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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Seek out distributed systems research papers from real-world practitioners. A quick search lead me to this nice collection: https://dancres.github.io/Pages/
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1.25MB/node is a lot of cache.
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"... if you're concerned about security problems from giving the DNS API access to your main domain..." Tying the security of the dns records of your website and the security of TLS certificates of your website into one share
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
More likely to happen: Apple's IP addresses get allowlisted.
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
I had a similar reaction to that sentence. A very good reminder that WFH can be disadvantageous to this type of creative cross-polination.
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I closed that window within 5 seconds.
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Cost of living indexation being applied to salary of a knowledge worker is a flawed economic thinking that is being perpetuated by some. Firstly, knowledge workers should be paid market competitive rates – and the definition of market in a
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
One of the protections enforced in my country is this – for 24 hours after mobile number porting, all incoming/outgoing sms are blocked. And on both the current sim and new sim, notification sms are sent to inform the user that mobile
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
This is really bad. Apple can and should fix this through policy and training. They talk so much about privacy and so many people have bought into Apple ecosystem because of it that. Many years ago, I had to take an iPhone for repair, my fi
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Their argument is tracing persons vs tracing content. If law enforcement comes with a warrant against a specific person of interest, then WhatsApp presumably has ways and means to pull all metadata associated with that person's account
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The PE should also be doing a lot of behind the scenes (from senior dev pov) strategy work with leadership team w.r.t identifying long term technical risks and ensuring right investments happen, grooming tech talent bench through perf/
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> Don’t work for less than you are worth. The OP's question was about how to do that and my entire response was to that question. > Assume options are worthless. That's bad advise for senior engineers with relevant experienc
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If you are the second employee (first engineer) at a tech startup with a solo founder company, most likely you can get more than this. Nobody will give you more than what they have to unless you educate yourself and negotiate on your own be
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Regular startup employees borrowing and buying their stock options is far riskier than them borrowing to do options trading in publicly traded stock markets because they have very little information about their company's future prospec
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My mistake, thanks for pointing that out. I have an old 2013 MBP (on which I'm typing this) which only does 30Hz. On 2019 MBP with DP I am getting 60Hz but the problem remains.
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I'm on a late 2019 MacBook Pro with an external monitor that has: B326HK: Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (2160p/4K UHD 1 - Ultra High Definition) UI Looks like: 1920 x 1080 @ 30.00Hz In iStats, Radeon Hi
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My current Late 2019 MacBook Pro heats up like crazy and goes into thermal throttling whenever I'm doing wfh meeting with lots of video participants for a couple of hours. I really hope they dedicate some hardware for this type of use-
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
This is very interesting presentation. I wonder if the author considered researching the inter-eNB and backhaul latency and how it affected UE latency.
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Yeah, and the authorities have to do it the right way. There's a reason why this is such a big issue and not as straightforward as you make it to be. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/24/21133600&#x2
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Imagine physical vault in your house. This vault has mechanism within it such that if anyone forces it open it will destroy all its contents. It may have defense mechanisms triggered to act as deterrence – it may spill/spew very bad od
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
> I've worked with my ISP and they've basically given me free reign to assign myself whatever public IP I want out of their /22 This. If your ISP isn't keeping track of which customer is using which IP addresses and h
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Bigger companies are more compliant to the local laws than smaller companies. Simply because they have more to lose if the local government turns against them, they tread more carefully. Small companies can afford to fly under the radar jus
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Good data scientist described here seems to have unrealistic expectations at super human level of know-it-all/do-it-all. I think there are more well-established job architectures like business intelligence analyst, data engineering, us
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
I think the ideas vs execution is a false dichotomy. In fast growing startups, there are people who can hack they way out of most problems quickly. Such people are immensely useful during the exploratory phase and early growth phase. If the
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Please don't take it personally. I obviously don't know _you_ and the "you" in my sentences isn't referring to you specifically. With that "you", I was referring to the typical user in general.
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There are 20 equally good product brands for 99% of things you buy and use everyday. But you have a clear favorite amongst those 20 that you have already chosen to buy and use consistently. And you don't change your preference unless y
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The bill of materials for the "smart" parts in a smart tv costs less than $20-$30 US. Nothing more than that.
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That's the usual price drop as these SKUs achieved mass market and got economies of scale.
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There's one kind of tech that's good enough to protect your privacy from corporations that want to profile your behavior or keep you safe from malicious hackers who want to steal your data by luring you into digital spider nets. T
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Software is composable - at compile/package time. It doesn't have to be composable at use time.

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