AkshatM

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by AkshatM 5y ago
For Debian-based distros, just use `dpkg-deb` to bundle your executables into a `deb` and distribute the `deb`. It takes one line to do this.
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by AkshatM 5y ago
> Because packaging on linux is a nightmare I don't like to be contrarian, but, for Debian-based distros specifically: it's not! Use `dpkg-deb` to create a `deb` file from your executable and upload for distribution. Generate d
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by AkshatM 5y ago
From the website: > Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the ba
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by AkshatM 5y ago
From the website: > Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the ba
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by AkshatM 5y ago
Vaccine trials run large randomized control experiments to estimate vaccine effectiveness. i.e. they compare a control group to an experiment group, both equally likely to contract the virus, and observe if a smaller percent of the experime
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by AkshatM 5y ago
> The main reason Neither of the two sources you cite the presence of radioactive polonium as the main carcinogenic effect, just FYI. It is a contributing factor, but there are about 70 different compounds in tar that are known to be c
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by AkshatM 5y ago
They mean dependent types, in the Idris sense. Basically, types (not just instances of types i.e. the entire collection `int` rather than 5) are first-class citizens that can be passed to functions. It enables proof checking as well as so-c
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by AkshatM 5y ago
What makes homelessness complicated as a problem? It seems like there are many straightforward solutions to it from a government policy perspective - pairing rent control with welfare, building more housing tenements, and in general buildin
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Note that, under the GDPR, data that is collected from you and pertains to you is considered your property. America doesn't have a similar stance on the books, but it probably should.
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by AkshatM 6y ago
How do you stay competitive with similar products without instituting deadlines?
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Can you please describe when you had to use formal queueing theory in your work? I have struggled - and failed - to find a use case relevant to daily SWE work, since (a) the probability distribution for most customers waiting in a queue is
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by AkshatM 6y ago
> Why should I — someone with many of my subjective ideas and opinions try and talk someone else out of their personal beliefs and opinions. Because letting people operate on a false belief affects everyone else. It's one thing to
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by AkshatM 6y ago
I agree with your position. LinkedIn exists for exactly this reason: as a directory of hiring managers you can connect with. Cold-emailing / cold-calling people for finding roles is a good way to accomplish this, if you craft your pitc
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by AkshatM 6y ago
This is platform-dependent. On Windows, MikTeX is the standard way to work with LaTeX and it bundles a package manager for you.
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by AkshatM 6y ago
What evidence is there to suggest they had an infection during their period of grueling stamina?
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by AkshatM 6y ago
When you use the term "fit", I think you are equating stamina with immune response. Being able to withstand a grueling schedule has nothing to do with how well your immune system will rally to infection, so I don't think it&#
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by AkshatM 6y ago
It sounds very much like the poster is describing an on-call rotation rather than "production support", which is a very different thing altogether. Production support is customer support: responding to chat messages or communicati
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Also, if you're willing to just write the tests yourself, Jepsen is open-source and Kyle Kingsbury offers a tutorial on how to use it on GitHub. You might not get the same level of sophistication right away, of course, but that's
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Jepsen's website says you can contact Kyle at aphyr [at] jepsen [dot] io for pricing.
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Have you ever considered getting a Jepsen test done for kivaloo? The claims re: durability and linearizability are worth proving out that way
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Think he means event sourcing in a distributed transaction context, not a front-end context: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/event-sourcing.html
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Ask HN: What's your experience like working with Kubernetes operators?(brown.co1.qualtrics.com)
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by AkshatM 6y ago
You're arguing income inequality has worsened in spite of free trade, which is fine, but I think the original comment's point was that free trade carries some benefits, which is a separate argument altogether (that is, they are n
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by AkshatM 6y ago
I interpret it as a suggestion that you allow developers access to the running container in production to debug the issue There are more sane ways to do this than through raw kubectl access, of course: see e.g. telepresence ( https:/&#
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by AkshatM 6y ago
PlanGrid, my former employer and YC graduate, does in fact offer a version control for construction drawings. They offer the ability to export from Revit into PlanGrid. PlanGrid was bought in 2018/2019 by Autodesk for 875 million, thou
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Is there even a measure of greatness that is not anthropocentric? "Greatness" is a compound measure of impact if solved, intractability of the problem, and average tangibility of problem (how much experience a random cross-sectio
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by AkshatM 6y ago
When I read defenses of these moves online, usually it is acknowledged that these terms, when used in the context of engineering, do not have a relationship to human subjugation. However, the arguments offered at that juncture are: a) Ev
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Scott Alexander is not his full name. His last name is still unknown to the public, and is what Scott doesn't want to release.
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Only ~20,000 O-1 visas were issued in 2019, compared to 190,000 H1B visas. The reason for this is because the O-1 visa is significantly harder to qualify for. The same people who would expect would be in the running for an O-1 (master&#x27
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by AkshatM 6y ago
Usually some subset of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google So Big 5, really, but I feel Apple is usually omitted because its primary focus is consumer hardware and the software is usually an ancillary product.

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