__rito__

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   by __rito__ 2mo ago

   Agree with the general spirit of the piece, but the examples that he gave create more problem than solving problems. > A fitness app that sizes my smoothie to that morning's run I don't feel I need more than the phone's ca
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   by __rito__ 2mo ago

   That is true. But you can rise above it, or choose to ignore it. If not, then it is not the right group. I have been part of groups with vile internal power struggles, politics. I never ever took part. Was okay. Maybe there is a threshold s
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   by __rito__ 2mo ago

   > 4. Be part of bigger things > Being part of bigger things makes us feel valued. Find communities and projects to be part of. Start your own. It could be online or in the real world. Make sure the groups don't get politically ac
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   by __rito__ 2mo ago

   What you are saying is true. But YouTube/FB algorithms are deliberately skewed towards regular posters. It's like your content of love that you produce once or twice a month won't be shown to the users at all. Where do I get
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   by __rito__ 2mo ago

   Don't tell that to Indians! A lot of humans are named "Santosh". :x Unlike in the West, naming one's dog after someone's name is considered an insult. "I will have a pet dog named after you" is insult thro
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   Practical Human Interface Examples (1996) [pdf](cs.stanford.edu)

   3 points by __rito__ 3mo ago|0 comments
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   by __rito__ 3mo ago

   From the site's "About" section: > "Ergo is a nonprofit that publishes long-form philosophical lecture courses with leading scholars. Everything we publish is freely available, without ads or paywalls." I know
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   by __rito__ 3mo ago

   One sentence I heard somewhere wraps up the totality of computing: "If Mathematics is the 'what', Computer Science is the 'how'" . This applies to each and everything.
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   by __rito__ 3mo ago

   > Lately I've been spending time learning Scheme and using it to implement the concepts I'm learning in my physics classes as time permits. There is a whole book for that: Learn Physics with Functional Programming A Hands-on Gu
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    I spoke in the context of supercomputer clusters, and usage in scientific HPC.
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    I was in Gray Scott School for HPC last week, and even in scientific usage, CPU-only cases, AMD is still a pain point. Many tools and libraries don't have first class AMD support or any support at all. It loses to Intel in CPU, and N
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    My country only recently switched to 4-year undergrad for all streams. Previously, only Engineering had it (not counting professional degrees like Medicine, Accountancy, etc.)
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    GaTech only permits OMSCS if you have a 4 year undergrad. In many countries undergrads are three years. Even you have a Master's, that is also not counted. 4 years undergrad or nothing.
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    If this is not bad faith argument, then I don't what is. When someone is violating an OSS licence, they are doing it for commercial gains and monetary profit. Nobody is angry at someone using FOSS software for himself with no money g
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    This is a great book if you already know good amount of Math. It helps you fit things into a bigger picture. Really appreciate the fact that something like this exists.
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Agree with that. But I also meant full-names. With so many Williams, Johns, Franks, Bens, etc. reading a novel with exotic names is just breath of fresh air. Also feel the same when watching non-English modern TV/web series. Like Nordi
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    Floating Point Math(0.30000000000000004.com)

    4 points by __rito__ 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Dostoevsky is surprisingly great to read. I first started with "Notes from Underground (1864)" and I found it a profound book. Then I read Brothers Karamazov, and it is one of those "great" books. I wrote my reflection
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Actually USSR pushed a lot of soft power and spent real money behind it. Especially the authors whose narratives didn't directly violate the narrative of the Party. Leftist parts of society looked up to USSR a lot, and a lot of humanit
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Russian stuff were translated into Bengali a lot in 1970s - especially works favoured in the USSR. I came across multiple translations of children's books, and loved reading them as a kid. My father and aunt read those in their childho
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    > The main difficulty is the names. The names make it so hard. I think that's an exciting part. When I am bored with names of similar kind, the names make the characters somewhat exotic. I don't know about you, but the name &qu
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    > The most overhyped literature ever Just because you aren't ready for it doesn't mean it's bad literature. That's basic. I really like Dostoevsky. He was really onto something. What he wrote was deep and meaningful a
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Coming from him, I am not sure even that is real. It could very easily (and plausibly) be a part of the ongoing hype drama. "Our models so precious, US Gov has to revoke access to foreigner." - tuned up version: "Our models s
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Okay, thanks. I get it. ATM cards are still safer than mobile based payments. Elderly fraud in the US, scam/fraud calls and digital arrests in India are made possible by social engineering attacks and duping people. For ATMs, if one ha
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    In many countries, at least some banks are nationalized. India’s biggest bank SBI (State Bank of India) is a PSU (Public Sector Undertaking). UPI still connects with bank accounts. My question was about something else: why EU doesn’t try an
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Wero isn’t a physical card if I am getting this right. RuPay is. You get a physical cc/dc with RuPay as provider instead of MC/Visa. If I am not missing something, Wero is not that. That is what I wanted to know: why not a traditi
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Is Wero something you can hold in your hands? RuPay is just like Visa/Mastercard in the sense you get physical cards that you can use at ATMs, use at ecomm sites, etc. Wero doesn’t seem to be that. Am I missing something? Does making a
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    Can someone tell me why the EU doesn’t develop something like RuPay? Indian UPI gets mentioned a lot, but when Visa, Mastercard didn't agree with data sovereignty rules among other rules, India quickly developed RuPay [0]. Now most deb
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    by __rito__ 3mo ago

    I have shipped with PaddleOCR to prod. Works pretty well. (Usage limited to printed documents in Anglosphere). Runs fully offline, in CPU.
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    Pixi: Fast, modern, and reproducible package management tool(pixi.prefix.dev)

    3 points by __rito__ 3mo ago|0 comments