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New comment by flik in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

flik — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:12:00 +0000

Yes this is better than upload the entire photo. Just like virus scan can be done entirely on device, can flagging be local?. If homeomorphic encryption allows similarity matching, does not seem entirely private. Can people be matched?

New comment by flik in "Perf Is Not Enough"

flik — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:43:11 +0000

>> "The caveat to this rule, of course, is that architectural differences are hard to overcome. Shared nothing databases are at a disadvantage vs shared disk, and it took Redshift many years to switch to a primarily shared disk architecture. Lakehouses that rely on persisting metadata to an object store will have a hard time with rapid updates; this is built into the model."

Looking for good literature on this topic

New comment by flik in "Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight"

flik — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:40:17 +0000

Google tax. Why such patterns are not outlawed?

New comment by flik in "Selfie – A tiny RISC-V C compiler, emulator and hypervisor"

flik — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:48:55 +0000

Checking out further... Related course (https://cksystemsteaching.github.io/CS4All/) and book (https://github.com/ckirsch/book)

New comment by flik in "I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government"

flik — Sun, 01 May 2022 13:04:20 +0000

I read this as 173.12 of remaining savings "to invest" (and not entire savings)

New comment by flik in "Amazon driver quits over AI-powered safety cameras in delivery vehicles"

flik — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:18:04 +0000

"Netradyne provides cutting-edge technologies in AI, ML and Edge Computing to help reduce accidents by creating a new safe driving standard for commercial vehicles. Our industry solutions reduce driving incidents and protect against false claims"

https://www.netradyne.com/

New comment by flik in "India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi"

flik — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:08:13 +0000

Agree.

I have a BSNL net connection (with reliability going down from good to worse). Being public sectore, Central govt is accountable for BSNL quality.

The way BSNL value is/was destroyed to promote Reliance... is now repeating elsewhere.

New comment by flik in "India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi"

flik — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 06:52:28 +0000

You missed to mention towers destroyed is only of Jio (primary beneficiary of these laws is parent company Reliance)

New comment by flik in "Cloudflare data still in Bing caches"

flik — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 06:22:29 +0000

>>While I am thankful to the Project Zero team for their informing us of the issue quickly, I'm troubled that they went ahead with disclosure before Google crawl team could complete the refresh of their own cache.

Why the help was not 100% appreciated...

New comment by flik in "Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided"

flik — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:17:30 +0000

>>Strictly saying this is confirming behavior as we don't give any guarantees about scheduler (just like any other language, e.g. C++). This can be explained as "the goroutine is just not scheduled".

Not a GO developer. On a multi-processor machine, how is this a conforming behavior? Is "scheduler cannot give any guarantees" acceptable?

New comment by flik in "Practical Deep Learning for Coders"

flik — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 01:26:07 +0000

>>you need access to a computer with an Nvidia GPU, along with a python-based deep learning stack set up on it.

Is NVidia GPU a must have... can I workaround?

New comment by flik in "How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud"

flik — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 02:35:34 +0000

>>If one of the hosts delays writing to the journal, then the rest of the fleet is waiting for that operation alone, and the whole file system is blocked. When this happens, all of the hosts halt, and you have a locked file system; no one can read or write anything and that basically takes everything down.

I have seen similar issues where a GC pause on one server, freeze the entire cluster.

Is this one single monolithic file system? On the service side, can the code be asynchronous with request queues for each shard? This can help free up threads from getting blocked and serve requests for other shards.

New comment by flik in "Visual Basic Turns 25"

flik — Tue, 24 May 2016 00:46:33 +0000

VB6 is still used in Indian Schools to teach programming. And it definitely is simpler than VB.NET for newbies.