tonmoy

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by tonmoy 3y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Speaking a left leaning foreigner living in US, the left employs devil concept aplenty too
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Minecraft, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, Battlebit Remastered, Darkest Dungeon, Slay the Spire come to mind (I'm sure there are plenty more examples)
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by tonmoy 3y ago
According to my understanding this should not apply to lasers
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Haven’t we seen the same public discourse time and time again? A lot of people left FB half a decade ago, before that it was something else. I suspect we’ll keep seeing the same thing again. People want to be consumed by social network prob
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Since is never conclusive that is true, but some conclusions are closer to the truth than the other. Just because the earth is not exactly a sphere, doesn’t mean the scientific consensus that the earth is round is wrong. Same way just becau
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by tonmoy 3y ago
We just need a second LHC with double the number of particle physicists in the world to replicate observation of the Higgs Boson, no big deal
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Flying a low fi model like the F-15 on DCS was pretty realistic but arcadey at the same time. I could easily map most of the controls on my Xbox controller and have the keyboard ready for those rare cases
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Not sure about the actual function that defines the wave, but let’s assume they are convex and concave semi circles. Then to make a wall of length L with bricks of l length, we need pi L/l number of bricks. The linked Reddit post says
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by tonmoy 3y ago
If that is true then it means they hired more people than they needed and then instead of admitting it they gave some nonsense about macro economics
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by tonmoy 3y ago
I was with you until the last sentence. Google has given us Android, Kubernetes, Golang, Tensorflow (not to mention Angular and Chromium)
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by tonmoy 3y ago
I don’t think global democracy (nor the current democracy of Canada) would have been the same without the American Revolution
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by tonmoy 3y ago
This is awesome! I found air raid sirens: https://www.airraidsirens.net/
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by tonmoy 3y ago
It’s all about layers of abstraction. A web developer doesn’t need to know about analog circuits to program computers
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Although I myself am not related to the industry or academia pertaining to AI, I have heard many people speak highly of the zero to hero course by Andrej Karpathy: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9Gv
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by tonmoy 3y ago
I haven’t had the feeling that computers are awesome in quite a long time (probably since starting my career). The video in the landing page gave me the feeling that computers can be such an amazing thing!
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by tonmoy 3y ago
I loved the collection on apple arcade, but since I play maybe 1 game for 3-4 months casually, I couldn't justify the recurring cost.
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Just because something really bad exists doesn’t mean we should stop trying to be better than what we are today.
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by tonmoy 3y ago
I don’t blame them for buying. Whoever is collecting and selling this data is the main culprit in my eyes.
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Other than using the same social media no other example you gave is accurate in my experience. Is it possible that you are stuck in a bubble of people of similar age, from the same country with similar profession?
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Vast majority of our internet goes through submarine cable. Besides satellites aren’t launched from your home and land at google servers every time you open google.com which would be similar to what the tanker would be doing
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by tonmoy 3y ago
The title is then false
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by tonmoy 3y ago
The issue is the noise. There are literally thousands of conspiracy theories out there and the legit ones are impossible to sift out without the power of hindsight
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Yes it did, and sea levels have risen too: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/... Note that since we are not about to stop carbon emission in the near future, the ice melt and sea level ri
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Are you sure PWA doesn’t work on iOS? I remember installing websites as apps on my iPhone. According to this SO answer I think one can even make it full screen (with a workaround at least): https://stackoverflow.com/question
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by tonmoy 3y ago
As far as I have heard modern power electronics is sophisticated enough to do that
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by tonmoy 4y ago
You are thinking about drift speed of electrons, which is slow. But when the initial voltage is applied, each electron would feel the electromotive force and “jiggle” around a bit which would be nano seconds and then settle.
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by tonmoy 4y ago
If I wanted to do this, what kind of specs would I need to have on my Desktop Computer?
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by tonmoy 4y ago
Solar, wind, battery and cures for cancer had significant incremental improvement for the last 20 or so years. What kind of claims wrt to these technologies don’t you think panned out?
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by tonmoy 4y ago
I assume that the scientists are using the raw data directly, the probably aren’t even bothering to convert it to a format that is visible on a monitor. Same way this AI touch up is almost certainly just to give the public something to see

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