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by srvmshr 5y ago
Twitter is a place where my blocklist length far exceeds my follow or following list. I use it only for the academic chatter. It is unfortunate that ML/Systems research has major presence on Twitter & thats happening to be high SNR
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Ask HN: Disable GitHub Mention/Resets
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by srvmshr 5y ago
5g forces on impact would imply the projectile stopped at ~50m/s^2 (numerically 5x the gravitational constant) deceleration. In a free fall, it hardly exceeds 1g, unless the aircraft was powering it to hurtle down faster
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Depending on your interest, I could vouch for OpenBSD having a very clean readable codebase. Often it has some of the best practices coded in with useful commentary.
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by srvmshr 5y ago
That is a good observation. The whole GTalk-Hangout-Chat saga at Google is testament to that misguided ideology.
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I bet this will be an uncomfortable period with a lot of strategizing for Snowden, without much outcome. He chose to move to Russia and accept a permanent residency. He (and his lawyers) have expressed the desire to acquire Russian citizens
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by srvmshr 5y ago
That misguided notion of product features and integration, where the user has minimum role, started out at Apple. The standard pattern used to be talking to OEMs and discussing what users wanted from them. That review phase generated update
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Honest question: Is the lens flare at the center to be expected or more corrections are underway?
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Iiyama is very Japan specific, but they are incredibly good & reasonably priced for their quality. I own a 32" & can vouch for it
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by srvmshr 5y ago
After going through several of these comments, and looking up some wealth statistics/wiki etc., I feel the overlooked/relevant metric is "Where do you stand within the 1%?" (or 10% if you choose a more generous economic
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by srvmshr 5y ago
> As an example, if you are reading this your kitchen is probably stocked with ceramic plates. Well actually it is plastic plates for us in Tokyo. Good ones, not the dollar store kinds - but not ceramic. We use consumer grade items. The
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by srvmshr 5y ago
In Tokyo Japan, with a very high COL, our family unit makes just shy of 100,000 USD. By our living standards we are lower middle-class. We don't own house, car, assets. We can't afford a pet yet (cat maybe, but I am allergic) and
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by srvmshr 5y ago
In my undergrad days, my sibling's medical college (KMC Mangalore) had an interesting case where the student had hired the service of a rice-engraving artist to etch complete medical manuals onto the sides of metallic ballpoint pens. H
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by srvmshr 5y ago
EU doesn't have the moral high ground yet when it is still importing energy resources from Russia. Putin hasn't changed overnight. He was always sinister. Pipelines and refineries were built over last several years. This is a sh
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Just to chime in, the lackadaisical efforts by India in supporting Ukraine is also due to the NIMBY effect. Compared to a war in a distant land, poverty & hunger are more pressing issues for them. They don't have an incentive to be
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by srvmshr 5y ago
The situation in Ukraine is unfortunate & Russia is squarely to blame. But there are other factors India has been calculating IMHO in keeping its long-term interests intact. I will add some more to the answers by <manojlds>: Track
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by srvmshr 5y ago
The last time I received such a call, I just told them in Hindi to not to call me again, and that I knew it was an obvious fake. I could hear them muttering something in Hindi on the other end while hanging up. The tongue-rolled accent &amp
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by srvmshr 5y ago
So if I write a recursive function to calculate factorial of a number (or some permutation calculator), will that be considered a pattern? Because Python3 wouldn't have the factorial built-in. Thank you for the explanation above.
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Honest question: I hear these terms used quite a bit. What qualifies as patterns/anti-patterns? (From my naive understanding, patterns are some language features which should be used over conventionally accepted ways. Please correct if
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by srvmshr 5y ago
frozencell, just stop it already man. You are making terribly outlandish & insensitive suggestions. Period. This is a real war. People are getting bombed. No one has the time for monitoring EKG bands. Evacuation is looking bad already.
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Replying here because I can no longer edit. Yes, my bad. I confused this with something I read a long while back (~10Y). Energy production uses enrichment in ~20% range. Thank you for generously correcting my answer. As for a follow-up, I g
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I have never cussed reading views on HN. That is a more Reddit phenomena & this parent comment belongs there. Makes me wonder how insensitive one has to be to make a terribly casual dismissal of the current calamity & dangers to tho
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by srvmshr 5y ago
It is not only the density, but also the purity of Uranium which makes a difference. Weapons grade uranium is 99.3% pure U235 or more by mass. Reactor grade uranium could be between 90-94% at most (the last I had read). It isn't worth
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by srvmshr 5y ago
They can't. An unbiasedly simple answer. Strategically this war is a lost cause for Russia, even if they win militarily in the short term. Capture is one thing. Holding on is another. According to latest estimates, RU has already inves
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by srvmshr 5y ago
Another counterview has emerged from Meduza, the press group which was 'blocked' in Russia as part of their silencing drive. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/12/has-russia-s-invasio...
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by srvmshr 5y ago
> when your see a principal engineer with several times more experience (and compensation!) than you do get tripped up by it. Slightly off topic :) I feel by the time people become Principals, they lose the laser sharp focus because they
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by srvmshr 5y ago
I sort of agree with whatever you just said. Perspective is very important as solutions emerge from the problems in play for these companies. I will probably extend this a bit further : these solutions also increase our understanding and me
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by srvmshr 5y ago
You have several fair points. The overall direction of course gets some incentives from industry. But there are government sponsorships & private fellowship too. ELLIS, DARPA, NSF, NIH invest several billion dollars each year to R1, CA
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by srvmshr 5y ago
> There has been much talk about companies trying to influence what products are being used in education, which for universities, is closely related to research. I will speak for ML & Systems. I am not an expert on all domains. Most
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by srvmshr 5y ago
There are enough significant impact conferences like FOCS or the TCS+ symposium, which have no/minimal corporate funding. In the initial years, even ICLR didn't have corporate sponsorship. That actually does not stop people from p

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