KiranRao0

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   by KiranRao0 5y ago

   I'm very happy with the recent progress in GA Avgas. My flying club recently switched from 100LL [1] to UL94 [2] with no appreciable change in aircraft performance. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#100LL_(bl
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   Why Isn't Google Fiber Peered with Google(bgp.he.net)

   30 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|10 comments
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   by KiranRao0 5y ago

   I'm (slowly) in the process of migrating an Android app from Java -> Kotlin. The compatibility with Java is pretty amazing. Mixing the two languages feels almost the same as two java files. There is a bit of cognitive overhead at f
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   by KiranRao0 5y ago

   I've always considered 40k a satire of the entire sci-fi genre (and in many ways a satire on modern politics). In that way, I find it quite refreshing. And your statement of "unashamed embrace of over-the-top" resonates quite
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   by KiranRao0 5y ago

   I remember a Linus Torvalds video on this exact problem. I found it both blunt at insightful: Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc
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   Ask HN: What's the difference between CRDT vs. Eventual Consistency?

   3 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|2 comments
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   Programming Language Generations(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|0 comments
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   How to Terraform Venus Quickly (Kurzgesagt)(youtube.com)

   6 points by KiranRao0 5y ago|1 comments
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   by KiranRao0 5y ago

   Minute physics did a great video on this topic a while back: https://youtu.be/LKnqECcg6Gw
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    by KiranRao0 5y ago

    Don't forget to take breaks short breaks while reading this article, which itself is a long break from doing other things.
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    by KiranRao0 5y ago

    Unfortunately not thick, but instead very thorough is the TCP/IP guide: http://www.tcpipguide.com/ Very good as a spot reference.
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    by KiranRao0 5y ago

    There's something uncanny about this. I think it's the lack of clicks caused by a mechanical hard drive that I'm so accustomed to when things are loading in an old OS.
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    by KiranRao0 5y ago

    I can't help by think of this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    I wish I held that view. My view is that the majority of people will self-censoring and be too afraid of saying anything remotely controversial.
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    https://pgexercises.com/ Blurb from their homepage: Welcome to PostgreSQL Exercises! This site was born when I noticed that there's a load of material out there to help people learn about SQL, but not a great deal to m
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    Leaving my phone in a different room when going to bed.
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    That's the reason margin requirements exist. If the trade moves against you, there's an amount of money in your account that will be used to settle the transaction. If the trade moves too far against you, your broker will close th
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    CMU 15-445 is a pretty good course from Carnegie Mellon about RDBMS internals. The course is fully available online and on YouTube. https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html They discuss both theory, as w
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    Nothing obvious. I've found Cmd+Shift+P, then delete the > character, works extremely well in place of Cmd+P.
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    Google inbox. Like Gmail but better
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    I remember doing an experiment with my roommates with Engenius APs (I can consistently get ~480mbps). For everything but direct large downloads, everyone thought that using a 100mbps wired connection felt faster/snappier than the 480mp
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    Nature: Best Science Images of 2020(nature.com)

    2 points by KiranRao0 6y ago|0 comments
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    Here's a really good article describing why the M1 chip is so fast. Tl;dr it's a beefy CPU with a massive reorder buffer, and a bunch of discrete subsystems (gpu, ml core, dsp, etc). https://debugger.medium.com/why
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    Can't built a better future with blind optimism either
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    I love the concept. Do you have any tools to combat spammers? Or has that not yet become a problem?
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    CMU 15-445 Database Course and accompanying Youtube lecture series is a great intro to understanding the inner mechanism of a relational database. https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/schedule.html
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    From a purely technical perspective, what were the advantages and disadvantages compared to a technology like LTE or LTE advanced?
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    > (in 2020 you can buy a server with 56 cores at 5.6 GHz and 1 TB RAM) Does anyone which currently available CPUs are able to run at stably at 5.6GHz? (Presumably with 14 cores each)
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    I don't know anyone specific, but I've heard about astroid mining as an alternative to mining rare earth metals.
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    by KiranRao0 6y ago

    I would love if Facebook could simply remove all political ads. The problem then becomes what classifies as political ad. This can be very obvious (vote for president = political, buy cereal = not political), but it can also be far less obv