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shukantpal

206 karma · joined January 29, 2021

Infra @ Meta. Previously Teamflow, Lindy. Building agentic companies GitHub.com/impalasys/talon
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shukantpal··on Zoom was down
If you're looking for an alternative, look at Teamflow https://www.teamflowhq.com − but it's a lot more! (Disclaimer: I work there)
shukantpal··on Offline Documentation with Webdoc
webdoc is a documentation generator for JS / TS and now the sites it generates can be cached offline with the click of a button! I go through how I did it in this post.
shukantpal··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
You provide no points to refute my statement. Being bounded between 0% and 100% is irrelevant, unless you think only 100% efficient is not inefficient - which would be absurd due to the impossibility of obtaining an “efficient” label.
shukantpal··on We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
That question assumes the default state is they didn’t exist already
shukantpal··on DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
Lmao show the numbers then. Is the cost of printing 75% of the newspaper- probably not.
shukantpal··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
“Efficient” is a relative comparison. Any absolute threshold would be arbitrary anyway
shukantpal··on The Merge
False. The problem is so complex we have to resort to guessing / brute force to solve it; if it's so easy, give me a closed-form solution so I can become rich.
shukantpal··on Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
I’m wondering if for these extreme use cases a bare metal program that doesn’t sit on top of a OS / kernel would be substantially more efficient.
shukantpal··on Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
Not really safer

"There is no chargeback right however, which can be considered a disadvantage for the consumer using this payment method."

shukantpal··on Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
The question was philosophical not legal. You missed the point.
shukantpal··on The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators
Are you including the cost of battery storage in solar & wind power generation for 24 / 7 power output? Otherwise Nuclear power is of higher quality since it can be sustained virtually at any time unlike solar & wind
shukantpal··on Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
>> Should auto-manufacturers be liable for emissions produced by cars that have had their catalytic converters stolen?

> This is an interesting hypothetical, but I don't see the relevance

That's your willing ignorance, and on the 2nd point too.

shukantpal··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
No. Backend itself has that same tooling (compiler / build toolchain) and even that isn’t infra.
shukantpal··on VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
The reason the latter is immoral is because common sense tells us no rational person would enter a contract to slavery under reasonable circumstances. That is not true for software.
shukantpal··on Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide
> Nah. You're an (extreme) edge case.

False.

shukantpal··on How to stop junk mail
Cringe way to say 21st century
shukantpal··on VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
Yes and? Not a remotely fair comparison.
shukantpal··on Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors
Why are you ignoring the regional differences & the other stuff listed above those points in that post?
shukantpal··on Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212M CEO pay
The commies are here to give an actual argument, finally. Won't somebody listen to them?
shukantpal··on Index funds officially overtake active managers
I'm not a one off 786.
shukantpal··on Index funds officially overtake active managers
That's a foolish idea, happy to know it's from a one off.
shukantpal··on Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”
That only makes sense if you pay double for using double the packets on another day
shukantpal··on Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
I guess to an outsider they don’t seem invasive. I didn’t realize they were invasive like surgeries
shukantpal··on U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts
Approximately drop by 50% if existing rates are near zero. That's because a 10% yield will double your money when a 10y bond matures. So existing bonds have to halve to double your money in the same way.
shukantpal··on ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
No it wouldn’t be ridiculous because both the sender and receiver are customers here
shukantpal··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
False. If you have 100 features, there are nCr(100, 5) combinations of 5% features = 75287520.
shukantpal··on Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’
It actually doesn't require you to charge more than you want.

It only requires you to charge IF you want to do something that requires you to (global popularity). Having music globally "available" has no cost, I suspect you are referring to globally popular music. And I think it makes sense for that cost to be beared by the artist since they are the one benefitting and desiring it anyway; no point in asking other people (record labels / travel industry) to do that service for free.

shukantpal··on Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space
Tesla does not need to justify it's valuation. That's set by shareholders.
shukantpal··on Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses
Probably because customers aren’t going to malls for a short trip and taking 5-10 mins extra to park isn’t a big deal compared to them going to a small shop for 5 mins and getting out of there.
shukantpal··on Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’
It is compatible − capitalism doesn't require you to profit more than you want.
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