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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This business model is bound to get attacked and suffer a painful exit soon. Here's why: First, the whole systems of chips architecture that everyone is talking about will solve for increasing overall SRAM available to keep more model
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Passwords can be compromised on client side or server side and since users tend to reuse them, compromise on fun.com can compromise your bank.com account. Passwords+OTP plus a whole bunch of heuristics based account lockdown mechanisms impr
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Very large companies are definitely at the mercy of governments. Just look at how they are bending over backwards to comply with DMA etc. So, it is not at all inconceivable that they are forced to put backdoors into their product by the gov
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
state-sponsored organizations in this space could be usually military-like organizational structure that has people with dedication and motivation unlike corporate workers. command structure can mean less bureaucracy (can also mean more bur
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I travel a lot for work and corporate travel booking is still in the stranglehold of Amadeus/Sabre/Travelport intermediated booking agents and they suck – there's always something or the other that's broken – seat select
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Yeah, for case against human individuals that standard is absolutely essential. But for case against corporate entities that are already under periodic regulatory audits, that shouldn't be required. Then, within that non-compliant corp
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Why does a whistleblower need to be identified? Why can't it be an anonymous tip to the regulator, who then uses the tip during audits to dig deeper and get to the truth? If they can't get to the truth even after being provided a
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
That continent wants their citizens to be safe. So, their citizens are going to pay the price of not having access to these developments as they are happening. I really doubt any of these big players will willingly launch in EU given how bi
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
You are not going to take the expensive human out of the loop where downside risk is high. You are likely to take the human out of the loop only in low risk low cost operations to begin with. For those use cases, these models are quite expe
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Currently Apple wants to charge core technology fee per install (irrespective of App Store or not, after first 1 million install) and App Store commission of 14.1666% of total revenue. This seems egregious because it is charging it on custo
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Only thing that's both safe and convenient to use is FIDO2 physical keys. For 2FA I hate it when services provide more secure options like FIDO2 keys and least secure options like SMS OTP and no way to disable them. Even worse is when
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Looks like a bogus PR propaganda wikipedia link.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Ah, this page again! it's been more than two decades? since I saw this page last? It was fun to learn about coroutines from the author of PuttY the ssh client of choice on Windows those days.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
clearly, you are a junior developer :-)
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
That's because we as humans like predictability. And hence, stock market rewards predictability. So, a large company's finance department allocates, say, travel budget, to all divisions based on their past year's travel spend
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
That's BS because it clearly understands what is meant and is able describe it with words. but just refuses to generate the image. Even more funny is it starts to respond and then stops itself and gives the more "grounded" an
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Since when did incident postmortems became this watered down non-technical BS. If I'm a paying corporate customer, I would expect a much greater detailed RCA and action plan to prevent similar occurrence in the future. Publishing these
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, as hardware becomes more and more powerful, what's possible in a small footprint becomes bigger and bigger. And distributed software for disaggregated storage is becoming more accessible. You put these two together, running on-pr
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Firstly, they had unlimited energy and replicators - which means they could make whatever hardware they wanted. And they also had bio-neural circuits. And photonic chips. So, hardware was already way ahead of software. All this goes to show
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
What we really know for sure is this – sleep is good, anxiety is bad. So, if you aren't getting good sleep, find ways to fix it. And if you are anxious all the time, find ways to fix it. By one tradition that's thousands of years
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Your definition of 'safer': Is it about financial security, flexibility, or control over decision-making? Your risk tolerance: Be honest about how much uncertainty you can handle, both financially and emotionally. Support system:
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
A clear mission statement can help to guide decision-making and keep the company focused on its goals. It can provide a framework for evaluating new initiatives and ensuring that they are aligned with the company's overall vision. Also
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
> Due to the quorum requirements, probability of failure increases with larger quorum sizes Well, that's not true due to two key design points: - Size of the read or write quorum can be chosen on a per transaction basis depending on
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, there's no one comprehensive link I can suggest. But you can find plenty of links on arxiv.org for research publications on these topics. You can look at the ones from big companies like Google, Microsoft and Meta/Facebook.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
At the hardware level, one thing that has changed over the years is the exponential growth in network speeds and feeds – within a datacenter and across datacenters. Layer-3 IP Clos networks are pretty much a standard within a datacenter, ma
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Recently when I plugged my iPhone for charging it correctly warned me that it detected liquid and it might damage the phone to charge at the moment. I blasted my phone with car AC for a couple of minutes and it dried out and then I was able
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Physical memory is not fungible like that across VMs. So, you can expect stuff loaded into memory to stay there unless your kernel inside the VM decides it not to.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Thoroughly enjoyed reading DJB's writing. That style of arguing is so effective and yet so easily understandable by anyone having even basic understanding of cryptography. I hope there are students of his who are as good as him (or eve
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At every company I worked at, each interviewer would have gone through training to do interviews, write feedback, participate in debriefs and actually do those things in a timely fashion. Senior people would have participated/chaired i
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
> Experts Recognize, Beginners Reason > System 1 is fast and driven by recognition, relying upon pattern recognition in long-term memory, while system 2 is slower and focused on reasoning, requiring more processing in working memory.

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