sreevisakh

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by sreevisakh 6y ago
I started trying out the plaintext email workflow recently. One thing is very clear - all that pain is only because of bad tools and nothing to do with workflow itself. Regular email clients (incl webclients) garble the workflow horribly -
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
The gist of the article is that protocol you want already exists and is integrated into git- email. Everything that people complain about that workflow (barrier to entry, initial setup and difficulty to track) is merely because the tools a
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
The problem is with the exposure. 1min exposures are common in astrophotography, but astronomers are complaining about the types that need night-long exposure - ones that try to study cosmology, stellar composition etc. Many observations (l
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
That is exactly what happened. It's clear even to the naked eye - people still freak out when power grids get knocked out at night. They see far more stars and think that's what caused the failure. To be more technical, the EM rad
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
What you describe does sound like a satellite - but it could also be a rocket body. If it moves slowly enough and lasts long enough to for you to show it to another person, it probably is a satellite or rocket body. As mentioned, it also tr
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
There is a very important distinction between airspace and plain space. Violation of a country's airspace is a wilful act (unless of course you're lost). But you will inevitably have to fly over another country if you want to be i
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
You shouldn't judge other countries by western standards. There are a lot of places with poor or non-existent internet. But I fear that the reason other countries will do the same is because of their current infrastructure. Capable cou
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
Considering the commercial pressure, regulatory agencies are likely to just reduce the collision avoidance margins. (I remember reading that this is already happening, just don't have a reference). It's easier to keep government a
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
Spaceflight wouldn't be there in the first place if astronomical observations didn't help generations of scientists (including Kepler, Newton and Oberth) evolve the concepts of astrodynamics. Astronomy is far from having given up
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
It's the other way around. It's possible to escape light pollution by moving away from electrified areas, whereas satellite streak ruins observations in every part of the world. Besides, the streaks are not really localized in the
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
> Edit: Oh no, Amazon removed KindleGen! When did that happen? We know where this is going, don't we? Offering interoperability in the beginning and then gradually taking it away - the old bait and switch trick. We consumers fall fo
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
How about using a different toolchain? (eg: gcc vs clang). Or even different versions of a toolchain? Or a dependency that has to be downloaded? Being able to build consistently requires way more effort than just following professional prac
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
There are two things you should ensure while self-hosting: 1. Always have independent and automatic data backup. A storage medium attached to a raspberry pi is plenty enough 2. Always choose a setup that you can deploy and migrate trivially
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
Where else do you host where you can easily attract potential contributors, sponsors and recruiters? Self hosting is not a solution since everyone would have to maintain separate accounts on all those instances. The discoverability is also
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
GitHub and other forges are value added services on top of git. They wouldn't be this popular if it weren't for issue trackers and merge managers, CI and that sort of stuff. They are centralized and can't be migrated out once
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
The problem is more due to a general culture that prefer rigour over clarity. Mathematics by definition is made of layers upon layers of intuitive conclusions. Then why do universities prescribe books with long dry derivations over clear ex
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
The article gave me the impression that pjreddie hasn't yet commented on whether he approves v5 or not. Or, did I miss something?
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by sreevisakh 6y ago
A developer of Symbiflow toolchain once described Lattice Semi as very friendly and cooperative towards them [1]. I was wondering why they suddenly changed their attitude. It may have been a clause that they introduced without giving much t
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
Many of those tools have important functions other than dependency isolation. Pyenv is perhaps the only tool mentioned that can be replaced by docker. However, pyenv has a marginal usability advantage over docker. You can set a python versi
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
It does work with pyenv, but can be slightly tricky. I used a setup recommended by Jacob Kaplan [1] that uses pyenv, pipx and poetry. Pyenv is used to manage different versions of Python and virtual environments (using pyenv-virtualenv [2])
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
Here is a rarely seen Malabar spotted civet roaming the streets of Kozhikode city in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t9IC1s2tbk . Endemic to Western ghats and critically endangered, most of us have only heard about
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
Thank you for that perspective. I apologize if it sounded like I am blaming Ruma - just waiting eagerly for its development.
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
The official successor to Synapse homeserver is Dendrite written in Go ( https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite ). There is homeserver project in Rust called Ruma ( https://github.com/ruma/ruma ). Rum
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
Open source silicon design itself is at its infancy. You may be interested in this project: https://libresilicon.com/ . It has a very interesting history. I really hope that someday, this will grow into a room sized fab - l
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by sreevisakh 7y ago
I wrote a data processing utility in rust once and it took me four tries. But the final result was way better than I expected. For all the complaints that the compiler makes, it does expose genuine and obscure problems in your code that oth
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by sreevisakh 8y ago
That figure of 10 to 15 kJ can be very misleading about what it takes to propel something to such speeds. Put into 'TNT equivalent', it would take the entire energy of 50g of TNT to boost a 100g bolt by just 2 km/s. It's
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by sreevisakh 8y ago
Intelsat 29e was in the geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36000 km. The Indian ASAT test was at an altitude of 300km. For any debris to reach that altitude, the explosion has to boost its velocity by 2 to 3 km/s. This is highly unl
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by sreevisakh 9y ago
Just in case you wish to retain anaconda, you could simply remove anaconda path from your PATH variable in .bashrc file (Assuming you are on Linux). If you need anaconda again, you could add the path to the variable, or run `source ~/a