Hacker News: vaishaksuresh

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution"

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:58:30 +0000

I don't have the requirement of owning my data and I've solved this in a simpler way.

1. Create a shared family calendar 2. For things that need to block work calendar, invite my work email to the event.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight: study"

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:28:02 +0000

Do you mind sharing what treadmill you use?

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2"

vaishaksuresh — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:53:34 +0000

I've opened 200+ panes across 3 monitors, broadcast to all of them to update a configuration and saved. That saved me a lot of time, either building automation or ssh-ing to all of them one by one.

I don't know an easy way to do it in Terminal.app

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel"

vaishaksuresh — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 03:00:07 +0000

I know a lot of people use One Note, might be worth considering. My use-case is not that heavy right now, so just it is just notes for me at the moment.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:19:05 +0000

I took all my grad school notes and audio recordings in Evernote. I even paid for additional storage. Then they decided to abandon loyal customers and charge subscription for just syncing additional devices. I've since moved to the notes app. One less subscription for me.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update"

vaishaksuresh — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:44:49 +0000

Everything, including apps. Although, recently YouTube has been bad for me. Earlier i would almost never see ads on YouTube. I just pay Hulu more, so I've not tested that.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update"

vaishaksuresh — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:32:23 +0000

Look into PiHole. That is what I have, some ads still get through, but for the most part, ads are blocked across the network.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports"

vaishaksuresh — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 03:22:35 +0000

Works only for US citizens and Permanent Residents.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers"

vaishaksuresh — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 02:08:26 +0000

I am a paying customer for multiple streaming service. I pay more for ad-free experience on Hulu. My problem is not with Ads, my problem is with Tracking, which is not the same. That is what I was saying, not endorsing ad blockers.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:28:23 +0000

Ads and Tracking are two different things. Just because you don't see ads related to the tracked data in spotify does not mean that information is not used by the third party elsewhere.

If pay spotify and you listen to metallica, you might not get ads on spotify, but you might get a link to Metallica merchandise on another website.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:35:46 +0000

Agreed, we regularly do 500+ MB/s bytes out on 12 broker cluster and we've tested more than twice that. We've seen brokers handle close to 5GB/s before performance degraded.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:30:55 +0000

As it stands today, AWS' managed kafka is very limited. Single region and no TLS is a non-starter for a lot of places.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:32:30 +0000

Have some perspective man! in the bigger scheme of things, one user does not matter to Apple. Buy what works for you.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff"

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:23:58 +0000

It isn't pointless whitespace. There is an iframe there that isn't probably loading

Code: https://imgur.com/vKskTnz

Iframe Contents: https://imgur.com/x0WqzmI

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff"

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:06:55 +0000

The type that offers no facts and gives anecdotal evidence to support the opinion?

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store"

vaishaksuresh — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:16:45 +0000

Works for everything that goes through your router if you set your router's DNS to be the piHole's IP.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store"

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 31 May 2018 16:32:22 +0000

In my home network, I run https://pi-hole.net on a Raspberry Pi that is plugged into a USB port in the wall where it can't be seen. Almost all generic ads are blocked and those that do get through can easily be blacklisted. No need for any help from Apple/Google/Amazon. I wish I could somehow make it portable.

US to impose limits on some Chinese visas

vaishaksuresh — Thu, 31 May 2018 00:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/82a98fecee074bfb83731760bfbce515

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17192968

Points: 9

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New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter"

vaishaksuresh — Wed, 23 May 2018 21:55:03 +0000

Yay personal attacks! There is a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole on tv/radio/twitter. The only way LBJ was same as Trump would be, if LBJ went on TV everyday and yelled profanity and called people names. Because that is what Trump does when he rage-tweets every morning.

New comment by vaishaksuresh in "Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter"

vaishaksuresh — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:09:04 +0000

He is many things, but honest isn't one of them.