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by akarambir 4mo ago
The official replies are addressing questions that nobody has asked. The main issue is why Linux support is being removed from the Basic tier while Windows is still allowed. To grow the ecosystem, AMD needs more people working on their hard
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Microsoft Suspends Services to India Refiner Nayara over EU Sanctions(bloomberg.com)
1 points by akarambir 1y ago|0 comments
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by akarambir 8y ago
Can you provide some info into how you typically use trackpoint. Which fingers do you use and how do you control the acceleration when going few pixels away or whole screen corner to corner. What about the clicks. I have a thinkpad and am a
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by akarambir 8y ago
A somewhat similar situation happened with India when in 1999, India-Pak Kargil war, the US denied India access to its GPS satellites. It forced India to have its own Regional Navigation System( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by akarambir 8y ago
But is it still sent automatically on ajax requests by browsers?
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by akarambir 8y ago
It was sed substitute command on a ~800Mb file on Thinkpad T470 with SSD. It was taking around 40-50 sec for each substitution. Though as others have pointed, it may not be directly related to article in discussion.
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by akarambir 8y ago
What does linux utilities like sed, awk use for text manipulation because they were very slow when I was changing a few table names in a sql file.
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Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)(lemire.me)
148 points by akarambir 8y ago|51 comments
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Australia Bans China’s Huawei from Building 5G Wireless Network(nytimes.com)
1 points by akarambir 8y ago|1 comments
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by akarambir 8y ago
Same. Giving error "Corrupted content error" on Firefox 61.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
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by akarambir 8y ago
For our company, we use: - Gitlab and Gitlab CI - Zulip chat(moved from Mattermost) - Metabase for data visualization(will be adding InfluxDB soon) - Self Hosted Sentry(error reporting): Sentry is linked with Gitlab and Zulip for alerts - T
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by akarambir 8y ago
Pycharm just released 2018.2 with support for pipenv :) https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/#v2018-2-python
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Google Cloud: 7 best practices for building containers(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
2 points by akarambir 8y ago|0 comments
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How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar(wired.com)
4 points by akarambir 8y ago|0 comments
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Gitlab Dev Survey 2018: Remote work creates a stronger DevOps culture(about.gitlab.com)
2 points by akarambir 8y ago|0 comments
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by akarambir 8y ago
From New Delhi(Airtel), India test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average cloudflare 35 ms 58 ms 89 ms 14 ms 14 ms 42 ms 44 ms 35 ms 13 ms 29 ms 37.
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Uber’s India rival Ola could add public transport services soon(techcrunch.com)
1 points by akarambir 8y ago|0 comments
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by akarambir 9y ago
I am curious if android has the ability to quickly disable fingerprint unlock if you are in adversarial situation. So it only asks for passcode.
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by akarambir 9y ago
For India, they have just two areas: Mumbai and Anywhere else. I am living in Gurgaon(near New Delhi) and it is as expensive as Mumbai in terms of renting an apartment. So Mumbai(0.227) and elsewhere(0.103) is not fair. I guess they don&#x2
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Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a cricket tournament but lost(gadgets.ndtv.com)
1 points by akarambir 9y ago|0 comments
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by akarambir 9y ago
Yes. For this very reason, Mozilla was not porting Firefox to iOS for a very long time. Now, Firefox is also running iOS provided rendering engine.
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by akarambir 9y ago
A good service. While registering, I noticed timezone as "Indian Time". It should be "Indian Standard Time(IST)". </nitpick>
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by akarambir 9y ago
You can just re-structure your post and make it a blog article :)
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by akarambir 9y ago
The parent example was saying about official ppa only, official as in the original software company providing that ppa. In this case, nginx ppa is provided by nginx developers. Other example is postgres. But I get it, there are not many ppa
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by akarambir 10y ago
One thing I have seen Indian startups do is try to get every pennny from customers at the cost of quality of services. This happened to Flipkart as well. They were the poster child of Indian startup scene followed by Snapdeal and others. So
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Flipkart raises $1B from Tencent and Microsoft(bloomberg.com)
1 points by akarambir 10y ago|1 comments
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by akarambir 10y ago
One thing I always not see people recommending is what small open source projects I can study or do while or after reading these books. Like for web development, people try to implement a small todo, blogging software. For someone coming f
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by akarambir 10y ago
Hey, You are already on right track. Just complete the Graduation as it is required by many companies(and visas if you need any in future). Go for fundamental courses more on MIT OCW and others. I also studied in a private engineering colle
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by akarambir 10y ago
Parent is from Taiwan and not China. They are different countries(for most parts of world). Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China >> However, the term is problematic and potentially ambiguous
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by akarambir 10y ago
In India at least, Uber is asking drivers to do ~5hrs shifts at a time. Or they cut the amount given to drivers. This is due to fierce competition from Ola, Meru and other cab companies. Not sure, when they will just have to accept that tho

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