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by sudeepj 6y ago
I have started working on this actually (the vfs being developed in Rust). The design was complex but now this simplifies a lot. The vfs will also have snapshotting capabilities i.e. you can have multiple versions of sqlite db.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> small apps Even the big ones. A lot of applications (e.g backup vendors) had to resort to use EBS volumes because of lack of read-after-update consistency. The barrier to entry for lot of developers has been reduced. My prediction: A l
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> EBS volumes are already replicated themselves for durability That is only within the same AZ right? Only snapshots are cross-AZ replicated? PS: why, oh why ppl use this hard-to-read gray font color? Is there allergy to the black font c
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by sudeepj 6y ago
One of the most important things I feel is to make your child ready for the real world (and not only in terms of education, values, profession, etc) but more from mental make-up: 1. How to handle success 2. Dealing with failures
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by sudeepj 6y ago
I find ADOM to have more intriguing story-line + multiple endings. Also I find few quirks endearing. E.g your first kill matters. If you have killed 50 goblins then you will have to descend that many levels in infinite dungeon for some othe
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Not sure if you seen the latest incarnation: https://www.ultimate-adom.com/ As far open sourcing the code is concerned, I remember the author said that it would open-up some secrets which players would otherwise will have t
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Tangential: This is the 2nd time ADOM is mentioned in last 7 days by co-incidence on HN. It just makes me happy and I think it is heavily underrated game.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Why can't US do the same with North Korea, Iran? US seems to pick fights (Afghanistan, Iraq, vietnam etc) where they know the other side does not have nuclear deterrence.
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Problematic Ways in Which U.S. Voting Differs from the World’s(foreignpolicy.com)
18 points by sudeepj 6y ago|14 comments
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Tangential: Is this official BBC tech blog? If yes, I am surprised they are using medium. I would think that an org of this reputation, history & size would host their own blogs.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> do not have that these I was referring to the transaction semantics
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by sudeepj 6y ago
I am not sure what TTCTTOU is, but what you are saying needs transaction like semantics in filesystems. So its more of a property of an FS instead of a language. All the common FS (in linux .. ext* xfs) do not have that these.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
From an ecosystem p.o.v Rust has a big advantage. The strictness is built into the compiler and the entire ecosystem is subjected to same high standards. One has to fix the errors. The same strictness in C++ can arguably be availed by usi
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by sudeepj 6y ago
I can see why that can be hard to believe. See the report from Reuters[1] Also there is a book written [2] "An Undocumented Wonder : The Making of the Great Indian Election" https://graphics.reuters.com/INDIA-ELECT
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Why this does not make sense? Can you elaborate?
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by sudeepj 6y ago
The comment was not about the EVM but the sheer personel & logistics deployed to make voting as convenient as possible. Remember India is not a rich country like US, so think in that context as well.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
With all her flaws, India's elections and its election commission does a stellar job. Just look at the stats for 2019 elections [1] (copying few of them): 1.035 million: The total number of polling booths across India. 2: The maximum d
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Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’(blocksandfiles.com)
23 points by sudeepj 6y ago|10 comments
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Covid: Research reveals startling facts on superspreader people and events(youtube.com)
1 points by sudeepj 6y ago|0 comments
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> what good does banning an app do to a country Given the context of recent India-China issues, it is fair that India will take punitive steps. But it will not make China to correct her behaviour. I look at the banning of the apps this w
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Good for you! (not being sarcastic) Culture plays a huge role as well. I have seen the environments where existing folks are un-willing to help out new guy. This could be due to lack of time, getting territorial, just-being-jerk, lots of at
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Now I know what the word 'woad' means in "Woad Raider" in Age of Empires [1] [1] https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Woad_Raider
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Since I do not have evidence for what I had experience. Here are some advice on the net: https://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/tips-on-tippi... https://www.lhaa.co.uk/blog/how-much-to
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by sudeepj 6y ago
As someone from India, I never understood the the tipping culture when I went abroad. It is not that tips are non-existent in India. It is not mandatory in India. However in UK, any tip < 10-15% is judged and hence the reputation of Indi
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by sudeepj 6y ago
You are right, my bad. It was a typo.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
What happened after the revolution was not pretty [1]. What followed made Karl Marx write the "The Class of Struggles" [2] Excerpt from the wiki: "The industrial bourgeoisie still occupied a comparatively privileged position
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by sudeepj 6y ago
I am all for change. But my prediction is that whatever the change a new set of rich or establishment will emerge and people will detest it that as well. The same pattern has played out in the past. This was not meant to be an argument per-
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Was there an incident/outbreak in history which affected all (or the majority population) and the rich were substantially affected? Take WW1 or WW2 for example. The rich/aristocratic flew away from troubled zones. In the times of
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Highly recommend to watch the clip from the movie Office Space (only 54 sec long) [1] The guy with the moustache is a blue collar worker and the other one is white collar worker (actually in Tech/IT) [1] https://www.youtube.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> Is it worth the effort to write a "X should switch to Rust" post that ends with "but I personally don't have the appetite to do it"? Could it be that he agrees in principle that Rust is the way to go but for so

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