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by sachdevap 7y ago
I concur. My experience is similar. Definitely needed to will myself to continue them, but they kept me sane.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I know what you mean. I've been there. And yet, from my own experience and the little I have read, the bigger problem is that there is no anticipation of fun. Thinking of fun activities does not bring me joy when depressed. Doing them
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by sachdevap 7y ago
The death rate of COVID-19 is at about 3.4% on average. In comparison, the death rate of seasonal flu is about 0.1% in the US. No, it is not "like" the flu. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-c
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by sachdevap 7y ago
This rumor also exists for the Robarts Library at UofT, and in both cases, I am quite certain, it is just that - a rumor.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I know this is meant to be humor, but realistically, as I understand it, you can just tap into the muscular signals with electrodes - that does not need any such dramatic step.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I can't upvote a second time, but this was a very good use of analogy. I am going to save this for later.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Not GP, but I think they are referring to https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Older thread on same post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056
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by sachdevap 7y ago
https://outline.com/AvA2tz
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Non-medium link to read: https://outline.com/AvA2tz
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by sachdevap 7y ago
While reviewing helps a lot, even without reviewing, the act of noting things down in a place that you can refer to later is huge. A capture location for all that you need to do later is a great idea - it frees up space in your head, and yo
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Search for "b ok cc" on Google if people are looking for the book.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I am telling you that the problem in India was just as complex and the political system there is also democratic. And yes, I have been to US cities multiple times, and I don't see why the challenges there are so very different. New Del
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by sachdevap 7y ago
The more roadways you build to accommodate cars, the more cars fill up the roadways, as long as more people have cars in the city. [0] On the other hand, public transit can be designed to ease congestion and allow movement between densely p
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by sachdevap 7y ago
When was the ACLU going off the tracks exactly?
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Wikipedia regularly misrepresents the intended use of donation funds when asking for money. They should be upfront that they are looking to keep it running for so long with such and such strategy.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Wikipedia asking for donations isn't any better. It is well documented that Wikipedia is less than forward in their donation requests about how much money they actually need. Wikipedia is not starving for money.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Where does this 20,000 number come from?
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by sachdevap 7y ago
It actually does matter to visibility of comments when you're trying to engage in discussions. If you'll read my comment, I'm not really craving internet points in anyway. Downvoting for disagreement is just a poor way of hav
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I suggest looking into org-mode in emacs to take notes on emails. However, I have not yet figured out an annotation method that works. Would be good to have one, but given that the emails are not long, may be a little unnecessary.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
This is not what my comment is about. I am saying that irrespective of the less sensational paper title, the conclusion of the paper is worth sensationalizing.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
The paper might have a less sensational title, but that does not make the content any less news-worthy. I don't think the author is wrong at raising alarm about this.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
I've gone back and forth between thinking of switching to KDE Plasma and sticking with gnome. Moving DEs comes with a significant time commitment and my old experiences with KDE were just too jarring.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Just to clarify this: You tried to use emacs on Windows in Ubuntu VMs and are asking it to compare to native performance of tools like VS Code? Have you considered running a native Emacs build too and see if that performs better?
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by sachdevap 7y ago
That automation is in competition with minimum wage is unsubstantiated. And if companies innovate to get rid of the need for minimum wage jobs when min wage is raised, the society's response should not be to throttle innovation or keep
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Let me rephrase that last sentence for what you are meaning it as "If you call this class warfare instead of unintended consequences, in my opinion, you are being paranoid or cynical." Neither "paranoid" nor "cynica
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by sachdevap 7y ago
Precisely this. Trade negotiations by their nature are written by the winners, and until the voters wise up to this, we are doomed to repeat these mistakes.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
They are not standing by and watching. They are involved in the tragedy. Western nations are dismantling nuclear power on a massive scale. They are blocking the growth of renewables industries in developing nations [0] under the guise of fr
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by sachdevap 7y ago
No, it isn't just globalization. It's globalization done poorly. A level playing field wrt human rights of workers across wherever companies do business should be part of a just (in a humanitarian sense) globalization.
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by sachdevap 7y ago
> Some awareness of the possible impact of leaks, and awareness of the contents of leaked documents. Both Snowden and Manning appear to have failed to read all the content they leaked, which is dangerous. In practice, we have gotten fort

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