ivell

10 ms·

121.
by ivell 9mo ago
En-adification. Or just adification. Can also use adified.
122.
by ivell 9mo ago
There is a small window of opportunity to make this right. That window will be gone soon and then we would be in the N. Korean situation. Rebellion must be done early and enthusiastically. Each passing month makes it more and more difficult
123.
by ivell 9mo ago
You may want to take a look at India's ONDC ( https://github.com/ONDC-Official ).
124.
by ivell 9mo ago
With clean desk policies in some organizations, you would be lucky to have a seat. Initial 5-10 minutes are spent on finding a place to sit.
125.
by ivell 9mo ago
> one course of SAINT can cost roughly from $16,000 to over $30,000 Wow. For something that's not invasive, reusable machine using just EM pulses, that's very expensive! Is the construction or maintenance cost of the machine th
126.
by ivell 9mo ago
The definition of pretense is (from Google): an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true. E.g. "his anger is masked by a pretence that all is well"
127.
by ivell 9mo ago
Actually I mentioned "pretense" in the sense of US pretending to be the good guy.
128.
by ivell 9mo ago
I can understand that point of view from a U.S. citizen's (and allied West) point of view that you think US is really ideological. But as a non-US person, even when US pretended to be ideological, there is an underlying reality of main
129.
by ivell 9mo ago
My takeaway is that all previous U.S. administrations had pretense of morality and rules in both international and domestic politics (even when they did dubious stuff). The new administration has realized that there is no need for such pret
130.
by ivell 9mo ago
Google seems to thrive on commodity products. Search, EMail, etc. It is their strength to take commodity products and scale it well.
131.
by ivell 9mo ago
I suspect this will be coming soon. For ad-driven companies, having an opaque deployment which would prevent ad-blockers would be ideal. However ads still need to be delivered over the net so there is still some way to block them (without r
132.
by ivell 9mo ago
It did provide us with lots of non vendors locked products. World has been a better place because of open source.
133.
by ivell 9mo ago
In the example there is a mixture of style and content. This would be of course more ergonomic. However, the strength of CSS is that you can decide later on to change the style without touching the content.
134.
by ivell 9mo ago
The difference is between gaining a skill vs loving what you do. Introverted person practice socializing is more of a skill development than actually loving every moment of it. True introverts are happy being alone (they are not lonely as i
135.
by ivell 9mo ago
Japan may have better human rights now, but was not the role model in the WW2. People are an important component of growth. Japan is facing aging population negatively impacting their GDP. What is greed for you? Building companies in the ho
136.
by ivell 9mo ago
If Trump becomes dictator tomorrow, is Xi allowed to invade and capture him? Or is it reserved only for small and weak countries while the big ones can do whatever they want?
137.
by ivell 9mo ago
In the challenges section, they list a few challenges with React Native that they had to overcome. Interesting thing is that MS already has XAML, WinUI etc., that they built and control and don't havr those "challenges". I do
138.
by ivell 9mo ago
It is the decision of the other vendors to not implement the standards (for good reasons, like for e.g. privacy - but it is still the vendor's decisionand not an inherent limitation). The documentations and specifications are available
139.
by ivell 9mo ago
Web and Apple ecosystem is not comparable. IE had quite large market share and was brought down by Chrome in quite short time. Firefox challenged IE quite effectively before that. But Windows (desktop) still enjoys quite large market share
140.
by ivell 9mo ago
A better comparison to Ikea vs Handcraft would be shrinkwrap software vs custom software for companies. With AI, the custom software industry is getting disrupted (if the current trajectory of improvements continue). In case of woodcraft, t
141.
by ivell 9mo ago
Financial sovereignty is one of the reasons India went with its own RuPay ( https://www.rupay.co.in/credit-cards ) credit cards.
142.
by ivell 10mo ago
One of the big advantages of types is documenting what is *not* allowed. This brings a clarity to the developers and additionally ensure what is not allowed does not happen. Unit tests typically test for behaviours. This could be both posit
143.
by ivell 10mo ago
Since money has not exchanged hands, you could always decide not to buy at the counter. So atleast in the countries I have been, it is not legally binding.
144.
by ivell 10mo ago
> Without government interference, someone who is stronger/more brutal than you can kill you and take your property, partner, and anything else they like. I cannot understand how people can idealize anarchy. It is as if they read so
145.
by ivell 10mo ago
> As Moroccan firms will already pay a carbon price domestically, their exports are likely to avoid additional CBAM charges at the EU border, helping them remain competitive As per some reports, EU was not agreeing to a similar proposal
146.
by ivell 10mo ago
The problem currently is the duopoly. There are only 2 types of fridges we can buy. And both have the same conditions.
147.
by ivell 10mo ago
Not just some types - any object with members. Shared references are a thing in Java and if not careful can cause data races left and right. Rust controls that quite a bit.
148.
by ivell 10mo ago
> It's that any id from a range of acceptable ids like passports, ration card, drivers license worked. In reality different IDs were accepted at different departments and there was no consensus. It was really a pain. If someone took
149.
by ivell 10mo ago
The friction already existed long before supreme court orders. No two departments agreed upon what ID they would need for doing the work. It could be rationcard, PAN, passport, driving license etc. Some organizations asked for more than one
150.
by ivell 10mo ago
> and it's a simple hop to create a similar circumstantial evidence trail with someone using GrapheneOS. I think this is a bit exaggerated for effect. No one in India considers having a Linux laptop as being circumstantial evidence

More ›