quesomaster9000

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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
TL;DR Tamil Nadu should ... be its own country?
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
Yearly I spend, on swiggy alone, more lakh than most bengaluru techs get paid.
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
Wexin diaspora ftw
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
Why visit India when you can book an entire floor of the JW Marriott Aerocity in Delhi...
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
> In what situation were you as a foreign traveler where you needed to pay UPI? If you live in a tiny bubble and only take an Uber to the Work Campus, Uber to the small number of marts you've found that accept card, Uber to the smal
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
Unfortunately Moreta disabled Thai PromptPay QR payments recently except for US KYC'd people due to some compliance dispute. There's also lbank.com but I can't confirm if they currently work in Thailand (lbank has an... inter
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by quesomaster9000 1mo ago
> the system is now available in some form for payments in 11 countries outside India. I see this often cited, but in reality it's a farce. "UPI is international" the staunch defender says, so I rebut "Yes, in one pla
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by quesomaster9000 2mo ago
Currently hacking away at https://github.com/lockboot Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually running on GCP/EC2 (and so
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by quesomaster9000 3mo ago
Great, by "remain ahead" this implicitly means "put everybody else behind". These are the same people that are pushing for "think of the children" internet and VPN KYC. Let me translate this for you: > - Sec
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by quesomaster9000 3mo ago
Amazon Nitro Enclave does pretty much this, the guest has one method of communication, via vsock, and it's up to you to build the pipes on either side. It's a huge PITA in practice because whatever you want to run inside some encl
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by quesomaster9000 3mo ago
Yes, you can do this on real metal, EFI is EFI and as such you can make it do essentially whatever you want. For example recently I had to make a stage0[1] HTTP EFI bootloader, it pulls the URL and hash or pubkey from the cloud metadata ser
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by quesomaster9000 5mo ago
One of the best flights I've ever taken was Spirit and had 8 passengers on it, 5 of which were transferring staff/pilots. The second worst flight I've ever had the pleasure of enduring was also Spirit - the worst was Easyjet
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
I'm very much from the same era, "stfu and fork it", "PoC or GTFO". And as I got older, I realized "I am not the customer, there is no money in responding to me, I am a net negative cost to your business".
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Some people get so precious about code bases and want everything to be 100 line digestable units that working with them is becomes near impossible when they dig their heels in. It's like dealing an angry grandpa throwing mud over you
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Cosmopolitan goes one further: [binaries] that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS on AMD64 and ARM64 https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
The subscription craze is getting worse where often the features I need are locked behind a recurring fee costing hundreds to thousands of dollars over its useful lifetime, or are only available in 'enterprise' versions where the
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Finally somebody built this, the problem is that the people who don't know won't think of using this tool. A friend recently came across a project with no RLS and described it as "a once in a lifetime fuckup, a career definin
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Try walking into an small diaspora place during slow hours, paying cash and not being fussy about what you eat, do that 3 days in a row and say "yesterday I was still hungry" (or something to that effect). I think we're talki
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
The key for me really was eating once a day, I got stuck in a bad routine with the shops and alcohol too. Whereas now I almost exclusively eat set menus, thalis, nasi kandar etc. at small family run places and ask for extra rice, pickles an
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Tackle one addiction at a time a wise sage once said to me.
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Sure, any kind of non-veg protein adds up quickly, especially if you're doing 3 meals a day. Most local Indian places will do you a solid 1500 calorie meal for £10 if you know what to look for. Versus, go to supermarket... get stuck in
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by quesomaster9000 8mo ago
Not GLP-1, but moved onto an OMAD diet which is essentially a 23hr daily fast with nothing but neat espresso, cigarettes and water in between - although occasionally I have a small treat or sugary drink. But now I eat almost exclusively at
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
I've had no end of problems with accountants regardless of their certifications, they operate in a domain with an incoherent body of contradictory and highly subjective rules yet make it out to be a science. My conclusion as a whole is
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
Don't tell anybody, but you sit on it
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
Oh dear, it seems we've... somehow been psychically linked... I developed a browser-based CP/M emulator & IDE: https://lockboot.github.io/desktop/ I was going to post that instead, but wanted a 'cool
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
All the 'Small' language models and the 'TinyML' scene in general tend to bottom out at a million parameters, hence I though 'micro' is more apt at ~150k params.
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Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB(github.com)
514 points by quesomaster9000 9mo ago|122 comments
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
Yup, Amazon supports the 6.11? kernel on aarch64. Most toolchains if you target linux aarch64 static they, they will produce executables that will run on Amazon Linux aarch64 and Android, set-top boxes with 64-bit chips and Linux 3+ it&#x27
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by quesomaster9000 9mo ago
Graviton with Nitro 4 has been quite pleasant to use, with the rust aarch64 musl static target and rust-lld I can build monolith ELFs that work not just on my android via `adb push` and `adb shell` but also on AWS. AWS with Nitro v3+ iirc s
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by quesomaster9000 1y ago
I'd argue that the problem is that QR codes shouldn't be an 'app' problem, and yes there's a chicken-egg problem with PoS terminals verifying incoming bank payments but that's a separate issue. If you want to d

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