rational_indian
rational_indian on Hacker News
Re:eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into...
on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:51PM (#48986834)
We never had Carrier locked phones. This seems to be a US only problem.
Re:China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to Ame...
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:39PM (#43225319)
Yes, and I can attest they treated me well.
Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:34PM (#43225255)
Buy a CD burner and make your own CDs! Much easier.
Re:The Zizians
on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:19PM (#42902459)
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Re:Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:36PM (#42592436)
This is exactly what happened.
Re:Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
on Thursday December 26, 2024 @04:48PM (#42518111)
TIL the traditional Indian kalash is a bell beaker.
Re:Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and ot...
on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:25PM (#42457033)
What is the average lifespan of a logitech gaming mouse? I bought 3 over the years and the average life span has been around 2 years.
Re:Florida mother files lawsuit against AI company over teen son's death
on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @06:24PM (#41929806)
Yeah it implies the chatbot at some point said you can unite with it after death. There's no evidence of that in the article.
Re:Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds
on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @06:15PM (#41929751)
Can't read on mobile. Why do these people still use hard line breaks?
Re:Florida mother files lawsuit against AI company over teen son's death
on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @06:01PM (#41929639)
Does not make sense. I think the chatbot is a red herring.
Re:AMD EPYC Turin delivers better performance/power efficiency than Am...
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:36AM (#41817820)
LOL. So you want everyone to become skillful in using weasel words? Spoken like a true weasel.
Re:Hacker Leaks 3.3B Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique
on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:33AM (#41616955)
Why would anyone assume Hacker news titles are maximally interesting? In practice they often aren't. I am with the OP on this one.
Also 3.3 billion unique emails are strictly more interesting than just the addresses since an email includes adresseses and a subject line by definition.
Re:Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel
on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:25PM (#41612456)
How can this pass when NVIDIA failed to take over ARM?
Re:More than a week without power leaves Houston-area residents feelin...
on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:07AM (#41025630)
41 deg C
Re:I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything
on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:33PM (#40978530)
Cargo is just half the story. The other half is rust itself. It is an excellent language for writing abstractions.
Re:I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything
on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:43AM (#40974930)
That's the problem with C. It cannot have a sane cargo like system. The language is not built for writing libraries. There is a reason why everyone keeps reinventing the wheel when it comes to datastructures in C. Where is STL for C?
Re:Wind and solar are 'fastest-growing electricity sources in history'
on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:15AM (#40854842)
+1 use the fusion reactor in the sky. We probably won't need one on earth afterall.
Re:The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:10PM (#40443421)
My effective rate of taxation is close to 40-50% here in India. I doubt I get one tenth the benefit. Rampant corruption, abysmal infrastructure, no rule of law...I could go on.
Re:A promising 3-terminal diode for wireless comm. and optically drive...
on Monday May 20, 2024 @04:26PM (#40419904)
Technically it is a triode but that word would be misleading here since this device is more like a diode with a MOSFET like insulated gate.
Re:The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bom...
on Thursday May 16, 2024 @02:22PM (#40381534)
Off topic: why is Aristotle held in such high regard? Isn't he the person who got almost everything wrong?
Re:Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:21AM (#40178560)
Okay, so I was wrong. You can get multiple harmonics if you use a long enough chain of inverters. I will simplify the paper mentioned in a sibling comment. In a long chain at any given point of time certain (variable number of) pairs of inverters drop in and out of the circuit changing the total propagation delay, giving rise to multiple harmonics. You'll have to read the paper for details.
Re:Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:59PM (#40171695)
Interesting, would have loved to read the paper. Unfortunately I don't have an IEEE subscription right now.
Re:Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:26AM (#40168562)
First look up Barkhausen criteria, then read the following. For ring oscillators gain will be greater than unity for only those waves whose period matches the gate delay. Only one such wave exists since the gate delay is a fixed number.
Re:Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
on Friday April 26, 2024 @04:04AM (#40166910)
>Could you have a few different-sized square waves continue to cycle through the circuit?
No.
Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet
on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:14AM (#39988615)
I think American houses don't have a power switch per outlet like the rest of the world. The only way some (most?) devices can be turned off is by pulling the cord.
Re:So Google's Gemini Doesn't Like Python Programming and Sanskrit?
on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:02PM (#39505304)
I know decorators can be used to auto-memoise function arguments but I've never heard of @lru_cache for python.
Re:Kirei is a work-in-progress keyboard library written in Zig
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:39PM (#39198142)
Why do we need this? What problem does it solve?
>> Kirei is a keyboard library that you feed inputs to (which keys are pressed) and get outputs from (HID reports) ... It's not just a keyboard firmware
This looks like a repeat of the nodejs leftpad situation but this time it's for keyboard firmware.
Re:India's courts to rule on who invented butter chicken
on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:12AM (#39139419)
The pav is actually pronounced as pao sometimes.
Re:Physics of 300-year-old firefighting methods could inform how our h...
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:07PM (#39126101)
How much electronics do Med school students have to learn about?
Re:GitHub Having Issues Today
on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:34AM (#38928091)
I sure hope so. But realistically AI will thin the devops herd much more rapidly than "proper" development teams. I already use an LLM to crank out my configs, shell scripts, analyse my logs etc. LLMs are a lot better at these things than full fledged development. I think I am now able to do in days what it would have taken me weeks. My employer does not need to hire as many devops people as it would have pre LLMs.
As you can see you don't need to give AI write access to your production environment.