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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Side note: I started following freight waves when I was working for an autonomous trucking company. This publication is one that I recommend adding to an RSS feed. It's a surprisingly complex ecosystem that has deep insight into severa
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> Considering that Brahui is a Dravidian language David McAlpin made a very strong case for Brahui *not* being a Dravidian language, but rather descended from the proto-elamite language family. He showed how Proto dravidian and Proto-ela
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
A question that’s equally interesting to me is the Harappan language itself. David McAlpin et al have presented compelling evidence that Brahui is a sibling language to Elamite. To me, the most interesting outcome would be finding that Hara
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Anyone got a strong, concise argument for or against BSD over Linux for desktop use? Let me try. First up, it is extremely possible that OpenBSD is not for you. If you require something that is Linux specific, or you absolutely need Bl
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
On iOS, Tor used to recommend using the Onion browser (they probably still do, I haven't checked). Some time ago, the onion browser changed how it connects to the Tor network to use Orbot instead of connecting directly. I can not help
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| Non MBA | MBA | ————————-|————————-|————-| Quadrant | | | Engineer | ME | | ————————-|————————-|————-| Not a | | | Quadrant | | | Engineer |
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Noob here with some meta-questions about developer and operations complexity. From an outsider’s perspective, it looks like in a 2x2 matrix of developer simplicity/complexity and operational simplicity/complexity, the current patt
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I would prefer something like “secure id”. It reflects that the mechanism is a way to securely store some identity related information. It is not a mechanism to establish that identity. The value proposition is still obvious: You need to es
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
As far as I understand, this is not a viable mechanism. Consider a shared computer in a university laboratory or at a public library. Or maybe an iPad that is shared by a family. As a service provider, you usually can not assume that someon
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Hottake here: The biggest mistake that the passkeys movement did is try to make it sound more marketable at the cost of oversimplification. First up, these aren’t really “no password” mechanisms. They’re closer to ssh certificates. You need
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I am also a simple man, I see a trend on HN and I join in.
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> We found that Linux and Firefox users struggled to use passkeys, as those platforms don’t yet have strong support for passkeys. > As a result, we decided to enable cross-device registration of passkeys. That means, you can register
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Came here for a Malazan thread. Didn't find one. Guess it's my turn to start the Malazan thread. > These tales are the tales of us all, again yet again. > We are history relived and that is all, without end that is all.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> which is usually much less performant than GC from various reasons. Can you elaborate? I've seen a couple of malloc implementations, and in all of them, free() is a cheap operation. It usually involves setting a bit somewhere and
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
What novel problem would you want startup founders to solve? Are those problems solvable with current technologies? Is there a distribution model that'll work for that solution? Will the unit economics work? How big is the market for t
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> It's more like "you notice when it happens". You don't know in advance when the last reference will be released A barista knows when a customer will pay for coffee (after they have placed their order). A barista doe
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> In the same sense that the lifetime of an object in a GC'd system has a lower bound of, "as long as it's referenced", sure. These are not the same. The problem with GC'd systems is that you don't know when
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Firmware engineer here with an opinion from down in the trenches: The reality is that it takes a ton of work to get a microcontroller to blink an LED. Various clocks need to be configured, various peripheral devices (I2C controllers, GPIO c
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Here I am, still continuing to dream of a laptop and desktop grade power10 processors in consumer grade products running AIX. I want a solid UNIX ecosystem with power10 to compete with macOS + Arm. I’m tired of there being only one real opt
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
As a lay person, it has been extremely difficult to figure out what is going on. I have a weak grasp on four points(with low confidence on any of them being completely accurate): 1. There is an excess supply of apartments including the ones
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
This is the best presentation I've seen on China's war preparations. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98kMSEkPiLo
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I evaluated using FreeBSD for a project. The biggest challenge for me was I couldn't figure a way to fit modern DevOps into FreeBsd. OCI compliant containers are not supported. The best way I could come up with for a minimum blue-green
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
How does one even find something like this? Let alone prove that this is the first counterexample. That number looks to be in the order of the age of the universe in millionths of a quectosecond!!
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Here are my two: 1. Software supply chains. Our civilization is built on top of a layer of software that has a gaping security hole the size of a gas giant planet. It's also recursive - software dependencies themselves have further dep
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
My hypothesis is that the folks who make the best Mexican food in San Diego are unlikely to want to get on a flight and be more than driving distance from Tijuana.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
My measly single upvote is insufficient to express how hard I laughed at this. Bravo!
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> On July 5, Slack announced it would soon be introducing a “Hide messages from another member” feature, allowing people to “support their needs for a safe and productive work environment.” Can anyone please link me to the announcement?
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Subscribing to a single source just isn't worth it unless you are a truly regular reader. I used to subscribe to The Information. They had really high quality content consistently. But then they got greedy and introduced an even m
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
What is the state of pot in summer 2023? Is it ready for production?
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Can someone explain why git is insufficient and how got tries to improve upon it?

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