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by psadri 2y ago
I had the same issue. My phone is permanently muted so I forgot to even check that option. Probably worth the app/os to give you a notice if you fiddle with the volume while muted.
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by psadri 2y ago
Reverse all thrusters!
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by psadri 2y ago
While at it… they could try to extract some atmospheric CO2 from the more concentrated air.
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by psadri 2y ago
Yup. I tend to start with SQL tables as well - although I feel the pain during the heavy iteration phase. I tend to nuke my entire db, recreate it and reload some data into it. I wish there was a tool that ran in watch mode and patched th
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by psadri 2y ago
Does this ever actually happen? In my experience, by the time you realize you need regular SQL there is so much code that changing the database is a major project. It will also halt all other feature development.
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by psadri 2y ago
So what’s your plan?
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by psadri 2y ago
Use whisper (or whisperx)
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by psadri 2y ago
Great! This reminds me of FileMaker and similar RAD desktop tools. Curious to know what kind of projects people are using it for?
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by psadri 3y ago
Related - home loans to make buying homes accessible → higher home prices → now everyone has to get a loan. Same with college loans.
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by psadri 3y ago
This is an interesting flywheel. Once I realized that by not using a CC I was subsidizing everyone else, I decided to opt into using a high reward credit card myself.
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by psadri 3y ago
If you visit, be sure to checkout the museum in the basement, specially the exhibit about how they calculated the forces on all those columns pre CAD and Finite Element Analysis.
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by psadri 3y ago
It would be an awesome sci-fi plot: voyager 1 is captured by an alien race. Goes silent for a while they figure out how to boot it up. Then it starts transmitting the instructions to build a wormhole . Lone engineer who held out hope disc
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by psadri 3y ago
One definition of “rich” is how much work you can get done with the money you have. Maybe Americans are not really rich given that it takes $100B+ to build a train line? Maybe a dollar is not really worth much given that it take so much of
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by psadri 3y ago
It is a skill to genuinely or convincingly look past your own lack of competence.
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by psadri 3y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by psadri 3y ago
There is a great BBC - In Our Times episode about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547l1
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by psadri 3y ago
More geniuses — there are plenty of talented "brains" that simply never get a chance due to malnutrition, disease, lack of education and opportunity. We'd have far more of them if we could provide a higher minimum standard o
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by psadri 3y ago
Maybe they were going for the Corten steel look? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel
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by psadri 3y ago
Reminds me of Geordi LaForge in Star Trek TNG.
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by psadri 3y ago
Whatever we do - it better be easily reversible or decay relatively quickly. It would suck to launch a solution that overshoot or causes some unforeseen problem and we can't quickly revert it.
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Ask HN: Why did civilization happen "now" vs. earlier?
3 points by psadri 3y ago|3 comments
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by psadri 3y ago
The problem in being in the middle ground - what do you optimize for in a way that is easily marketable? The easiest answers are: cheapest (quality be damned) or best quality (affordability be damned). It’s hard to communicate a compromise
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by psadri 3y ago
WhatsApp scaled this way. -500m daily users with only -30 total engineers across 5 devices + backend.
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by psadri 3y ago
A great song that features this passage: Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini
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by psadri 3y ago
I think there are lots of worlds that don’t have dry land. I doubt they would develop advance technology - hard to build fire to melt metals. But perhaps nature will find another way?
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by psadri 3y ago
I was describing the most probable path, not the only path. I do think that developing more sophisticated tools under water is difficult. Once you have plants on land, taller “trees” are very probable, because they are competing for light.
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by psadri 3y ago
It’s not inevitable. I was simply stating the most probable form for the life that DID get that far.
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by psadri 3y ago
Hydrogen, carbon and oxygen are amongst the most common elements in the universe. So probabilistically life will be carbon based. And it will probably be first formed in water. But it would develop tools on land once opposing thumbs are
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by psadri 3y ago
Kudos to the retool design team and Glenn on a really nice execution of this story. The Pipes inspired illustrations are gold.
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by psadri 3y ago
You could probably instruct it to behave that way.

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