nirbheek

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by nirbheek 3y ago
> Long weekend "city breaks" are pretty common amongst the UK middle classes. Presumably to nearby countries, not via 12-15h flights with layovers, and not after an onerous visa process? I think you underestimate how much work
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by nirbheek 3y ago
Yes, there are two problems: 1. You are misrepresenting the purpose of your visit and you can get deported and/or barred from entering the country. For example, you can be stopped and asked for your passport at any time (this has happe
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by nirbheek 3y ago
Very strange that this is your experience, because IME as an Indian who has to apply for Schengen visas 4-5 times a year it's actually easier to get a visa for tourism than to attend a conference or for business. You need to supply few
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by nirbheek 4y ago
libaom is the 'reference' encoder, it is built for correctness, not speed. rav1e and SVT-AV1 are built for speed.
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by nirbheek 10y ago
In open source, an unreported bug doesn't exist. Did you report it upstream?
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Built using inline SVG and web fonts: A timeline of Indian Prime Ministers(theballot.in)
2 points by nirbheek 13y ago|0 comments
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by nirbheek 15y ago
Actually, that command will also rewrite the entire .sqlite file, and if you have enough free space, the filesystem will most likely rewrite it in a contiguous manner. I tested this with filefrag.
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by nirbheek 15y ago
Not against JavaScript or PyPy, from what I've seen.
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by nirbheek 15y ago
> * In the cubes, there are no walls. The cube-dweller did not have headphones. Major, major "graaah" Directional sound[1] tech is making leaps and bounds. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound
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by nirbheek 15y ago
Deleting your places.sqlite file is the easiest, but the worst way of defragmenting it. The easiest (if you're using btrfs) is to run: `btrfs filesystem defragment ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/places.sqlite` or use ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG, NUL