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by hiyer 5y ago
I would like to nominate Kovid Goyal, the author of Calibre[1] and Kitty[2], to this list. I don't know if he accepts sponsorship (and/or donations) - I've not seen anything of that sort on his websites - but I'll be ete
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by hiyer 5y ago
Thanks for the "less -F" tip! I didn't know we could do that, and I'll definitely find it useful.
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by hiyer 5y ago
Yes, they do. Some of my friends have purchased NFTs from no-namers for a few hundred dollars. I have no clue how good/bad they are as investments - I got the impression these guys were buying it just to get into the game.
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by hiyer 5y ago
60% savings won't really count for much when the traffic is compressed, which is the case for most of JSON's uses. For real savings I think you'd have to go with a binary format like protobuf or thrift. Edit: 50 -> 60
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by hiyer 5y ago
NYT may be reliable in general but it's far from being so when it comes to reporting on India. Especially when the government in power doesn't agree with NYT's "liberal" philosophy.
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by hiyer 5y ago
> The budget is enough to cover the majority Majority, yes, but not all. > Like the Supreme Court observed, the decision to exclude those under 45 was arbitrary and irrational. I don't disagree there. > Again, SII was sitting
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by hiyer 5y ago
> Some rich states tried to procure vaccines on their own. My point was that the states themselves asked to be allowed to procure the vaccines, so blaming the Union for asking them to "compete" is incorrect. As your link to the
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by hiyer 5y ago
> Serum Institute was appealing for financial help to boost production capacity. But the government completely neglected that, This is not true - the govt gave Rs. 3000 crore (the asked-for amount) in aid to SII. > They jumped at it w
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by hiyer 5y ago
> The dear leader refused to fund free vaccines for people under 40. My wife and I are under 40 and we got the vaccine for free at a government health centre. > Instead, states were pitted against each other to procure doses Initially
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by hiyer 5y ago
We have Arab after Crore, but it's not commonly used. We just say 1000 crore or 1 lakh crore, etc.
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by hiyer 5y ago
True. If you search for any Python documentation the first links on Google are almost always geeksforgeeks, w3schools, etc instead of the official Python docs.
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by hiyer 5y ago
I assume you live in the US, which may be quite primitive in this department. In India, and also many parts of Africa, all you need to transfer money from one account to another is to know their phone number. And the transfer is instantaneo
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by hiyer 5y ago
If you love coding and - as it appears from the post - are working on your personal projects, this seems like a reasonable schedule. I definitely wouldn't want to work that much for an employer - I've done that when I was around y
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by hiyer 5y ago
I doubt he's really running - probably walking at a reasonably brisk pace.
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by hiyer 5y ago
The symbol was appropriated, but not by Hitler. It was appropriated by the Christian West to distance itself from Hitler and his bigotry.
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by hiyer 5y ago
Dialpad ( https://www.dialpad.com/ ) has this feature. Not as a pie chart (last I checked), but at the end of a call, they'll show you a summary of the call with the speaking time of each participant.
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by hiyer 5y ago
Sails.js [0] has been around for years. I don't know how good/bad it is, but there are lot of big name shops using it. 0. https://sailsjs.com/
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by hiyer 5y ago
I guess you haven't worked with Hadoop. Here's an example of what configuration option names in it can look like: dfs.datanode.available-space-volume-choosing-policy.balanced-space-preference-fraction
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by hiyer 5y ago
> Is it for batch processing tasks that don't have tight deadlines? I used to work for a company (since shut down) which provided big data processing systems in the cloud. This was one of the typical use-cases for our customers. Bi
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by hiyer 5y ago
Amazon (especially AWS) is the pioneer and market leader in its segment and the work culture is still terrible. Blue Origin is playing catch up to SpaceX, so it's hardly surprising that as a Bezos-led company the culture is even worse.
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by hiyer 5y ago
Google meet works with Firefox, but the filters like blur background, etc don't.
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by hiyer 5y ago
"The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, bloom well in prison air. It is only what is good in man that wastes and withers there" - Oscar Wilde
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by hiyer 5y ago
> Rabies is probably the only virus where a vaccine is given after you get exposed People with high risk of exposure (like vets and zoo workers) take the vaccine periodically as a preventive measure too. At least they do so in India. May
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by hiyer 5y ago
The rabies vaccine is available everywhere and it's probably not this costly anywhere except in US. I got bitten by a stray dog in India a few years back. 4 shots for rabies + one for tetanus cost me less than Rs. 5000 (~$70) in total,
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by hiyer 5y ago
> Why is it faster? Is it algorithmic, or some neat trick, or just a much more efficient implementation? Scylla is written in C++ (versus Java for Cassandra) and uses the high-performance Seastar[0] framework. > And are they closely e
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by hiyer 5y ago
Likely - they're also reporting provisioning failures in Virgina, which is consistent with what AWS is reporting as well.
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by hiyer 5y ago
You can try doing microworkouts throughout the day. For example: 1. I start the day with one set each of jumping jacks and ab crunches. You can also add in pushups and/or pull ups (if you have a bar). 2. I have resistance bands of vari
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by hiyer 5y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I actually prefer to start from (nearly) scratch on a new machine as it gets rid of all the accumulated cruft. I use github + stow for my dotfiles, firefox sync for syncing browser history, bookmarks, etc
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by hiyer 5y ago
Apple's QA for the non-obvious UI worflows is non-existent. Case in point - their MDM commands: 1. The inputs/outputs don't match the official documentation 2. Once you figure how to pass the command in such a way that it&#x2
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by hiyer 5y ago
I'm no fan of Holmes or Theranos, but I have to say it would be weird if Holmes goes to jail when the Sacklers not only stayed out but got to keep their billions too. The law works in mysterious ways.

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