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by gopalv 6y ago
> Their cars have a reputation of being reliable and their spares are cheap. It is hard to quantify how big a leap Maruti was in the 80s and early 90s for the Indian middle class. The reliability jump from a Fiat rebadged as a Premier Pa
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Companies looking to save money would hire in the foreign country regardless of the new rules. You're going to get people who are already productive for the company moving willingly to lower expense parts of the world, while conti
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The IRS most certainly does not require a cell phone registered in your name They don't but the alternative 2FA for them was a letter mailed through USPS. I had to do that back in the day when Google Fi wasn't recognized by t
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by gopalv 6y ago
This isn't obvious for those of us from a pre-device era. Particularly the device isn't something you bought, but instead built a "device internally", whether that's a fast-lookup or a turn by turn reckoning. > W
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by gopalv 6y ago
I think the GP was probably thinking of INTO(0xCE). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_(x86_instruction)#INTO The bounds-checking was MPX, I think. > Another extremely useful instruction deleted from x86-64 tested if
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by gopalv 6y ago
> A well-thought design can save us many hours of coding, testing, and troubleshooting. That is the very definition of a waterfall design model. I've turned into a fluid-design advocate over the years, where every design principle f
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The system uses a net of lasers surrounding the beam to detect obstructions, like a bird or person, and it automatically shuts off transmission until the obstruction has moved on. The sensor + electronics part is what is different toda
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by gopalv 6y ago
> put the webcam behind the display The first time I saw an optical finger print sensor under a glass display, that was my immediate hope that it would kick off an under-glass optics explosion. > everyone gets to make direct eye conta
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Whether you like to admit it or not, the economy is vitally important to our health, life expectancy, and quality of living. You can be worried about both COVID and the economy. We have the technology to revive an economy - remember, w
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by gopalv 6y ago
> they haven't committed the cardinal sin of putting "DB" in the name of something that's not a database It doesn't seem to store data in any way - so it is definitely a data processing engine, but a database wit
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Does anyone have any ideas on why they didn't postpone? If Airbnb has handed 10 year expiring stock options to core employees, then they're right at the cusp of expiring this year. I would guess it doesn't affect anyone
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by gopalv 6y ago
> For KiWi, storing deletes separately could be interesting The deletes in different list is super useful in row-major mode if the data bandwidth is an issue and the delete lists can entirely remove the row from the IO. Apache Hive switc
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by gopalv 6y ago
> green supposedly reduces pain There's a Jasper Fforde book[1] which treats green like an opiod (of course, the book is about a dalton style genetic dystopia - colour vision instead of race, but one with Ford in a Mao style "g
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by gopalv 6y ago
> I have a 3a and it has kept me using pixels mainly for this reason Same here - I held onto my Pixel 1 & only jumped to 3A when it came out. Mostly it was that I had an existing wired setup fitted to my ears, but the real reason to
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by gopalv 6y ago
> It's called churning There was an almost identical scam which has been going on for a while called "Brushing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce) Some of it is to get the "verif
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Even at tech salaries those are expensive commutes. Are they really that expensive? I was paying 40$ on Lyft one-way to office earlier this year, which was a huge part of my transportation costs (economically speaking, I should've
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by gopalv 6y ago
> If we could build them, we could build a muon collider. Muon colliders would be great. Making muons easy to make/keep will get us closer to a legit cold fusion reactor as a result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The US is actively abandoning its goal of being the land of opportunity, and it makes me sad. Yes - this is active, but not irrational, because this is a reversion to mercantilism of the earlier centuries (it is not a conservative posi
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by gopalv 6y ago
> It would be totally illegal and you'd probably go to prison forever if you started a company to do it. ... > And annoying people with scissors would be cutting them every day That is probably why the wireless packet mesh netwo
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by gopalv 6y ago
Is that a dichotomy? The "only the police" almost makes it sound like that is what is being discussed around gun control laws. The cops in the US are definitely more jumpy than I'm comfortable with - their natural reaction to
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by gopalv 6y ago
> there is a subset of embarrassingly parallel problems that are are heavily data intensive. There's an even smaller subset which is one-shot data access. > in examples like this where the time required to read the data and send
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by gopalv 6y ago
> These final projects are a great way differentiate yourself from the thousands of other CS grads looking for jobs. The bigger firms recruit for raw numbers and then reassign roles. So this might not mean the difference between being hi
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by gopalv 6y ago
> I have to admit I have no clue how to do that, any pointers? My code is poorly documented and badly written, but it works at least the ssh_copy_id one I use enough to keep updated[1] (that ssh logins with passwords to place the ssh key
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The results were indeed embarrassingly parallel. The xargs/parallel mode can also scale up to many more nodes, if you are willing to introduce ssh into your shell scripts & do a minimum of stdio piping. I wrote a python mapred
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Remember the first time you saw the AWS console? And the last time? There was a time in between for me - that was Rightscale. For me, the real thing that k8s bring is not hardware-infra - but reliable ops automation. Rightscale was the
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The drone over Minneapolis is a MQ-9 reaper, aka "predator B", hunter-killer UAV. I'd guess this is a Gorgon Stare drone. https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night... h
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by gopalv 6y ago
The post-covid "remote work" will be very different from the present day and past WFH. Right now, WFH is a struggle not because of the "FH" part, but because of "cabin fever" effect of being around everyone all
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Growth requires the citizen base to continually spend more. If the stimulus bill had gone directly to that, then this might have made a lot more sense. Forget UBI, the trillion dollars in PPP, if it was put into people's checking
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by gopalv 6y ago
> we simply put all of the phones in a box > IT asked, "but how will we connect all of the phones?" my answer was, "no phones." We've come so far in time, that I didn't connect that as a desk-phone refere
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by gopalv 6y ago
The randomization they are working around is most likely > WHERE indexedColumn > RANDOM() LIMIT 10 That can be bound on RANDOM() performance or we can rely on a seeded "non-random" PRNG to produce a random selection vector w

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