rganesan

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by rganesan 2mo ago
The discussion is also missing a key point. Bun had a patched version of Zig, this runtime uses upstream Zig.
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by rganesan 1y ago
Have you looked at Amazon Lightsail? It's relatively cheap if you don't need a lot of scale, compared to other cheap alternative. Oracle free tier is another option.
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by rganesan 1y ago
This is a repost but I highly recommend this guide. It's a very readable and fast paced intro to git.
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by rganesan 2y ago
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by rganesan 2y ago
zig is coming along quite nicely. If you've not heard about zig, take a look at https://ghostty.org/ (a terminal for Linux/Mac and Windows in future), https://tigerbeetle.com (a database for financial
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by rganesan 2y ago
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-d... :-)
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by rganesan 2y ago
1. org-mode. Why? Text based. For org-mode, I just sync the notes across using syncthing. Also WhatsApp for transient notes like a shopping list. 2. Nope. 3. Productivity? It's a tool and it works well, that's all I care. 4. I hav
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by rganesan 2y ago
My wife has been looking for a Javascript/React developer role for the last 6+ months in London with no luck. Not even a single interview call. We relocated from India to the UK for my job. She has 5+ years react experience in a startu
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by rganesan 2y ago
I posted to HN an article about 3 new antibiotics discovered in India and it didn't get much attention :-(. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80vrjkkrero
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Dtrace.conf(24) Kris Van Hees – eBPF and DTrace [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rganesan 2y ago|0 comments
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by rganesan 2y ago
I am surprised this isn't getting wider attention. With increasing antibiotic resistance (granted India is contributing significantly to this), I would have expected three brand new antibiotics would be a big deal. Especially since eve
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Three New Antibiotics from India(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rganesan 2y ago|1 comments
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by rganesan 2y ago
Xbox with Kinect. I was impressed by the original Wii and thought, hey, kinect can do it with bare hands. It didn't work all that well and I am not much of a gamer, so the whole thing was a waste. To top it off I even bought a spare co
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by rganesan 2y ago
Available under a OSS compliant license ( https://opensource.org/license/UPL ), it's a shame that this completely user space implementation based on BPF hasn't got wider attention. Looking at the activity on dt
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Dtrace for Linux Based on BPF(oss.oracle.com)
4 points by rganesan 2y ago|1 comments
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by rganesan 2y ago
I had ZX Spectrum+ which I think had a much better keyboard. I never used the original ZX Spectrum with rubber keys, so I can't really compare.
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by rganesan 3y ago
10% Human book Alanna Collen is worth a read ( https://www.harpercollins.com/products/10-human-alanna-colle... ). The theory is that our gut microbiome has a lot do with obesity than we realize. It explores various facto
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by rganesan 3y ago
In my company a strong referral certainly carries a lot of weight. There is however a big difference between a casual referral (as in, I barely know this guy but he reached out to me) vs a strong referral (as in, I've worked with him a
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by rganesan 3y ago
Though a bit dated, I highly recommend "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating System". I have read several operating systems book classics including the book by Silbershatz and Galvin that you referred to and &quo
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by rganesan 3y ago
I'm a grumpy old programmer now but one of the early enlightening concepts I learnt was recursion and how it applied to so many problems. As the saying goes, "To understand recursion, you have to first understand recursion" :
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by rganesan 4y ago
I've followed you awesome work on Linux performance tuning over the years. All the best for whatever you're doing next and I hope it ends up in another book for us mere mortals to read :-).