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by harikb 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot
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by harikb 5y ago
If we are requiring spouses of elected officials to divest their investment business, we should also require Presidents to divest from their businesses as well, not just wink-wink transfer to his children. In additon there are thousands of
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by harikb 5y ago
From what I remember, 68k processors were used by PalmPilot starting from the US Robotics days. I wonder if they had any particular power efficiency to make it better for Palm. Either that or I am remembering it wrong.
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by harikb 5y ago
> Summers, who was in training at the time, > Summers told emergency medical staff called to the scene that Mistic was deaf, but neither officer I can see why some leniency is shown towards the junior one.
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by harikb 5y ago
Doesn’t PG already support inplace version upgrade? Also PG is one of the few that support schema/DDL statements inside a transaction.
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by harikb 5y ago
Even apps like Netflix are configured not to be available on Google play if the device is not a certified one. That certification is lost AFAIK on rooting. I have two perfectly good android tablets that can’t run Netflix
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by harikb 5y ago
My hypothesis is that if Netflix/Youtube hadn't stressed out our bandwidth and forced the ISPs of the world upgrade for the last decade, the world wouldn't have been ready for WFH of the covid world. ISPs would have been more
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by harikb 5y ago
If we treat PII as money, it implies the loss can be clearly quantified and loss can be compensated for. Banking industry isn’t better because they have solved the problem, they are just hiding behind the fact that victim can be compensated
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by harikb 5y ago
> but when paired with a properly trained image recognition AI, determining that a human (or human-shaped object) was in the room seems very feasible. I am not looking forward to some poor soul being convicted by a jury based on this “AI
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by harikb 5y ago
I get that pgsql can construct dynamic queries, but I was assuming you were talking about the benefit of install time / compile time verification of query syntax. This is true for most regular stored procedures except when query is dyn
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by harikb 5y ago
Two problems 1. How do you handle versioning? Like if you want to try a development branch on a non-branch/shared db. Creating different version of stored procedures creates a recursive problem. A calls B, now A’ has to call B’ 2. Some
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by harikb 5y ago
The article is blaming Twitter for being callous with its trending algorithms being abused with some coordination between larger number of folks. I think this is very much Mozilla’s business, just as much as any campaign in the West. The re
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by harikb 5y ago
I felt that a battery that lasts one day is better than one that lasts something like 6 days. It is easy enough to remember to charge at night. Yes, one can’t use sleep features, but I am ok with that. When you are in apple ecosystem, unloc
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by harikb 5y ago
They sold 55 cars more than the second place Volkswagen in August.
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by harikb 5y ago
Deno doesn’t execute TS directly - internally it is still JS executed by v8. Having v8 support direct TS will be a huge effort
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by harikb 5y ago
Edit: not even show the device. That is great!
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by harikb 5y ago
C++ is mentioned many times in the live presentation today. I guess they felt it is important to mention that.
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by harikb 5y ago
It is not just the problem is password stored in 3rd party system. Occasionally an engineer has to look at the raw intercepted html data if the bank changes their login or data pages. Intuit (via Quicken) and Microsoft Money were in a posit
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by harikb 5y ago
Someone did put the blame on COVID! Not sure if it is Tmobile or Reuters From a Reuters article on same news https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-steal-some-person... > T-Mobile’s data breach is the latest hi
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by harikb 5y ago
From a Reuters article on same news https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-steal-some-person... > T-Mobile’s data breach is the latest high-profile cyberattacks as digital thieves take advantage of security weak
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by harikb 5y ago
VsCode or IntelliJ with delv works beautifully for most common tasks. But don’t compare to JVM/Java. It does get trickier if you have many concurrent/goroutines but that is not unique to Go.
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by harikb 5y ago
> Module authors may deprecate a module by adding a // Deprecated: comment to go.mod, then tagging a new version. go get now prints a warning if a module needed to build packages named on the command line is deprecated. Very go
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by harikb 5y ago
Flat roof panels are visible in 00:05 through 00:08. I think he used panels are door because they are available cheap. Typical Tuktuks have a curved cloth/plastic material as roof
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by harikb 5y ago
When you post for “Show HN”, it would be wise to use the link option to direct the users to your repo [1] - otherwise readers can’t click through. It is a HN wierdness - you either get to write text or post a link, but not both 1. https:&#
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by harikb 5y ago
Planning works great for public utilities- roads, libraries, parks etc. The moment we cross that are have a planned bank, grocer, retail I think it falls apart. The grocery shop needs guarantee on revenue to be setup, and then they will sla
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by harikb 5y ago
May be the fundamental problem is that since the app _can_ change every time its boots (it being electron based shell with dynamic loading of JS & all), the UX team gets compelled to tweak, experiment, iterate when there is no particula
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by harikb 5y ago
“reviews” - that is another thing public has been crying about by the way
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Only because it is usually very hard to determine how the current projects will be affected if one gets rid of a particular manager. So the next level manager will always take the path of least resistance / least risk and move the pers
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by harikb 5y ago
Recommended reading prior to this one is the 2016 public letter from Apple [1] where Apple makes a similar slippery-slope argument on FBI's request. 1. https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ Regarding the slippery
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by harikb 5y ago
It is nearly impossible for an entity (city or state), with a limited budget and no borders to enforce, to provide a perfect solution. The “country” on the other hand is a completely different matter..

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