.

New comment by sdiq in "No CSS Club"

sdiq — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:16:13 +0000

Similarly, I can no longer browse HN on a Firefox browser on Android. I am not really sure what exact settings changed. This started a few weeks ago.

New comment by sdiq in "Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly"

sdiq — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:36:51 +0000

Now, i am also tempted to search this but will pass.

New comment by sdiq in "Ask HN: What happened to HN on mobile Firefox"

sdiq — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:45:01 +0000

No it isn't.

Ask HN: What happened to HN on mobile Firefox

sdiq — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:35:18 +0000

I ordinarily use Firefox on my mobile devices. Now, HN feels all zoomed out and not easy to browse. I am not sure whether this is a setting change on my end but somehow convinced it is HN that has changed. Any help?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526333

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by sdiq in "What happens when your phone is spying on you"

sdiq — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:56:23 +0000

For one to use WhatsApp to make calls, for example, one would need to provide it with permission to view the call logs without making WhatsApp the default app for calling.

New comment by sdiq in "Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it"

sdiq — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:16:03 +0000

The Guardian changes to the Gaurdian then to the Grauniad and then, finally, the Guarrdian.

Innocent typos or there is some joke i missed.

Edit: as per other comments this seem to have been a joke.

New comment by sdiq in "OWASP Needs to Evolve"

sdiq — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:27:35 +0000

owasp-change.github.io

New comment by sdiq in "Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software"

sdiq — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:47:36 +0000

Winget is a new thing in Windows one could use though sometimes it has issues.

New comment by sdiq in "Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues"

sdiq — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:58:47 +0000

A different pet peeve of mine on iOS is the USSD menu which is center-aligned, and i find that very ugly. Maybe the usage of this menu isn't universal but for someone from a developing country, we use that like a million times a day. Mostly we are choosing a menu item to continue with a dialogue and the numbers are not aligned.

New comment by sdiq in "NumPy 1.24"

sdiq — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:51:54 +0000

Checked MySQL and i see almost everyone pronounces it as My Sequel. Well, with the exception of Marten Mickos, who was the CEO of MySQL before same was acquired by Sun Microsystems. I guess, this would be another tomato, tomahto.

New comment by sdiq in "Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies"

sdiq — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:06:27 +0000

Might probably be corrected but his first name was Mehran rather Merhan.

New comment by sdiq in "Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter"

sdiq — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:39:11 +0000

Reminds me another short story i once read, Lexicographicide, by Taban Lo Liyong. The dictator, every year, eliminates certain letters from the alphabet, or was it words from the dictionary - it's decades since i read it. Thereafter none can use the same.

New comment by sdiq in "I help seniors with technology issues"

sdiq — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:51:03 +0000

Samsung has now decided that for me to use the camera on my Android phone, i must give full permission to something called Nearby Devices. Thankfully, i can live without the camera but for the first time, i mulling over moving to Apple.

New comment by sdiq in "Ask HN: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?"

sdiq — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:54:16 +0000

7. Rinse repeat.

New comment by sdiq in "Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons (2005)"

sdiq — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:31:09 +0000

A few times, I almost emptied some scraps on my plate together with a spoon or a fork directly into a rubbish bin. Since observing that, I have always wondered how many other spoons I have inadvertently thrown over the years.

New comment by sdiq in "Does a perfect odd number exist? JKUAT student says he has solved global riddle"

sdiq — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:42:07 +0000

https://mobile.twitter.com/mmnjug/status/1472480938248617986