RajuVarghese

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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
I guess I'll need a burner phone when traveling to the US in the near future. Just as a lot of people do when visiting China. What a turn of events!
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Measuring progress in the chip industry is detached from reality(economist.com)
4 points by RajuVarghese 2y ago|0 comments
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
There is a circle with 10 nuclear stations that is erroneously located (on the map) in the Atlantic just south of West Africa. That should be in/near China.
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New X-ray world record: Looking inside a microchip with 4nm precision(psi.ch)
1 points by RajuVarghese 2y ago|0 comments
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
I would not use any influencer product either. But as an observer of the world around me I am intrigued. When I first heard the word influencer I thought that this is something that will never fly. But over the years I see how they have bee
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
Travel companies, places and influencers are changing the economics of travel. Here is an mutually beneficial system that is forming due to the need to travel somewhere with people "you know". Covid has changed the social life of
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Influencers are changing the travel industry(outsideonline.com)
3 points by RajuVarghese 2y ago|3 comments
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
When I say "hard to believe" I don't mean to say that I don't believe it. With that out of the way, I am merely stating that it challenges my gray cells: how could sound waves hitting the ear drums cause the variety of h
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by RajuVarghese 2y ago
Hard to believe that such severe health issues can result from noise. I find it harder to believe that Bitcoin mining can cause so much noise. Shouldn't Marathon realize the evil of their ways?
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by RajuVarghese 3y ago
Not only is it not funny, it isn't true at all. Disclosure: I am Swiss too, albeit a naturalized one.
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by RajuVarghese 3y ago
That Wikipedia article makes no mention of the new currency being gold-backed.
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by RajuVarghese 4y ago
This post in HN has made my day! I have been a Digitec customer for over 15 years and I still buy all my tech items from them. Or from Galaxus if it is a non-tech. I am thrilled to see this "little Swiss" company getting wider exp
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by RajuVarghese 4y ago
It was, for a while. It could have been much much more but I was just a nerdy engineer with no idea of marketing and full of idealism in my head. I asked for $2K for a perpetual license for any number of machines in the enterprise. I could
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by RajuVarghese 4y ago
Congratulations! That is a good feeling to see money trickling in. Since I am probably one of the older ones here let me tell you about my experience in the 90's. I had written a time synchronization program for Windows NT and put it o
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by RajuVarghese 4y ago
In contrast, the EU is moving boldly forward with the Digital Markets Act [1]. It looks good on paper but I wonder what it means in practice. I wonder if this legislation will fizzle out too. [1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu&#
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by RajuVarghese 4y ago
It is quite common here in Switzerland. Cafeterias serve it as well as regular restaurants but, admittedly, it is not as common as beef, pork, chicken or lamb. Surprisingly, it is illegal in Texas and other parts of the US though it may not
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
It would have been so easy for the article to state upfront that QR codes are URLs coded as a monochrome patterns of squares. Scanning a QR code is like clicking on that URL. Nothing more, nothing less. So users that scan a QR code have to
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
I recall using this on a SunOS 3.x system (BSD 4.2-based) to build a message passing system. Over the years I expected it to be used more often for machine-internal communication. I think it was overshadowed by its sibling the network socke
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
I agree that the number of people that can understand a cutting-edge paper will be low. But, in CS for example, the number will be much higher than 100. I would assume that it would be in the 1000's worldwide. Since, it isn't my f
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
In a book on mathematics by Alex Bellos he says that any contemporary cutting-edge research mathematics paper can be understood by no more than 100 mathematicians. The field is getting bigger and bigger and there are less and less mathemati
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
They could follow the path taken by judo and karate and become a sport (ie mock fighting) or a form of self-defense. That will include meditation, mental control and confidence-building which are all benefits. The original purpose of hand-t
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
> 150k for software engineers... That may be true in the Valley. The media US salary is $36k. Only about top 16% of the US population gets $150k aor over.
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by RajuVarghese 5y ago
I agree with you. I had used micro-emacs in the 80's and when, about 3 years back, I heard about org mode I wanted to become a big boy and start using emacs. It was a bitter struggle and for many months I regretted that I had even star
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
Thought I would point out that The Economist has two articles on this topic in the latest issue. The geostrategic nature of the TSMC fab is only going to increase in the coming years. The articles explain the context to people like me who d
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
Yes, Switzerland also had roving vans with equipment with which they could detect a switched on TV. I know because I got caught about 40 years back and had to pay a fine. The person that came to the door could tell us exactly where the TV w
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
That's why I used separate terms, ie millionaire and wealthy. Being a millionaire requires that you have more than 1m as assets after taking into account your debts. That is easy but being wealthy is more subjective. Polls have shown t
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
Has anyone noticed that the comments here are only tangential to the topic of the heading, ie "stable internet on moving trains". Most are on the trains and the country where the trains are located. Not complaining; just my observ
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
As a user of the SBB (Swiss railways) for over 30 years I have had a few mishaps (canceled or late trains, bad connections, etc) but, by and large, I have been happy with what I paid for transportation. It is very reliable and convenient. S
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
I hope that the Swiss will stay level-headed and not get into high-speed trains. Reliable connections are far better for more people. The opposite example I would like to present is the high-speed Berlin-Munich train line. It has gobbled

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