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by mdani 6y ago
Another case of ML based moderation. This ML based judging with no appeal must end. I was only mildly disturbed so far, but when it started affecting me personally, it really hit home. I wrote a book on third battle of Panipat and when I tr
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Rail Bicycle (Indian Railways)(youtu.be)
2 points by mdani 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 6y ago
I had the misfortune of eating one of these bitter Zucchini flowers. It was extremely bitter and I could not even swallow the single bite I took. But it was enough to make me sick for two days. I couldn't even drink plain water since i
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by mdani 6y ago
A transmission of the pilot’s final exchange with air traffic control, posted on the website LiveATC.net, indicated he had failed to land and was circling around to make another attempt, reported AP. “We are proceeding direct, sir — we have
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by mdani 6y ago
Yes, it has been exploited exactly like you described. An example that I remember - Foodpanda in India. I guess fraud costs are massive for all the food delivery startups. source: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/rYKC6
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An Indian firm starts mass-producing an unproven Covid-19 vaccine(economist.com)
2 points by mdani 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 6y ago
Goa was declared COVID-free when the last cases recovered and there were no new cases. That is probably the reason - the situation in other parts of India is quite different. Source: https://m.timesofindia.com/india/goa
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by mdani 7y ago
Wondering if direct sunlight would be as effective as UV light?
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Google winds down free Station Wi-Fi program(theverge.com)
1 points by mdani 7y ago|0 comments
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IRS scams:A taxi driver saved an elderly woman from being scammed out of $25,000(cnn.com)
47 points by mdani 7y ago|29 comments
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by mdani 7y ago
In the reply, I'd probably include 1x1 pixel hidden tracker image or maybe a legit looking logo below signature and get the client ip of the scammer's computer when it does http GET on it. The ip can tell more about where they&#x2
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The Jungle Prince of Delhi(nytimes.com)
9 points by mdani 7y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 7y ago
It was great on physical hosts but could not get it working in EC2 VMs
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Genome of an Ancient Harappan(sciencemag.org)
2 points by mdani 7y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 7y ago
For humans, about 15 kbp telomere can be reduced to 50% in about 107 years at the rate of about 70 bp per year. That number goes well with the max life spans we observe in humans.
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by mdani 7y ago
Use Twilio Proxy https://www.twilio.com/proxy
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by mdani 8y ago
wow, this is amazing. Reading Qazwini's Padshahnama. Even though I am a full time engineer like most others here, I had an interest in history so I learned to read Nastaliq hand written script and basics of Persian grammar online (had
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by mdani 8y ago
The need to maintain Taj is not new, in fact just a couple of decades after its construction in 17th century, the dome leaked and it had to be repaired. As Mughal reign fell into decline, the plunder began and the British were not left behi
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by mdani 8y ago
Aurora did not work well for us (it was using local ephemeral disk to do sorts so our query results were truncated / limited to largest local storage) so the best option for us was to run MySQL or PostGres on a i3 instance with local S
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by mdani 8y ago
Google search very slow / down for me. Anyone seeing the same?
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by mdani 8y ago
I was blaming it on Comcast - couldn't believe its youtube. I can search videos fine, so looks like a problem with media side.
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by mdani 8y ago
Yes, there is a set of 3GPP specs that define 5G standard. Slicing of the network to provide low latency is one of the highlights. There are open source implementations such as openCORD that target the same goals.
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How social-media platforms dispense justice(economist.com)
1 points by mdani 8y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 8y ago
Tipu made the first indigenous rocket is a myth. There is ample evidence that the indigenous rockets were in use in Deccan at least 100 years before Tipu’s time. History of Aurangzeb’s reign, the Farsi manuscript of Mathir-i Alamgiri and th
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by mdani 9y ago
Its not what you want to see or buy - they’ll push the ad from a provider who’s bidding highest and providing them most revenue.
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by mdani 9y ago
Here school means elementary, middle school,high school etc. where they teach MS Word etc. In India, CS departments are in “colleges” also called “schools” in US so this may not be bullshit for the reason you stated.
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Microsoft working on eSIM(windowscentral.com)
2 points by mdani 9y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 9y ago
In my experience, tesserect 4 with LSTM is far more accurate in recognizing characters. It was not there in 2015, so the post would probably need an update or a follow up. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract&#x2F
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A solo unsupported ride from Kashghar to Lhasa [2007](crazyguyonabike.com)
3 points by mdani 9y ago|0 comments
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by mdani 9y ago
utf8 to utf8mb4 also breaks replication so be extra careful if you have slaves replicating. You'd need to switch off row or mixed replication and switch to statement based till changes are done on all nodes.

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