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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 - goog…

>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 m…

My question to self is - retire to do what?

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 proble…

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 so…

Yes, show me what it does before asking to register.

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 typi…

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 t…

Live and learn - now you know the risk involved and cannot escape by saying you did not know.

>“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 han…

So, in essence, the single entry bookkeeping will be sound if the change is not allowed?

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 o…

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 othe…

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?

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…

Is fidelity outage related to this as well?

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 whic…

Kudos for imagining and naming a law in your own name and posting here.

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 desig…

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 distribu…

Please don't post the paywalled articles. It just irritates me that I need to pay just to read one posted link here.

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 ever…

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 s…