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@wottheberry It's worse when parents "compete with you" than being happy for you
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My friend got promoted last year and moved into a much nicer apartment.
The first time his parents visited, his mom walked around smiling the entire time.
His dad barely said anything.
Just looked around quietly.
When they left, his dad shook his hand and said:
“Nice place.”
That was it.
A week later my friend called his parents and his mom accidentally let something slip.
Apparently after they got home, his dad spent two hours measuring rooms in their house.
My friend was confused.
Why?
Turns out his childhood bedroom was almost exactly the same size as his new living room.
His dad kept walking around saying:
“Can you believe it? His living room is bigger than his whole bedroom used to be.”
Sometimes people from certain generations don’t know how to say:
“I’m proud of you.”
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@WindowsLatest I thought the move to Electron was for all WhatsApp Desktop builds and was genuinely confused why the same Electron version feels smooth on Mac. Been attributing the smoothness to better Electron optimization for Mac OS all this time 🫠
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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1+ GB of RAM, doing nothing
I tested it on low-end, mid-range, and high-end PCs, and the experience is bad everywhere. Before even logging in, WhatsApp was already touching 400MB RAM.
After logging in and scrolling through chats, it jumped toward 1.2GB. Idle, it still holds around 600MB.
The old native UWP WhatsApp used less than 100MB at idle and felt instant.
The new app is basically web whatsapp com inside WebView2. It loads slowly, switches chats slowly, delays message sending, keeps running in the tray, and still gives worse notifications than the old app.
Meta has 3 billion WhatsApp users. Windows has 1.6 billion users. There is no excuse for shipping a browser tab as a desktop app.
If Meta can build native WhatsApp for macOS and even Apple Watch, it can build a proper native Windows app.
Windows users deserve better than this slop!
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Traditional media is showing its age.
We either need multi-discipline reporters from this era or total dismantling of this system.
The "X said Y, and it's viral" reports are the traditional media's way of engagement farming. And it is dangerous since there's no precedence in curbing fake news dissemination through these channels.
Krish Ashok@krishashok
No. I don’t think the conspiracy is likely. While I don’t know how Blinkit has implemented their search, this is just how a good software engineer might design a quick commerce search feature 1. In general, showing no results is considered a bad idea. So, beyond direct word matches, they will try fuzzy matches, phonetic matches, substring matches and in India, do this across Indian languages (someone searching for ulli or kanda should be shown onions) 2. Beyond this, even a random keyboard smash will regularly fit some fuzzy match or the other, so my guess is if you try different random combinations, you should get different products, not just chocolate 3. If I was smart, I’d also use the user’s previous buying history to take a shot at the category, and in the screenshot below, the user has purchased Milkybar before, so taking a bet and tempting the user with more chocolate is not a bad idea. So I did a few experiments…
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@original_ngv been an age-old tradition in securing a "secure" govt job
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@hiarun02 u get keyboard imprints on your screen using a keyboard cover
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MacBook owners, do you use a keyboard cover or avoid it completely?
Arun@hiarun02
Finally, I’ve set up my MacBook Air M5. Cool, Now tell me how to make my first $1M.
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@Gamingtronium it's a demon from the era where even compilers were a paid product
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I still don't understand what the purple Visual Studio is used for 😭
can someone explain?
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I highly recommend going to sleep at any minor inconvenience.
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@DhairyaPurohit The Kiteretsu theme song was the best. My mom randomly sings it till date. 😂
The episodes don't feel the same with changed voice overs now. 😔
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Not always, but I must say I used to love watching it, and it had a very different taste; the background music was better too, and the song was great too.
Vanshika@vanyaSile
Unpopular Opinion : Kiteretsu has much better episodes than Doraemon.
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@isha_singh06 imagine @davidjmalan conducting CS50 with that screen!
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As a developer, which one do you prefer?
- Solo builder
- Team builder
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Went to a well-regarded, genuine offline tech store today in Chennai.
Asked for a HDD expecting a minimal difference from the Amazon price. I was quoted a price ₹5,200 less than the Amazon listing! And yes, with a bill.
This same situation would have played in an opposite fashion just a few years back. Crazy how things are evolving.
However, I could save an extra amount of ₹650 just by walking to a store not accessible by main road. Some elderly tips do still work ;)
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@_Shivkivani ye "Ice Apple" ko chhilna bahot badi samasya hoti thi bachpan ki
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@alonzuman i think people are missing the subtext here: u calling her expensive? 🤨
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@niketrajdwivedi announced this as my mission at the age of 10 😂
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remind yourself that your misery doesn’t matter and that you’re here to contribute for human evolution. focus.
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@OnkarOjha4 some would say the ecosystem is not a trap, but a wormhole to 0 friction
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After years on android finally upgraded to iPhone
Not saying I switched sides… but the ecosystem trap is already working. 😭🍎
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@aaishika It will be interesting to see how AI affects/affected GTA VI though
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I feel like becoming an Ostrich some times. Just bury your head in the ground and forget the world exists.
Words@itswords_
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@Crabbyhere the more the dialogues lag than the lips, the more invested you get in the movie brother. u r a dieh-hard fan of the dubs bro.
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Watched hoppers and loved it, (I watched the dub cause i was told its more funny that way) holy shit it reminded me of utv movies😭
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