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New comment by hereiskkb in "ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle"

hereiskkb — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 08:47:16 +0000

Aside from the obvious fact that nations can spend money on multiple objectives at the same time, the real un-intelligence comes from suggesting that the people of the country actively involved in various civil programs are somehow incapable of taking care of their problems. Are you insinuating that they are perhaps inferior and need rescuing? Because India has seen how that goes very personally before.

Azure customers running Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 experiencing DNS errors

hereiskkb — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:02:56 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649273

Points: 28

# Comments: 11

Compiling C to WebAssembly and Running It – Without Emscripten

hereiskkb — Thu, 12 May 2022 15:22:03 +0000

Article URL: https://depth-first.com/articles/2019/10/16/compiling-c-to-webassembly-and-running-it-without-emscripten/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31355493

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hereiskkb in "Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel"

hereiskkb — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:09:25 +0000

Yet.

Ask HN: Is it possible to have client discovery without a server?

hereiskkb — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:26:29 +0000

Hi Folks,

Is there a way to do client discovery without a identity server?

I know of Distributed Hash Tables to be a way to implement this. But are there any alternative ways to do this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290666

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Bringing Mars back to Earth (2020)

hereiskkb — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:54:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53553623

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983832

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Steve Yedlin has a plan to end the film-vs-digital debate

hereiskkb — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-debate-movies-cinematography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788992

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hereiskkb in "Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors"

hereiskkb — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:00:16 +0000

Can confirm. It is pretty abhorrent how widespread this practice is in India.

IMO, the practice ought to be made unlawful. Medicine is a life-critical sector. As such regulations need to be the tightest around it.

Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?

hereiskkb — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:58:14 +0000

In relation to the Technological and Geo-political landscape.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21331191

Points: 81

# Comments: 91

New comment by hereiskkb in "Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO"

hereiskkb — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:48:32 +0000

For good reason too.

New comment by hereiskkb in "Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO"

hereiskkb — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:47:37 +0000

> Overpromising and underdelivering is not fraud.

It is. That's like saying selling a Merc with a Suzuki Swift engine inside is not fraud.

New comment by hereiskkb in "Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO"

hereiskkb — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:45:23 +0000

Yep. It is. Fraud across the spectrum.

New comment by hereiskkb in "Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO"

hereiskkb — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:44:28 +0000

That is just whataboutism. "What about this field?" "What about that cos?"

All of it is fraud. Regardless. Promising results with the intention of not sticking to it is fraud.

New comment by hereiskkb in "Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO"

hereiskkb — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:48:17 +0000

Maybe. But profitability does not imply "pristine".

New comment by hereiskkb in "Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand"

hereiskkb — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 05:26:31 +0000

Yes, the industry does not care about Rubik's cube and Go. The industry, however, would not exist in the first place if not preceded by researchers on equivalent endevours that would make zero monetary sense on first look. Markets are created by those that can envision one with the given technology. No matter how incredulous the technology might look like.

New comment by hereiskkb in "The one who kept VLC free"

hereiskkb — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:11:31 +0000

That's some baseless assertions if ever there were any. Gimp, Inkscape, VLC, Blender. All open source, all used by enthusiasts and professionals all over the world. Maybe not in the same quantity as that of their open source counterparts, but used by enough people to be counted nonetheless. When it comes to VLC, I dare say, it might even beat its commercial counterparts.

Anatomy of a Posit Number

hereiskkb — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:43:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/11/anatomy-of-a-posit-number/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20642824

Points: 20

# Comments: 3

New comment by hereiskkb in "Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M"

hereiskkb — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:49:10 +0000

You seem to have the notion that only the big studios should be allowed to produce games. What's considered shitty varies from person to person, and is purely subjective. This is what happens with democratization of any technology. People will try and do whatever they can with it. Sometimes it will be gold. Most times it will be garbage. Shut out the garbage, and you won't get the gold.

New comment by hereiskkb in "India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try"

hereiskkb — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:23:15 +0000

Is there no other way to do things other than stealing? India's space program goes back to the late 60s. When faced with technology sanctions from the United States, they studied up the fundamentals, researched by trial and error and learnt from the mistakes and sucesses of other bigger space organizations. They know their limits, in terms of budget and governmental support. But they've persisted and continuously pushed their own limits, come up with the most efficient ways of achieving missions. Ex, Mangalyaan, Chandrayaan 1 and now the Chandrayaan 2. India has even launched a constellation of its own Positioning System of Satellites, the IRNSS, which is yet to be comissioned into public use.

In short, ISRO has simply learnt to be efficient and adaptive. Relied extensively on first principles and fundamentals. It is an really inspiring story of ingenuity and innovation. More "discovered and developed" than "acquired".

New comment by hereiskkb in "India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try"

hereiskkb — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:22:44 +0000

Not again with this. This is comparing peanuts to oranges. Two completely separate domains, with their own requirements and goals.

If you need to compare then compare it with costs of other missions. And even then it would be unfair, as almost no two space missions have the exact same requirements, goals and parameters.