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by rkhacker 3y ago
I used to blindly rely on google maps until it misdirected me on my way to Redwood National Park. It led me to a house in the mountains that had a sign saying something like - google maps has misdirected you and there is no path through thi
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by rkhacker 3y ago
>If you had a database and some separate messaging like ZeroMQ, Rabbit, Kafka, you’re going to get race conditions. There’s always going to be a potential race where you have two messages - one is going to the disk and one is going to th
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by rkhacker 3y ago
My question to self is - retire to do what?
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by rkhacker 3y ago
I sincerely think that the present corporate culture can suck the air out of anyone's life and force to seek contentment elsewhere very soon. Doing a research work and solve problems, where one does not have to seek approval (easier wh
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by rkhacker 3y ago
Feels like a nice dream interrupted for most of the googlers. Probably they felt tenured and even 6 months of severance cannot assuage the hurt feeling. Looking around and doing some reality check might help. Every company is trying to impr
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by rkhacker 4y ago
Yes, show me what it does before asking to register.
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by rkhacker 4y ago
Few missing details that are crucial to usage within an organization: 1. what is the type of service instrumentation needed to capture the data? Wonder why this is needed when typically the data is already captured in an APM log? The instru
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by rkhacker 4y ago
The Generative AI is the AI for the masses. While people were getting overhyped with all the possibilities and promises of AI and deep learning etc. it is for the first time that they can also tinker and get surprised by its results. People
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by rkhacker 4y ago
Live and learn - now you know the risk involved and cannot escape by saying you did not know.
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by rkhacker 4y ago
>“Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000”. Then what do we do with the billions in remaining assets? Appropriate them, and leave small and mid businesses hanged to dry? To me such statements feel like - either you
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by rkhacker 4y ago
So, in essence, the single entry bookkeeping will be sound if the change is not allowed?
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by rkhacker 5y ago
I am sure there is momentary thrill of achieving minimalism but alas the world is not so simple anymore. I would refer the OP and the community here to the paper from the creator of PostgreSQL: http://cs.brown.edu/~ugur&#x2F
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by rkhacker 5y ago
Used to be a fountain pen fan and have used WinSung about 35 years ago and have very pleasant memories of the writing coming out of it. Wasn't cheap by Indian standard but the other pens mentioned here were unavailable to masses back t
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by rkhacker 5y ago
I am kurutoga fan as well. Love the rotating lead and consistent writing due to that. Sadly I keep losing the eraser cap and can't seem to find it online. Any suggestion?
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by rkhacker 5y ago
Worked on implementing such functions as part of larger project to mimic CATIA in Xenix system. I was and still fascinated with computer graphics and it was a dream project to work straight out of school. At that time we relied heavily on t
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by rkhacker 5y ago
Is fidelity outage related to this as well?
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by rkhacker 5y ago
I have used TransferWise, Moneygram in the past for international transfers. Good thing about these services is that they let you know in advance the conversion rates and fees which, for some reason, the banks won't let you know until
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by rkhacker 5y ago
Kudos for imagining and naming a law in your own name and posting here.
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by rkhacker 5y ago
I agree with the opening sentence that there is no large company pushing or rather peddling it. But the fact that it supports FP with immutability is really a well positioned design and with little bit of practice programmers get the hang o
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by rkhacker 5y ago
Given its support of functional language, built-in fault-tolerance, asynchronous message passing, and scalability, one would assume that it should ride the current wave of distributed computing. Any reason why it is relegated to a niche tec
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by rkhacker 6y ago
Please don't post the paywalled articles. It just irritates me that I need to pay just to read one posted link here.
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by rkhacker 7y ago
Don't we think that the credit for the number 1729 should belong to Hardy, for he took the cab and mentioned that number to Ramanujan. Of course, Ramanujan could see beauty in every number and would have produced something equally beau
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by rkhacker 7y ago
Thanks so much to the university for coming up with the barnacle or I would have missed these really brilliant hacks that seemed to keep improving one after the other. Parking 12 scrappy car was so low-tech and yet so effective but juicing
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Almost one million Windows systems vulnerable to BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708)(zdnet.com)
5 points by rkhacker 7y ago|0 comments
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Rolling Stone: Apple’s Newest Innovation Is the iPod(rollingstone.com)
1 points by rkhacker 7y ago|0 comments
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Einstein's Performance Review(norvig.com)
2 points by rkhacker 7y ago|1 comments