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rajesh-s

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About rajesh-s

Rajesh Shashi Kumar

Hey there! I'm a Computer Engineer interested in Computer Architecture, Systems and Economics.

Twitter: @rajesh_s_

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    Off topic but what tool did you use to create those cache hierarchy diagrams?

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    Ask HN: What are some usecases of real-time collaborative programming?

    Eg: repl.it Is the experience chaotic? Somewhat like letting the co-driver control the car simultaneously?

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    Ask HN: How to be careful with phishing and domain redirects?

    I came across this article today [1] where a popular journalist in India was tricked to think they had a job offer at a prominent University by an elaborate phishing scam. After th…

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    Thanks for pointing that out!

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    Right! Section 1.3 of this publication discusses possible mitigations for the row hammer problem and where ECC fits in https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/rowhammer-summary.pdf

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    Good point on the need for awareness! The industry has convinced the average user of consumer hardware that PPA (Power,Performance,Area) is all that needs to get better with genera…

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    Comment #25624104

    A whitepaper on DDR4 ECC by Micron that goes over some of the implementation challenges https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents...

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    Comment #25360907

    I thought ASML manufacturing was in Connecticut, USA? I heard this from Ian Cutress on his channel https://youtu.be/JyocuFlQmTc

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    Ask HN: What are your thoughts on link-based private GitHub/Gitlab repo sharing?

    I submitted a feature request to GitHub recently and was wondering if this really made sense. Two situations: 1. Academic courses (MOOCs included) require students not to publish p…

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    Ask HN: How do you backup your personal code repositories?

    Is mirroring a good option? (lets say mirror github repos to gitlab so that if you lost access to the former, you still would have your data). Local backups don't tend to be reliab…

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    Ask HN: What would happen if a tech giant like Alphabet Inc decided to shutdown?

    Have consolidated tech companies created a risk of single point of failure OR are they safe to be considered too big to fail? What would be the consequence of it on the internet as…

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    Comment #23890497

    I see you didn't mention Markdown. My solution for the last couple of years to this problem is to have all my notes organized into folder and .md files. A couple of advantages: - I…

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    Ask HN: How do you backup your independent projects from platforms like GitHub?

    I was just reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832437 and keep seeing this every once in a while. What flow do you follow to backup years or your projects from such…

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    Comment #23833671

    Do you know an example of this?

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    Ask HN: Do you find reading tech whitepapers conceptually useful?

    Or is it intended to be a product marketing brochure of sorts? For example, https://hubs.ly/H0r91td0 If you find them useful, do you have any tips for new students stepping into th…

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    Comment #23084140

    Humans have persistence. I guess that'll help them eventually get through using brute force.

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    Comment #22503224

    Another thing to note is that sparsity is being leveraged even to build a more efficient version of hardware. A good example of this is the Cerebras Waferscale chip that was announ…