vinay_ys

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by vinay_ys 6y ago
What do you use for 2FA tokens?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Social-media is to main-stream-media as printing-press was to crown-church preachings a few 100 years ago.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
A publication can be politically titled to one side and still be factually accurate and stay true to journalistic integrity principles (or at least that's what I want). With social media and modern communication/publication mechan
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If it is not open-source, and if it is not offline-functional, then it is not privacy-first design. Safe browsing updates can be served like software updates. Apple could demonstrate they serve software updates from servers that don't
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This is as good an use-case for a decentralized blockchain as any.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
> ...is removing minimum purchase prices for produce. This is false. They are removing the restriction that all produce has to be sold in a APMCs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_produce_market_co... )
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Hypothetically, you can ban twitter and still be friends with USA geo-politically. One is not comparable to the other.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Banks should have velocity limits to prevent such huge transfers from happening on a personal savings account.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
It cannot be volunteer work. It has to be sponsored from the top. If it is, then a team of qualified FTEs can do this job similar to an external consultancy. But rarely will old-timer well-settled FTEs will leave their current position and
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I haven't seen a 4 socket machine in a long time.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Very cool rig and benchmark. Kudos. Request: add network io load to your benchmarking load while nvme io load is running.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Apple's ISA can become more and more divergent from Arm and it wouldn't matter. Apple controls the entire software stack that runs on their hardware.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I would be surprised if a niche site like HN which has relatively small number of users could bring down Gandi. Surely, their status page is behind a solid CDN.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Here's one way to look at it: AWS has a lot of closed source components behind the scene that makes Elasticsearch scale and run reliably in their cloud environment. Elastic can develop similar closed source components to make things sc
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If I were to guess, I think the temperature differential within the water layers make for sound to refract and diffuse quickly and not really travel in a straight line for too long.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
WhatsApp Payments is tiny right now (0.81 million transactions in December 2020) where as the top player did 1000x more. See the official stats here: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/upi-ecosystem-statist...
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html might be the reason why a lot of things here got downvoted. Specifically: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
whereas "sugarless" means its not sweet :)
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This should be a pretty easy to verify claim. Do you have any source for this?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The whole reason I would choose an open-source tech against closed source is so that I can go to whoever I want for support and future enhancement, that I'm not dependent on this tiny company for my business continuity. Sometimes that
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Do you insist that a news channel or entertainment channel pickup every news item or program that is pitched to them? Do you expect the magazine to carry every article written and sent to them? I think the way the world is today is that the
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
You would be surprised how many third party companies support closed source software product of another company. This is very common in enterprise world. It is also a common way for a vendor to get their foot into an enterprise entrenched w
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
What kind of pointers were you expecting? I found it to have quite a lot of useful pointers. Specifically – https://static.docs.arm.com/swog309707/a/Arm_Neoverse_N1_Sof... https://static.docs.arm.com&#x2
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Usually you would have some number of enclosed aisles of racks make up a deployment pod. You can usually customize machine configuration within a deployment pod while staying within the electrical and thermal envelope of the aisle and witho
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
It is more likely they will stick to their guns like IBM sticking with Power (which is technically awesome) but still pricing it too high (because cost economics is likely out of whack) and in the process they will lose developer mindshare.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Yes, and just like Intel & AMD spent a lot of effort/funding for building performance libraries and compilers, we should expect Amazon and Apple invest into similar efforts. Apple will definitely give all the necessary tools as par
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I wonder if this is another marketing gimmick similar to end to end encryption controversy they got into. I hope by ultrasonic they just mean beyond hearing and not really that watermark lives exclusively in ultrasonic frequency range. Do t
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
One can easily verify this by looking at their bandwidth utilization. It is highly unlikely they are uploading multiple streams from every participant and just muxing the right-sized stream for the other participants to download. Bandwidth
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
It is crazy that their golden build server got compromised. This should worry everyone who isn't managing the sanctity of their build servers. I wonder if people trust cloud hosted (CI/CD) providers to cut their production releas
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
CLI has always been in vogue. It is TUI (text user interface – ncurses kind) has fallen out of fashion. Long time back, I used to use mutt, lynx, midnight commander etc on a daily basis. In mid/late 2000s, it fell off for me. Other tha

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