rrdharan

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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   True in France as well though my perception is that software industry in France is more well developed?
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   Previous poster was probably assuming, like I did, that the Virtual Boy was less than 20 years ago…
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   The Crypto Critics Corner (Cas Piancey, Bennet Tomlin) is excellent: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   > Not a decentralized blockchain but it obviously incorporates some of the technology. Uh.. like what? A highly available distributed database? So grateful that Cryptocurrency teams invented those, what ever would we have done?
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   > It still makes sense to use a decade-old computer. Economically the incentives are not aligned this way though, if you pay for grid power... you still have to pay for the electricity, and there's also the opportunity cost of that
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   If you really want to be safe you should eat your SIM card. https://youtu.be/wxJkLKjdMcc
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   I don’t know about reverse image search but I believe the previous poster had this in mind: https://time.com/5163852/google-view-image-search-remove/
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   > the crypto market is … so important Citation desperately needed.
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   by rrdharan 4y ago

   > Because that is nonsense. We don’t have that technology. https://www.theringer.com/2023/1/20/23562871/america-isnt-re...
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Historically Google far outspent Microsoft on their “super computers”, though in recent years MS has been closing the gap. https://www.platformonomics.com/2022/02/follow-the-capex-clo...
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    I agree with you - but I think you meant "the risk is too high" if you're a low income earner?
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Do you mean Alexa instead of Azure?
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Google / YouTube no longer use Python “for product”, at least, not in the serving path. Dropbox has also been moving away and towards Golang. Instagram (Cinder), Google (Unladen Swallow) and Dropbox (Pyston) have also all experimented
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    souvlaki
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    I’m curious about the other ways to fix startup performance. I’ve seen a moderately sized (~300k LoC) Python CLI project that had a horrendous, anger-inducing startup time until they switched to the lazy import approach basically described&
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Citation? I found: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1092217/bullying-in-euro... https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp Which suggests the rates are comparable between the US an
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Actually it sounds very European to me - banning known hooligans from soccer stadiums? https://www.wired.com/story/soccer-world-cup-biometric-surve... https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/26/1
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Trading requires this, but pure long-$coin speculation does not.
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    I know this is in favor of your point but just wanted to note that Apple has way more than 1000 engineers, I think closer to 20,000…
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Unsolicited direct inspection of customer content is what’s surprising. I know we don’t have homeomorphic encryption, but typically policies (requiring explicit user request / Consent) would be in place even if they can’t be sufficient
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    That seems pretty sketchy from a data access perspective.
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Or the tunnels..
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Ahah but you see that’s why I have founded BlocuSign in the Bahamas - far away from the reach of those pesky lawyers.
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    The author of this blog has been the head of PM at Asana for nearly 9 years, during which they've completely failed to come up with a sustainable product strategy and have been bleeding money for years. "... the world would be a b
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    This was genius.com’s pitch at one point right after they secured a massive funding round from a16z I believe - “annotate the web!”. Didn’t really work out for them: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/geniu
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    You can hibernate to disk on macOS (even with modern M1 Macs). It’s a pmset option.
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    p.s. I wrote that code in about a day, and then spent a month trying to figure out how to deploy it on the IBM-managed Windows NT IIS machines with only some ancient Perl available (5.005 maybe?) and no option to upgrade. IIRC it involved p
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    I interned at Lucent in 2000 and had a desk / cube in this building: http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/WCfacility.html It was my first “real” office job and I just assumed all office buildings were that gr
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    > Something I can insert money into, which solves a more expensive problem. Right. I would argue that "public cloud infrastructure" is such a product; GCP/AWS/Azure specifically. (See below also) Kubernetes enabled th
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    by rrdharan 4y ago

    Strongly disagree. Kubernetes is not a Google product. But it is "a" product , and it was successfully launched as a commoditize-your-complement / cannibalize-yourself kind of thing. GKE meanwhile is a Google product, an