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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Our society has already accepted many such evils and you are the beneficiary. We breed/rear sentient animals in very poor living conditions with explicit intent to kill them and eat them. We conduct experiments (clinical trials) on hum
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Judgmental comments like this don't serve open and honest intellectual discussion. It is full of moral judgement and shaming meant to suppress the other side. It only shows this commenters privilege to hold luxury opinions at the cost
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
The argument that combining traditional database and vector database into one because it reduces data movement doesn't compute for me. Firstly, even for non vector data, read/write transactional database vs read-optimized store pu
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Traditional corporate network architectures were electrical packet switching networks with a hierarchical topology. This design worked well for smaller networks, but when scaled to large datacenter networks, it resulted in unpredictable pac
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, not exactly. They are making privacy improvements in open standard protocols that you are free to use without using their service.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
ECH is still not working with Cloudflare in all regions. If someone from Cloudflare see this, please let us know the status of ECH rollout in all regions.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Chrome isn't a not-for-profit charity project. We know it is a free (not paid for by the user) software built by a for-profit company and we can safely assume the intention to monetize it exists. Even so, I'm glad Chrome exists as
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Ah the custom keyboard leak vector. I remember this controversy now.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I wonder if using less of memory-recall capabilities of the brain will lead to loss of other important capabilities. So, I worry if using too much tech crutches is going to be detrimental.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I seriously hope this doesn't take off and fails spectacularly like Google Glass. I don't want a society where the people I'm interacting with are always recording everything around and giving it to a private profit corporati
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Interesting. Totally missed this news. Could you edit/post some links to this coverage?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Today, every telecom company is also a OTT apps/services company with desires to become like big tech. So, your assertions about telecom companies as some sort of time frozen thing is not valid. Secondly, I would trust Google more than
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Either use a full-fledged library like tcmalloc or jemalloc with profiler and debugger capabilities built-in or do tooled generated code that's ensured to be bug-free and usually tied to lifecycle of request/response or connection
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I wish Siri did that consistently. Right now my Apple Watch Siri is unusable even to set timers. I don't know if the latest updates on my old watch struggles to run or what else the issue could be.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This seems like a hack. why doesn't mail channels do a proper authentication of the sender?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
To be clear, this issue is really with mail channels not authenticating the sender as the verified owner of the sending domain. CF workers are aren't the issue here.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Yep, I see phishing style spam (email from random domain that claims to be my bank) in my gmail in the past few weeks.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
So, they think they can stop ransomware attacks by hiring someone willing to work 10 hours shifts 7 days a week? Good luck with that!
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
You can have lots of threads – they are just thread stacks holding execution context – but that doesn't mean they will run well. You also need lots of execution units on which they can run. Even then, if any thread can sleep/wake-
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
What these 0days teach us is that if you are a person in the crosshairs of powerful adversaries you have to be super-paranoid and reduce your target surface to as small as possible. If you are James Bond and you want to have secure communic
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Browsers only enforce that certs were logged to CT logs (because they will fail a TLS connection unless a certificate has valid SCTs attached to them). The actual domain owner will have to monitor the CT logs and call out when they notice a
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
In India, even before we get to cousins, we have distinct terms for father/mother's siblings of same and opposite genders. Same gender elder/younger siblings of your parents have different pronouns that translate this way in
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Even with an honest company, the pressures on them are twofold – security and legal. Their systems can be compromised through security vulnerabilities and social engineering (including coercion – money, ideology, compromise, ego – classic p
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Most of USA doesn't speak English as their first language, isn't it?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Why are we still talking about broken notions of immutable systems when we actually have trusted execution environments and secure boot and cryptographically sealed strong assurances of what is executing at any point and can do secure upgra
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
You sound like James Burnam.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I'm waiting for a well-optimized LLM-based system built-into a local editor like obsidian and I can ask it scan my entire local Documents folder and then it supercharge my reading/writing locally.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
> A couple of troublesome example IPs are 193.142.125.129, 129.250.6.113, and 129.250.3.250. They come up in a UK traceroute - and I believe they're in London - but geolocate all over the world. If I'm running a popular app&#x2
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Distributed horizontal scaling is a necessity at any non-trivial scale. Yes, mindless cargo cult excessiveness of anything is bad. The real crime here is forgetting how to organize large
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Ummm, extremely large teams develop monolith (single binary) things called OSes or databases etc. The modularity for scaling developers cross-communication comes from.... modules! duh! Aka libraries.

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