senthil_rajasek

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Arattai(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by senthil_rajasek 1y ago|1 comments
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
Rest easy "Sundance Kid".
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
I want my produce wrapped in this plastic not the forever plastic. Maybe the bio-degradable plastic has it's use cases for other special purpose packaging with a very short self life.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
"Burning out on twelve-hour days, six days a week, has no prize at the end. It’s unsustainable, it shouldn’t be the standard and it sure as hell should not be seen as a positive sign of a company." This I've worked long hours
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
States like Florida in the U.S already have "state backed" insurers of last resort. Home insurance is definitely skyrocketing, I live in Minnesota and my premium tripled in 2024. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
PSA: link is a pdf.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
My introduction to Erik Satie was through the Piano theme played in Beat Takeshi's [1] directorial debut Violent Cop[2]. I was hooked. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano 2. https://en.wikip
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
I am contrasting how instagram filters gave users some control and increased user base and how today editing photos with LLMs is doing the same and pulling in a wider user base.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
"My wife is using ChatGPT to change photos (still is to this day), she didn’t use it or any other LLM until that feature hit." This is deja vu, except instead of ChatGPT to edit photos it was instagram a decade ago.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
Moral of the story, you can be a star but still have to "work with" your managers.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
It would also be nice to list some "best practices" on how to handle non-fatal errors. I would be definitely interested to know of any sources.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
I am an old hat. I've been in dotnet dev land for decades and still use bash (git bash). Pros: Syntax + access to familiar shell commands Cons: Bash scripts are not easy to maintain.
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by senthil_rajasek 1y ago
Based on the title, I thought this was an article about The Kalinga War, a war so bloody it moved the Emperor Ashoka to embrace non-violence and spread Buddhism throughout Asia.
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Did the Iron Age Begin in Tamil Nadu?(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
3 points by senthil_rajasek 2y ago|3 comments
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
Speaking of little known shows in their own country becoming iconic outside, Are Germans aware how popular the "Didi's Comedy Show" was in India during the 80s? I grew up with that show and still crack up at Didi's antic
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
"... blunt, vigorously contrarian, uncompromising perfectionist and extremely honest." Or what HR would call as "not a team player".
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
Scene from Board Walk Empire Season 2 that uses the coin flip trick. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6WYsM1nIbKs&t=55s&pp=2AE3kAIB
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How Jensen Huang Built Nvidia into the $3T King of AI(barrons.com)
3 points by senthil_rajasek 2y ago|1 comments
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New MacArthur "genius" says she defied caste prejudice(npr.org)
2 points by senthil_rajasek 2y ago|0 comments
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
If you find Ants interesting you would probably like E.O. Wilson's works. That's all he did his entire life, study ants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Ants
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
There are certain areas where the popular opinion is irrelevant. Warren Buffet said this in a more folksy way, “It’s very important to live your life by an internal yardstick,” he told us, noting that one way to gauge whether or not you do
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
>Name 1 or 2 other things you buy "sight unseen" that are remotely close to the cost of a new vehicle That question cannot be answered, we all know that nothing is comparable to that price in an average household's shoppin
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
We buy so many things "sight unseen" because of the quality and reliability. As an average car consumer, I have done many test drives and gotten nothing out of it except the car salesman looking like he did something. I will buy a
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
I can tell Madras or not Madras easily but not so much plaid or tartan. Disclaimer: I am from the region and know the pattern very well.BTW Madras is also the British name for the city of Chennai.
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700295 (Link from 2020 w/ 93 comments)
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
This is nice. Thanks for sharing. When I heard "react" I immediately thought SPA and Event handling in the browser. This is more close to ASP .NET ( organizing views on the server side). This is very useful but this is not for han
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by senthil_rajasek 2y ago
If you can relax requirement #3 then stand up comedy comes close. p.s : professional stand up comic here, been trying to quit my day job for 14 years :-)
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Duff's Device(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by senthil_rajasek 3y ago|0 comments
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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
"while the majority of the crew fight a fire underneath the kerosene filled cable spools (with kilometers of microphone cables) during a monsoon storm." That reads like a scene from a distater movie. I am talking regular people wi
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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
My comment was specifically about people stuck in a toxic work environment in a civilian establishment and I made no claims about other situations.

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