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by nborwankar 3y ago
“It is currently kept in the British Museum” aka Museum of Stolen Goods ;-)
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by nborwankar 3y ago
It’s not really about the hardware interface. It’s about a single standard for charging infrastructure so that economies of scale and zero barrier to entry makes charging tech a commodity as it should be, not a product with premium pricing
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by nborwankar 3y ago
SQL is based on Relational Algebra a mathematical foundation for modeling, factoring and joining data. In this it’s probably unique. Other languages may be based on other mathematical models such as pure functional languages being based on
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by nborwankar 3y ago
“Confidently presented bullshit” is probably much more accurate. Added benefit no new vocabulary terms :-)
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by nborwankar 3y ago
Little appreciated facts that IMHO were the fundamental drivers a) CEO of SVB was on the Board of Govs of SF Fed Reserve, the entity that is supposed to supervise and regulate banks b) He had earlier lobbied Congress to relax stress test r
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by nborwankar 3y ago
As far as some people quickly understanding the point the article is making while others not getting it I recall a quote approximately saying “It’s very difficult to convince a man of something when his livelihood depends on not understandi
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by nborwankar 3y ago
“I continue to wonder at the kind of person who names their business philosophy ‘profound’.” This indicates a misreading of what “profound” applies to. IMHO Deming meant his was a system of gaining deep ie profound knowledge about a process
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by nborwankar 3y ago
A counterintuitive alternative is to invest a fraction of the costs of nuclear in cleaning up emissions from coal plants. We seem to have swung too far by shutting down a reliable source of energy when mitigating technologies to filter emis
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by nborwankar 4y ago
What percentage of people do you think live in poverty now? Genuine question.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Rigorous research on speech and communication in non-humans https://www.theycantalk.org/research
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Government does not actually “do” the executive action in everything. But government is a rough and messy consensus on the set of rules and constraints within which the “specific people doing concrete actions” act. Large scope actions that
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by nborwankar 4y ago
There may be an audience for “GPT Lifehacks”
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Thank you! Very useful reference.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
This is also mostly what Adani did. They had put all their third party transactions in “disclosure” filings so nothing was hidden and the Indian market went “it’s Adani, he’s going to multiply our money. No worries” But when he went to glob
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by nborwankar 4y ago
I have a first edition Enterprise Java Beans T-shirt and a Mozilla Developer Conference circa 1997 And a Microsoft Test one that won me an “oldest T-shirt contest.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Could you works as a scout for one or more VC’s? This way you help people who you might believe raise funds and you get to keep some small fraction of the transaction either as cash finders fee or stock options or both. Can be started on th
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Don’t know how this translates into Civil Engg but I was a software architect for a consulting company that did the same for a segment of the insurance industry. Based on underwriting and accounting practices in that segment our company bui
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Yes but would you publish this big a story without corroboration? It’s the single source that’s more of a problem than the anonymity.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Div, grad, curl and all that - H.M. Schey Excellent intuitive and visual introduction to vector calculus.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
This doesn’t take into consideration the amount of food rendered inedible due to radioactive fallout especially the food out in the fields. This article also seems to have its own faults.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Dave Winer of RSS and blogging fame created Think Tank, a text mode outliner, back in the 80’s. Was a single binary for MSDOS. Haven’t seen an outliner that came close.
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Some counterintuitive “cheery thoughts”. The “safety” aspect of nuclear power is usually discussed in the most narrow sense. The regulatory burdens may be excessive but no other power source is a thermonuclear weapon in a “close to critical
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Did a similar 6 week class in standup many many years ago. Two major things I learned were a) you have to get the audience hooked in the first 20-30 secs or it gets much harder. Best example Emo Philips opening with “You know it’s really h
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Matlab is focused on a) Matrix manipulation but builds a lot on top of that such as Signal Processing, differential equations etc. and b) But at the end of the day it is a numeric evaluation language. Whereas in Mathematica everything is an
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by nborwankar 4y ago
I think it’s fair to say that the documentation system of Mathematica is the best documentation for any software language anywhere in the world at any time. Not exaggerating one bit. There are not only practical example snippets for every
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by nborwankar 4y ago
Yes that would be a close enough definition of what I meant. But I am also not sure if some TVs come with built in cameras. I don’t want those either. I am not happy with, but willing to tolerate, the “what I am watching” tracking that come
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Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?
390 points by nborwankar 4y ago|396 comments
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by nborwankar 4y ago
So if her comments are having an effect on funding decisions she IS changing how things are done.
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by nborwankar 5y ago
Is this meant to be an early April Fools joke?
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by nborwankar 5y ago
This Reddit story was making the rounds a while back. Tells of how to befriend crows and how they could save your life. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ki6fnd/oregon_...

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