vinay_ys

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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I guess you took my "assigned seating" literally. I obviously didn't mean _seating_ but more of an assigned spot in a train car. The point of an assigned spot is that there can be different designated areas for different peop
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
You can indicate your destination at the entry turnstile to the platform and it will tell you two things: (a) the car you should board, and (b) the car you should exit from at the destination station. Most times, (a) and (b) are same. Some
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
If anyone is curious like I was to read the actual paper and look at the source code, you can find them here: https://osf.io/b94yx/ The paper authors made a mistake, fine. But the scientific process and peer review pro
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I've always wondered why they don't do 'assigned seating' in a metro train. It is feasible to know everyone's destination station at the time of boarding. And it is feasible to know current occupancy of each car in
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
The framing of this city planning problem in my mind is like this: The appeal of a big city is potential to connect with lots of people from different backgrounds, skills and culture. This enables richer commerce and social interactions. Th
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It is interesting to see the experiment results with 7%-8% improvements in media rebuffers with just moving from 1-RTT to 0-RTT. Wonder if they ever considered having only one layer of encryption instead of two (TLS and DRM). Would that sav
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
You have the option to opt into a SD only plan, don't you?
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I can see the attraction in making rules/regulation as code. But there is a downside we should be cautious of. Making law into code doesn't necessarily make it more readable/understandable or clearer for humans. In fact, maki
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It seems donotpay can get you into a legal engagement easily, but the other party can tie you up in more legal battles that donotpay doesn't yet handle and then you are screwed if you can't hire and pay expensive lawyers.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
That's changing. People in India did donate in flying colors in the last one week. To help with Covid19, PM-CARES fund was announced by Prime Minister Modi on March 28th. In a week since then, it has raised almost a billion USD. The su
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
If you have a L3 IP network within your datacenter, doing a BGP anycast of the VIP to a bunch of HAP servers is the best way to go. With ECMP, you can have your cake and eat it too – all of your HAP nodes will be handling traffic and when o
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Are you equating one droplet with no redundancy or scalability to Firebase's services? Also, will postgres sustain 500 transactions/sec for a month to reach 1.3B. Sounds like serious stretch to me.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Worst thing that can happen in a startup is trust issues affecting focus and ability to get stuff done. I see many conflicts that need to be addressed for this model to succeed. By having their people directly within the organization (poten
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
With 25Gbps minimum peak, it seems like this is targeted at game apps (which load heavy assets) or short videos apps (which load 10-20MB video assets). If they have streaming capability, then probably more apps can take advantage of it. For
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
A relatively small number of individuals are required to act as conduits of information – they should be good at collecting, analyzing, organizing and sharing information. They should be good facilitators to anchor a problem/solution a
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
For anything complex, usually, I'm trying to build a mental model so that I can reason about it w.r.t new scenarios. To get an accurate mental model, if a nice and clean documentation exists that you can read and understand all the ele
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
"...cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.". IMO, extrapolations like this are not very useful unless it also means it can actually be executed at that cost in 2019. Is that really the case here?
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Writing software within old-school enterprises is a daunting task involving lots of proprietary systems that create a lock-in of sorts. Complex build and test systems, complex deployment and production systems are the norm. Weird tools and
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Most software engineers I know love to build software for the sake of itself. They are not all that interested in the business. Most businesses for which software is being produced is not personally relatable or interesting to most software
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
You seem like a highly self-driven motivated individual. And you are here asking for help/advise. You are already doing better than most others in your situation. You will be fine don't worry about your career. You are 100% right.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
In that plane analogy, assuming the plane's design load capacity requires all 4 engines to be fully functioning, a fully loaded plane suffering a failure of 1 out of 4 engines is dealing with a "degradation scenario". It will
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Most big corps have anti-corruption policies that prevent decision makers or key influencers from letting sales people take them to golfing or to concerts.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Curious question: what's the name of your chatbot and how does your chatbot offering differ from what's offered by big players like Microsoft and Google.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
If you have $50million+ you can deploy on capex in one shot (economies of scale negotiation doesn't work well at lower numbers), and you can hire systems engineers (C/C++/Go/Rust 5+ years systems experience x 20 engineer
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
70000 servers in 23 datacenters – sounds awful. Why have it spread out so much? 350 million capex for 70k high end server DC setup may make sense. $2B = 40% savings means their opex was $5B and now it's $3B. That is high expense. Guess
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I have been using Macs to manage my digital life (personal photos, files, videos, music, notes, documents etc) since Tiger/Leopard days and have been mostly happy with the experience. But I feel now more than ever before that my decade
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Did Apple lose some critical people in the last year or so? Johnny Ive we all heard about. But maybe more such important foundational people on systems and core OS side also left? I'm guess this because the drop in quality in both iOS
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I was renting a 600 sq.ft apt in SF for $3000 more than half a decade ago. The apartment management company raised rents with no rhyme or reason. I decided to move away from SF in hopes of lower rent and started to search mainly along the 1
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It is true that as a comp.sci student, I did most of my reading online. But one of the best things about library for me was to get a tour of all the other discipline books. See what students from other branches were studying and look at the
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I too care about the weight and size as I travel with my laptop everywhere, literally everywhere. But I don't like having to carry extra connectors/adaptors (esp SD Card and ethernet port). In my backpack, the screen presses on th

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