msravi

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by msravi 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40003251
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Caltech restores standardized test requirement for undergraduate admission(caltech.edu)
45 points by msravi 2y ago|20 comments
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Harvard will require test scores for admission again(washingtonpost.com)
105 points by msravi 2y ago|187 comments
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The Craziest College-Admissions Season(nymag.com)
2 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead(hindustantimes.com)
7 points by msravi 3y ago|1 comments
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MH370 – how a pilot perfectly entombed plane and passengers beneath the ocean(thesun.co.uk)
3 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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Brown to Reinstate SAT/ACT Requirement for Class of 2029(old.reddit.com)
2 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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Yale to Require Standardized Test Scores for Admissions(nytimes.com)
33 points by msravi 3y ago|2 comments
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Using a 3-D Printer Nozzle to Fry Jalebis(twitter.com)
1 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 3y ago
> You're trying too hard to find issues. No. It's what I felt as I first read the article. > This is an article on British events on a British website. Of course. But it was posted on HN with an international audience. Perha
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by msravi 3y ago
I'll ignore the slight on critical thinking and point you to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394839 TLDR: 4 deliveries does not make the "per hour" derivable by critical thinking without further
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by msravi 3y ago
Very dependent on traffic and city, and I don't know what local conditions are like. In Bangalore, for example, making 2 deliveries in a radius of 4 km in an hour will be an achievement and 1 is likely to be the norm. So when the arti
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by msravi 3y ago
This article is so frustrating on data presentation: > To make the minimum national wage we have to make at least four deliveries, which is not as easy as it seems. On what timeline? Per hour? Per day? > Delivery Job UK claimed its de
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by msravi 3y ago
Not OP, but I switched to notable which also uses plain markdown.
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by msravi 3y ago
Earlier cameras did not have WiFi but used to have a local SD card onto which they'd record and overwrite. It would be dead simple (and inexpensive) to use such a camera with a buffer of a few days that would transmit using WiFi once a
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by msravi 3y ago
The "usage" tab allows you to set a euro value limit on each project for an email warning. I just use that. It isn't specific to egress, but total accumulated usage for the project.
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by msravi 3y ago
Hetzner with its ARM offering of 2xvCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB Storage, 20TB egress at EUR 3.79/mo is unbeatable value for a small-medium website.
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by msravi 3y ago
Here's hoping that "Windows 12" will be just a Window manager + Desktop running on Linux, with all existing bugs meticulously replicated to maintain backwards compatibility with Windows 95/7/8/10/11.
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by msravi 3y ago
And this: >> Third, under test-optional policies, some less-advantaged students withhold test scores even in cases where providing the test score would be a significant positive signal to Admissions. Importantly, Dartmouth Admissions
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Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf](home.dartmouth.edu)
252 points by msravi 3y ago|415 comments
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by msravi 3y ago
vifm is an awesome file manager for anyone familiar with vi. You can have single/multiple panes and can do operations on multiple files. Renaming/moving/copying multiple files is a breeze. You can also run shell commands on s
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by msravi 3y ago
With a stick that, uh, sticks out, it's easy to trip it in the right direction with your finger as you turn without taking your hand off the wheel. My guess is that using a "force touch" button will need you to take your hand
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by msravi 3y ago
This discussion [1] seems to point to similar usage by British sources in the 1600s and 1700s. 1. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/515089/saying-in...
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by msravi 3y ago
For anyone interested, this 2-volume series is gold. The first volume deals with numerals and arithmetic, and the second with algebra, linear equations, quadratic forms, solutions to pell's equations, etc. https://archive.or
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by msravi 3y ago
Did the teams know that there was another team working on the same thing? I wonder how that affects working of both teams... On the other hand, not telling the teams would erode the trust that the teams have in management.
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Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free (2016)(web.archive.org)
1 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 3y ago
Doesn't the 100M mark rollover every 3 yrs and change? What's the big significance of the 1.7B mark?
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by msravi 3y ago
I recall there used to be a way of getting a snapshot of the way the front-page looked, say, 2 hours ago. Can't find it now. Anyone knows? Edit: Found it at /front but looks like it's a snapshot on a per-day resolution, not h
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by msravi 3y ago
Simple weather and clock widget by Difer. I think they've now removed the proxy and added a payment option, but I'd never trust them again.
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by msravi 3y ago
The worst I've had is a clock/weather widget that seemed to give you a choice of ads/no-ads, but if no-ads were chosen, it would make your phone part of a network of proxies (oxylabs) without telling you, in addition to trans

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