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by arun-mani-j 2mo ago
I traveled in the flight for the first time 2 months back and I find this article so similar to my experience. I had so much confusion on the entire protocols on what is allowed and what is not and all those terminologies, such that a week
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by arun-mani-j 9mo ago
https://arunmani.in
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by arun-mani-j 1y ago
Update: it was my ISP. After switching networks and flushing the cache, it fails for me too. Sorry for the mistake :( (Clicked "hide" option in the post from my side,don't know if it is possible for me to delete it)
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Google has a weird page on all HTTP://X.google.com(linux.google.com)
2 points by arun-mani-j 1y ago|5 comments
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by arun-mani-j 1y ago
This is so nice, I wish more packages followed something like this. I'm on AMD integrated GPU (doesn't even support Rocm). Whenever I install a Python package that depends on PyTorch, it automatically installs some GBs of CUDA rel
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by arun-mani-j 1y ago
I found this by accident when searching for a command in `M-x`. It is really a nice lorem-ipsum generator but it adds some "subversive" words (as described in the manual), so was quite afraid to use it in public/team projects
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M-x spook (Emacs mail amusement)(gnu.org)
29 points by arun-mani-j 1y ago|2 comments
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by arun-mani-j 1y ago
We tried making a library for GT, but as Tao says, given the very broad scope of number of games, strategies and players, etc., giving a unified and generalized interface was quite difficult for us. We also wanted to make a library and a si
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CSS <System-Color>(developer.mozilla.org)
4 points by arun-mani-j 1y ago|0 comments
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Tell HN: Netdata is shipping their new dashboard as closed source blobs(fellies.social)
2 points by arun-mani-j 2y ago|1 comments
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
Short summary: Netdata - "The open-source observability platform everyone needs!" (from their GitHub description) has been shipping their new dashboard (UI v2) as closed source blobs under a proprietary license (Netdata Cloud UI L
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
Very cool (literally) stuff. I drew a straight line and it keeps spinning :D
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
Aww thanks! Actually we both should thank Hugo for converting the MarkDown into a very simple HTML structure. I also try to follow semantic web whenever possible (article, header, footer etc. instead of divsoup). Very glad to know the site
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
It's Competitive Programmer's Handbook - https://github.com/pllk/cphb/
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
I tried to explain only one's complement and two's complement because they were only relevant to the explanation. TIL we have 5 such representations! :)
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
Thanks for the nice summary. I found myself difficult to explain it so I took the help of visual explanation using the bits structure. :)
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Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?(arunmani.in)
176 points by arun-mani-j 2y ago|63 comments
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by arun-mani-j 2y ago
When I had a 2 GB laptop lying around, I always wanted a simple text editor with auto-completion etc. (Though only for Python, Linux) After trying KDevelop, Kate, Eric, Sypder etc. I thought I could write my own. I had a simple plugin syste
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Can someone explain what "security mechanisms" an Android phone has built-in that are "destroyed" when a phone is rooted or custom ROM is installed such that banking apps, etc. deny to open up? If I understand right, roo
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Thanks, it took me sometime to get that it is a parody/joke :D I liked this one - Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work [ https://www.theolognion.com/p/dev-realizes-he-is-still-in-th.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Starship users: how do you track updates? I manually update occasionally (mostly months)
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Being the only "tech guy" in my family, I have installed Firefox with uBlock Origin and NewPipe in my parents', siblings' phone and some of my close friends'. The end result is their browsing experience has vastly i
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
> You don't use bookmarks? Hearing them for the first time :) > C-h k runs the command describe-key. You do this and after that any command, and it will give you the explanation. I think I'm forgetting them because I don&#x2
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Doom Emacs defaults to Evil mode. But if you turn it off, it gives you vanilla keybindings. So I don't think it remaps them. :)
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I'm a college student and I use Doom Emacs for about 4 years (before that I was learning to program and used Python IDLE, Kate etc.) On top of Doom Emacs, I have enabled CUA Mode and my own configuration is less than 10 lines, and it i
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Thank you! Shall check. (Sorry for replying late, I forgot to check back for replies)
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I shall check the speed on Cloudflare but the speed is not much improved on Python HTTP server too. :(
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Freshman's Dream(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by arun-mani-j 3y ago|0 comments
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
No, it is a large zip file.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
On a similar note, can someone tell me what's the fastest (wireless) way to transfer files between two laptops on same network (i.e. hotspot)? scp, rsync, wormhole give me only 2-3 mb/s. For the context, I'm trying to transfe

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