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by vivegi 3y ago
If one posts a section in their web page stating: WARNING This PNG image <link> is an example of a compressed image file that might expand to a huge size upon decompression. PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. We are not responsible for conseq
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by vivegi 3y ago
Should have read JPEG XL.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Hydrogen is a bad choice from safety purpose. It is flammable. The famous Hindenburg disaster [1] where the Zepplin caught fire used Hydrogen. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1937-05-10_Special_Releas...
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by vivegi 3y ago
I wonder what happens when sites start using techniques like Zip/Compression bombs to defend against impolite mass downloaders. Particularly, in this case of downloading images without honoring robots.txt, a PNG/JPEG/ZIP bomb
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yes, that’s right. In fact, in college we used Borland compilers. But my first job had standardized on MSVC. So, that determined what I used on the job. Loved Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ IDEs in those days. Simple and fast!
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by vivegi 3y ago
I learnt C in college but C++ was emerging as the language of choice circa 1995 when I got into my first job. This was before C++ was standardized and we had to make do with whatever MSVC 1.5 would do. It did not even support templates back
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by vivegi 3y ago
Apple can charge whatever fee they want, provided they also allow alt app stores to operate and set their own fees and let the market decide whether they will download the widget from their App store or the 3rd party store. Putting up antic
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by vivegi 3y ago
Just extending the hypothetical, the developer can drop the price to $2.49/mo passing on the savings to customers and perhaps capture a few more customers at that price point. While it is true that inertia might stop many customers fro
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by vivegi 3y ago
> ... Apple either increases their fees or decreases prices for an app that is also distributed elsewhere I don't get why anyone should be paying Apple a rent for using a 3rd party app store (lets say exclusively). As a hypothetical
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by vivegi 3y ago
I agree. As a dev, if I list my $3/mo subscription app on the Apple App store and they take 30% and I have 100k customers and I double-list the app in the 3rd party store + the Apple app store and gain 20k customers from the 3rd party
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the article > In addition, developers may have to pay extra if they want their apps to be available outside of the iOS App Store, Gurman says. The statement is a bit ambiguous. Is it pay Apple extra or pay extra to the 3rd party
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by vivegi 3y ago
For those scratching their head on some of the acronyms/terms used: - CDC => Change Data Capture - Oops recovery (a colloquial term) => Fixing consequences of accidental changes
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by vivegi 3y ago
Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway [1] a show where points don't matter, just like checkmarks given by Twitter. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl__LLKMIs
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by vivegi 3y ago
I had been looking for something like this to play around with interactive theorem proving! Thanks.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Go multi-channel. Podcast, YouTube channel, Blog, Newsletter. Do interviews with startups and then put them out to each of these channels. Audio interviews on podcast, video interviews on YouTube, transcripts/polls/think-pieces on
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by vivegi 3y ago
In general, try to put your idea into paper using something like Lean Canvas [1], [2]. Cover the following aspects: technology, organization, people and processes and how these tie with the business context (using the lean canvas). If your
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by vivegi 3y ago
Article is from 2021. Title needs fixing. HN algorithm stripping numbers is making this a bad heading (almost opposite of what the article says). Actual article title: Eight-in-ten Indians limit meat in their diets, and four-in-ten conside
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by vivegi 3y ago
Hallucination is not a vice. It may be a virtue. It depends on the context. Let me explain. Edward de Bono, the person who coined the term lateral thinking, lists random juxtaposition as one of the tools for spurring creativity. [1], [2]
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by vivegi 3y ago
This made my day. What a trip down memory lane!
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by vivegi 3y ago
Ironic. SO content is user generated. It is a bit rich for them to put a wall around it and claim that it is chargeable for use as an AI training set by other companies (unless they also have a plan to share the income with their users). Es
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by vivegi 3y ago
Their de-dupe filter needs some work. Duplicate articles on today's (Apr 22, 2023) front page: > World News: > Russian Warplane Accidentally Drops Bomb, Injuring Two in Belgorod April 21, 2023 > Russian Fighter Jet Accidentall
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by vivegi 3y ago
If you want to use a quantitative method to weigh these two choices, use something like a Net-Present-Value ([1]) comparison of both these choices. That would mean listing down all assumptions that impact the total value - cash - num
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by vivegi 3y ago
25 yrs ago, I did something similar. I worked for a systems integrator that developed a turnkey software system for a client. It was a massive project (a systems migration) and ran for 3 years until handover. I was the lead on the project.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yes, exploration and discovery of new deposits continues. Everything else remaining constant , the 88M tonnes (99M tonnes in the latest USGS report in [3]) will need to go up by orders of magnitude to get the 25% to 100% (if that is ever t
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by vivegi 3y ago
I agree it cannot be dependent only on Li. That is why I had stated in the last line of my post > Solutions possibly lie in exploring other battery chemistries while improving the efficiency of Li extraction.
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by vivegi 3y ago
The 62kg is a valid point. I have revised the calculation and added the citations. The problem still remains (at the global level).
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by vivegi 3y ago
If you want Dont-Repeat-Yourself (DRY), you have to decide to put the domain logic either in the database or in a service*. In the first case, two applications that directly talk to the database is feasible since the common logic is impleme
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by vivegi 3y ago
I have a fundamental question though. Will EVs (Li battery based) achieve the holy grail of IC engine replacement? Earth's Lithium deposits.................. 88,000,000,000 Kilograms [2], [3] @25% Viable for mining....................
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by vivegi 3y ago
Perhaps someone asked Google Bard What should Google do to catch up on the AI race? and this re-org was one of the suggestions. /s
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by vivegi 3y ago
Tangentially related. https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/delhi-high-court-aaradhya... TLDR; The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained various YouTube channels from disseminating, publishing or sharing videos or any f

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