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by perfopt 5y ago
CHina wants the water sources to the major rivers in Asia.
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by perfopt 5y ago
Which is so surprising. Religious, cultural and political connections between India and Tibet are old and historic.
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by perfopt 5y ago
They did massive layoffs because they were almost out of money thanks to inept management. They bounced back thanks to much better management
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by perfopt 5y ago
Better outcome would have been the deal went through
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by perfopt 5y ago
Air travelers thank and cheer your spirit, pray for your success.
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by perfopt 5y ago
Doesn't this also serve as a nice lock in ? S/w engineers dont leave because they are too dependent on an internal ecosystem, or have years of knowledge built in and leaving means all that effort is wasted.
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by perfopt 5y ago
And I get to learn stuff in the process of deploying it
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by perfopt 5y ago
Right now not many DDR5 boards. In fact none for AMD
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by perfopt 5y ago
I worked on Mac and iOS apps until about 10 years ago and then briefly just to keep in touch with changes until about 5 years ago. The main reason I am not interested in indie development is that (1) it is very difficult to sustain in the l
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by perfopt 5y ago
My knowledge in this area is very dated. But is Lex (Flex) & Yacc (Bison) not the standard way to parse? Many years ago when I was trying parsing for something else I was informed that these tools generally do as good if not a better jo
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by perfopt 5y ago
Nor were they peaceful in India. In addition to the violence against police a woman in the group was raped. A man was killed brutally. The right to protest ends when it infringes on other's rights to go about their daily life. Occupyin
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by perfopt 5y ago
He made a bad decision in pushing ARM to chase IoT. Instead he could have pushed more in traditional areas - servers, data centers, laptops and desktops. Some of that did happen but more could have been done if they had not been distracted
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by perfopt 5y ago
It is not a stupid idea. Most companies cannot make too much money from designing/selling the hardware. On the other hand there is money to be made from the data collected from these IoTs and selling device management and updates as a
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by perfopt 5y ago
Correct. Here "backfired" is the investment did not make 10x return
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by perfopt 5y ago
You are right. They want to buy back shares. But it is also true that some of their bets like Didi and Wework did not do well. Also, they have money invested in China which seems stuck (just like many others I suppose).
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by perfopt 5y ago
This has nothing to do with ARM. Unlike the PC there is no standard for system architecture (including boards). ARM based designers like Qualcomm, NVIDIA etc can choose to have their own board and system architecture. For example, they can
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by perfopt 5y ago
Will there be recordings?
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by perfopt 5y ago
"...let them know you're not currently open to offers less than $current*1.5." Whoa!! Is this for early career folks (less than 6 years)? In the 15-20 years experience range none of my friends and ex-colleagues who moved job
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by perfopt 5y ago
I budget 60mins a day max to HN and other sources. I dont have to use it but I can spend at most 60m on it. Either contiguous or spread out. Also, take every thing I read from these sources with adequate doses of salt.
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by perfopt 5y ago
As I was reading this I was hoping for modern day Cuckoo's Egg. But it was not to be. Great write up. Thanks for sharing.
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by perfopt 5y ago
How important is it to learn DNN/NN from scratch? I have several years of experience working in the tech industry and I am learning DNN for applying it in my domain. Also for hobby side projects. I did the ML Coursera course by Andrew
82.
by perfopt 5y ago
Clothes dryers - please elaborate. Why are they dangerous? (serious question)
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by perfopt 5y ago
Is there anything that supports languages other than English - specifically Indian languages. I am writing documentation (book) to be distributed online. I presently use mdbook but markdown does not support anything other than English.
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by perfopt 5y ago
Preventing side loading allows a single company to get 30% of sales. If side loading were allowed users could purchase apps from any source they trust and make a conscious choice to install purchased apps.
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by perfopt 5y ago
Why do the graphs say "Estimated" in their title
86.
by perfopt 5y ago
Now that I have experienced 2 min commute nothing will be better
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by perfopt 5y ago
Arm China was conceived and even happened before Arm was bought by Softbank
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by perfopt 5y ago
I have been using Windows 10 as my main machine for 3 years now. In the past I have used MacOS as my main machine and Linux for home projects. The author says - "I used Windows before purchasing my first MacBook but returning was not i
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by perfopt 5y ago
Fiddling with the workstation is not fun anymore. I dont think it was a useful activity even when I was younger. That time could have been spent doing things that are useful - development, writing my thesis etc. I switched to macOS several
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by perfopt 5y ago
I dont use Chrome except on some websites that dont work well with Firefox (some bank and government websites). I am ok with the speed, I dont have too many plugins. I see no reason to every go back to Chrome as my main browser.

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