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sayamqazi··on When online commenters detect my art as AI
I take it you dont listen to your doctors.
sayamqazi··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
> 'working like they do in the real world'.

But in real life I am allowed to look at any material available while solving a problem yet school exams dont allow it.

sayamqazi··on Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15
Almost all languages have exceptions and traditional grammars are just academic study of grammars.
sayamqazi··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Also candy is enjoyable but 24/7 sucking on it is not.
sayamqazi··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
tbf producing coherent answers to questions (even if sometimes inaccurate) was perceived to be an almost impossible task a decade ago.
sayamqazi··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
I dont know what kind of authoritative server Apex Legend uses that let the infamous "Tufi" hacker do what he did for so long. IMO it should be trivial to ban someone hitting more than 80% of their shots as headshots,, dual weilding weapons that were never supposed to be dual-weilded. Charge rifle beam permanently shooting and swapping armors from miles away
sayamqazi··on The locals don't know
I spent my childhood in a place that was a destination for others but later in life moved to a city. When the company i work at decided to have a trip there I was like eh whaterevr. its just some boring mountains and waterfalls but went anyway. Seeing my coworkers be really enjoying that was really an experience in itself.
sayamqazi··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
I am as asian and I was at the receiving end of pretty severe (trust me you dont wanna know the details) physical abuse as a child. It did leave some lasting damage but surprisingly it didnt affect my academic outcomes and I dont feel like someone who would ever ever consider suicide for anything whatsoever.
sayamqazi··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
These things only hurt emotionally when done wrongfully.
sayamqazi··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
When a great product is built it was the leadership and when a mistake was made it was always the employee that did it. Cool!
sayamqazi··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
You would be surprised how many people naively think "Why doesn't my country just open a war on X country and this Y problem will be solved forever" in their head they think war is just a flurry of bombardments and the other side (not theirs) is just destroyed to rubble and their country will have only minimal losses
sayamqazi··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
It has been my observation that most of the better students were the ones who would not put in work during the semester/year and cram at the end.
sayamqazi··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
I speak Urdu (another South Asian language). If you asked someone the meaning of sorry in Urdu they would always say "ma'afi/ma'af karna" which is very strictly "asking forgiveness" although it "can" be used as "I didnt hear you / come again" literally nobody ever uses it that way
sayamqazi··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
they are using the "reusable" <ErrorModal message="..." /> thats why it looks the same, which is a good practice /s
sayamqazi··on The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
They wanna filter the candidates who used GenAI and then force the GenAI on the existing employees. Makes total sense.
sayamqazi··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
Who is gonna make sure that what I put in github is exactly what I am pushing to the store.
sayamqazi··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
I think height matters for speed as a fit 6ft+ would easily run way faster than a 4" 8' fit person.
sayamqazi··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Also letting chlidren run and play barefoot actaully helps develop the foot properly which I presonally think is benificial in the long run.
sayamqazi··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
half marathon is ~20 KM its pretty sad that a large percentage of people cant do that. One can simply walk that much distance wihtout any prior training.
sayamqazi··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
There is no such thing as DX with any digital tool. Its just pain and suffering all the way down. Sooner you realize it and make peace with it the better.
sayamqazi··on Android Developer Verification
You "refusing to believe it" doesn't make it go away.
sayamqazi··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
> usage patterns

IMO interceptors are bad. they hide what might get transformed with the API call at the place it is being used.

> Likewise, every response I get is JSON. There's no reason to manually unwrap the response into JSON every time.

This is not true unless you are not interfacing with your own backends. even then why not just make a helper that unwraps as json by default but can be passed an arg to parse as something else

sayamqazi··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
not timeout at all is even shorter.
sayamqazi··on The 49MB web page
It took me 15 minutes to convince the UX designer on our team that autofill is a good thing for certain fields and why it is a bad idea to force-style the autofilled fields.
sayamqazi··on Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
If something is mine by right, no matter how little or lot worth it has noone shoule be allowed to force/trick me to donate it. It should just be my choice.
sayamqazi··on Starlink Mini as a failover
If you are from USA and pay tax Govt has likely put some money into things done by Elon
sayamqazi··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
After reading your comment I take back my last sentence. I dont think the LLM would have been able to create that website becaue what LLM would have created would have been an uninspiring husk of tutorials. The website had a certain personality to it with the choice of games he would make and the "interesting" problems he would demonstrate and give solutions to.
sayamqazi··on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI
its slower than text mode. basically you can print anything as long as you can convert it to monochrome bitmap before sending. But the thermal printers have anotehr mode which prints extremely fast if your data is textual with rudimentary formatting like order slips.
sayamqazi··on The 49MB web page
I have tried push back but then the other guy that says "I can do it" gets the ticket handed to him.

Me: we cant do X bceause it has Y and Z implcations for end users

Manager: It fits our brand and we have to do it.

Dev: I can do it and the implications are mitigated by (handwavy explanation)

Maanger: sounds good. (To me) Maybe you can make a (useless) diagram for this featuer that will be realy handy for KT

--Days later--

Feature is delivered and the Y and Z were ethier not mitigated or there was a attempt-ish to mitigate them

sayamqazi··on The 49MB web page
I as a developer cannot refuse to not build as-is what was signed off by product manager in figma.

Recently had to put so many huge blurs that there was screen tearing like effect whenver you srcolled a table. AND No i was not allowed to use prebake-blurs because they wouldnt resize "responsively"

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