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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Govt don't need to break encryption technically. They just need to have lawful orders issued to the app or platform companies to comply to provide the information about the targets (1-1 chats or group chats). Question is - can the comp
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
<non-tech> Cross-border terrorism is real. Real-time support (operational and financial) by foreign and local bad actors is real. Governments have a mandate to protect their citizens against them and have to keep up with the tactics,
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Why isn't whistleblowing fully anonymous? Is it because of spam and investigative bandwidth challenges? Given the progress with LLMs recently, I suspect in the very near future we would have AI filters that receive anonymous whistleblo
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Big sophisticated hotels have blocks of rooms at different price points. So, even if there are rooms currently empty but have been reserved for customers who have paid higher price, they won't give them to you. In recent years, I have
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Any controls that's not on the steering wheel is a distraction. If there are very few buttons or dials for very simple/standard/common functions on the centre dash, that's okay. Anything more is definitely not safe to op
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Ha, you bring back old memories. We had the largest compute footprint in India at that time in Ambattur (Chennai industrial suburb). This particular DC in question was as multi-story building and the ground-floor itself was several ft above
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Whoa, the lock-in is crazy with these companies. I wonder why any reasonably sized company would use such SaaS solutions.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
You could consider one of these three – 1. yugabytedb (postgres compatible) 2. cockroachdb (postgres compatible) 3. tidb (mysql compatible) You could self-host these on azure or subscribe to each of their managed service offering. Of course
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
That's a weak argument. Lots of hardware sits idle in the cloud as well. And on your phone its not expensive. In fact, the $/tflop is cheaper on phone than in the cloud – cloud has to deal with all kinds of complexity that you ass
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
This. It applies in personal life too. In the post covid world, I find many young engineers fall into the trap of squeezing more yield out of their meagre savings early in their career through financial engineering rather than focusing on t
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
I find it weird/hilarious that the darling bank of tech startups in the heart of Silicon Valley has bad UX.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
192khz/32bit audio track is 6.144Mbps. Assuming smallest data packet, at 64 bytes data per packet that's 12kpps. Any switch that has more bandwidth per port, more total non-blocking switching and forwarding rate that the sum of e
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
I did this a decade ago when ram density wasn't great and memory channels were limiting. Since then, the performance gap between actual ram and anything over sata has only widened. These days, ram density is much better and you also ha
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Corrosion seems over-engineered. Instead of doing a simpler federation of multiple databases (one per datacenter) across the globe, they decided to do gossip amongst every single VM across the globe! You don't really gain much but you
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
It depends on the context – at the peak of Uber/Ola in India I met and spoke to a lot of drivers – they came from villages where they left behind agricultural land and large joint-family life (agriculture is hard/risky work no dou
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
The papers/articles you quoted actually strengthen my argument. The information asymmetry is also about education/comprehension of complex concepts and rules of operating. Vast majority of humans participating in the economy (incl
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
It is simultaneously impressive and sad and hilarious that security of millions of people depend on the work of one volunteer software developer (gorhill – ublock origin) and a bunch of volunteer block-list maintainers.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Information asymmetry is everywhere. In some cases this asymmetry is through organised structured hierarchy (employee vs manager/boss vs ceo/founder vs investor) and in some other cases there is no apparent overtly visible hierarc
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Right this moment an engineer at Google is writing a personal OKR to block this and declare $$$ savings in order to get promoted next year.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Also, remember the corporate lawyers are there to protect the corporate, not the individual. Usually the individual gets fed to the wolves when push comes to shove.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
I have read enough BBC articles on topics I know very well about and seen how poor and biased their reporting is. I don't want to fall victim to Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Know your facts before you start name-calling India and start showing your biases. It's the world's largest and most vibrant democracy with a very comprehensive constitution. On the other hand, BBC has a long history of crappy rep
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
You always have the option to turn on a third-party Identity and authentication provider and not depend on google auth at all. https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/single-sign-o...
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
You have to enroll two keys to turn on advanced protection. And you are instructed to keep aside one of those two keys in a safe location as backup.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Key risk with passwords is reuse across differently vulnerable websites/apps. Password complexity enforcement does nothing to address this risk. For many users it may actually push them to reuse passwords.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Even for non-FAANG, less-than-a-million-user business applications, there are two problems: 1. Your feature/function scope is not all fully defined at the start and is not static till the end of life. Software has to evolve with busine
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
When the auth service is down, only new authentications should fail. Existing auth sessions should continue to function just fine. This exact failure mode occured at Google in early 2021 which caused a fairly big outage but not as big as it
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
This article builds up a bunch of straw man arguments based on what other people claimed in blog posts and then attacks them. In real world where micro services really made a difference, they enabled being more tolerant to a mix of differen
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Is it an improvement to get stuff for free without having to work for it? Sure, why not. But that's not how a society can function.

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