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by potamic 4y ago
People working from India tend to work between 5pm-1am local time which is 5am-1pm US time. That's effectively till lunch which is a pretty good overlap. Bonus, you are left meetings-free for the other half so it is solid work time. It
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by potamic 4y ago
New rule, if something needs to be called out as still a thing, maybe it's not that much of a thing.
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by potamic 4y ago
This might seem contrary to a lot of management practices you may come across but I think you're really going about it the wrong way. Things like following key metrics to assess sprint health, anonymous surveys, more manager involvemen
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by potamic 4y ago
Few years back there was quite some stir about how feeding seaweed to cattle reduces methane by a huge extent. It was announced as a pretty significant discovery that should have a big impact on greenhouse emissions. I wonder what's ha
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by potamic 4y ago
BNPL is a debt trap. It's targeted towards low income people with poor liquidity who are in a desperate situation for funds. It's very surprising that Apple is providing this given they target the upmarket demographic. It's e
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by potamic 4y ago
For all the data driven ethos that execs tout, this is one area where decisions seem to be made at the whim rather than derived from data. I've seen many places where the business performance equals pre-pandemic years, with no discerna
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by potamic 4y ago
Why is it that when a company breaks copyright laws, the owner gets a severe sentence, but break environment laws or privacy laws and you usually only get a rap on the wrist?
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by potamic 4y ago
I don't think the day is far when websites move away from HTML and simply start rendering all content within a canvas element. They would like the web to be nothing more than a television where they have complete control of content tha
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by potamic 4y ago
I wish it was also standard to provider a small sandbox environment where I can go setup things and play around. I don't want to book a demo where I'll again be hooked up with someone from sales for a long presentation. For someon
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by potamic 4y ago
Anyone else thought this was super light on details? My only takeaway was that they replaced their edge HAProxy with a custom proxy to do more intelligent load-balancing across data centers. Feels like a lot of text to describe this.
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by potamic 4y ago
Even 20 years ago, Notepad used to open in a flash on my desktop. The Notes app on my phone however...
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by potamic 4y ago
cdn.shortpixel.ai is present in my blocklist, so none of the images load. Anyone know if this is a shady domain?
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by potamic 4y ago
You lose anonymity. Your cloud provider would have all your details and most certainly have a log of all IPs used by you. If someone came looking for an IP, they would trace it back to you.
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by potamic 4y ago
Your funds are safe. However their value might drop frenziedly to zero.
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by potamic 4y ago
Test cricket is real in the sense that it is the original game and what we have been calling as cricket until the relatively recent introduction of ODIs and T20s. The shorter formats eliminate the aspects of playing with changing conditions
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by potamic 4y ago
When I learn about revolutions played out across the world, the recurring outcome seems to be measures to ensure citizens are not denied the means to usurp authority. Great men of the past seem to have concluded that the fundamental problem
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by potamic 4y ago
If you can't distinguish between a bot and a human, is it a bot?
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by potamic 4y ago
Off topic, I keep coming across so many fintech startups whose product just seems to be a debit card end of the day. What is the business model here and why would I as a consumer be interested?
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by potamic 4y ago
Mainstream news is also in the business of manufacturing consent. When you see the big picture that what you're consuming is not facts, but an elaborate operation to sell you a narrative and make you feel a certain way, you feel like s
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by potamic 4y ago
India is also one of the few countries mandating 2FA for all payments. As a consumer, it's a real boon knowing that no shady merchant or card skimmer can just arbitrarily charge your account. Was pretty spooked to find out how things w
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by potamic 4y ago
You can probably search around for references on distributed data management. But basically, when your data is split across different instances, you can no longer do joins or transactions or rely on the database for acid guarantees. All the
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by potamic 4y ago
> When databases were shared by many apps, it made sense to think of them as their own services. When each database is built and run to service exactly one app, that makes less sense, plus it's also easier to push everything onto th
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by potamic 5y ago
Except when someone manages to paste over their own QR over the vendor's sneakily.
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by potamic 5y ago
Very cool! Always rooting for more search engines. > Then we query APIs and vertical searches directly, and retrieve content in real-time, before ranking and filtering the results. Vertical search is specialized search right? Are you bui
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by potamic 5y ago
Would this be mitigated if the ingress load balancer also did health checks with the pods? So when a pod goes into shutdown state, the ingress can detect and stop routing traffic.
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by potamic 5y ago
> use the low cardinality string column, substitute (i.e. precalculate) conditions on low cardinality relations with integer IN tests, denormalize high cardinality relations. Could you please elaborate on this one?
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by potamic 5y ago
I see this everywhere. What's the excuse in your case?
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by potamic 5y ago
This is why I never stopped using torrents. Even though I have subscriptions to nearly every streaming service in my region (creators are getting their cut, right?). They're super convenient. I can search what I want in a giffy, even v
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by potamic 5y ago
It's cool. But much clickbait with the title?
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by potamic 5y ago
I'm sorry but this is going to sound bleak, but you cannot learn to be alone. If you are alone, it is pretty much guaranteed to affect mental health. Psychologists everywhere stress this fact very much and there is apparently plenty of

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