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   by kranner 3y ago

   I listened to much of the audiobook of Masters of Doom with the Nine Inch Nails Quake OST also playing in the background. It felt right.
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   by kranner 3y ago

   Michael Abrash's stuff is still worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20883860
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   by kranner 3y ago

   Sorry about that. Both Gemini and ChatGPT require logging in before being able to see shared chats. But here's a screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFeWLP_bMAA0nzD?format=jpg&name=...
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   by kranner 3y ago

   Gemini seems much better than GPT-4 in image understanding. Here's a test I did trying to read Persian from an image: https://chat.openai.com/c/bc45cc9c-fd19-4359-9096-3936d4d17a... https://gemini.googl
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   For one, it depends which definition of "true meditation" you're thinking of. Adyashanti has a method he calls "True Meditation", which is in the "do nothing" class of techniques but it has a not-doing kin
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   by kranner 3y ago

   It sounds like what we call "timepass" in Indian English, and also loan in other Indian languages. It's a very popular word and has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary as well.
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   by kranner 3y ago

   His podcast is sponsored by Athletic Greens. He has promoted their product in every single episode that I've listened to. That's a bit more than sometimes.
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   by kranner 3y ago

   And Portuguese colonialism. Practically all modern Punjabi food from makki to rajma is from South America.
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   by kranner 3y ago

   > I know I am the outlier of outliers and had more luck than anything else, but god damn don’t disdain others who are willing to sacrifice to give it a go. This is a red herring. Nobody is showing disdain for people who are forced to sle
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    by kranner 3y ago

    More than a step, this oversteps the mark by quite a bit. A human being shouldn't have to live in a space that small. I can't imagine it not screwing up anyone's mental health when just looking at a picture of it is giving me
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    by kranner 3y ago

    This is a popular question, turns out. https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
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    by kranner 3y ago

    The Cthulhu reference is funny because the common Asian name for this fruit is Buddha’s Hand.
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    by kranner 3y ago

    Another one is Beyond Vision by Allan Jones[1]. He dealt with it partially by cultivating an Advaita meditation practice. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36627585
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    by kranner 4y ago

    "The Freaking Article", possibly
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    by kranner 4y ago

    I've lived in India almost all my life and I've never heard of Ashwagandha being part of any of the traditional culinary systems of India. Cooking with Ashwagandha seems to be a recent Internet trend exclusively. Traditionally, as
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    by kranner 4y ago

    I asked it for references about Hafez Shirazi’s abandoned journey to India and it suggested a very specific Encyclopaedia Iranica entry which seemed perfect, and of course did not exist.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    > The very currency notes they introduced are ugly. Also, the paper is flimsy, the colour runs if you get them wet, and the visually-impaired can't tell them apart [1]. Classic BJP last-minute my-nephew-can-do-this-cheaper implement
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    by kranner 4y ago

    I don't know about Francophone countries, but in India business discussions are conducted in English, not Hindi. Also: > # यहाँ हम शून्य से शुरुआत करते हैं "Here we start from zero" > import random but then it imports
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Knowledge of annoying minutiae can be indispensable when you're trying to debug code that looks like it's calling the right functions based on the function signature.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Castro is also sluggish and crashes constantly, at least once your queue of unplayed episodes grows very long.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    I think GP meant the self-modifiable editor part
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    by kranner 4y ago

    disagreeable
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    by kranner 4y ago

    So if I call a Black person the N-word or address a Jewish person with an antisemitic slur, and this bothers them because it reminds them of how society has long dehumanised them and enslaved and murdered their peers simply for being born i
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Idée fixe, perhaps?
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Amazon India now offers weekly consolidation for many items with the occasional cashback incentive.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Lum with an M for anyone else who had trouble locating his channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherLum
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    by kranner 4y ago

    DEVONsphere Express, Recoll, also the latest major version of Calibre.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    Please don’t add edits to your comments without marking them after someone has already responded. It is considered poor etiquette. My problem is that Rajiv doesn’t get to decide whether someone is an insider or an outsider. The moment someo
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    by kranner 4y ago

    edit: not responding to the last paragraph which you added to your comment while I was typing in this response.
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    by kranner 4y ago

    I believe that English is sufficient to translate Sanskrit texts to a reasonable degree of accuracy (provided that care is taken to explain what terms mean, in particular terms that have an existing meaning in other cultural traditions whic