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by rg111 5y ago
Note: One can freely download PDFs of old Byte magazines from Internet Archive [0]. [0]: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
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by rg111 5y ago
> I never understood the idea of using notecards in subjects that are math heavy. I would suggest that people should use notecards for subjects that are math heavy. Even if you don't fully learn by using notecards. Even then. When
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by rg111 5y ago
Don't know if this true, but George Boole taught himself to swim just by reading a book, i.e. he successfully swam the very first time he got into water.
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by rg111 5y ago
> My Google account is linked to Gmail, GCP/Firebase, Youtube, Drive Don't. Have separate accounts for dev stuff, entertainment, storage, social media each. > and a ton of SSO apps Never do so. Use a password manager (self-h
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by rg111 5y ago
Draw a Box [0] comes highly recommended. All lessons are free and are taught from scratch. Everything from absolute basics is thoroughly explained and demonstrated. Paid courses by Proko [1] are also said to be of very high quality. I hav
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India National Stock Exchange head was 'puppet' of unnamed yogi, regulators say(bbc.com)
2 points by rg111 5y ago|0 comments
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by rg111 5y ago
Before I purchase a book, I always download an .epub file from Library Genesis, and convert it to .mobi using Calibre. Then send it over to the Kindle using email. If I like a book after 50-60 pages, I purchase an .epub file and then conver
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by rg111 5y ago
I am glad that I found it yesterday. I have been using YouTube Vanced[0] app for some time now. After ads got out of hands and especially after the decision that YouTube would put ads to unmonetized video as well[1]. But with that app, afte
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Clojure Koans(clojurekoans.com)
2 points by rg111 5y ago|0 comments
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by rg111 5y ago
I am not sure if Flutter is the most popular one. Does React-Native have an exclusive forum, IRC channel, or Discord server? One creator of a famous Deep Learning framework regularly blabbers on Twitter about the framework being the most po
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by rg111 5y ago
Why there has to be just one lesson from an incident?
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by rg111 5y ago
This is a nice list. I will highly recommend The Little Schemer . You will change after reading this book. It is that good. This book made me truly undersy recursion. I understood recursion before, and used it to solve problems, but this i
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Center for Homeland Defense and Security Reading List(chds.us)
2 points by rg111 5y ago|0 comments
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by rg111 5y ago
If you are interested in such things, I suggest Buddhist Logic and Epistemology: Studies in the Buddhist Analysis of Inference and Language , and Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar In Indian Philosophical Analysis , by Bimal Krishna Matilal
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by rg111 5y ago
Exactly my point. Unless you experienced some barrier that made you sure that you had a problem, you wouldn't even know that you had a problem (unless we are talking about advanced stage glaucoma or something like that- but these are m
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by rg111 5y ago
Yes, wearing a glass certainly feels good, just like eating something you like, or a favorite smell. Being able to see much clearer than before is definitely a nice feeling.
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by rg111 5y ago
This is mostly bollocks. Sure modern technologies is a big reason, but another reason is people caring about eyesight now. Before, if you had a bad eyesight, you just thought "life...!" and lived with it. The old world was segrega
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by rg111 5y ago
Not really. I had glasses long before smartphones and before I had a computer. See, this is the problem with validating with anecdotes. For one for, five can be immediately found against.
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by rg111 5y ago
I also liked Godfather III, but not as much as I or II. I see the third part as a portrayal of changing of times. Gone are the days of past, the time has changed, and so has characters and the story.
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by rg111 5y ago
There is one annual thread that asks about their favorite episode of that year. There has been one general thread, but a decade ago, or before.
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by rg111 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I checked it out and the list looks good. I suggest everyone check out the skeptic and athiestic (Nirisvara- non-God) schools of Indian philosophy. Especially Samkhya and Vaisheshika. Indian past is always pai
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by rg111 5y ago
I hope people do not mind me taking this opportunity to ask HN people what their all time favorite podcasts are, in any topic. So, what are your all-time favorite podcasts in any topic?
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by rg111 5y ago
Kit Patrick's History of India Podcast is among my most favorites of all podcasts in any topic. Really well thought, no overly dramatic narration or extravagant sound effects. I like the calm, cool storytelling in Kit Patrick's
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by rg111 5y ago
I agree with what you want to say. But how does that influence what I said? Would you say that Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, or HCL are better than TCS? (I know quite a few people working in those companies, and the consensus seems to be that
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by rg111 5y ago
I just write my opinions on the margin, or general thoughts, especially something new that can stem from there? I mostly write connections that I make while reading a paper.
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by rg111 5y ago
How stupid is Builder.ai? To even think that Air India will contract an app to them when they are the parent company of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is extremely moronic. TCS has a global presence, and they get contracts from the largest
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by rg111 5y ago
Nobody has mentioned Infinity[0][1]- an open source reddit client for Android. It lets you download videos, hides all ads, and takes care of privacy concerns. I have used it for almost an year now. And I recommend it. [0]: https:/&#x2
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by rg111 5y ago
I am very frustrated with Google search results right now. I do use it to search for facts only and it is my main calculator app now. But that's it. I have been adding "reddit" to search terms since two-three years ago. And I
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by rg111 5y ago
I would like to say two things about writing notes: 1. It is worth writing them even though you never revisit them. You are gaining new information, you are processing them, and then you are passing along your version of the information to
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'Piracy' website offers NFT art as free downloads (2021)(bbc.com)
1 points by rg111 5y ago|1 comments

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