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by srvmshr 4y ago
> Is it better to have some unknown entity at VISA making these decisions based some internal rules and how they feel today? As opposed to rushing my lawyer in his tuxedo to settle a $8 double payment on the whopper I just bought at loca
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by srvmshr 4y ago
> I still have my first Android phone. It contains a battery you can pop out after removing the back cover. Replaceable batteries used to be the norm! > If Apple actually cared about repairing phones, they'd design better phones.
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Getting arm twisted to buy is a bad thing of course. The core concern is not the availability of talent to do this but the supply chain of genuine parts, and authentication of successful repair thereafter. iFixit already provides several ki
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I think, barring the USB-C issue which is more supportive of industry wide efforts to standardize and reduce e-waste, you cannot by any legal instrument force an equipment manufacturer to stick to certain parts or boiler plate designs, whic
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Places like Ghaffar Market exist in most Asian cities. In fact, Delhi has another at Nehru Place
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by srvmshr 4y ago
If made to fulfill the word of the law without actually having to follow it in spirit, this would be my modus operandi too. By designing $1200 deposit, $49 rental & two Pelican suitcases of tools and manuals, while keeping the battery r
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Similar: Ned Batchelder recently posted about major Python changes introduced in every point-release - https://nedbatchelder.com/text/which-py.html
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I just wanted to add that I really liked your 'Classic CS Problems in Python' book. I found it much better than following university course notes (e.g. CS 61 A/B etc).
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Helping a country fighting for the existence of its people, bracing against forced deportation, mass executions & rapes and more importantly championing freedom against tyranny of a madman, isn't ethically justifiable? You choose a
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by srvmshr 4y ago
We should have some community guidelines to keep out Medium/Towards Data Science and similar low-effort article sources from HN. Genuinely in favor of lesser submission vs. increased noise in submissions. Beginner articles are not tabo
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I have been using Google Maps, Apple Maps & Here interchangeably. Apple Maps is better than Google Maps in metros, while the reverse is true beyond suburbs & in freeways. Google Maps seems to work better in South & SE Asia. In s
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by srvmshr 4y ago
True. It does, but similar risks have come by before (in S Asia). India & Pakistan had a full confrontation in 1990s, when they were both nuclear capable & backed by Russia and US respectively. People at the helm of warcraft perhaps
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Absolutely. If people wanted long form posts, facebook or similar were already there (minus the coolness quotient). For in-depth stories, a lot of the folks subscribe to medium / substack, which goes feature length. Twitter has its pro
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I have been using InSync for Google Drive for the past 4 years. Been pretty happy with the performance. There is only one catch with their personal license: you can only use it for the account you bought it for. Changing account implies buy
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Freedom & freedom of speech aren't equivalent ideas, and most of us Indians do not correctly identify the subtle difference. Hence speech and opinions come under vicious attack instead of productive participation. India sees journa
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by srvmshr 5y ago
[parent] > Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy ---- [answer] > Indeed and better reasoning explained here over guardian [...] Are you trying to answer from alternate account @amreek
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I think the way to go about it is read some books gradually on history of computing & the various designs and rationale that evolved over time. Consider these sources: 1. The Annotated Turing. 2. A History of Modern Computing 3ed 3. The
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by srvmshr 5y ago
It is funny that they are imposing such a ban. They hardly have a tech stack which is remarkably exclusive. I can understand if such moratorium is at program manager, architect level or upper management, but regular software engineering is
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by srvmshr 5y ago
> First, let it be clear that I hate WaPo and the left. Don't be apologetic. We can all thrive well if differences are amicable. I personally feel Washington Post is a good / respectable news outlet. But that shouldn't wei
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by srvmshr 5y ago
This seems a major red flag if true. 1. Twitter internal security seems loose enough that employees can access personal information (email and verification mobile phone number; probably geolocation too) without any form of internal vetting.
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by srvmshr 5y ago
A lot of it has to also do with genetics. Some population groups are more resilient to certain kind of chronic ailments. Anecdotally, in NE India, there is a midsize city Aizawal which is known as the cancer capital of India. Stomach cancer
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Extrapolating this line of thought: Let us say, two identical twins are brought up the exact same way. Can we be certain they will have exact same longevity? Their genetic make up might be similar but there are trillions of stochastic proce
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I think it boils down entirely to pure individual chance. Someone may be a chain smoker and die naturally. That does not obviate the medical fact that smoking increases the chances of lung cancer. It is like rolling a die - you can estimate
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Glad to hear she's doing fine for her age. Surely we understand there are statistical variations, and she's on the healthier side luckily. But fried & smoked diets have very strong correlation to cancers in general, and these
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Sashimi is a bit risky if the fish has been sliced for a while, and the temperature isn't as low as it should be. It quickly loses its texture. I personally avoid it in such cases & hence only use a handful of brick & mortar jo
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I am a Japanese resident. I am not sure how the local people will react to it commercially. So much of the homestyled food goes with traditional cookware. People always are curious to try out things like this - but fall back to age-old prac
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by srvmshr 5y ago
The dermatologists make small dots/arrow markings on the positively identified lesions. What the Nature paper apparently didn't do was remove the small markings in their training. It is probably an innocuous flaw since gradient-ba
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Apologies. Yes it seems a bit strong, but going by the understanding of field-data variability - I and few others in the area, feel that it would take nothing short of an absolute miracle to get to human-level error rate in diagnostic medic
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by srvmshr 5y ago
> NFTs aren’t contracts for the rights, so this is as real an NFT as any other. An NFT is essentially a text file, that only one person can prove they own via the blockchain, where the file has a URL written inside. Nothing more, nothing
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by srvmshr 5y ago
In my PhD research (on computer vision at University of Tokyo), one of the topics I was exploring was reliability of models to synthetic data. Using generative models, we could show that models which were built on binary data sources were s

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