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by deepGem 3y ago
I live in Bangalore, one of the cities which is primed for water depletion. In fact, there are areas where there is no drinking water supply at all and water is ferried by trucks (locally called water tankers). Now these trucks ferry water
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by deepGem 3y ago
Think of cessation, also scripturally described as the “non-occurrence of consciousness,” like voluntarily inducing the effects of general anesthesia. Consciousness switches off without a trace, while the basic homeostatic operations of the
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by deepGem 3y ago
It's quite funny how Gwynne Shotwell is able to steer SpaceX despite Musk while this new Twitter CEO is borderline toothless. There is just no way she would have allowed this to play out, given that advertising and branding is her core
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by deepGem 3y ago
There is a clear distinction between edge and a region. That distinction is defined by the distance and by relation latency. Edge locations are not heavy regions or data centres, per my understanding and hence limited by compute/storag
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by deepGem 3y ago
I think even talking about the draft gives you an idea about the severity of the problem. My experience has been the same. If the problem is severe enough a crappy draft will do. Conversely if someone is asking for multiple refinements even
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by deepGem 3y ago
Pretty much all my interviews except in Meta. This is in India though. Meta was the most organized but even that interview went over 2 weeks. My Walmart interview lasted 2+ months. Round1 week1, round 2 week 3 etc etc. This is for Staff+ l
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by deepGem 3y ago
I often think it's a lot better to do an overall interview over a full day than to do disjointed rounds of 4-5 interviews over a few months. Some advantages - Interviewer and the interviewee are at ease. There is no rush to solve a pro
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by deepGem 3y ago
My younger self was loathe to programming. It was just a job for me, clock in clock out as you say. I was always in this zone of product managers and managers are superior as they were always in some meetings and it gave me the impression t
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by deepGem 4y ago
Anyone who had to deal with retraining models understands the pain of retraining. What prompts offer as a feature while at the surface may seem superficial, they are groundbreaking, as they completely remove re-training and the entire ML-Op
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by deepGem 4y ago
Yeah, you have a much better understanding of this topic than me for sure :)
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by deepGem 4y ago
Nothing proprietary in Spanner but I believe no other vendor has an atomic clock similar to what Google has. Hence they are not able to implement the paxos global transaction lock which requires that all servers participating in the transac
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by deepGem 4y ago
The atomic clock is not in the VM, it’s a service from what I understand similar to NTP but obviously much more localised. I in fact think once you offer atomic clock as a service for any public cloud, distributed transactions become a lot
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by deepGem 4y ago
The atomic clock is the key to enable distributed transactions and Google has a proprietary lock on their atomic clocks for Spanner.
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by deepGem 4y ago
One of the best decisions in my life was to take this course. I started riding a Buell after this and boy what a thrill it was to lean this bike in the Pacific Northwest hilly roads.
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by deepGem 4y ago
The counterintuitive turn is more pronounced in motorcycles. You are literally pushing against the turn as you lean into the turn, and to lean in you have to turn out. Even more pronounced in sport motorcycles. Maintaining the centre of gra
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by deepGem 4y ago
+1. As an Indian kid growing up in a very conservative family/neighborhood I can attest that what I have learned and have helped me in becoming successful was all through my peers and books (mostly fiction). If I had no access to those
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by deepGem 4y ago
People in general who are not good at something or didn't find success in that field, in order to feel their salt's worth have 2 options - either build something that's far greater than what they are not good at, or disparage
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by deepGem 4y ago
You are right. There is no legal contract, it's an insurance policy. In practice this is as good as having a legal contract is what I meant.
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by deepGem 4y ago
You have a legal contract with FDIC which insures all deposits upto $250K is what I know. If the bank goes bust FDIC owes you your money under 250K.
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by deepGem 4y ago
The consistent response I have gotten from managers is that more or less - people fake work sitting in their homes or work multiple jobs, and we collaborate better when we are sitting in an office. They use this as a force function to pull
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by deepGem 4y ago
Sadly neither of these are allowed to sell in India. It's an Amazon/Flipkart duopoly and I personally cannot stand the Flipkart shopping interface. Millions love it.
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by deepGem 4y ago
I think Amazon has an ad network of sorts, so sellers bid for the sponsored search slot. In retailers who don't have such a platform, merchandisers take the call and boost/bury products in search results.
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by deepGem 4y ago
Ads on Amazon are far more annoying than ads on other web properties, because I go to Amazon for a very specific need. I search for Tide washing liquid and I see these sponsored products on top, way above the Tide result. From a purist view
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MIT 6.824 Distributed systems Spring 2023(pdos.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by deepGem 4y ago|0 comments
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Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges(fly.io)
4 points by deepGem 4y ago|0 comments
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by deepGem 4y ago
Yet unemployment is at the lowest levels. So the economy is doing just fine.
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by deepGem 4y ago
I have finished their build your own Redis exercise. It is very well organized and there are hints/discord groups in which you get sufficient help if you make the effort. This model is great for someone who loses patience with all the
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by deepGem 4y ago
I have been exercising in some way shape or form for the last 10-15 years. What I have found to be immensely beneficial is getting into a sport that you can play almost all through your life. Most sports have spurts of high intensity so tha
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by deepGem 4y ago
So Indians are on the top of the emigration food chain and I wonder why Japan is not one of our top destinations. There are like 50K Indians in Japan, mostly Tokyo. This is a surprisingly low number. Sure there is the language barrier but t
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by deepGem 4y ago
Or carry the 60W charger and turbocharge the phone, agreed it's not as portable as the brick.

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