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by gopalv 4y ago
I saw them in Whole Foods[1] this week, in their own store brand version. My friend who took it said it causes headaches in the beginning, but that either their tolerance picked up or it was just an initial effect of the supplement. The odd
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Come 10:30pm every night I'm falling asleep with no problem. I'd have said N=1 vs the study out there, but I too work with screens & LED lighting all the time & the "light spectrum" that affects me is not ex
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by gopalv 4y ago
The EV revolution is about saving the car industry from climate change, not saving the planet, but every little thing adds up when it comes to these technologies. The charge and range anxiety problems are basically early-adopter problems, b
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I can definitely see a point to making it Wednesday You probably agree a lot with CGP Grey on this video[1] I really liked when Cloudera did "unplug days" which basically threw in an extra day off every 3 weeks and a double
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I'm thinking it'll be more of a hybrid model, where you'll have a human in a fighter jet with an accompanying drone swarm The "Loyal Wingman" project is already underway to build that, though not as a swarm. h
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by gopalv 4y ago
> If you can be restored from simply doing a different task, then its not real burnout. > the only real solution is to disconnect So I was trying to deal with my dad's tragical slide into depression by convincing him that the mon
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by gopalv 4y ago
The whole "is Rust relevant" feels like that needs the Ousterhout "A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" graph[1] stapled to the same. I'm not sure what the y-intercept of Rust is, but its slope s
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by gopalv 4y ago
> her mother had taught her that naturally smart people don’t have to study. Of all the parts of the article, that little bit stands out. Because I see my older kid do that all the time, as if putting in effort to do something is somehow
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by gopalv 4y ago
> is having a well-calibrated sense of your future regret If there's a single thing you learn from experience is how you feel when things go poorly. Regret seems to need some sort of hope that if you could go back in time, you could
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Yet there are companies out there rejecting me for job descriptions which are only 50% of my skill set because I couldn’t code this obscure hard algorithms problem in 45 mins This is usually an odd thing that happens when you accidenta
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Part of me is tired of spending so much of my life in front of a computer. I left my job 2022 February to not sit in meetings and mostly be a preventer of bad engineering rather than a builder of good stuff. On a good day, I told peopl
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Would appreciate hearing from an expert about why this is a thing. Also, if the addresses are virtualized, why not take the memory savings that'd come with efficiently packing the addresses into only 48-bytes? Not an expert at all
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by gopalv 4y ago
> a lot of people fed up with Google and will be glad to try something different. I had to use DuckDuckGo to locate some mailing list threads (about an apache jira issue) which were clearly on Google at least a few years ago. So "h
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Procrastination is the art of avoiding the emotional pain that happens when you think about working on something you find distasteful or boring There's a whole other class of procrastination that sits in the ADHD spectrum, which i
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I still don't see jobs paying a tc of 250k+ for rust jobs. Those exist for cpp They are out there, though the "in Rust" is part of the footnote usually. I interviewed recently for a 350k+ job involving rust and the odd t
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by gopalv 4y ago
> they should check out Gorilla compression Gorilla is XOR compression which is better for timeseries where the metrics change smoothly from one to the next point, because it just XOR checks against the previous value. Floats should real
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by gopalv 4y ago
> wouldn't it be medicine? There's no diagnosis when you start treatment.
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Points (1) & (2) really contradicts the generalized solution approach So I was told this as bluntly as possible by someone 15 years ago - "you don't have to code all parts of your design". Every line of code you writ
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Counterintuitively, trying to be irreplaceable will hamper your ability to share information, power, and credit. Trying to be irreplaceable is bad enough, but imagine if you actually succeed in carving a niche out. Being irreplaceable
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I can start a business without an investment round, but not a startup? The answer around me seems to be that a startup comes out of an idea without the capital worked out. That the equity they have to offer is worth nothing, unless the
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I would expect to be paid higher rates for the energy I'm supplying to the grid than those I paid to charge it in the first place The Tesla VPP[1] model was 1$ KWH to send it back, better than Net Metering which should have paid
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by gopalv 4y ago
> They are testing for the kind of person that is willing to jump through hoops. That's true, but it is meant as a different filter when applied to a large number of candidates. I went through a bunch of leetcode style interviews la
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Reducing my caloric intake IF isn't really about reducing caloric intake as such. If I remember correctly Terry Crews eats something like 4000 calories during his window of eating, but fasts for the remaining 16 hours. That said,
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by gopalv 4y ago
> why would you use a garbage truck to plow snow? They're optimizing for trained drivers who can drive safely in the snow rather than hire two. For a dangerous job on snowy roads, I think the fewer people employed with better pay is
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by gopalv 4y ago
There's a lot of other theories in this thread, but the StringBuilder lock is what I can't get over from the stack traces. at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(java.base@17/AbstractStringBuilder.java:
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by gopalv 4y ago
> The studies do appear to show that smoking cigarettes is correlated with a lower probability of getting the Covid The problem is that non-smokers is not a single category of people, so the confounding factor for the correlation is &quo
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Rarely is an awesome individual magically called upon to become a manager, particularly by poor managers who are already messing stuff up There's a passage in Platos' Republic which is illuminating about this particular circu
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by gopalv 4y ago
> Choosing what to spend time is harder! I've realized that the boundaries have given me more discipline than when I had none. Before kids, mortgage and a work visa, I would just pick something up and spend 4-5 weeks on a single thi
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by gopalv 4y ago
This matches the rules south of the border and is probably the worst thing about expecting a bunch of land wars in Asia to break out in the next 20 years (Iran, Ukraine, Tibet, Korea, Taiwan etc). When my kid was born in the US, I got the s
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by gopalv 4y ago
> If you missed them, you had to wait a year. This is literally the intro section to Chuck Klosterman's Nineties - about the number of people who watched Seinfeld and those that missed it, just missed it. > There's a quality

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