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vivekv

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About vivekv

worked over 30 years in various technologies. My personal site at https://www.vivekv.info

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47197865

    Thats sad! For those looking to migrate out, I wrote this backup tool that pulls your note out of simplenote and uploads it to sqlite database. Hope this helps https://github.com/v…

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    Comment #46628008

    I would agree with this. There are definite challenges in grounded specifications today and the tendency for an LLM to go in tangents that is still a struggle that we all deal with…

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    Comment #45767133

    If you haven't seen this movie. An old one but good one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/plotsummary/

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    Comment #42592343

    This! I am not going to buy the next AI magic tool because of a cold mail. I don't even know I need it and I won't read a cold mail end to end if it starts like that. If I need som…

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    Comment #41899697

    Would anyone familiar with cuba know how much of household solar adoption and infrastructure exists in Cuba? While this won't solve a country level problem I am sure, I am thinking…

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    Comment #40887608

    I am definitely curious about a tool like this. I work with a lot of video streams and this collective knowledge of quirks might be useful as a QA tool

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    Comment #37899812

    I am neither a compiler writer or an OS guru. Just an old c programmer. In this article it looks like the entire CPU instruction set was designed to emulate pdp11 to ensure c compa…

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    Comment #36795581

    Writing detailed reports from data Chatbots Education tools that remove the human element

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    Comment #36736215

    Whe. I first learned SQL on an oracle cli client I was told to type begin; then any other command. For a brief while until i learned about transactions, I assumed that it was part …

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    Comment #36678788

    So one job that has been 'taken over by ai' before it even started ?

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    Comment #36442229

    Thank you

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    Comment #35781155

    Says legal for use only in Europe

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    Comment #35410924

    I can completely relate to this article. I am 53 and caring for my 78 year old mum with dementia. While financial issues are not a challenge as we don't live in America. The emotio…

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    Comment #33950382

    Hopefully a gpt based summarizer of the t&c and point out to any nuanced items in there

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    Comment #33023292

    I don't quite understand the need for access and session token as a mechanism of expiring sessions. Can we create a signed JWT with the expiration in the body itself? Since it is s…

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    Comment #32954056

    The last line "Sent from my iPad" was quite fitting as a device that he conceptualized :-)

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    Comment #32287235

    Wall of fire... Cracked me up

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    Comment #31705692

    brilliant!

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    Comment #31423295

    For now app passwords

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    Comment #31295454

    The Reserve Bank of India new rules that have been open for implementation for over an year came into effect. Bottom-line no auto debits more than 5000 rupees a month without conse…

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    Comment #31182354

    Good question. I don't know. Just seems to be that way

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    Comment #31182233

    India has a large coast where evaporative cooling doesn't work. Only in central India it is an option.

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    Comment #31182182

    We cover up when we go out never expose to the sun Drink a lot of water to stay hydrated Eat more carbs and less fat and protein Drink a lot of buttermilk

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    Comment #31109283

    Have you checked the IP address of the traffic. If it is a VPN some crypto kiddie playing with tools. If it is binance property i would be surprised.