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by vivegi 4y ago
From India. I think this is probably inconsistent across ISPs. I was able to access VideoLAN website and the download link just now. https://www.meity.gov.in/ : This is the website for the Ministry of Electronics & Info
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by vivegi 4y ago
EVMs in India did reduce many of the previous issues with the paper ballot. Some of the few security measures include: - EVMs have no network connections. The EVMs are standalone and are connected to a control unit managed by the polling of
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by vivegi 4y ago
Yes, they should get permission. A company logo is protected by trademarks and copyrights in almost all jursdictions. Companies do not like to see their logos splashed across their vendors' websites, case studies, presentations etc.,
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by vivegi 4y ago
Netflix is overpriced relative to other streamers and they are going to have a problem with customer churn induced by streaming fatigue and price pressure with the streaming marketplace getting very crowded. COVID theatrical closures made i
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by vivegi 4y ago
Would Content Security Policy (CSP) offer some mitigation against this? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
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by vivegi 4y ago
A systems programming language operates much closer to the machine level than other languages. One could compile source files into .o (object files), call functions implemented in any object file using its calling convention and link them u
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by vivegi 4y ago
Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity: How to Be Creative Under Pressure and Turn Ideas into Action (Paperback). March 5, 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Creativity-Creative-Pressure-... The book cited above is to help wit
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by vivegi 4y ago
Very sleek looking product. I see the display has oleophobic coating. Is the entire desk surface safe if I accidentally spill my coffee? If yes, that is a killer feature you may want to mention upfront. Most users would have that question.
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by vivegi 4y ago
This is quite similar to the RDF triples model. Everything is a 'thing' including 'relationships' between things. So you just need a thing table and a relation table. The issue with this is schema management and rules ge
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by vivegi 4y ago
Please read about I/O, memory and cache hierarchy. If you access a hot row, 10,000 times in a minute, that would be 10k fopens() / fcntl() / fclose() calls. Benchmark that in a C program and also benchmark pre-allocated memor
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by vivegi 4y ago
1. Passive radiative heating/cooling (paints, coatings, etc.,) 2. Low power electronics and energy harvesters (thermal/clothing, kinetic energy, rf energy harvesters etc.,) 3. Physical logistics networks (similar to Internet Proto
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by vivegi 4y ago
Trend Micro: Honda to Start Selling Smart Car Data (Oct 2021) https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/21/j/honda-to-star... I think the rubicon is crossed with connected car data.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Hybrid Video/audio/semantic Captcha, perhaps? An audio prompt like 'Using your <right | left> hand, repeat the numbers that I am signaling. Use <a different | the same> set of fingers from what I am using&#x27
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by vivegi 4y ago
Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything https://www.amazon.com/Art-Start-2-0-Time-Tested-Battle-Hard...
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by vivegi 4y ago
For those who are interested: The author also has a History podcast titled "Echoes of India" https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/echoes-of-india-a-hist... https://open.spotify.com/show&
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by vivegi 4y ago
Alternative title: "Bugs in Kindle cause automatic one-click purchase of books"
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The ruling has confirmed that only natural persons i.e., humans can be listed as the inventor in the patent application as per the Patent Act. For your question, I think you will be within your rights to list yourself as the inventor of AI-
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by vivegi 4y ago
From the paper: > We introduce a novel attack vector on proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies which relieson timestamp manipulations, instead of traditional ones such as block withholding
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Software for lie detection in sales pitches https://www.deck.rocks/display?job_id=9750&hash=263850042082...
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by vivegi 4y ago
Very cool project. Wishing you good luck!
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It looks like the librarian's letter is from July 2021. So, the frustrated librarian raised this issue more than a year ago. Has GOOG done anything about it in the past year? There needs to be a better way.
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In the past when we had to use Ghostscript for PDF processing, we always separated it out into its own process and added a whole lot of error management externally. Even if the application was fine, you would always encounter PS/PDF fi
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by vivegi 4y ago
Learnt something new today! I never imagined that to have originated from Tamil (I am a native speaker of the language) and always thought it had some esoteric European origin. From the phonetics, this definitely sounds quite plausible that
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by vivegi 4y ago
Vetiver is a Tamil word. Ver literally means root. https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=ta&text=vetiver&op=... (You can listen to the pronunciation of the English version and the Tamil version in the Google
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by vivegi 4y ago
Yes, I read about Brave quite a bit. Somehow, I haven't been brave enough to switch to Brave yet due to lurking suspicion about their browser native crypto integrations. Some prior HN discussions on Brave were not confidence inspiring.
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I removed FB after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out. I still had WhatsApp messenger for a few years since I have a very active high school friends group on it. When WhatsApp started changing their privacy policies I just removed Wh
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by vivegi 4y ago
In general, paying off debt (if any) first is good. If you have money left after paying off debt, pick a % of the temporary windfall that you are comfortable spending and spend it (doesn't matter what categories you want to spend them
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by vivegi 4y ago
These frameworks are behavioral competency frameworks. When used for assessing competencies, it is useful to define what the behavioral competency is unambiguously and include positive and negative examples of the behavior. People have ques
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by vivegi 4y ago
This article is excellent. I can say from my experience that a slide that calls out key takeaways is 10x more informative than one that doesn't and leaves that to the user to infer. Having said that, while doing due diligence, one pars
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by vivegi 4y ago
If you have the opportunity in your current job to take on a P&L responsibility that includes being a manager of people (I see you are an EM), you can pick up quite a lot of the day-to-day running of a business. Even a couple of years o

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