sriram_sun

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by sriram_sun 5y ago
From the article: "David provides free instructions on how to build the MK-V LEGO® prosthetic arm on his YouTube channel Hand Solo." Made my day!
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Also, he is pretty serious about selling 'em trucks. Next up T-nutz!
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Does that mean all the other captcha systems are "broken"?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
In my mind there is a"spend without much thought" threshold. That is about 10:1 for Costco: Amazon.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
I was curious about the DIY colonoscopy. The picture in the article, but no other mention of it other than the pic.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Not sure how much this pertains to Amazon's employees, but regarding costs, you can get an engineering degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for 4 - 5x less than UC (LA, SD or Berkeley) and still get a really good education. I guess pr
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Aah! Backported VxWorks 5.1 to this back in '08 or something. Still used in a bunch of medical devices I bet.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
FTA: "Using a combination of proxies, modified DNS records, sslsplit and a new CA certificate installed in Windows, we were able to inspect all traffic, including HTTP and XMPP, in our test environment." I have setup wireshark for
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
A 100% of employers are looking for ways to make your job redundant.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, please try to add more value to your comments.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
From https://www.archwaystoopportunity.com/tuition_assistance.htm... : "You are eligible for $5,250 in Tuition Assistance if: * You have a performance rating of “significant performance” or better, maintained throughou
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
2000 phone calls. Count me out after two. I somehow still manage to pay the bills consulting :).
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
I wonder where farm workers are from? :). My point is that almost all farm workers are at least temporarily displaced from their homes.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
"MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle" - Gawd! Were most devs at FB born after the acquisition?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Once I asked my Lead if I was going to get fired for what (in hindsight) was a pretty superficial bug. Response? "Gawd no. I'm going to make you stay here, figure it out and fix it!"
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Oh no! Should I start downloading videos?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
C++ folks, do you see any big improvement in cscope type navigation? I've tried ycm and a couple of others. Now settled on ripgrep. However, I do need a decent plugin that helps with finding references to a symbol and navigation back a
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Oil shortages and long lines make for good/bad TV. Fear of bad media coverage energized the Govt. to act.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Quality of life improvement when you work remote is several fold higher. You have to experience it. I've been working remote (consulting) for about 4 years now. My wife has done it about 1/2 her career. We live in sunny SoCal (exp
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
GOOG folks, FB is recruiting stressing on "remote". Call a recruiter today!
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Peanuts.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro and I want to keep using it forever. Now if it (Mighty) helps me focus and save 1 hour of my time per month my work, I'll pay up the $30/mo. However, I'd like to pause my subscription whenever po
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
Aah got it. Thank you!
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
FTA: if constexpr(Addable<T>){ / ... / } else if constexpr(requires(T a, T b) { a + b; }){ / ... / } The compiler knows that Addable<T> is a concept at this point right? Is the constexpr required?
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
Well if it's your monkey (or program) that generated it (music or art or whatever) and the monkey can't talk, what's to prevent you from copyrighting it?
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
Yeah that's a good point about questioning authority. I don't know.
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
> In the book McMurphy is trying to get admitted into the mental ward to get out of prison — it wasn't really a case of the state institutionalizing him against his will. I know. But he can't get out when he wants to right?
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
> Does that film even make sense for someone growing up within Japanese culture? Oh yeah! F*ck yeah! This movie was remade into a 1986 Malayalam movie by a really good actor/director pair and I'll bet almost everyone who watch
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
I remember reading a speech made to West Point graduates on the value of questioning authority. Not sure how much it is actually followed, but was pleasantly reassured that at least the thought is being planted. Now if someone could only he
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by sriram_sun 6y ago
> H2O is even worse as once the oxygen is split from the water molecule you are left with hydrogen which will combust and explosion might cause the molten fire to spread even farther Yup, this is why you never douse an oil fire (say in

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