prab97

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by prab97 5mo ago
Current smartphones are highly optimized for content consumption a.k.a doom scrolling. Nothing serious exists for programming. On top of that, a touch keyboard and hard to reach special characters make programming on a modern smartphone a b
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by prab97 6mo ago
Works perfectly on my machine!
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by prab97 2y ago
<rant> The commentary mocking people for their poor English, followed by disparaging remarks about an entire country as if the email senders represent a typical sample from that nation, says more about the blog owner than about the em
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company(techcrunch.com)
8 points by prab97 2y ago|1 comments
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by prab97 2y ago
It's always interesting times at OpenAI!
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by prab97 2y ago
ncmpcpp is a TUI based music player for your audio file collection. It's actually a frontend to the mpd (music player daemon) https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ncmpcpp
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by prab97 2y ago
But you do sign in to use an Android phone, or iPhone. Although, I agree with the point that someone would never want to sign in with their Facebook account there, with FB account holding so much personal information about them! For gaming,
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by prab97 5y ago
With fail2ban setup and ssh auth with only keys and PermitRootLogin no, you don't even have to worry about the pentesting bots.
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by prab97 5y ago
Robert C Martin
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by prab97 7y ago
This comment has so many factual inaccuracies. 1. Vote share for BJP in urban areas have been consistent with rural areas in the most recent national election of 2019. Source: Official website of election commission of India 2. There are mu
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by prab97 7y ago
BitLocker would still ask for recovery key when attempting to boot Windows after Arch install is finished. This is because of the disk configuration change that it detects.
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Setup ArchLinux on a Dell XPS 13(techbeat.in)
4 points by prab97 7y ago|3 comments
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by prab97 7y ago
+1 for search engine with blacklist feature. There are some annoying sites (like GeeksForGeeks) with substandard content that come in top results of Google when I search for programming topics, for instance some language's specific API
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by prab97 7y ago
"Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an interesting listen on Audible. Surprised that nobody has mentioned it here yet. It is a perfect candidate for an audiobo
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by prab97 7y ago
That reminds me of a very important aspect of distributed systems (computer science) - there is no global clock!
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by prab97 7y ago
You need to setup ublock origin on every browser on every device. With pihole, all your devices automatically get adblocking, even your friends coming home and connecting to your wifi get the ad blocking advantage without anything to do on
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by prab97 7y ago
I can confirm that. My Nexus 5X died with bootloop after the warranty was over and all the googling led me to make peace with the fact that it was a soldering issue, hence a manufacturing defect.
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by prab97 7y ago
Do you plan to run something more serious than github, basecamp or shopify? Usually it is not rails, which is the bottleneck, but the architecture of your application.
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by prab97 7y ago
Isn't that mathematically exponential, just with a larger base?
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by prab97 7y ago
99% is actually a lot below SLA for these services. It means the services are down for 3 days 15 hours in an year.
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by prab97 7y ago
Jio has INR349($5 USD) plan which gives 84 days of unlimited calling with 1.5GB data per data. For 399, less than $USD8 you get 2GB per day. Airtel also has a similar plan. This is fueling the data revolution
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Run your webapps on Kubernetes for cheap(techbeat.in)
2 points by prab97 7y ago|0 comments
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by prab97 8y ago
In all tier 1 cities, which are at least 10, you can get 100Mbps broadband with about 750GB to 1TB data for close to 20 dollars a month. In villages (at least 100 thousands of them) and small towns (roughly 8 thousand of them) where most po
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by prab97 8y ago
What are the red flags to quickly bucketize relations into toxic?
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by prab97 8y ago
"even ASM" - I read that twice to feel good.
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by prab97 8y ago
>> Yes if you need to get into the underneath of things then maybe it becomes more difficult. IMO Windows is even more difficult when you want to get into underneath of things. Fiddle with registry settings, services and at times dele
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by prab97 8y ago
The other word you forgot was 'maggu' - someone who mugs up everything.
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by prab97 8y ago
I see two links in his HN bio.
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by prab97 8y ago
From Hyderabad, another ISP Pinging 1.1.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4
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by prab97 8y ago
So, what color is your mansion? Great project by the way!

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