ghoul2

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by ghoul2 1y ago
Thats how it works in India: all your "repeating" charge authorizations show up on a portal maintained by the issuing bank. All services that charge via these authorizations send an SMS alert before they debit the next charge. At
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by ghoul2 1y ago
Google does this: 100% discount for upto 100K of usage the first year, and 25% discount upto 100K for the second year. But I disagree: I think what AWS does is a LOT better: credits last two years, which is a lot more practical (if i migrat
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by ghoul2 2y ago
Sigh. I have been kicking this horse forever as well: an "optimization" implies just a performance improvement. Tail call elimination, if it exists in a language, allows coding certain (even infinite) loops as recursion - making l
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by ghoul2 2y ago
Given that the comparison function doesn't have the transitive property (if line a > line b and line b > line c that implies line a > line c), does this sort really work? The 'allpair' variant, which aggregates the s
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by ghoul2 2y ago
R1 got it correct in one shot, I just pasted the statement.
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by ghoul2 2y ago
Are you open to relocating within India?
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by ghoul2 2y ago
Whoa. Are you me? Same here. Lived in India, my fathers' friend (based in the UK) gifted him a ZX Spectrum. I was hooked from the day I typed 10 PRINT "myname" on it. Taught myself Z80 assembly, just from the appendix in the
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by ghoul2 2y ago
Honestly, the main point of the story here isn't the weird billing processes. Its, yet again, the utter refusal by CF to provide even basic support. Even for paying users. Even for users who bought the so-called "pro" plan, m
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by ghoul2 2y ago
sigh. They picked "devi" for India. "Devi" is not a last name. Literally it means "goddess". Its used as a suffix to indicate "woman"/"lady". If they picked "Devi" for India,
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Documenting My DNS Records(alexwlchan.net)
3 points by ghoul2 2y ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 2y ago
I agree, definitely a game changer. Finally made me a convert. re latency: yes, latency can get quite high, for large contexts. minutes, 10s of minutes when you try to max out the context.
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by ghoul2 2y ago
gemini 1.5 pro is very good. far from perfect, but the long context window helps it stay focussed when iterating on a code base. I tried chatgpt, etc, but it was obvious (to me) that I was wasting more time trying to get these models to wor
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by ghoul2 2y ago
In the late 90s, DOS-era, I was working on a simulation in Matlab. Something just wasn't working right - as per the limited docs. Getting very frustrated, I typed "f_ck you" on the matlab prompt. It came back with "Your
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by ghoul2 3y ago
When I was working on Othernet (www.othernet.is), I wanted to do Over-The-Air updates of our firmware. Over a unidirectional, slow (~20kbps), broadcast satellite link with significant packet dropout this was quite a challenge. Amongst the m
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by ghoul2 3y ago
Oh wow. I thought this was just my personal quirk. I absolutely cannot tolerate malai in my milk. I (involuntarily) spit the milk out if the mouthful happened to have even small bits of malai.
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User Disengagement(zerodha.tech)
3 points by ghoul2 3y ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 3y ago
Could you possibly add NFS (client) support?
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by ghoul2 3y ago
I visited Franz Josef glacier twice, once in 2000 and next in 2002. Just between those two years the retreat was so major, it spooked me. First time, one crossed the bridge and within a couple minutes walk you were at the mouth of the glaci
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Ask HN: CTO certificate programs (Haas/Wharton)
1 points by ghoul2 3y ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 4y ago
I have been wanting to do something similar. But there's a snag: How do you tell which of these available boxes has Intel AMT (or its AMD equivalent) fully enabled? No listing reports this, and sellers seem to not be able to answer the
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by ghoul2 4y ago
As I understand it, analog computing is entirely impractical simply from a Information Theoretic viewpoint. For a signal to convey 8-bits worth of information, it will need to have 256 distinct levels. It we want the signal to range from, l
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by ghoul2 4y ago
YES! Thank you! Not being able to find it was driving me nuts.
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Ask HN: Declarative HTTP API test DSL/tool?
2 points by ghoul2 4y ago|3 comments
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by ghoul2 4y ago
This is fantastic. I have wasted SO much time trying to choose the right wifi adapter/chipset for projects over the years. Combination of in-kernel-driver status, cost of adapter/chipset, support for Soft-AP, USB-vs-SDIO interface
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by ghoul2 4y ago
Enable read-only overlay for your rootfs and make your /boot readonly. Just use raspi-config, and go into performance options. There are some gotchas - everything you write after that goes to a tmpfs. Meaning it starts cutting into you
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by ghoul2 4y ago
Is there a tool to transform html? Simple example, select all img tags without alt text, and insert given text into the alt tag. Or change the domain for all a.hrefs
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by ghoul2 4y ago
I agree - Scrimba is terrific. My only complaint with their system is there is no way for the course to work offline.
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by ghoul2 4y ago
SD card corruption is a big problem with the Pi, but its easily solved: enable the read-only overlay for your boot/root filesystems. This is built into the RPI OS. start raspi-config, and go into performance options. Every month or two
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by ghoul2 4y ago
Airtel, one of the largest Indian ISPs - does not put users behind CGNAT. Plus, now that they have deployed IPv6, each of your devices gets a routable ipv6 (bit scary when I first discovered that!). So if you use airtel as an ISP, you can d
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by ghoul2 4y ago
This is required by law. [0][1] Every ISP is required to be fully ipv6-enabled by the end of this year. The deadline has been pushed back multiple times , most recently due to covid. But this time it seems its going to stick. All lagging IS

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