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by vinay_ys 5y ago
One explanation I heard from a doctor recently is this: the younger population is infected/affected more this time because they have been infected and has been asymptomatic or mild all these months and with that the virus has mutated
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Just because you didn't doesn't mean they did and you didn't actually have any vulnerabilities. There is no such provable attestation of security in serverless model.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
There is no mention of data privacy at all in this article. In today's context, data privacy, user consent, data retention, data security are very important aspects of any ML effort. Bias in training data and bias in models is also ver
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
He could have blocked calls from unknown numbers and the only way for new people to reach him might be after it is screened by his staff.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I did exactly this 15 years ago. I was a C++ developer and there was no golang around yet. And Bind had fresh security bugs every month. So the easiest and safest thing I could do was use djbdns (tinydns) with its cdb files being recompiled
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This is relevant only if you have zillions of objects of hundreds of types and more such types of objects are likely to emerge in future (as you launch more products/use-case). And you have billions of users and their sharing permissio
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
A lot of homes in crowded cities like Chennai and Bangalore are tightly packed, congested and poorly ventilated. Air (dust) and noise (human activity) pollution is very high. Within the same congested dwelling, there maybe people who have t
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If it is run by an established foundation like Apache with established procedures for how to manage large complex projects, then you can be sure that the project will remain open-source and usable for your purposes. Otherwise, I'm not
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
> The native GUI toolkits are suffering form abandonment SwiftUI is new. Flutter is new. Both have taken birth recently and have huge investments and usage.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
For a strong engineer today, the most valuable/transferable skills are ability to learn new things (in both tech and domain) and effective problem-solving (in different settings). Such an engineer can learn the most important aspects o
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I've been at 3 startups so far that couldn't afford Redhat when we were small and so we hand rolled everything ourselves in house. By the time we could, it didn't matter anymore. IBM/Redhat is relevant only to old-school
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The phrase 'Cloud storage' conjures distributed replicated fault tolerance within a region to provide high availability and strong durability against datacenter disasters (fire, electrical/mechanical failures etc) and cross g
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Very interesting. I have lots of questions. How does last mile supply chain to deliver the pre-prepared ingredients work? How does fresh/stale ingredients management work? How cleaning of the insides of the machine work? How frequently
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Got to love the geek in Elon for trolling the haters using SEC official channels :-)
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The implication of `growing popularity of cloud storage` is that today the user's data files are sitting in a remote cloud storage and not on local file system. This means a typical most-used application on user's Android/Chr
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
They could potentially extend SGX type mechanism to execute more complex data operators within an enclave and give out only results that are at least k-anonymous or allow decrypted results only if it is explicitly allowed when enclave is cr
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I wonder if they had batteries inside the containers. That can make a bad situation really worse.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This is beautiful and satisfying.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I just did this update and it took roughly 15 minutes after I hit 'reboot now' till I was able to login and resume my work. All of the download and preparation work happened in the background without interrupting my work.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Freenas works great once it is setup correctly.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
For a household with 2+ people – each with personal phone and personal laptop plus a bunch of common devices like TVs, streaming speakers etc you would need a bunch of useful local LAN services: 1. Local Backup storage server – always have
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Nope. iCloud Drive is a virtual folder on your device. When you drop a file into this drive, it will start "Uploading". Once it has uploaded, you will see "Remove Download" option which removes the local copy but keeps t
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The password managers can have many different strategies for keeping their seed secret – it could be local hardware backed or cloud based but locked to a few of the devices you own etc.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Same here. It also seems to burn through battery more quickly than other apps.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I prefer to remember only one long passphrase and enter it in only one place – my password manager. And then I trust my password manager to generate, store and submit the right password to the right portal and only upon my consent. This is
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If your game has limited number (say, < 10) participants per game board, then concurrent updates to shared state etc can be solved with a traditional game state hosting server model. But if that number is higher say 100+ then you need a
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Yes, that's correct. Basically, bitcoin doesn't have privacy and is losing self-sovereignty through regulation.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If you have a $100 currency note in your hand, you can spend it as long as there exist someone who believes there is a market for $100 bills. Same as with a gold coin. But if you have a $100 in your bank account, there is an additional cons
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Also almost all governments have KYC/AML/CFT regulations that apply to crypto exchanges as well. And governments can monitor, control, sanction your bitcoin transactions by controlling these exchanges through regulations. When the
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Was it just that they didn't have the usual setup of recruiters, coordinators etc to manage the hiring loop well? If they are less than 300 people company grown over a very slow pace, that's understandable.

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