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by sseth 4y ago
I am guessing that this is less of a concern for Google. Per Google's C++ style guide : "We do not use C++ exceptions." So they are already not using that feature in their C++ code today. https://google.github.io&#
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by sseth 5y ago
If i remember correctly, the cards used in Jacquard looms were then used for voting tabulation in the 1920s, by a small company called IBM. When computers came around in the early 40s, they were available as a source of input. This is where
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by sseth 5y ago
I thought this was going to be like the Kailash Temple in India, carved out of a single stone : https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/monuments/ellora-kail...
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by sseth 6y ago
Besides the Smiley novels, The Perfect Spy is one of the most beautifully crafted of John le Carre's novels. Beautifully written with layers upon layers of meaning - each time you reread a Carre you see another facet. If there was a th
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by sseth 6y ago
UPI is growing at an incredible rate. One important reason for the growth is the explosive increase in 4G connectivity in the last 4 years, which has data usage on mobile see a compound average growth of 93% to become the highest in the wor
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by sseth 6y ago
The resolution is not done at the client end, but in NPCI, while processing the transaction. So this is nothing like DNS.
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by sseth 6y ago
There are redundancies build into the NPCI system. There is more than one data center, etc.
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by sseth 6y ago
During congress rule, CBI was referred to as a "caged parrot". The CBI did not act unless forced by the Supreme Court. The CAG is a very different body - it is much more independent of government, and did raise issues around 2G sp
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by sseth 6y ago
The talk by Philip Wadler is one of the most insightful I have heard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0WFigax_c In brief, they are following a process of stripping Go to the most basic possible syntax, and then adding ge
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by sseth 6y ago
I think Android is the most important version - about 95% of mobiles are covered. So it is good they are doing that first. iOS is about 3-4% and KaiOS is just 1%, so I think if it takes some more time that's not a huge impact.
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by sseth 6y ago
The "Rule of 2" link in the article actually says this : "A recent study by Matt Miller from Microsoft Security states that “~70% of the vulnerabilities addressed through a security update each year continue to be memory safe
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by sseth 6y ago
ICMR doctor R Ganga Ketkar had made the statement on Apr 11 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_ta25JcbU ) that this is under study and at this point is not a recommended treatment. Subsequently a recent study in the US has
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by sseth 6y ago
My own personal experience : A close relative passed away in a large city early April (of pneumonia caused by COVID-19) complications. His entire family was interviewed for 2 hours and all contacts were screened - the family and some of the
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by sseth 7y ago
Just return 401. Or 301. Virus will disappear!
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by sseth 7y ago
More accurate to say gitflow is fine for webapps. TBD is broader than gitflow, and i agree that when you have to maintain multiple versions in the wild, i would not use gitflow.
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by sseth 7y ago
In some ways the real story is that the MoH cannot take a decision to let some staff keep working if they are found to bee infected - presumably because they are not easily replacable. It is easier for them to bypass the rule by not testing
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by sseth 7y ago
Jio did not have to pay any - probably because they started 5 years ago? This issue is from 2005 - Jio started in 2015 December.
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by sseth 7y ago
Yes - my heart bleeds for Vodafone and Airtel who kept data prices 10 times higher than they are now and sat on fat profits for years without building their 4G network. And kept milking us for "value-added" services we had not ask
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by sseth 7y ago
Actually these numbers are misleading - actual rates are much lower. For example, Jio has a Rs. 149 (2.1 USD) plan for 24 days for 1 GB per day. That works out to about 10 cents for a GB.
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by sseth 7y ago
Well, it's not a monopoly by any stretch. Market share - Jio - 32%, Vodafone Idea - 29%, Airtel - 28%, BSNL - 10% as of Nov 2019. Yes - the incumbents (Vodafone, Airtel) have suffered a loss of market share and revenues / profits.
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by sseth 7y ago
In go, composition has a special feature where if you include another type anonymously in a struct, the methods of that type are automatically available for the struct as well. It is also possible to "override" these methods at th
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by sseth 7y ago
I feel to be realistic you have to show a program with failure scenarios. That is at least where i struggle with FP. Like what happens if a user enters a non-numeric value and i want to echo back a warning and get a correction, before conti
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by sseth 7y ago
I believe with AR even the picking is done by Boeing. unlike DER. One huge downside of this is that the informal interactions between FAA and Boeing engineers are almost non-existent, leading to even greater lack of technical knowledge on t
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by sseth 7y ago
Somerset Maugham wrote a great short story - "The Lotus Eater" about a bank manager who earned a lot of money, then retired to an island of Capri to live comfortably off his savings - become a "lotus-eater". The kicker i
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by sseth 7y ago
I suppose this is a little bit of peer pressure also. As a tourist having come all the way to Paris and seen the Louvre it would seem silly to not have seen the Mona Lisa. Its like visiting Florence and not seeing Michelangelo's David.
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by sseth 7y ago
I believe this is the separation of the transport layer protocol (QUIC) from the application layer protocol (HTTP/3). QUIC can be seen as a replacement for TCP. HTTP over QUIC then becomes HTTP/3 - with improvements in latency and
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by sseth 7y ago
Bureaucracy fixing software issues is quite common. One story i have heard is that in the early days of railway reservation computerization in India, there were storage issues on the servers. The solution : cut the advance booking time from
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by sseth 7y ago
Goroutines can share memory without copying.
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by sseth 7y ago
It is best to treat the linked paper (Fibers under the magnifying glass) as a review of some implementations of fibers and not a repudiation of fibers in general. In particular, for this paper to apply to golang, several things would need t
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by sseth 7y ago
Not only that, but in the context-switching overhead, the numbers provided are not appropriate to golang - because go's function calling convention assumes fewer registers are saved, thus reducing context switching overhead. From : ht

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