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by vivegi 3y ago
> blue skies and bs... I am going to steal that line. :)
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by vivegi 3y ago
All the time. Recent films that I can remember: John Wick 4, Top Gun: Maverick, NOPE. All of them had the forced break .
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the article: > That practice, according to the agency, is in large part responsible for inflating demand for the visas to a record high this year, with 781,000 entries into the lottery for 85,000 visa slots. > About 350,000 appli
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by vivegi 3y ago
There is an initiative called ONDC [1] that is aiming to bring to e-commerce in India the same kind of network based approach that the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) did for payments. ONDC's charter is quite ambitious and it is tryin
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by vivegi 3y ago
Coincidentally, I made the biggest value purchase I have ever made online (from an ecommerce store) yesterday on Amazon.in I was in the market for a 43" TV. Needed a Samsung. I checked two reputed local electronics stores (from where I
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by vivegi 3y ago
Depends on the company. (Personal experience) I joined a startup (privately held) in a senior position. Well comped in cash and bonus. No stock or options. Years later, the company was acquired by a larger company. The owner/CEO who so
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by vivegi 3y ago
Depends on context though. An LLM is useless (or not as useful) in OCR for forms where we are trying to extract the name "John Smith" from a name field whereas a HMM trained specifically on name fields may be able to do a better j
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by vivegi 3y ago
At least the last two quarterly slides are similar in terms of lumping International operations ("Segment Results – International" slide #10 in [1], [2]) in one slide. Is the article about previous qualitative callouts they used t
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by vivegi 3y ago
That is right. Most Indian regional language and Bollywood Hindi films (even the modern ones) run around 2h30m to 2h40m. The older films were even longer. RRR, the Indian film that captured a lot of viewership around the globe had a runtime
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by vivegi 3y ago
Because many jurisdictions have regulations that target large corporations and large is objectively defined in the rules as some number of users. (I am using large loosely. EU defines very large as 10% of the 450M EU consumers). EU
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by vivegi 3y ago
The app still has to be distributed to ios devices. The only permitted way for devs to distribute ios apps is through the app store. So, even if the devs now have choice on payment methods (apple in-app payments, 3rd party payment processor
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by vivegi 3y ago
OCR engines may use a HMM (Hidden Markov Model) for OCR correction.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Actually, if NFLX pivoted their DVD-rental business (which they are planning to sell) to Digital Dowload-to-Own, there are new customers they can bring. Also, since it is a transactional business, there will be a steady income stream with e
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yes. It was a miracle that Ambattur did not suffer as much given the proximity to Redhills lake reservoir. Had the Water Resource Department also opened the sluice gates of the Redhills reservoir like Chembarampakkam lake during the floods
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by vivegi 3y ago
2015 Chennai (South India) Floods. It was the flood of a century. [1] Our DC was intact, but the building and access was cut-off. We lost the backup diesel power generators in the flooding. Of course, grid power was cut-off. Our DC operatin
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by vivegi 3y ago
That may very well be. But now, their engagement metric on hours viewed [1] is going to drop like a brick and the analysts who started tracking that for the past several quarters will be scratching their head. [1]: https://top1
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by vivegi 3y ago
Boo hoo. $NFLX brought in customers with the Sharing is Caring campaign. If at that time they patted themselves on the back for customer growth, they should hold themselves responsible for the about face and customer exodus when they have
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the article: > “Certain costs associated with corporate initiatives supporting consumer-facing activities, previously reflected in unallocated corporate costs, are now allocated to Google Services; and centrally-managed shared resea
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by vivegi 3y ago
> doomsday scenario where Google itself leaks all of this data, which would be unprecedented and is unlikely ... (emphasis added) From the linked article [1]: > December 2018: Google+ Bug Exposes 52.5 Million Users’ Data Google+ fa
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by vivegi 3y ago
Not so fast. The court affirmed the following-Epic can direct users to a website for alternate payment. But they left it ambiguous on whether Apple is entitled to compensaton at 30% of revenues. The courts (both district and appeals) seem
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by vivegi 3y ago
No. I don't buy it. You are asking me to believe that an accident or malfunction will NEVER occur (i.e., probability = 0) causing the hydrogen to leak in an environment containing air/oxygen (which makes an explosive mixture). T
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by vivegi 3y ago
Wow. That is quite innovative. The advertised version is the equivalent of trackpad. I am wondering if the back of the teeth, upper jaw and lower jaw forming two rows, could somehow be mapped to keys to enable typing and the equivalent of s
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by vivegi 3y ago
The court held the Apple DPLA (developer program license agreement) as an adhesion agreement. If you want to develop apps for Apple you need to sign that. I think that is also needed to get their compilers, SDK etc., that provides apps acce
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by vivegi 3y ago
I had posted a separate comment on the ruling that discusses this point. The district court and the appeals court both agree that Apple is well within its rights to charge developers $99 initially and x% of revenues, under the principle of
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by vivegi 3y ago
Founder, CEO/CTO
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the ruling [1], the only thing Apple lost. > We now turn to Apple’s cross-appeal, beginning with its arguments concerning the UCL. The district court found that Epic suffered an injury sufficient to confer Article III standing, conc
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by vivegi 3y ago
All of it. It comes down to process followed by the dev team. But, it is done at the time of writing the PR or requirement. For eg: "Add paid subscriptions" feature request. If you have, say, a markdown document that outline the f
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the article: > Earlier this year, Tesla made a first effort to try to get those vehicles off the perk by offering owners an extra $5,000 discount if they trade in a Model S and Model X with unlimited free Supercharging. > Now Tes
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by vivegi 3y ago
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli > When a bad Pub/Sub message was pulled into the binary, an unhandled panic would crash the entire app, meaning web, workers and crons all died. Several years ago while working on a Message Queue ba
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by vivegi 3y ago
Release Notes? VSCode is a good example. After the latest updates, the Recent Changes are surfaced when we open the editor. That combined with a What's New? link should answer this question any time. If the issue is customer/e

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