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by vinay_ys 3y ago
If you literally have ssh root access to 1000+ servers, using certificates will be more secure and convenient than directly using public key.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Oil fumes in passenger cabin air is a more common occurrence than everyone likes or wants to believe. I have personally experienced a very bad case of this once. Here's a pretty good paper surveying the root-causes for this issue – ht
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
In my experience actual reality is somewhat different – at least at large Internet apps companies. In high-functioning successful team, everyone is spending significant time in 1. discovery – learning things about the constantly evolving pr
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Most of the pricing inefficiency comes from information asymmetry. It might have made sense a 100 years ago when information traveled slowly. But in today's world, it travels fast. But still there is asymmetry due to purposeful obfusca
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
The real problem seems to be lack of standards in manufacturing industry to raise the quality bar across the supply chain to the nuclear levels. If all regular factories of cooling systems and valves and pipes and concretes were operating t
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I don't think this is political or some other non-educational agenda driven. No politician in India has ever thought of education curriculum as part of their vote bank political thinking nor will they take the effort needed go interfer
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Safari – such a pleasure to use it.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
It is suicidal only if there's a way to get caught. also, the full picture of the finances involved isn't always clear – the vpn business may be just a front for some other much more profitable shady business. Besides, post Snowde
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Encrypted the web – sure but with SNI, the ISP intermediaries can still see all the metadata – and collect it (like CDR) - client IP address, the domain they are visiting, duration of each session and frequency of such visits. With this inf
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Google doesn't trust its own authenticator app as well for high-security situations.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, chips needed for AI training/inference are lot more simpler than general purpose CPUs. Fabs have already demonstrated 7nm process with older DUV tech for such chips. They can brute force their way through it – at least for missio
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Quantum Thief has as 3.8 on Goodreads. Worth reading?
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
If you mean US by 'we', it is problematic because AI inventions are happening all over the globe, much more outside US than inside.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
There's no need to go the license way, yet. They can do some simple safety regulations – put a restriction on using AI with kinetic devices, life-critical situations, critical financial situations, and any situation where human is comp
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, flip-flop is usually due to heavy investment too early – on poorly formed thesis of a potential product-market fit or business model (ie., vision). Early days has to be about optimizing aggressively for speed of learning/validati
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Both essential complexity and accidental complexity can be created or destroyed based on how functional scope or technical scope is defined and understood. In a live and evolving system, a lot of complexity is also because of not having a v
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
> My rule of thumb has been that with every order of magnitude of growth you should revisit your architecture, and determine whether it can still support the next order level of growth. The last hyper growth startup I worked at grew 10x
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Don't make it personal. You don't know me and I don't know you. We are all here for curious and intellectual discussions.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Okay, that does smell. Thanks for the detailed response. Edit: A quick search got me this: https://www.pmcares.gov.in/en/web/page/about_us with the audited financial statements. Is this still a scam? Genuinel
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Here's some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHPXrIj8jg Also, on how media is weaponized, here's some more context: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021&#
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I guess you don't understand free speech. Fighting a defamation case with powerful lawyers besides you in a court of law and losing it and then appealing it in a higher court, all while being out on bail and able to plan and campaign a
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Why do you think I'm pick-and-choosing anything. Old media with their kingmaker mindsets is just as free, alive and well as before to spew their BS opinions as news. But like never before, every individual has access to huge amount of
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
How does multi-party politics with vastly different ideologies across extremely diverse and regional electoral constituencies and massive well-run elections with orderly change of power happen? Free speech and free media are very much alive
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Not just related. It is the actual matter at hand.
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This is just western media propaganda against an economically growing India. All part of this new geopolitical world order.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This is so hilarious and disconnected from reality. Democracy doesn't happen on Signal. The biggest sign that democracy is well and good in India is that we have well-run elections and orderly change of elected officials, and we have s
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
AWS is truly a customer first company. I been AWS customer in its early days (2006-2012) and then recently (2022-now). And they have been consistent in being customer-first. In the last year, they have proactively helped us cut our AWS spen
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Passkeys as implemented by Apple/Google has serious limitations – your credentials are locked into their platform and tied to their online account (iCloud account or Google account). They won't let you use your phone as a FIDO2 au
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
This is incorrect. Passkeys on iOS and Android are locked to Apple and Google account ecosystem. They cannot leave their ecosystem. Also, only the OS platform can use the BLE transport for CTAP2 protocol on iOS and Android devices. That is,
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Usually, each message is encrypted with a new symmetric key that's unique per message and that key is encrypted with the public key of the recipient and included in the envelope of the message. It isn't hard to ask the client to a

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