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by devsda 2y ago
My take away from the GP was that it's not so much as an issue with Apple'version of VR but about the state of the technology itself. The hardware today is too bulky and difficult to use as a daily driver. May be Google was on to
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> Would you return items to a place incapable of taking care of them? Isn't this like saying "I'm not going to return what I stole because you clearly aren't capable of taking care of it, if you are it would never ha
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> but the model sees it as a single token (the token with id 24912 for gpt-4o to be precise). It knows the meaning of this token and it's relationship to other tokens much the same way you know relations between words In this contex
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Forget financial transactions. You cannot book a temple visit online without giving aadhaar details of all devotees. That's how ridiculously it is used when it is supposed to be used only in activities related to "consolidated fun
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If you have the know how and the discipline to maintain proper backup strategy, then local storage(@ home) always wins over cloud in terms of pricing, flexibility or freedom.
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by devsda 2y ago
I too don't know who Linux is or if it's a he but apparently they don't like it if you don't use the right terms[1]. [1]. https://docs.kernel.org/process/code-of-conduct.html
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by devsda 2y ago
They are probably referring to IME in Intel and PSP in AMD. They are essentially blackboxes that have control over everything in our PCs and nobody including the OS has any visibility into what they do under the hood.
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Google registry owns like 40 odd gTLDs. A company that maintains that many TLDs is expected to have long term commitment to the domain related businesses but it turns out to be just a fleeting interest.
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> but if I'm currently using Redis as part of my product or service, forcing these new terms is threatening my business because I rely on it. Unless your primary product involves selling a hosted version of Redis, simply using it sh
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The article suggests valkey as an alternative with nice features in recent versions. If redis finds a way to integrate these features from these other fork(s) back into its own product, adds additional "enterprise" feature set on
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> Worse case, they say “no” and you leave anyways. If they say no, for some it puts self-imposed (imaginary) pressure to leave as soon as possible and that can lead to accepting mediocre offers. It's better to try this only if you a
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by devsda 2y ago
So, there is no objective way to measure performance of a manager ? It sounds similar to measuring the productivity of developer. Measuring scope to evaluate performance is like saying developer who works on most number of tickets/bugs
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> COVID lockdown was a doddle, I had been working at home full time for almost 30 years by then The worst part of this RTO phase is those who were previously(pre covid) afforded permanent WFH or x days WFH at the time of hiring are also
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by devsda 2y ago
> Where I work, RTO is partially Finance driven, bean counters just don't like seeing seats they paid for go empty Same here. Leaders up the chain get a "use it or leave it" mail for office space and suddenly everyone is a
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by devsda 2y ago
> That was not a small rock in the Java pond at the time when we had to go through the Great Renaming. Haha. It still hasn't ended actually. Slowly all the old software that supported only java ee are now (nearing) EOL. Only recentl
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by devsda 2y ago
FF profiles do work. The problem is discoverability and UX. I believe, in chrome profile management is another menu option. In FF you have to use about:profiles or start Firefox with a specific command line argument. Unless you know about
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by devsda 2y ago
My advice, give it some time. Like the cheating ban, there could be more restrictions/actions in place on accounts once they have figured out and addressed all the ways someone can abuse or take advantage of this. Once the dust settles
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> measure LOC per week and chastise I don't know if this is a recent thing. > Instead of making a library, this team would copy/paste code and customise each MMI command If it has been for a while, then a library call is few
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by devsda 2y ago
"the hell that is shopping at a physical store" Someone may say similar words about shopping at Amazon and they wouldn't be wrong. "the hell that is shopping at Amazon's counterfeit infested online store"
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That's because it's difficult to really define a job in IT with clear description along with set roles and responsibilities. In some orgs, it's the title that dictates what you can/can't do. In some orgs, eventuall
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by devsda 2y ago
To me that question falls into the country specific category. I just assumed it's an American thing to learn about western musical instruments at school.
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I have one suggestion. The dialog at the end like "you got the following questions wrong: 23" can be easily mistaken for the number of questions answered wrong. I did! If that be changed to avoid the confusion, it will be great.
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One of the questions was about an element in the periodic table and I got to study periodic table in 8th or 9th grade. So, apart from the obvious questions about American history I think getting them right also depends on the country you&#x
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Unfortunately, if/when someone from the manufacturer knows about it their first thought will not be "How do we make it easier for our customers". It will most likely be "How do we restrict this hack" and will eventu
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I wonder how the conversation with Amazon customer support goes in that situation. If it says X model on the label, and OS also reports it as X it becomes tough to make a case for returns.
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> The tech world is too big. Had the same realization today. Hugo was my first introduction to the idea of static site generators. That got me thinking what other tools pre-dated it and then I found this excellent series on the evolution
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> I doubt that Firefox is better, I seem to remember that building Firefox and the VIA C3 processor years back as around half a day of compiling, but was also an extremely poorly choose CPU for the task. Around 6-7 years back, I was able
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Developer layoffs are always projected as huge savings in expenditure. It probably gives the impression that developers' pay is higher compared to other employees.
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Hard to type and search for. It is a common name so they are likely to run into irrelevant results even when adding an extra keywords for context.
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Link to the proposal behind this change: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/57001-g... > Many people believe the go line in the go.mod file specifies which Go toolchain to use. This

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