OTC CatchUp #159 Summary

Harsh Kapadia shared an Instagram Reel on how we need to use conformation bias to look at things positively rather than negatively.

Harsh Kapadia talked about Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) Parameters.

Harsh Kapadia shared a list of the top 500 Supercomuters.

Mohit Gangwani talked about display panel technologies TN, IPS and VA.

We talked about Display Port vs HDMI.

Industrial communication protocols

Kartik Soneji talked about how helpful Text Fragments are, as they help with highlighting the most important parts of a web page.

Harsh Kapadia shared The high-stakes war on AdBlockers in reference to Google confirming that they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024.

Harsh Kapadia mentioned that Wireguard can be used to create one’s own Virtual Private Network (VPN).

AMD Threadripper

Kartik Soneji told us about OpenStack, a set of open source software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure and about LocalStack, a service that allows local simulation, development and testing of Cloud services before actual infrastructure deployment on the Cloud.

We talked about Internationalis(z)ing Code.

Kartik Soneji told us Why You Can’t Name A File CON In Windows.

Kartik Soneji explained the differences and intricacies between Hard Links and Soft/Symbolic Links (Symlinks).

We all were surprised to learn from Kartik Soneji that the touch command in Linux that most people use to create a new file is actually used to change file access and modification timestamps to the current system timestamp! touch just creates new file if the file didn’t already exist!

We talked about Dithering and Anti-Aliasing.

Kartik Soneji poked fun at Harsh Kapadia for forgetting that a NULL character is represented by 0x00 and not 0x0A(which represents a Line Feed character).

We talked about CPU bound vs I/O bound tasks.

Harsh Kapadia shared his experimentation with Badger 2040, where he wrote small scripts to display profiles and marquee names across the screen.