anilakar

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by anilakar 6y ago
In the US pension system, are the pension payments somehow delayed from the actual date that liability is accrued, i.e. the day the employee gets paid the first time? Is it legal for a company to pay a salary to their employees without havi
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by anilakar 6y ago
I've always thought of HN as a minimalistic, completely open platform that you can and should customize as you see fit.
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by anilakar 6y ago
At least on Windows you can add an existing steamapps directory on the download settings page. If you can add custom library locations on Linux, I'd probably try making a copy of my Windows steamapp library, adding that directory in th
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by anilakar 6y ago
Most people use scp and not sftp because they prefer the cp-like semantics of the command line tool. I have no idea why OpenSSH's scp does not use SFTP by default and allow an explicit fallback to scp for those systems that don't
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by anilakar 6y ago
The sad part: It feels more snappy than my Windows 10 desktop it runs on.
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by anilakar 6y ago
Another issue with spaced repetition is that it's not a teaching method - you just can't throw a pile of random quiz cards on people and tell them to keep flipping them until they get the answer right. That's the principle th
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by anilakar 6y ago
It is, when you write a cronjob to update it and then Certbot autoinstalls a competing (daily/monthly, can't remember) cronjob that breaks the one you had set up a year ago.
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by anilakar 6y ago
There's something fishy with the sign-up UX, though. I constantly keep seeing new users accidentally creating two accounts (the record being four!) when they join a server for the first time.
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by anilakar 6y ago
Using maths to either oppose or support generic duck typing is just pointless, because it's easy to come up with counterexamples where a mathematical operation would or would not behave as expected. In quite a few cases where one would
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by anilakar 6y ago
>Also, RAID is not a backup. RAID provides high(er) availability. You need to have backups still! Absolutely true. In this case we underestimated the workload caused by the service tag and firmware version issues and the fact that the ne
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by anilakar 6y ago
I've relied on hardware RAID over one hardware failure, for the first and last time. We were running some services on a stack of older Dell servers with mostly identical hardware. The RAID controller and mainboard on one of them let th
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by anilakar 6y ago
> autotools-based C project It wasn't autotools per se that was horrible. It was the the fact that you had to pollute your system with random libraries, often no longer available from the operating system vendor repositories. Docker
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by anilakar 6y ago
IMHO the default HTTP trust model where a domain implicitly trusts its subdomains is at fault here, when the logical solution would be to remove the trust altogether or at least make it explicit both ways. With regard to Bitwarden's de
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by anilakar 6y ago
I'd compare the Quest 2 to Nintendo's Wii and Switch. It's probably a good platform for the few exclusive titles that have been designed from the ground up to work on the gimmicky controllers and below-than-average hardware s
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by anilakar 6y ago
Anecdote: I acquired a crowdfunded, limited run LP earlier this year, and it's one of the two audio recordings I've ever bought in physical format during the fifteen years I've managed my personal finance. I already owned the
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by anilakar 6y ago
Then it's no longer a systems-level simulation but an arcade game with a sim-like physics. However, you are correct in the sense that most racing and flight sim folks tend to be entitled snobs who have spare money to throw around. Many
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by anilakar 6y ago
Digital Combat Simulator (DCS World) has some really tiny text on the cockpit dials and screens, and distant targets are often only a few pixels in size. Those 2000+ vertical pixel HMDs I mentioned don't have any issues with cockpit de
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by anilakar 6y ago
Having 1440p screens would have been great two years ago. The baseline currently is Index with 1700ish vertical pixels, and competitors such as HP and Pimax have pushed past the "4K" (2160+) pixel mark. Disclaimer: I'm a sim
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by anilakar 6y ago
Microwave ovens operate at 2.45 GHz because of frequency management issues - we just can't afford to have jammers all around the spectrum. The first water absorption peak is actually at 22ish GHz.
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by anilakar 6y ago
Your Linkedin profile mentions a US patent for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LONG-RANGE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER", yet the only Google result is that Linkedin profile or yours. Is the patent application still unapproved and thus unlisted,
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by anilakar 6y ago
It's even worse when your friends tell you that you're underpaid and should seek new employment when you are struggling to find open jobs or get past the HR people.
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by anilakar 6y ago
Or browse the site with CSS styling turned off. Firefox also has an accessibility developer mode (Shift-F12) but it mostly focuses on technical issues.
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by anilakar 6y ago
A few years ago I and a few friends found a pile of old PCI Express Fibre Channel cards from some manufacturer I can no longer remember. 2.5 gigabits per second being faster than one and people being on an undergrad budget, we soon started
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by anilakar 6y ago
We used to despise web scraping and tried to dump data from an industrial system by listening to raw Modbus RS-485 traffic. Turned out that there was no way to get the register maps from the vendor nor the firmware. We ended up writing a sc
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by anilakar 6y ago
Being a "black box" is good. I don't have any expertise with React in particular, but any complex enough framework will break down when you extend it beyond the official documented APIs and start relying on undocumented behav
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by anilakar 6y ago
The IETF strives to create the best technical solution for given specifications. That's its task. Where those specifications come from is a related but separate issue.
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by anilakar 6y ago
Having to deal with the .epub conversion was the main reason I ditched my Voyage and got a Kobo Aura One instead.
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by anilakar 6y ago
With two identical airplanes, that's true. IIRC the AI also excelled in high-aspect head on shots which normal pilots tend to avoid, because for humans it's mostly about luck and less skill. When you pit two dissimilar aircraft ag
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by anilakar 6y ago
The original meaning of embedded has pretty much lost its meaning outside electronics engineering. I remember being taught that an embedded system has a microprocessor inside while it might not be readily apparent to the end user. It can be
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by anilakar 6y ago
Operating a reactor designed for weapon grade fissile material production (which RBMK is) does not look too good, either.

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