vishnugupta

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by vishnugupta 11d ago
It is very pervasive in certain parts of India. Google Pan Masala India.
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by vishnugupta 11d ago
> People generally follow them because they expect to be caught and punished. Laws are the last line of defense. People don’t do bad things primarily because their human nature and moral compass stops them from doing so.
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by vishnugupta 16d ago
For my wife, who (a doctor) I'm confident is a representative of 95% of smartphone user-base, uses her iPhone for all[0] the tasks you described. [0] At work she uses hospital provided Windows PC. Used only for patient records, nothing
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by vishnugupta 20d ago
People have different ways of dealing with overuse of technology. For some, one day a week off works for some notification off, for some using dumb phones. It is perfectly normal for people to tryout and share anything that works. And it is
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by vishnugupta 1mo ago
There are two things that jump out at me being a parent of two children. Until kids get to about 10 years old they need 24x7 supervision. Which means your time and energy is spent there. Your schedule completely revolves around them. It’s h
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by vishnugupta 1mo ago
Can relate. Though I was never that big into podcast/earphones etc., I had gotten into the habit of instinctively reaching out to play something while driving. However, I stopped doing that and it's so fun to be with myself again,
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
I used to take news papers and magazines and sometimes still do. So yes it’s perfectly fine.
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
“..for me..”, “…my version…”
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
Seconded. For me "doing nothing" also means "doing nothing without following any rules" as you've stated. My version of doing nothing involves either just sitting outside watching the world go by or walking & wa
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
Perhaps you could edit the submission to add this context?
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
And crypto.
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by vishnugupta 2mo ago
Thank you! What a beautiful and appropriate meta comment!
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by vishnugupta 3mo ago
Just checked out the Google map satellite view and no kidding! The solar panels are crazy! Highly recommend exploring it yourselves. Mind blowing.
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by vishnugupta 3mo ago
And yet JK Rowling is a billionaire and movies make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. So I guess we can have a world in which knowledge can be free without starving knowledge creators?
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by vishnugupta 3mo ago
I agree 100%. I stopped watching after iPhone 15 event or maybe M2. Absolutely everything seems scripted including hand movements, shifting of postures, smiles..the whole works. Now I just wait for the press release and that’s that.
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
Looks like it was a satire? I couldn’t find any authoritative sources on it. https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste...
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
I think it’s about software engineers, who are supposed to be impervious about effects of caste structures and hierarchy, judging programming languages from the caste lens. That is my interpretation, please don’t hold me against it
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
"I have written this maxim a few different ways, but it is worth writing again: no army can help but recreate its civilian social structures on the battlefield." Interesting to see Conway's law show up here. Companies tend to
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
+1 to Fastmail. Been their happy customer for 5+ years.
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
You’d be surprised how much vibe is there in VC investing. When one is under the grip of irrational exuberance and FOMO due diligence goes out the window. For example look at Sequoia’s investment into FTX and article about Sam that accompan
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
> I also think we need a high level formal specification language to tell agents what we expect them to do. Let’s make that specification Turing complete while at it. Jokes aside, IMO it will be a good natural progression. Specify the pr
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
> $106,000 before incentives, What's the capacity though. Either way this seems extremely high unless we are talking in terms of like 100kw or something. For reference, I recently installed hybrid/net-metered system set up at m
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
I make sure to understand the query to the fullest extent. I run explain plan to make sure no nasty things like full table scans are happening. I guess just like any algorithm it’s easier to verify a solution than come up with one.
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
I’m building reporting for my company and what you said mirrors my experience nearly 100%. I’m a backend developer so I know what it takes to build a half decent reporting system. Writing all those queries, slice and dice charts and what no
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by vishnugupta 4mo ago
> apparently published in 2005 No. It was published in late 90s. As per this copy on Archive.org 1997 https://archive.org/details/testyourcskills00yash
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by vishnugupta 5mo ago
I am, thankfully, out of this craziness now but it was fun solving ton of such puzzles from Yashavant Kanetkar books while preparing for campus hiring interviews back in 2000. "Test Your C Skills" in particular. Fun times. https:
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by vishnugupta 5mo ago
Me and my friends collected, traded and also played a game with stone by staking match box covers. The idea is everyone stakes match box covers in a small circle drawn on an open ground. Everyone then takes turn to throw stone at the pile.
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by vishnugupta 5mo ago
I've got nothing to add to the discussion but want to take a moment to appreciate your ability to construct long sentences. It flows beautifully.
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by vishnugupta 5mo ago
> removing people and organizational slack You are spot on w.r.t every assertion you've made. When bean-counters took over the ecosystem they optimised immediate profitability over everything else. Which in turn means, in their mind
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by vishnugupta 5mo ago
Apparently it required someone with the personality and product taste of Jobs to rein in Ivy. Cook on the other hand being a logistics/operations guy didn’t have the similar skills and we ended up getting absolute shitshow of hardware

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