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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
There was some discussion on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628285
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Quickdraw with Google AI(quickdraw.withgoogle.com)
132 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|45 comments
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Home Ownership in California(wiki.purplpkg.com)
1 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|0 comments
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Examining Apache Kafka Performance Metrics(developer.confluent.io)
1 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|0 comments
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Makes sense. Thanks!
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Nice work! I played around with the demo and launched an SSH session for the last layer (hosting the website). And I was able to trigger a VM reboot from the shell. And now the website is not up anymore. Curious to know if there's any
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
I'm not sure this works very well. I tried running the test on T-mobile's LTE which has free Spotify streaming. It basically said there was "no differentiation" implying there was no packet inspection? EDIT: Re-read the
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
I see the same thing. I'm on iOS 14.3
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842648
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Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack [pdf](microsoft.com)
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
They're inconsistent too. macOS updates have progress bars that give you an estimate for completion. iOS updates just show you a progress bar with no estimated time. And this is what I worry with macOS becoming more like iOS.
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
And it works perfectly on the phone too.
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How do you add fractions?(pranavchinmay.github.io)
1 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|0 comments
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
On first glance that page looks like something Apple might have put together. I genuinely thought this was from Apple.
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Kafka uses a thread pool for request processing. Both the brokers and the consumer clients use the same request processing loop. This goes a bit more in-depth: https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/apache-kafka/content&#x2
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
VPNs are almost always over UDP. See IPSec (most common VPN implementation): https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-ip... See Wireguard (increasing popularity): https://www.wireguard.
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Other than all the software glitches and the increasing number of bugs with every release, Macbooks still have the best (& possibly the biggest?) track pad I have ever used on a laptop. Personally, I am yet to find a terminal front-end
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-t... Seems like free DashPass is valid only for a year. > Complimentary DashPass Subscription for Chase Sapphire Reserve and Preferred cardmembers: Your Cha
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YouTube Is Down(twitter.com)
12 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|1 comments
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Probably because Google doodled him on his birthday (8th November) https://www.google.com/doodles/purushottam-laxman-deshpandes...
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
But you have to go through the hassle of signing the certificate every 7 days. It's not exactly the same experience.
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
I was watching a TED talk on the "Good Country Index" a couple of days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7fZoDs9KU Funnily enough, Finland is #1 right now. https://www.goodcountry.org/index&#x2
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
I think there was a thread here on the disadvantages of all the software processing in phone cameras today. I had a similar experience trying to capture the orange skies when the wildfires were raging here in California. My iPhone corrected
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
It's also the unprompted responses that has started to bug me. I don't know if Google is having a bad rollout or this is deliberate but my Google Home is being triggered a lot more often now and I don't recall anything remote
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
Are you talking about this project? https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker containerd I think it's still very much active. Not sure how usable it is if that's what you mean.
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Opt-Out Tool for Ads(optout.aboutads.info)
2 points by aloknnikhil 6y ago|0 comments
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
It's impressive that this checks for the system theme switches between dark/light modes
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173238 Super cool and thanks for this! I commented a few weeks ago on how it'd be nice to have a git CLI that actually helps you find the command you're looking for beca
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
That's fair. But for lack of a better alternative, I suggested this. I think just exporting a playlist should be the bare minimum that any service should allow. And this project seems to enable that
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by aloknnikhil 6y ago
If anyone is looking for an alternative, I have had a good experience using https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl Really unfortunate that Spotify dictates what you do with your own playlist when you're not even

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