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mithusingh32··on Ask HN: Recommended Rust Resources?
https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings

I really like rustlings.

mithusingh32··on Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?
You're not wrong about defense however there is a huge caveat. From what I'm told, when a company in defense (in the US) uses FOSS they must sign a waiver saying that they will be responsible for all updates and vulnerabilities discovered with said library. This also means that if the library stops being maintained, the company is responsible for maintaining the library.

I know that the reason why RHEL is preferred over Ubuntu or other distros is the fact RHEL has a paid license and provides regular updates to even "dead" or EoL libraries and packages.

Having said that, I wish more companies would take that dive. I've been in situations where the company would not sign a waiver so we had to essentially re-create a functionality that a FOSS library already provides.

mithusingh32··on Ask HN: What games are you having fun with?
Right now Guild Wars 2 and the Yakuza series. Friends and I also try to get in a few rounds of Brawlhalla every few days.
mithusingh32··on The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017)
My parents and I were just talking about this. We're all in agreement that the moment that diamond goes back to India (or any country in SEA), it will "disappear" and never seen again.
mithusingh32··on Metabook
I think Zuckerverse has shown that privacy doesn't exist in it. They could implement e2e but it'll be implemented in a way to so they can still sell away your privacy.
mithusingh32··on Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how?
I've tried Ubuntu, fedora and regolith-linux

Regolith-linux was the easiest to set up for hdpi and best solution for me. Fedora used to be decent but the fractional scaling just doesn't work.

mithusingh32··on Ask HN: How do I find a mentor outside my company about software web programming
I was always looking for a mentor. I joined a website for LoL that wanted to update it's website to a modern framework. Initially there were 2 senior web devs and about 3 "junior" devs.

After about 3 months of learning react and picking the seniors brain about web dev, they stepped away due to IRL things. So I volunteered to step up as a lead.

I had maybe 3 months of total web dev experience. But stepping up as a lead forced me to learn quicker, and having junior ask me questions helped me learn quicker as well. For example I could always just give them a stack overflow link, but that's no use because they probably did and didn't understand it. So I tried to break it down for them which meant I had to learn the concept to explain it to them.

mithusingh32··on Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV
People like me are stuck. Not like we can return the TV's after years of owning them.
mithusingh32··on Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV
It's not.

For example when pausing a Hulu stream on my Samsung TV....I'll get an ad for random crap (sometimes for things placed in a show) ok my pause screen.

Samsung TVs are basically giant billboard you pay to have in your home.

mithusingh32··on Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
Have you given a look into Nextcloud?

I've been running it on my own server and been having a great time with it. I haven't done any massive file syncs or anything. But been syncing Joplin, recipes and documents without issues with it.

mithusingh32··on Ask HN: What is your preferred notebook screen size and why?
15 is my sweet spot. Anything smaller makes doesn't have enough real estate and anything bigger is unwieldy.

The other thing I look for is centered keyboard without numpad. I can't stand laptops with the home row offset to the left because of the numpad.

mithusingh32··on Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat
Vanguard, riots anti-cheat, was one of the worst kernel anti-cheats system I had the displeasure if being forced to use.

My buddies started to play Valorant and they asked me to give it a try. I downloaded and installed it.

First major issue: Must start on boot and has to be running at all times. If you close it, you have to reboot the entire machine to play Valorant.

Second issue: (This has been fixed) All my VMs stopped working. I couldn't start any of them in my VMware Workstation.

Uninstalled Vanguard and Valorant shortly after. There should no reason an anti-cheats needs to run on boot.

mithusingh32··on Cloudflare uses a wall of Lava Lamps as it's backup random number generator (2017)
Wasn't this a plot in a show or movie?
mithusingh32··on Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
Wow, thanks for this. I wasn't even aware of these.

I'm surprised I rarely see these in courses/tutorial. These should be like day 1 material.

mithusingh32··on Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
This reminds of that episode from Futurama where Fry has a nightmare but was actually an ad for underwear.
mithusingh32··on Let's Encrypt Root CA Expiration Causing Issues in Electron Apps
I had my cert expire in my personal server because I forgot to setup a workaround for renewal (my isp blocks every port such as 443, 80, 25, etc).

I couldn't access any of my services because cert was expired.

mithusingh32··on Blue Origin has a toxic culture, former and current employees say
These stories are true for any major defense contractor. Working at a large defense contract is always a coin flip. I know people who have loved it from day 1 ( aka people who have been there 15+ years) or have left after a year or two.

It seems defense contractors do not care for new hires. They will always give senior staff favor and not push younger staff to become better.

mithusingh32··on Tech firms' nightmare: Vanishing green cards
India. We applied for her green card during peak covid.
mithusingh32··on Tech firms' nightmare: Vanishing green cards
"lack of resources" is utter BS.

My wife got her green card in less than a year after we got married. And she came to the USA on a fiance visa.

mithusingh32··on Deep learning helps researchers remove clouds from satellite images
Most likely because it doesn't work very well.
mithusingh32··on Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry
Regolith-linux

It's a ubuntu based with a i3 desktop manager but with newer perfect configurations out of the box.

mithusingh32··on Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
Or group servers for a search query. This simple feature would be a game changer.
mithusingh32··on Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
You bring up a good point. It's be really nice to see how much of an overlap there is between MailChimp and Intuit users.
mithusingh32··on Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
Or if you have enough money to by pass the laws all together.

Take a look at HSBC[1][2]....they got caught laundering money for Mexican cartel and helped NK/Iran circumvent the nuclear sanctions. They were given a slap on the wrist of 2 billion dollars in fines. (Can't find the source but they were also caught transferring money to known terrorist groups)

If anyone is interested there is a Netflix show they covers this. I think it's called Dirty Money. [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Money_laundering [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#US_Senate_investigation... [3] https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100?preventIntent=true

mithusingh32··on Elon Musk drives through loophole by launching Tesla on tribal land
How much is the reservation going to get per sale or per year? It'd be nice to see all the details because if history has taught us anything....the reservation people most likely got screwed.
mithusingh32··on Uber ordered to pay traditional taxi drivers damages in France
Limited number of licenses.

This is the same as liquor license. I've seen liquor license well for 1 mil in some areas.

mithusingh32··on Google handed user data to Hong Kong authorities despite pledge
I hope no one was actually surprised.
mithusingh32··on The US Navy launched a missile from a ghost ship. Wait, what?
I thought ghost ships were naval fleets/ships on covert missions/missions not known to public/missions govt actively denies.

Did the definition of that change?

But I am glad to see unmanned contracts werent completely shutdown.

mithusingh32··on Why that Thunderbolt add-in card doesn't work properly in your unsupported PC
I can vouch for Caldigit for both Mac and Windows. Been using them since the start of covid.

One of the worst docks I've used was the Dell ones. With those I've had. 50/50 chance the Ethernet will work. And if you do connect expect to drop out.

mithusingh32··on Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
I tried brave. But I constantly had ads on it. It would block trackers and ads on websites but if I was to open a few tab it would have crypto ads or some other nonsense.
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