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by vivegi 4y ago
United is absolute worst. Many of my colleagues are frequent flyers on United. I just do not trust United. They lost it completely when they caused that unnecessary incident where they forcibly removed that doctor from a plane. And then the
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by vivegi 4y ago
This definitely is a threat to Google and websearch as we know it. A lot of the discussion today is around the natural language output of ChatGPT. However, if that presentation is changed into a list of relevant facts, evidence, counterpo
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by vivegi 4y ago
Great article. It is almost always the case that we live under "assumed constraints". Most of the time when we question the underlying assumptions we are able to break the constraint or relax it to obtain a better solution. The Go
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by vivegi 4y ago
FFmpeg can do most of this particularly for combining audio/video/subtitles and transcoding to various output video formats. https://ffmpeg.org/
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by vivegi 4y ago
If you can get a budget for a security consultant/auditor to help put the policies and frameworks together, including conducting a baseline audit and identifying gaps, that would be a start. While IT aspects are a big part of the secur
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by vivegi 4y ago
For commodities, i.e., like bottled water, TP etc., you can just try them at random based on price (low to high) until you find one that absolutely works for you. This decision is rational since it is not a one-time purchase you have little
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by vivegi 4y ago
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
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by vivegi 4y ago
As I explained above, time is not used in the decryption at all. You use a timer to set expiry for the masterkeyphrase. For eg: If I want to encrypt all personal communication with my family, I could use a single master key phrase for the y
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by vivegi 4y ago
Time-limited i.e., you rotate master key after a fixed time, say 1 month/1 year etc., depending on the use case. During that period the content can be recovered by using the masterkey to unwrap the data key and decipher the content. Be
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by vivegi 4y ago
These computational advances in AI are good. However, I am still waiting for AI to "synthesize" knowledge that is as yet undiscovered through a combination of theorem proving, reasoning, AI search techniques and so on. It is not j
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by vivegi 4y ago
Cool project. Here is a feature suggestion: One additional feature you can add is a recovery key. You could use a time-limited master recovery key and encrypt the file's data key and store it within the HTML file as an encrypted header
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by vivegi 4y ago
A couple of options: 1. Searchable Text PDF: You can use ImageMagick to convert your source TIFF image files (if you have scanned your pages into TIFF format) into Adobe PDF format. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can run OCR on it to co
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Vikram-S, India’s first private rocket, lifts off from ISRO spaceport(thehindu.com)
2 points by vivegi 4y ago|0 comments
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by vivegi 4y ago
I think this is for mobile phones primarily and any devices that today use a multitude of OEM-specific chargers.
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India to shift to USB C as common charging port for all smart devices(hindustantimes.com)
22 points by vivegi 4y ago|11 comments
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by vivegi 4y ago
From the article: > India will shift to a USB type C charging port for all smart devices after stakeholders reached a consensus at a meeting of an inter-ministerial task force set up by the Union government, consumer affairs secretary Ro
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by vivegi 4y ago
That was a nice letter and great advice for any career.
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by vivegi 4y ago
One could easily spot the weird "micronodding" in the video and the audio wasn't super great either.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Started interning in Feb '95 during my final semester in college. Windows3.11/Windows for Workgroups on the PC, MSVC1.5 (C++) and Sun/Solaris on the servers. Novell Netware was big around that time. TCP/IP was still not
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by vivegi 4y ago
This whole concept of measuring SAT/ACT scores or GPAs and using them to "predict" graduation rates is bonkers. Sounds a lot like the precogs in Philip K. Dick's Minority Report . Several decades ago, I had a high-schoo
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by vivegi 4y ago
FFmpeg is great software. It is unbelievably flexible and has a ton of functionality out of the box. It has a bit of a steep learning curve, but the user manual is quite comprehensive. I have used it for transcoding video/audio to HLS
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by vivegi 4y ago
My bank ATM randomly sends a One-time-passcode to my mobile phone and challenges me to enter that on the ATM pinpad (in addition to my ATM pin). This is especially true when I try to withdraw from an ATM that is not my usual location (or
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by vivegi 4y ago
India is a democratic republic. Says so in the preamble of our constitution. It is a parliamentary democracy. We directly vote for the representatives in our local municipalities/corporations, state legislatures and central (federal) l
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by vivegi 4y ago
Tyranny of the ASCII and EBCDIC.
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by vivegi 4y ago
The reason why the long-term property lease analogy is accurate is because in most jurisdictions copyrights lapse after a stipulated period. That is inspite of corporations like Disney that have used copyright law to their benefit to extend
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by vivegi 4y ago
It is a little more complicated than that. A large percentage of people in India access the Internet from their mobile phones and are likely to be using the data plan of their mobile carrier. So, they do not have that luxury.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Have you tried writing to the large ISPs in India that seem to be blocking your website? You may want to do that while the current case is in progress. At the least, it would give you additional information to plan next moves. Perhaps, IFF
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by vivegi 4y ago
What term would you use instead of shadowban when one or more entities are blocking a person (or in this case a company) and access to their website without revealing why the block was in place in a transparent manner? The aggrieved party h
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by vivegi 4y ago
The closest analogy I can think of is this: Property developer leases a beachfront land for 99 years and builds a resort. You book a vacation at the resort. You enjoy the facilities -- pool, spa, restaurants etc., during your stay. At the e
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by vivegi 4y ago
I loved the personal story of two people trying to figure out past history based on data. But the fact that his comes from centralized datamines maintained by bigtech is unsettling.

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