kumarvvr

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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Curious, what does RedHat actually do ?
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History will see our current decade of AI and only see over promises and under deliveries. I have decent amount of hope for AI, but corporate greed, hype by practitioners, a general explosion of various edTech companies hyping up the hype t
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
The link to "Free Drive" is very intriguing. A bicycle chain is very efficient [0]. Most generators, even in low power applications are about 96% efficient. So are motors. Roundtrip efficiencies of batteries are in the order of 80
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
My thoughts could not have been captured better than this. This whole thing, like that flying wind-turbine thing or the solar road thing, is just bordering on plausible but so far away from feasible that one has to doubt the whole eff
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
My laptop upgraded to Win 11 recently and I am absolutely annoyed at the new start menu. I loved the one in Win 10. I had all my shortcuts pinned, sized, grouped and arranged and in my 3 years of using it, I never once had to scroll the pro
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
No, sorry, cannabis and caffeine are not the same. Not the underlying substances, not the internal biological changes, not the effects. No one laughed out their brains after drinking a pot of coffee. Pun intended.
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Your argument is absurd. Sure, some caveman consumed alcohol that happened to occur naturally a gazillion years ago. So? You think huge factories producing alcohol and all the issues associated with it are justified? By what you say, if who
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By natural, I meant, natural for regular human consumption. Not as in natural from mother earth. Alcohol and tobacco are extremely dangerous and detrimental to any society. What blows my mind is young teens, barely out of education, harping
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Being legal adds a whole lot of marketing push and general acceptance in the population, especially young ones. Time and again I see so many stories of young people fucking up their lives, and wasting so much of their lives trying to correc
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Absolutely. What ever I have read or heard about those drugs (most of it from peoples experiences on reddit and all), it is clear to me that they don't actually solve any issue, and simply make the mind numb. In some cases, perhaps tha
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Another view, is that, except for the extremely strong willed, getting used to a serene state of mind is addicting and kind of counter productive. Perhaps, addictive is not the right word. But it seems to me (purely from a human nature pers
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Perhaps in a subscription model, where some good content is spread amongst many providers (with almost all providers having exclusive ones), mediocrity will be the ultimate stable point. As the subscription money keeps flowing, there is a
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So, how reliable is gRPC-web? Is it production ready? Can it be a good replacement for AJAX? I have been itching to use gRPC because, I just hate REST and everything JSON.
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There is the question of liability management. If something bad happens due to an edge case in an algorithm, and people die, who is responsible? With an algorithm, you are placing responsibility on something you cannot blame. Not popular in
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I love these threads. As a rule, I always do the work assigned to me just a bit shy of the target. And, I always automate my work. And I never say a word of it to anyone. I work in an engineering firm and most of my colleagues are clueless
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Just to be clear, and I speak as an Indian. Below are the affirmative actions that are doled out to people from backward castes. 1. A portion of seats in all govt. and private institutes are reserved (roughly about 50%, about 70% in some st
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Seem pertinent to atleast get an affidavit from the ex-employee detailing what he as done, agree to hold on to the hardware as evidence, put liability on the employee for any time-bombs that might have been stored, ask him explicitly to giv
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The weight would be high and lifting up, may not be feasible to all, especially young children. In contrast, having a rope that can be tugged, is a more practical solution. Also, I wonder if such devices can be installed on village well wal
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Considering the incredible low cost of LEDs, would it not make better sense to have solar / wind installation, at a village level, to distribute energy for local needs? This seems a lot of waste (both in effort and in materials)/
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Probably aimed at aid agencies, that may buy these and distribute them as they see fit.
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Offtopic : I am always annoyed with the use of the word "Broken" in place of more meaningful words (Flawed, Wrong, Malfunctioning, etc.) Everything is "broken" The system is "broken" (Flawed / biased &#x2F
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Actually, these panels are placed on irrigation canals, where concrete embankment alreadyy exists.
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Solar is dead easy, dead simple, dead safe, dead everything. The next decade may see rise of distributed solar based base load plants, where we have 3x capacity panels and 2x storage, delivering constant 1x power, all year round. We need ef
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
Off Topic : I am interested in learning DL, not superficially (like most of online courses), but a more theoretical foundation, one that enables me to think and envisage new architectures, new techniques or combinations. Can you help me wit
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It has always been my strong belief that ML is good to solve problems, if the problems are very narrowly defined and training sets are very specific. Say, recognition of cats. Other than that, it is difficult to build stuff around something
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I use the Platinum Preppy 02 pen. Bought it when I went to Japan. Kicking myself now because can't find it here in India. I love the pen because, writing with the nib in normal position gives a smooth writing experience and a great smo
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Wow. Intel has shifted from being a leader to a follower. It doesn't matter if this particular chip is better than that particular chip. Apple will come up with an M2 or M2X that will be better or faster or cheaper. Apple is focusing o
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A lot wrong can go with ICE engines if not used for a long time. I guess keeping a Tesla charged every week is a good way to extend shelf life.
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I guess we can chalk it up to OS prioritization or something similar. With no other programs running, calculator on my Windows does everything instantly. With Chrome or Firefox, it lags. I would also guess that the OS considers the calculat
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That 20 MB of space, would mostly be for writing graphics code. All the images, resources, hidden stuff, animations, code to run those animations, etc. Its not that the core program has increased in size or has lost performance, but that th

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