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by rrdharan 5y ago
I’m convinced the ending (and other parts) of Cryptonomicon were inspired by A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession, but I have no evidence to support this claim. Here’s an interesting thread with more books that share this conceit: https:/&#x
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> So if you want a binary to work across multiple distributions, you can build it on a really old CentOS and if you are lucky it will work, but I have no trust in this. For a very long time (decades?) VMware's Linux build system rel
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by rrdharan 5y ago
The passenger was able to escape from the handcuffs.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/e2ee-in-jitsi/
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by rrdharan 5y ago
That’s specific to the education SKU and is to prevent zoom-bombing… and an admin can disable it.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> it provides end to end encryption (After lying about it for years) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-... Theranos-level of “fake it til you make it” and they actually did make i
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Google Meet does not require an account to join a meeting. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> What are my options if/when Binance decides to ban Ontarians as well? Why not find something else to do besides automating crypto derivatives trading?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> And the government didn’t ask: they volunteered. This betrays a very naive understanding of how changes like this come about.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.2019031...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> the positions we have that more traditionally handle a more complete design.. are they being overpaid in our org? Probably, depending on the size of the org. There are lots of places for semi technical people who sort of know what they
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Facebook has no interest in infrastructure / enterprise revenue streams (Facebook for Work notwithstanding). See the history of Asana, Cloudera and Phabricator (and even Dropbox, from an employee/recruiting perspective, kinda).
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I’d wager Dropbox’s Magic Pocket is up there with equivalent C/C++ based I/O / SAN stacks: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/extending-magic-pocket-i...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
If you really want or need to go active-active but also don’t want to think about it much and can live with MySQL my preference would probably be AWS Aurora multi-master if you can live with its limitations: https://docs.aws.amaz
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Fascinating, TIL that superseded is correct and superceded is and has been wrong for four hundred years :): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supercede
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Amazon published a paper describing how Aurora works: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Bigtable, Firestore and Spanner run directly on Borg. Cloud SQL V2 runs in hidden VMs.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
There are several that I find to be painfully recurrent at this point: - hanlon’s razor references - xkcd 927 (competing standards) - you aren’t the user you’re the product Some days it feels like we’ve reached the point where an AI could g
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Karabiner Elements switched to DriverKit already. I think it will survive the next transition but it’s surprisingly hard to find confirmation. [EDIT: see sibling comment - developer confirmed the above.]
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by rrdharan 5y ago
You can lose relative to the market but still come out positive, maybe even beating inflation. There’s still a lot more room there than the net negative expectation of a casino wager.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
That’s exactly what TideLift is trying. https://www.tidelift.com
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I thought HN swore to me that AWS never deprecates anything ever? What’s next, SimpleDB?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> they'd suddenly end up committing most of the attacks on flights They really wouldn’t. There aren’t that many 90 year olds available and it’s pretty hard to recruit them into terrorism (relative to 21 year olds).
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by rrdharan 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/810/
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Kind of boggles the mind that some form of these aren’t yet the defaults / built-in after all these years.. is it just too hard to integrate into the core out of box install for some reason?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Cars are depreciating assets.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
The average engineer at a startup is far more likely to work on something for two years that ends up being pointless, and canceled, by economics, when the entire startup fails.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> I still have not found really good information on how the controllers in the Valve Index actually work. Isn’t the Occam’s razor explanation here just that that information is not actually available on the web - not that Google is hidin
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Prop 13 in California?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
The company, as opposed to the distribution format/ mechanism.

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