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by harikb 5y ago
The correct comparison is “SQLite index” is faster compared to “file system inode index”
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by harikb 5y ago
> mean sure we can side with the 18 year olds making bad financial decisions taking on debt for a BA degree. But by the time you are 22.. 24...26 and going for these six-figure MA/PHD tracks .. cmon. Person doesn’t find meaningful e
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by harikb 5y ago
thanks, I didn't notice that small image!
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by harikb 5y ago
Did you mean to say "We will let you export your full history and data anytime" (as a company's data) OR did you mean "If you are fired from your employer, you get a copy of your data"? yeah that seems weird.
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by harikb 5y ago
1. the pricing is almost as expensive as Slack. May be a free tier or longer trial? 2. How does one discover past decisions? Some pointers from documentation? Some easy permanent URL’s? How do we ammend/link (new decisions taken on old
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by harikb 5y ago
There is such a thing as wake-on-lan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
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by harikb 5y ago
Trolls usually don't file patents. They usually acquire them, usually from a company close to going bankrupt. Then they sue other "medium-size" company in a jurisdiction with a friendly and corrupt judge. Even if we stopped i
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by harikb 5y ago
> When women were mailed material telling them they're pregnant even before they themselves knew but no one batted an eye here This is example often quoted. This wasn’t AI. I believe it was Target and it was simple correlation with
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by harikb 5y ago
At this point though, I prefer a government run program. Considering Equifax can't manage to keep my data safe or keep their Java packages updated, and in addition not be liable to any damages caused, it is practically a public liabili
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by harikb 5y ago
At least from my eyes, recent trends are exact opposite. Stock buyback returns the money to investors (by raising stock price). Huge bonuses to executives. The company itself is managed on a very thin buffer so that a) When things go south,
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by harikb 5y ago
> profit to survive If only they stopped their greed at ... enough profit to survive
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by harikb 5y ago
This implies there isn’t any contract obligations/fine print at the point of link to real world / real identity (exchange). In a hypothetical world, if coinbase made you sign things at signup and later demanded money for the upkee
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by harikb 5y ago
Keep in my that in Unicode there are several symbols that look alike. It is not just the character set that matters, but how many of such things we have. May be instead of arguing for Unicode, community needs to come up with a unambiguous s
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by harikb 5y ago
In addition, if their code is python, -w would incorrectly ignore legitimate changes
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by harikb 5y ago
For those who are wondering the rewards aren’t worth it… this is not Amazon asking for oss contribution to their AWS source code. This is for private companies to offer bug fest to their own employees / target audience. > customers
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by harikb 5y ago
I knew it was optional. I didn’t know GOPATH was deprecated !
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by harikb 5y ago
We are all underestimating the level of fluctuation in energy requirement caused by a slight weather change. If the system were to have capacity comparable to max possible usage, the rates would be sky high. This is not like storing water a
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by harikb 5y ago
I was counting that as an example of a tech done well! CA does this too, but afaik, it is advertised as such when one signs up for a free Smart meter and there is even a slightly better rate offered. I just don’t see an alternate way to imp
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by harikb 5y ago
Thanks for the link! It is amazing to see a government app talk about reproducible builds and the importance of it!
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by harikb 5y ago
It would be great if there was a way for these articles to clearly differentiate many things companies allow. 1. Work from home in your primary geo, commutable distance, but be ready to come to work x times a week / on demand 2. Work f
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by harikb 5y ago
Illusory superiority [1] will make us think the bad drivers are only those below average drivers. It will take a while for people to truly trust FSD just by accident stats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_sup
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by harikb 5y ago
While the other comments are focusing on improvements for browser, v8 is also what powers Node, Deno, and several cloud workers implementations. While I don’t yet know if this particular change improves server-side work flow, I am hoping it
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by harikb 5y ago
I was being sarcastic in this instance. Meant to say there is more to do within software before blaming “user”/“hacker”. Russia reference is only based on recent news/claims
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by harikb 5y ago
We have to think of this similar to how any other human or company behavior is monitored. Hold companies responsible and have a market sell ransomware insurance. (One exception to my solution is poor government and public institutions who r
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by harikb 5y ago
Properly written Go code (or even Java for that matter) will try to minimize allocations. For Java, unless I am mistaken pause-less GC is only offered by Azul - $$
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by harikb 5y ago
GP meant 5 orders of magnitude below "20 ms". 20 ms is a lot of time. There is nothing one can do to a, say, a 1 kilo byte buffer that will cross 1 ms in any language. My own Go code doesn't cross more than few micros per m
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by harikb 5y ago
Well, there is value in an upgrader that keeps everything up to date. But we didn’t get that either - at least on desktops.
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by harikb 5y ago
> Which google uses itself for ads Do you have a source? Google providing a location-based service for Android OS functionality is different from using it for ads.
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by harikb 5y ago
Your response sounds like Wikipedia is putting a paywall!
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by harikb 5y ago
That is a ridiculous and ugly accusation to make. If you don’t know what it takes to run a globally available top site, it is better not throw stones at people.

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