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by jeswin 5y ago
> Can .NET deploy a static binary nowadays? You can, as sbelskie mentioned below. In .Net 6, it's available as a Preview [1]. But it's going to ship with the main framework in 7.0 [2]. The preview works quite well. You can buil
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by jeswin 5y ago
This is a political topic, yet adding because Singapore features prominently in the tech/startup scene. And because I've seen several people choose Singapore as a place to anchor their startup. I for one am never going there again
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Singapore about to Execute Man with Mental Disability(nytimes.com)
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There are many support forums for cancer, often specific to the type of cancer. Please consider joining them. Those are of great help is many ways - they can tell you what to expect during various stages of the treatment, long term issues,
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by jeswin 5y ago
CredCore | Programming | Remote | India | Full-Time CredCore is a well-funded early-stage startup based out of New York City, building solutions for the $10 trillion US debt sector. Our product suite is primarily targeted at CFOs and Corpor
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by jeswin 5y ago
Thank you.
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by jeswin 5y ago
Can you post OS stats as well please, if you have them? From my own posts which made it to the front-page, I remember that non-mobile users were predominantly on Macs, with Linux far behind and Windows being tiny. I don't remember the
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by jeswin 5y ago
Search ads and Youtube ads are unaffected by ad-blockers, and that's a big chunk of their revenue.
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Sony adds a 1“ stacked CMOS sensor to Xperia Pro-I(dpreview.com)
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by jeswin 5y ago
> I wonder why they don't replace these simple packages like `is-string` with Lodash... As someone who maintains a few dozen packages (public and otherwise), lodash has wasted more of my time than any other - due to its frequent sec
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by jeswin 5y ago
Open source leadership can only be handled well by people who have experienced and participated in Open Source. If Microsoft is serious about Open Source, they need to put in charge someone who's done this before. They have plenty of p
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by jeswin 5y ago
1. M1 Max has 50+ billion transistors (only a part of that count is CPU, so adjust the number downwards), 1950X (first gen 14-nm Ryzen) has 10 billion. 2. Multicore Cinebench R23 for M1 Max: 14970; Ryzen 1950X: 18780 Geekbench tests in shor
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by jeswin 5y ago
People also overlook the fact that Geekbench has generally favored Apple A-series CPUs. When the original M1 came out they were faster than 4800u Ryzens on Geekbench, while being slower on Cinebench. 4800u consumes more power, but is also a
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by jeswin 5y ago
But it's also been around for at least a year. And upcoming pcie 5 SSDs will up that to 10-14GBps. I'm saying Apple might have wanted to emphasise their more standout achievements. Such as on the CPU front, where they're like
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by jeswin 5y ago
> 1. How is this meaningfully different to WebDAV? Webpods is more like git than WebDAV. It allows apps/users to store data in logs, and the data can be records (strings) or files. If bob is syncing from alice, he'd pull all en
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by jeswin 5y ago
It's not that noteworthy, given that affordable Samsung 980 Pro SSDs have been doing those speeds for well over a year now.
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by jeswin 5y ago
Apple almost single-handedly made computing devices non-repairable or upgradable; across their own product line and the industry in general due to their outsized influence.
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by jeswin 5y ago
> Each application needs to understand not only the Solid protocol, but the format you are using for your data too. I don't think we'll be able to avoid that hurdle; we'll need to make sure that the protocol is really simp
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by jeswin 5y ago
I'll do a Show HN in a month. Although a reference implementation ( https://github.com/webpods-org/podmaster ) is kind of ready, there's no documentation yet (which will go up on webpods.org soon). The only way
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by jeswin 5y ago
> IPFS is basically the answer to the question "what is the RIGHT way to decentralize the web?" There is no RIGHT way to decentralize the web. I don't think IPFS is the right way to do it either. Tim Berners-Lee's Sol
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by jeswin 5y ago
Despite its reputation, Kubernetes is actually quite easy to master for simple use cases. And affordable enough for more complex ones. The fundamental abstractions are as simple as they can be, representing concepts that you'd already
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by jeswin 5y ago
For a while now, I've been using esbuild (swc is an option too) and a few basic shell scripts. I don't miss anything, other than being able to take a break while build happens.
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by jeswin 5y ago
Here's another. Instead of returning Sometype|undefined from a function which may or may not have a value to return (such as searchCustomer), return Sometype|null. That forces the function to return a value that's explicitly inten
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by jeswin 5y ago
> These are both extremes that are undesirable IMO. The problem with putting them in the same sentence is that it equates them, in the same way "very fine people on both sides" did. Being sent to a reeducation camp, keeping a b
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by jeswin 5y ago
Services handling recurring payments need to compulsorily have a cancel button. Here's my story with nytimes today. There's no cancellation button in the app or the website. There's a "chat with agent"option, but it
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by jeswin 5y ago
That's not true as a generalization. The newly mandated HL7 FHIR standards are a huge step forward in interop [1], and we've seen varying but progressively improving levels of support from all leading EHR vendors. The immediate de
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by jeswin 5y ago
At around one million requests per second, imperative programming becomes affordable; and more importantly, necessary.
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> India India's not in the Western World. And it's also quite a stretch to say that Indians are held in "informational bondage". The only way that'd be even remotely true would be if we take into account the pola
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by jeswin 5y ago
It will be quite unfair to expect the US to shoulder a disproportionate burden in collective defence treaties (they already spend 3.7% of GDP on defence, compared to Australia's 2.1% or Germany's 1.6%). Australia spending on these
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by jeswin 5y ago
Also, the expensive pieces of tech from the 80s and 90s had excellent repairability.

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