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by gopalv 4y ago
> 1. Cheaper iPhone > 2. You don’t want to carry a big iPhone If you add those two up, you get "Middle school kids". Though the apple watch with its own SIM has solved some of the "contact device without instagram"
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by gopalv 4y ago
> health insurance always keeps me from never going a day without being employed. There's no way to cap the actual health care costs, but the health insurance is about 30k/year for a family of 4 on COBRA. That is a lot or not d
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by gopalv 5y ago
> what are they producing Hydrogen with and how is it more efficient energetically and emission wise? Even if it is just Blue hydrogen being burnt here, the splitter plants can have some carbon capture in it which would be impossible to
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Maybe we should be asking how toxic is this coolant that such a plant was forced closed by new regulations? The article says PFAS, but I'm going to guess it is Flourinert[1]. The whole thing about fluorinated hydrocarbons is that
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Greece going default, is it any different ? Greece used Euros, so the default in Greece was borne by everyone in the euro zone. The ECB got all the reputation of the Bundesbank in terms of inflation fighters. Portugal & Ireland for
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by gopalv 5y ago
So this looks a lot like what Hadoop did with .har files[1] on HDFS (like storing GPS tiles on HDFS without blowing through the 1 M files per-dir limit). > It is not possible to update individual files inside the ZIP file. Therefore this
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by gopalv 5y ago
> professional endurance sports athletes / ultra distance athletes are also high performing PhD candidates There are three ways to slice this fact, depends on who you ask. And I've asked a lot of people, because India treated
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by gopalv 5y ago
> I believe "taking notes" is the wrong way to think about it Recording only the inputs doesn't help me much, my notes are mostly always about the part of my brain it ticked off. A lot of it is "I wonder if this will
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Have you done this/had this kind of internal "poach" happen to you First job, was the QE and release build person for the team of embedded devs. QE turned into QE automation (think AT commands in a loop & basic JTAG)
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by gopalv 5y ago
> wouldn’t that reduce transmission? Lowered symptoms on droplets would be better, but a lot of in-person workplaces have a "do you have a fever?" check before they issue you any sick leave. Not having a fever and looking like
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by gopalv 5y ago
> is Idiocracy actually happening? The way in which things are trending, an Idiocracy is unlikely because of an AGI singularity. That even if we might all descend into idiots, we won't be running the world much before that happens.
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by gopalv 5y ago
FP correctness is getting a bit of "bicycle for the problem" for me with https://herbie.uwplse.org/ Though I don't actually do any professional work with floats more than whatever distributed SQL correctness
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by gopalv 5y ago
> you prevent the database from growing without bound? The whole point of shipping cold storage off to S3 was to solve that kind of scale problem. You can keep your ingest nodes scaled up to the incoming data (per-day, approx), replicat
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by gopalv 5y ago
> immutability ... which advantages it brings Immutability brings a bunch of perf short-cuts which is usually impossible to build with a mutable store. You'll find a lot of metric stores optimized for fast ingest to take advantage
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by gopalv 5y ago
> is the least poor and most educated state I think this is the opposite of a "corrected for X factor" we usually see in studies - this is suggesting that economic situation is a bigger factor in fertility than religious practi
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by gopalv 5y ago
> whatever it returned would just get inserted as a string into the log output, no big deal. Once you can inject anything that gets resolved, you have an information disclosure vulnerability unrelated to the RCE. If I can just DNS resolv
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by gopalv 5y ago
> _We used a Wasm binary compiled from Rust rather than JavaScript. > We know support for JavaScript is important to many customers, but we're not yet satisfied with the performance of Compute@Edge packages compiled from
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by gopalv 5y ago
> How about make it so that the "hidden" photos on a phone require a security code/biometric to access? Pixel with the latest Android should have that ("Move to Locked Folder" [1]), though as with all security th
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Jobs have requirements Most of the argument is whether this requirement is in the "employee must wash hands before surgery" category, which is about the patients' right to be safe not the employee's (in theory the
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by gopalv 5y ago
> grant the fucker an internet connection over BT, it starts to rat on you Or it does that by itself, with a mesh network that your neighbours have setup by accident with their Alexa or Ring - Amazon Sidewalk is an amazing end-run around
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by gopalv 5y ago
> there is also a very elegant solution that fits in a tweet. (If you don't want to try solving it, or have tried and have given up, here is the solution I tried to understand the tweet a couple of times, but I couldn't follow
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Once your financial house is strong, you can make decisions for the rest of your life that optimize for things other than money. Even if you are not a long-term thinker, just doubling your pay for a year is almost like being able to sk
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Rivian looks close enough to a normal pickup that people aren't going to feel stupid driving them Someone said that the R1T looks both 50 years old and from the future at the same time & that is emphasized every time I see one
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by gopalv 5y ago
> create index recommendations with and without predicates I messed around with Postgres hypothetical indexes[1], which was a cheap way to create a lot of them and see what happens. [1] - https://hypopg.readthedocs.io/en&
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by gopalv 5y ago
> You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good. One of my friends has a joke series of posts titled the "32x engineer"[1], one of which is about niceness. People who aren't nice get routed around when crisis sit
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by gopalv 5y ago
> never feel like they're doing extra, they feel like that is part of the job. That's the wrong way to look at it - "do extra" is not for the job, it is for your skills. >> so Extra is what helps us broaden ours
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by gopalv 5y ago
> I am not surprised at all that PostgreSQL now seems to be taking over everywhere To a large extent, Postgres didn't out-compete Mysql in mind-share by being a better database. Arguably it was a better DB in the Web 1.x LAMP days
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by gopalv 5y ago
> I thought it was a neat article I think the article talks about the "What" part of the problem, but the actual code is much more interesting in the "How" sense. Like the git-ref stuff makes sense as you read the cod
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by gopalv 5y ago
> which leave more of your wages to pay the rent. Austin has crazy property taxes in comparison to CA, which is where they get you. 2.5% tax rate evaluated for the property prices annually, so retiring on a fixed income in Austin is a ti
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by gopalv 5y ago
I usually sequence it into the shower after that in my schedule (this is what I did in India growing up). My partner uses the air-dryer that is in the bidet (~2018 Brondell Swash), but there's a bit of that feels very unhygienic to me

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