KiranRao0

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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Author here, and a few things I'd like to clear up. > 99% of the databases are small enough to have some degration/downtime/exceptions I agree that most DBs are small enough to perform the migration operation in a single t
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Zero downtime migrations(kiranrao.ca)
187 points by KiranRao0 4y ago|37 comments
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
A heat pump. Instead of using power to heat a room, you're using a (relatively) small amount of power to move heat from outside into the room.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
> Don't Trust. Verify How would someone verify something like this, aside traveling to Ukraine right now.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
The stinger [1] is and some have been sent to Ukraine [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger [2] https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/germ...
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Could someone help me understand what this does/is supposed to accomplish?
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Unverified Rumor, so a healthy grain of salt is required: A friend at a large GPU maker was mentioning that a lot of "squeezing all possible compute abilities" for games are in the driver, rather than in the game itself. Which is
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Virgin Galactic is offering $450k tickets to space to the public(nbcnews.com)
2 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|0 comments
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
This is very similar in concept to this chrome extension: Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions. It's open source and its purpose is redirecting from youtube.com -> youtube.com/feed/subscriptions. It may be a good
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Very cool market. This feels a lot like multi-leg option execution. How do you think market makers are going to react to this? It makes sense for them to provide a bid/ask on individual series, but how do you see them providing liquidi
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Wait, where are you getting 25TB for $40/m
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
While the amount of amount of retail space is higher than Canada/Australia, so is the spending (per Capita) United States: 14,614 Canada: 10,953 Australia: 9,239 UK: 6,495 I still believe anchor stores can take down an entire mall, but
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
It took me far too long to realize these, but those company value videos are to protect the company from being sued if an employee misbehaves.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Partially. Depending on the Visa, Canadians need to leave within n days. However, it's extremely easy to re-enter as a visitor (B-2) and stay for 6 months. Canadians are eligible for COBRA if they've earned income within the year.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
As a Canadian living in the US, here is my experience: Advantages - Higher Salaries (as a SWE, but similar for friends in other high skill professions) - Faster, more accessible healthcare - Easier access to COVID vaccines/b
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
It is not based on the cube rule of food. A food can be classified by which faces of a cube the outer layer of carbs populate. In the case of a hot dog, it is a taco, since the bottom and two sides are the carb structure. https:/&#x2F
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Direct Link to Study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
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Children and Teens Gained Weight During the Pandemic(npr.org)
19 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|6 comments
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Collective behavior in response to COVID was a life transfer from the youth to the elderly.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Definitely a cool project. And I agree this is a bad idea in practice for many reasons. But I wasn't aware that TOTP was brute-forcable. What is the mechanism to achieve this (given only a set of IP address and their timestamps)?
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Is there some "legal process" (subpoena, etc) that could reveal this?
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Way way harder unless you're in an authoritarian regime with control over the banking sector.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
While I can't be sure, I believe the commenter is referring to "democrats" (an actor in a democratic government) and not "Democrats" (actors within a political party in the US). Correct me if I'm wrong.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
Does this apply to other non-federal carriers (UPS/Fedex)?
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
One thing I've wondered is how much of Amazon/Google/Microsoft's services are running on the public versions of AWS/GCP/Azure?
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
I'm curious how you implemented this system.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
My favorite was "are any astronauts waving at you"
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One Engineers Quest for the Perfect t-shirt(kiranrao.ca)
3 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|1 comments
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
This seems like a really good thing for the dealership. They are able to operate with ~0 inventory and ~0 inventory holding costs.
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by KiranRao0 5y ago
I would argue what you describe is Evolution as broken into the two pieces: Genetic Drift and Natural Selection. Genetic Drift is always occurring randomly. Some elephants had a "genetic defect" to live without tusks before poachi

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