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India really has very deep penetration of 5g, and at very low cost. There might be a rare place that starlink might be needed but really I cannot image starlink having much consume…

There is a hilarious one in the Indian direct tax (Income tax) code right now: If your (taxable) income is less than 7L (inr), no tax is assessed. If your income is greater than 7L…

Recently, banks where also asked to put their official websites/netbanking on *.bank.in domains. I have wanted that for SO long.

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Isn't that exactly what gvisor does?

Its a fantastic project, but seems almost inactive now. I have a tiny PR pending for weeks, even reviewed, but not merged. I have another patch I have not submitted as I want to fi…

Honestly, I am vastly more interested in how they built the model: its not backprop-trained, it was done manually. And how did that bug find its way it? I hope they next blog about…

I long time ago, I was operating a "social network" which allowed image uploads. (India local, didn't amount to much as was shutdown.). Immediately at launch, we started having a h…

As a RA-ship student in the US, I still had taxed withheld on my meager grad student "salary", and was required to file a 1040NR-EZ. I obviously did not want to spent 50$ at H&R bl…

When I lived in the US(5 yrs), early 2000s, from my second year onwards, I used to receive a pre-filled 1040NR-EZ with my W2 info already printed/filled-in on it. Typically, I woul…

I have always counted to 20 on one hand. even as a kid. base, lower joint, upper joint, top. times 5 - including the thumb: my motor memory is trained so that i switch seamlessly f…

I asked this question on another post and was downvoted, trying again: don't we lose the "contextualization" that LLM embeddings do (embedding on Token X contains not just informat…

But does this not miss the "context" that the embeddings of the text tokens carry? An LLM embedding of a text token has a compressed version of the entire preceding set of tokens t…

Isn't this "as intended" in the westminster-style system? The govt is formed by MPs from the majority party (or alliance). By definition they MUST be able to pass ALL money bills, …

well, Jio (Indias largest ISP, with ~300M customers) has cloudflare r2 blocked. And for a while even. I am sure its due to some bucket serving out pirated movies, but this is a bit…

Father passed away today morning. At least he is not suffering anymore. I don't know why I am posting this here. Just a tribute, maybe. He was born to poor parents, and the eldest …

Meh. Rocks are a feature, not a product.

I don't agree. At all. My father is right now in a very bad state: he can't recognize me, doesn't know if he is at home or in the hospital, is being fed thru a tube, and entirely d…

Thats how it works in India. All authorized repeating charges ("mandates") are listed on a portal maintained by the card issuer. you can go in anytime and simply cancel the mandate…

Thats how it works in India: all your "repeating" charge authorizations show up on a portal maintained by the issuing bank. All services that charge via these authorizations send a…

Google does this: 100% discount for upto 100K of usage the first year, and 25% discount upto 100K for the second year. But I disagree: I think what AWS does is a LOT better: credit…

Sigh. I have been kicking this horse forever as well: an "optimization" implies just a performance improvement. Tail call elimination, if it exists in a language, allows coding cer…

Given that the comparison function doesn't have the transitive property (if line a > line b and line b > line c that implies line a > line c), does this sort really work? The 'allp…