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Microsoft employee here. There is a lot of momentum behind MAUI so I am optimistic.

amir734jjon Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs

My daily Linux was PopOS but I switched back to Ubuntu because of reliability issues. Ubuntu LTS is just fine but if you are looking for a lightweight Linux go with Debian.

amir734jjon Goodbye Spotify

Also it's no longer possible to get Spotify student discount if you have been a student for more than 4 years. I mean, what about graduate students?

amir734jjon Monaspace

I have tried many fonts over the years. Nothing beats Monaco.

amir734jjon System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop

I have a System 76 laptop that I bought it 4 years ago. It has reliable. Although PopOS has not been reliable. Their support and customer service is great. Drivers work and I'm happy with it.

amir734jjon Ask HN: Does LeetCode/HackerRank make you a better developer?

As a software engineer maybe a little but helped me pass the interview.

amir734jjon Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends

I use YouTube to watch videos of news uploaded on their YouTube channel like CNN and NBC and etc, I'm wondering what's the YouTube alternative for me?

amir734jjon [dead]

Please stop simplify things and read what holocaust is.

amir734jjon JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU

Nothing happened. It was an informal technical interview with the program manager at JAX. 1 hour call and the interview was remote but describing him as opinionated and entitled is an understatement. Best of luck to them.

amir734jjon JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU

Very unrelated but I did job interview with Nvidia JAX team for a compiler engineer role some time ago, not very friendly and very opinionated.

amir734jjon Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates

I am looking to upgrade my old Pixel 3 XL. I use my phone with I love Google cameras and pure android software. I don't like Samsung UIs. I am wondering what a good option for me beside Google is phones.

amir734jjon Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs help me get into FAANG?

I have a PhD in computer science and I work in FAANG. My boss and his boss don't have CS degrees.

amir734jjon Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours

I'm a PhD student and I use all their products. When I graduate this semester and I lose my student license I'm back to vim. I just need syntax highlighting. I hope I know enough about the languages I code with that I don't need extra help.

amir734jjon PhD Simulator

I took qualifying exam on the last semester after I finished the thesis. They [university officials] thought in their system I have left the program. I had only 4 weeks to study for the exam because my advisor gave me a ultimatum after he thought I took the exam already. I was working full-time at this time and couldn't take 4 weeks off. After so much praying, I got the highest score, and I ended up becoming a Christian because of all the praying. It worked out at the end.

amir734jjon GitHub Pull Requests Incident

I am able to push my local change to github but the changes don't show up in a PR

amir734jjon Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?

Because language is one thing and community is another thing. I have the same feeling about Crystal.

amir734jjon Tintin, Hergé and Chang

I'm a 30 year old male and I still read Tintin comics.

amir734jjon AWS us-east-1 down

the status page doesn't even open.

amir734jjon Penguin T4 GNU/Linux Laptop

I own a system 76. It has been reliable but I really really miss my 2015 MacBook pro. I stayed with the company longer just because of that laptop and left when they gave us butterfly keyboard MacBook pro.

amir734jjon Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

Google has become unusable recently, maybe my expectations increased since chatgpt but Bing is way superior now.

amir734jjon Show HN: Tremor 3.0 – Open-source library to build dashboards fast

tabler for react is dead: https://github.com/tabler/tabler-react

amir734jjon Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

I have a dumb question. Do advertised salaries in EU include tax or are tax deducted. Because I'm the US you get paid $100k but there are taxes and healthcare costs that need to be deducted.

amir734jjon Ask HN: why Chrome audio duration bug is not getting fixed after 7 years?

See this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52375280/1834787

amir734jjon Twitter's head of engineering resigns a day after DeSantis campaign announcement

Agreed 100%.

amir734jjon Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto

This has been known for a while

amir734jjon Google blew it with open source layoffs

You are proving the point that google is just an ad company

amir734jjon Intel One Mono Typeface

Monaco font for life. Sorry.

amir734jjon Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling

I'm dealing with something similar. I wanted to use Redfish to clear out hard drives but storage is not standardize across different vendors. Dell has a secure erase. HPE gen10 has smart storage and anything older doesn't have any useful functionality in their Redfish API. What a mess. So I need to use PXE booting and probably winpe to do this.