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by pritambaral 3y ago
> ... so there there is no bloat left behind after the migration is done. This is only true after all rows are rewritten after the old column is dropped. In standard, unmodified Postgres, DROP COLUMN does not rewrite existing tuples.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> ... fleets of smartphones back in the windows mobile and blackberry days ... In a completely unrelated world, where smartphones were not prohibitively expensive but still expensive enough to be a rare purchase, people in my country rep
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Yasmine from Lyft Support seems to have made the same mistake.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Great point. And Windows ads remain disabled too. It never turns itself back on, not even when Microsoft force-pushes an update. Unlike Linux. Where even if you disable sudo password, it will randomly turn itself back on, and then force you
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by pritambaral 3y ago
If the MITM is in the client's LAN, DNS can be spoofed too. A simpler solution would be to just use SSH certs for host keys.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
There are a lot of words you used to simply say "I didn't find much actual good content there." Not much of a contribution to the discussion here.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Sadly, far too often, software support simply nevers enter the picture in sourcing decisions. Back when I was privy to this process at an OEM, the only factors that mattered were: 1. Hit to the BOM (i.e. cost); and chip 2. Suppliability (i.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
To many Indians, it is more than a year's income. As an Indian citizen resident in India, I wouldn't advise a friend to be carrying around 1k USD worth or INR in cash.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> ... then what's the gain to ad business? You're not thinking like an ad business exec if you have to ask this question.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> Someday I'll see an exception to that rule of thumb, so far no luck. I used to think so too, then I found a use case. TBF, there exists an alternative that doesn't use recursion, but you wouldn't like that either, becaus
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by pritambaral 3y ago
If you have to put words in my mouth, could you at least try to make them good? The correct way to read your the parent comment of your original comment in this thread is: Pirating a self-published book hurts authors far more than piratin
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> So? What does this information tell us about LibGen case? It's pretty clear: that publishers do not fairly compensate authors.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Initial suspicion: Apps I had explicitly killed (equivalent to Force Stop) would start running. Most of these apps had no background services (or any reason to run in the background) and no notifications to show either. But they did have on
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Android supports IPC.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> Once you express what the humans actually thought ... >> I'm not arguing that mathematical proofs are infallible to modeling inaccuracies, or that ...
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/347 Thank you for reminding me to read the original report again. However, I still don't see any evidence to support your claim that the designers assumed TLS connections to be sy
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Previous discussion from Beta 1 announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36070261 (154 points, 60 comments, 3 months ago)
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by pritambaral 3y ago
I like your simplified example, but it does miss an important nuance: Alice has to act as both a client and a server, must use the same PSK for both roles, and must not (or not be able to) check the sender or intended recipient of any messa
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by pritambaral 3y ago
I used to use sth like that too. Then a set of apps from a scummy telephony provider in my country showed me evidence of how they circumvent this. Turned out, all apps from this vendor talked to each other, in the background. If one app has
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> Godot does lack proper support for consoles. Sonic Colors: Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch was made in Godot[1]. From what I read elsewhere, console support code is usually protected by NDA, so the Godot devs setup a commercial entity
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by pritambaral 3y ago
Of course not. It lacks even a headphone jack.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> No one cares. Most people ... I care. I have a legitimate use for USB 3 on my phone. My home ISP is unreliable. It doesn't care if I'm in a time sensitive meeting. When it does go away, I need to quickly get back into my meet
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by pritambaral 3y ago
USB 2.0 speed: 480 Mbps (mega bits per second). 512 GB (giga bytes) = 512 * 8 Gb (giga bits) Time required to transfer 512 GB at sustained max USB 2.0 speed: 512 * 8 * 1024 / (480 * 60) minutes. That's 145 minutes. About 2.4 hou
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> ... your penchant for justifying violence towards gay people I, too, looked through your parent's comment history (their "post history" is blank) and couldn't find what you are referring to. Could you post a link,
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by pritambaral 3y ago
(-<> "alive" (and "kicking") (is "prefix notation" <>) (in "all lisps"))
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> This is vague. Is there more than one case where Musk did this? TBH, I wouldn't be surprised, but my internet searches turned up only the one case. > Was it when the guy attacked a car with his child in it? Alleged, by Musk, a
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> ... please provide supporting evidence of this. I don't need to. Musk himself does it pretty well. The time when he tweeted to his mob to find a guy by posting his face and car number. Just two days ago when he posted a video of h
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by pritambaral 3y ago
"Rules for thee, but not for me" is not a consistent policy. Especially when the "rules for thee" bit is twisted wildly out of shape to resemble nothing beyond a schoolyard bully's lies.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> Free version with ads and paid version without any ads ... The paid version you talk about does exist: LTSC Edition. It's just ridiculously overpriced out of retail viability.
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by pritambaral 3y ago
> the discounted OEM pre-installed copy (effectively free to the casual user) Not free; just hidden. The retail laptop models I looked at last month discounted the price exactly ₹10K (~ 120 USD) when I chose the no pre-installed OS optio

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