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by kumarvvr 5y ago
India's population is 1.3 Billion. 26.16% of that are children. ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/271315/age-distribution-... ) So, about 1 Billion require 2 doses of vaccination. Out of that 1 Billion are
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Mobile games are meant for use with hands and gestures. Not sure how a mouse would be fun with that.
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Are there any modern construction equivalents to such construction? Or have we surpassed and come up with better models?
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I don't get what prescription is required for a hearing aid? Are there different types? Like with equalizers or volume controls? Why can't a person, who is hard of hearing, go to a store, pick one and start using it? Granted, let
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
For those who were brought up on C#, Java and Python (me), having minimal experience with C & C++, Rust seems too complex and the syntax too finicky. I guess years of Python has spoiled me.
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I think the sweet spot for Database smartness is ensuring data integrity, at close to domain level. Having views instead of tables (hiding the actual implementation details), having procedures to interface with underlying tables and having
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
You seem to be conflating rich lifestyle with castes. Sure, there are many wealthy individuals whobare from upper castes. There are also equally wealthy people from castes across the spectrum. Influencers are basically rich, urban, 90s gen
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
I hope to see a day when the essentials of human survival and living well are completely open sourced, and companies compete on producing the products from open sourced designs and processess. Perhaps that will bring in the elusive utopia.
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Once people have tasted blood, they will not settle for any other stuff. FB is doing too little, too late.
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> What is suspicious is that if I enter that truck's license number (19-BLD-5) into https://ovi.rdw.nl/ that it comes up as a more or less regular Volvo truck with a 12.7 liter LNG installation, not a hydrogen insta
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I agree. However, for remote solar power plants, having an explosive H2 tank is much lesser of a problem than in residential areas. IMV batteries are not sustainable. Currently there is a huge hype on batteries, but once the first set of ba
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My understanding is expensive material for hydrogen production was to increase the efficiency of the system (because energy is costly and not from renewable sources). With the proliferation of installed solar capacity, and availability of l
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> impractically expensive to produce Unless the energy input for production is from solar or wind. Hydrogen is a great battery and can form a good storage solution for wind and solar.
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Ideally yes. But being a lazy developer, I go to ORMs for most projects, so it doesn't really matter. However, I do regularly update and use PostgreSQL as the database of choice.
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I have always wanted to create an 3D LED cube that simulates a fluid level for my car dashboard. This is a great resource.
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All the potential health hazards, excluding brain cancer, may be related to high stress life that makes you use your phone a long time. About the brain cancer thing, I highly doubt cell phone radiation could do anything significant as it is
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What is the power output range of those 30? How far are you from them? Is there anything between you and them?
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> In theory, a fiberoptic cable is a waveguide for light In practice too. Your statement makes it sound like its an exotic property.
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> I'm sick of billionaires with megaphones blaring their virtues As a society, the US has shifted its values from intellectually sound principles, to what ever rich people shout out. I vomit in my mouth when I see videos of people s
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And, you have deep divisions there. If you perceive one single enemy, all your efforts will be focused on that one. If you have three, your efforts are spread out. This makes the divisions, rhetoric and social environment seem less severe
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
FB seems guilty, only because their internal findings were leaked. I have no empathy for them. They bring out the worst in Humanity. They build walled silos of festering hate and anger, all driven by "user engagement", "hours
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by kumarvvr 5y ago
That is because most other countries have multi party systems. The polarization is still there, but spread thin amongst various factions. In the US, people are shoehorned into R or D. Edit : I would also like to point out that the OP is a b
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> - It was government intervention There was an Indian opposition Member of Parliament blaming the current government that it blocked FB due to some protests being held in the Capital.
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True. Most people dont care about lives of people other than those in their immediate or important circle. FB also realized this. Because, initially, FB was all about getting posts from friends. I suspect data revealed that this sort of alg
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When using stencils, a good amount of paint is wasted on the stencil cover. By precise painting, paint is saved. But, I guess the major saving is reduction in cost of labour to produce stencils, fix them in place, remove them and do correct
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How can it be "abuse", when all Apple has done is to provide users a window saying "Hey, this app is collecting all your data. Do you want to prevent it?". The abuser is Facebook here. Fact : Apple is providing an authen
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Everything points to the fact that keeping users in the dark is their business model. Which, makes sense. The steady erosion of any control, the tiny sparks of "settings" to assuage some privacy issue brought out in the open, the
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>Like, why write this blog at all if you aren’t after the validation? Social Media, especially large ones like FB / TW / IG / SC etc are mass aggregators. A blog is a publishing platform. Like an article in a web page or a
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The success of Deep Learning in Computer Vision is fascinating for me. It revolutionized the field in a little over a decade and brought forth new frontiers. I do believe that CV is an area ML will excel well into the next century. Perhaps,
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>ML systems are just compressed aggregations of their input datasets I like to think of them as forgiving sieves of patterns in data. Overfitting a sieve will exclude a large number of almost positive cases, loose fitting will include a

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