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sid-anton Pakistan hits 120°F as climate trends drive spring heatwave

I don’t know if it’s a possibility but I am curious if there can be some artificial solution to this?

Could the need to solve this be the first step in developing terra forming technologies?

> The wondrous ruins of Hampi are just a train ride away. Then there's the UNESCO protected majestic western ghats few hours away, and not to mention the pristing beaches of Malpe and Udupi

I agree, there are certainly amazing places to sight-see but I am largely referring to activities like rock climbing gyms (https://www.youtube.com/c/magmidt88), archery, horse riding, accessible national parks and a more extensive board games culture (surprisingly Hyderabad has 2 active clubs)

The Indian society would cast you as an extremely privileged person if you were to bring this up and rightly so, since most people here are trying to live a life first.

I understand that it may not be what everyone wants and this is personal to what I prefer. I would like to be in a place with a better infrastructure (trains), schools and with access to more recreational activities.

sid-anton Back to India

That's correct. I live in Bangalore, India and there are a lot more issues than just quality of life.

1. Since, I am from North India, Bangalore treats us like foreigners i.e. if you don't speak the native language, you will be at a significant disadvantage when requiring the assistance of police.

2. Rather, the police has been known to discriminate against `outsiders`. You can even head over to r/bangalore to know more.

3. The income inequality is real and through the roof. We tech people make much much more than any other private profession and this has made the general population unhappy.

4. Lastly, there isn't much to do besides going out to pubs/cafes.

Which is why I've been leetcoding and preparing to emigrate to Canada/UK. While it's true that I can save a lot more money here (in real terms! At PPP, my monthly savings allows me live for several months without an income) but at what cost.

sid-anton Facebook Pay

Interestingly India is not on the list. While one can use UPI to make payments via WA, their market share is less than a percentage.

Having said that,I hope this takes off. All of my friends prefer Instagram as our primary messaging app since it takes a username and not a phone number to text someone. It would be helpful, if we could makes payments there.

sid-anton Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?

Doesn't it seem like too much of a work? Just as you were using Hacker News, most people I know use a social network, passively. That is, there are only a few people who post regularly while others just react to it.

Also I think WA / Telegram groups basically replaced what Path / Google+ / FB Lists set out to do. It's just more convenient.

Right now Instagram does all of what I would want from a "public" social network while I have whatsapp groups for close friends.

sid-anton Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max

There is no Intel 14core laptop with <45w power budget at the frequencies this benchmark was performed.

i9-12900HK consumes 115W of Turbo Power (PL2) [1]

At 45W it can only do 2.5Ghz ( literally half ) on P cores and 1.8Ghz on E cores.

It would be really interesting to see how this processor works with TB disabled which is really easy thing to do.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/proces...

sid-anton Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

SteamDeck hasn't been released yet and it's coming to a limited number of countries, first. With the supply constraints, it's likely that it would take two or more years for SteamOS to have any noticeable market share. And, that is if SteamDeck is a success.

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In last 10 years,

MacOS grew from 15% to 25% and Windows went from ~84% to ~63%.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-ame...

sid-anton 37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet

Do you mean Facebook Zero[1] / Internet.org[2]. I had completely forgotten about it after TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ) had banned it 2015/2016. It's interesting to know, that the project is still alive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

sid-anton Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS

I've again started using a usb-c thumb drive in place of google drive. It's extremely convenient and safe from big brother eyes.

sid-anton Ask HN: How does a product manager interview look like at FAANG?

Isn't that too subjective? Do they also have to go through 5 rounds of interviews and are they all about scenarios?