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the hand plane vs. the electric plane may not be the right metaphor. It will be more like one hand plane vs. another. Just because it is a "great big" company pushing it with all t…

I agree with this point. It is about being a craftsman esp. the point about if it is part of your KVP or not. In addition to this, if you do have the skills of doing it, then you c…

So essentially a double entry ledger is a state machine with the movement between every state being recorded. Is this a good abstraction?

Very interestingly, I just got the following WhatsApp message in my College group that kinda resonated with this. Take this as you will: True Gratitude How should it be A warm even…

There's OpenCL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL - this BTW, also runs on NVIDIA GPUs too... OpenCL is completely open (source) and so why wouldn't we, all of us, throw our weig…

I'm sorry but IBM has moved out of (Software) products and currently only does IT services. Its revenue (from Software) is completely tied to $/hour that it can earn from its contr…

(I'm trying to understand this from a DR/fault tolerance perspective). Have any of you seen any impact to your computing and network systems. If yes: * what kind of impact (please …

Does having a "Wall of Shame" make sense? Basically put details on a shared google sheet with names, details etc., so that: a. Other freelancers can avoid them. b. They know about …

I have a similar issue using a (non-google) videoconferencing tool on Firefox. It is very irritating that I have to switch browsers (both Konqueror and Chrome work) just for my VC …

I agree and I think this difficulty should be recognized and made so earlier rather than later. The US should sanction India, it is a better way to go.

I disagree with this. We have a lot of people dissenting within India. They are not tied down except for counterattacks on social media by people who disagree with them - which to …

Strongly recommend reading Mom Test: https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone-...

Thank you.

:-(( All this stuff - What happens when... is really nice. I know it. The problem is: I've been trying to cut sugar (forget eliminate) out of my diet for YEARS. 2 days into not hav…

Having been on the "other side" of the table, I can kinda answer this. In my experience, the interviewees who talk too much are the bullshitters (in fact that's a red flag). They u…

Been there. let's look at some of the reasons of the burnout: 1. You are not a 20 year old anymore. 2. Been there, done that so many times. 3. You got a kid AND (obviously) a partn…

The feeling I get from the article AND some of the comments here is that the Palestinians / Hamas did nothing but to sit and wait for Israel to invade & bomb Gaza to dust. It is co…

The amount is really measly (a couple of million GBP per year). I came across this calculation that ISRO earned something like 330M GBP over the past 9 years from it's 3rd party sa…

Water!!! With drying rivers, increasing pollution, potable water for humans, flora and fauna is becoming a key necessity. The other side of this increasing pollution - this dramati…

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/class-10-syllabus-change-now... and of course https://twitter.com/ncert/status/1664321985709744128 Fake news. These topics are covered in the releva…

:-P ChatGPT?

Disagree - this is unsubstantiated and worthy of an Elon Musk style of how he stripped that BBC reporter down. If they were the targets, Journalists, dissidents would have complete…

Even "somewhat effective" is better than no ban. Given the state of terrorism in some parts, this is a crucial tool. For example in the aftermath recent terrorist bombing in Pulwam…