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sanxchit

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    Comment #39782620

    I've used WinMerge, its very different from the above tool because its still a text diff. It often gets the diffs wrong when multiple lines are involved. Take this trivial C# examp…

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    Comment #39780875

    What an amazing tool, wish it had a GUI version as well.

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    Comment #30192764

    Leela Chess Zero is the open source successor of Alpha Zero, and has been the second strongest engine (except a few times where it bested stockfish) for the last few years. [1] htt…

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    Comment #24731450

    While I agree with the point you made, I want to point out that the fatality rate for driving an automobile is much lower than 1 in a 1000. In the United States, the number of fata…

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    Comment #20074993

    Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv

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    Comment #19873802

    Having worked with databases for a while, SQL seems to be useful because it forces you to think about how your data is structured. To me SQL is a thin wrapper around the relational…

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    Comment #19649888

    Great writeup on data migrations. I was wondering whether you did a comparison for this method vs using AWS snowball[1] to export S3 Data and B2 Fireball[2] to ingest it. [1] - htt…

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    Comment #19593724

    Skimming through the recipes, it seems to be mostly meat-based dishes. I would like to see a similar cookbook with plant based alternatives.

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    Comment #19082405

    You can definitely build a fully functional web app using just serverless. For an example, take a look at https://acloud.guru . Where I work, we almost exclusively use serverless, …

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    Comment #18892224

    You're not alone. I forced myself to read through half the book before asking myself what was the point of solving essentially leetcode style problems using only tail-end recursion…

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    Comment #18689846

    Running functions in a VPC cause them to have cold starts of ~5 seconds. Connection pools need to be centralized to be of any use, since lambdas scale automatically.

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    Comment #17476244

    Pardon my ignorance, but how is it possible to track Bitcoin holders? I thought that it was really easy to create multiple Bitcoin addresses, so if a rich miner wanted to hide his …