gcells

Re:Dating in Delhi when you're poor on Saturday August 07, 2021 @03:03AM (#28096435)

I suppose this was an ancient way to ensure genetic diversity and prevent pregnancy losses. There is already quite a bit of evidence that consanguinity leads to miscarriages [0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/jp2011115

Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:02AM (#27131151)

Like most people, I use both. Email however has better tooling IMO around high volumes. IM starts becoming a problem once you reach volumes of ~2K messages per day.

As soon as you have few hundred channels or groups in non business oriented messengers like whatsapp, missing critical/important messages cannot be avoided. Skipping certain lists/groups, training your spam filter etc is at least available when you use email.

Re:Causes of Vaginal Discharge on Saturday June 01, 2019 @03:05AM (#20067754)

Not the author, just the submitter. Would be happy to loop in the author if the discussion picks up.

Re:Ask HN: Large number of function arguments in Python on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:21AM (#19980350)

Thanks, will look into it!

Ask HN: Large number of function arguments in Python

Posted by gcells on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi all,So I am working on a python application that can take its input as cli args and as a JSON string. The number and type of arguments is the same for both.I have a function, lets call it _main that is coordinating with other modules that needs all these parameters as input. Currently I am passing ~15 arguments to _main. It looks nasty, and I believe there are better ways to accomplish...

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Re:Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment? on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:52AM (#19977883)

Well I don't own it but have access to a copy from my office library. I must say that reading it cover to cover is time taking but if you use it as a reference to lookup algorithms and stuff, it is really enlightening.

Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Google Services? on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:30AM (#19958695)

Play Store -> F-droid, yalp

yalp is a wrapper around google playstore. Handy if you need to install apps not available on F-Droid and not install from apk.

Re:South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry on Sunday May 19, 2019 @03:36AM (#19951995)

Boss Linux developed by CDAC comes to mind https://www.bosslinux.in/

Although the penetration is quite low. The project looked stalled few years back, seems like they are back again. Last release is dated 28.8.2018

Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify on Sunday May 19, 2019 @03:29AM (#19951970)

Well Netlify does give you an option to add custom headers, redirects etc. Add CDN and cache busting along with branch deploys, that's something you cannot do with gitlab pages or github pages. Also github pages takes a long time to get live for the first time (at least it did for me).

Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud p... on Sunday May 19, 2019 @03:15AM (#19951919)

I've used a lot of ASUS desktop boards and never have been disappointed. However I have heard that they stop pushing BIOS updates for older boards. Have you faces such an issue?

My current HP home-server has been with me for ~10years

Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud p... on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:41AM (#19938561)

I am planning on making a home-server. Any suggestions for EPYC boards?