balaji1

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by balaji1 9mo ago
Great clips and editing. New perspective on the scale of self driving cars deployed currently.
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by balaji1 9mo ago
What if the digital infra that issues the token is state or Federal software? That should significantly reduce privacy concerns?
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by balaji1 3y ago
It is hard to "vote with the wallet" when the chemicals are present everywhere and we hardly know where all it is present - maybe if there is a list of top N most-used/common most dangerous items to avoid - popcorn bags for e
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by balaji1 3y ago
The RAM being so low is confusing. Given RAM is one of the cheaper components. I guess they do some smart swap memory using SSD - but my Air laptop struggles to run PowerPoint, few browser tabs and video calling at the same time.
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by balaji1 3y ago
> It makes life feel short, fleeting and mundane I read somewhere else that time speeds up when we repeat a few boring/not-so-stressful things each day. > reviewing old entries provides a feeling of history that makes life feel s
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by balaji1 3y ago
I am not aware of the packaging of regular baling wire. You should be able to source coir twine for cheap from SEA in a packaging you want, assuming baling wire packaging is somewhat standardized. But not sure if you have the bandwidth or w
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by balaji1 3y ago
Any thoughts on jute twine or coir twine? Fully plant based. Jute is probably very similar to hemp.
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by balaji1 3y ago
Would you have been surprised if you did find that plastic mulch is actually shredded plastic? I wouldn't have been. That's the prevalence and abuse of plastic. In USA, open farm lands are literally covered by huge sheets of plast
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by balaji1 3y ago
> but they are first in the line getting reimbursed Sorry about the incident. Do you mean the health-insurance company tries to get reimbursed? From who? the auto-insurance of the other driver?
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by balaji1 3y ago
basically they are unwilling to admit a mistake and fix a small issue. I have seen a few PMs become super defensive and double down on a decision.
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by balaji1 3y ago
so its good my card that was auto-paying for the Copilot subscription expired
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by balaji1 3y ago
Stretch: it is the kind of thing that exposes a bug the PM/dev-team didn't catch themselves. So maybe they are trying to sweep it under the rug haha.
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by balaji1 3y ago
The product manager was not involved in the decision to mark it "won't fix". Or more likely, even if the PM did see your bug report, the PM doesn't understand the issue.
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by balaji1 3y ago
> Papers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures Perfect list. Tech talks, university lectures (recorded videos) are almost as consumable as YT edu-tainment videos. Papers, books and textbooks are accessible but requires more motivat
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by balaji1 3y ago
Multiple YT profiles is a smart hack! And also, great work on the app! The YT algo is pretty good - it catches on to what I want to follow and magnifies (ie suggest more content on) that topic. But it never pushes me to educational videos.
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by balaji1 3y ago
"educational entertainment" videos are way too many, way too popular and binge-able - much more recommended by YT's AI. Actual education are much harder to discover on YouTube. I have been wanting to build a YT front-end that
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by balaji1 3y ago
another problem with ML workflow is the difficulty of iteration - takes long to run, etc. - but SWE are super used to iterating quickly
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by balaji1 3y ago
A robot truck could just follow a smaller autonomous vehicle. Alternatively a drone flying ahead of a truck with cameras could augment the sensing on the truck and extend the sensor range. Deploy the drone(s) from a station on the truck. 2-
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by balaji1 3y ago
Exactly, a fold-away/flip-away form factor that doubles as a phone-case might be better.
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by balaji1 3y ago
Hahaha so true. Flying things aren't more abundant and prevalent because there must be insane lobby machinery and regulatory capture around the aviation industry. Plus economics of course. For example, Zipline[1] is innovating in a par
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by balaji1 3y ago
would it be possible to cross the plants the other way? Make the European/Asian ones big and tasty like the American ones. I am sure there are people thinking about this full time and would have much better ideas, but just wondering.
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by balaji1 3y ago
the game is a big trap... why is the post still on the HN home page...
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by balaji1 3y ago
do the European / Asian versions survive and grow in America? Are they being grown?
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by balaji1 3y ago
it is depressing to some, others in a different stage of life might experience gratitude, others hope and clarity, etc. in all aspects of the human condition, there's probably a similar dynamic to the 5 stages of grieving. tho I agree
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by balaji1 3y ago
Answering popular questions like the "contrarian question" Thiel poses is a good exercise. Flesh out the answers to a degree you would feel good presenting it in an interview.
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by balaji1 3y ago
it is not a suspicion of false entrants. generally wonder how some of these small competitions are run (tho "Young Animator of the Year UK" would suggest it is reasonable size by now). how would you avoid an entrant submitting pre
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by balaji1 3y ago
wonder how the organizers verify that a submission is actually only one person's work
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The architecture of today's LLM applications(github.blog)
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by balaji1 3y ago
Doing things manually for a while might be natural to some builders/hackers. Customer service is one such example where many builders are willing to go above and beyond. So maybe the OP does not have to read too much into the PG quote.
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by balaji1 3y ago
Also Samuel Johnson "A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience." totally unrelated but still, heard this recently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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