cmonnow

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by cmonnow 4y ago
> Do I NEED Alexa to turn on the light? I can walk, I can do it myself. Do I NEED NETFLIX to watch TV ? I can watch other channels. Do I NEED a TV for entertainment ? I can enjoy nature walks. Do I NEED nature walks to be happy ? I can m
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by cmonnow 4y ago
> was conquered by the british as punishment lol. the varna system existed when Mughals invaded too. and you think it doesn't exist now ?
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by cmonnow 4y ago
if there was a way to notify multiple interested parties with one comment and multiple mentions, i would love to do that. you only feel like it is spam cos you came to the comment section late. my audience however are people who commented e
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by cmonnow 4y ago
> Genetic mutations and recombinations and why do THOSE happen ?
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by cmonnow 4y ago
this whole discussion seems pedantic. whether it is a local function or a remote function, both caller and callee need to agree on the parameters (input), and returns (output). I send you X. You send me back Y. That's it - this is the
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by cmonnow 4y ago
this whole discussion seems pedantic. whether it is a local function or a remote function, both caller and callee need to agree on the parameters (input), and returns (output). I send you X. You send me back Y. That's it - this is the
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by cmonnow 4y ago
> and wife's son holup
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by cmonnow 4y ago
in order to read your reply to my comment, i had to : - click on my user name - click on comments - search/scroll to this thread and see your reply I don't get notified of comment replies like on reddit. there is no slack/ema
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by cmonnow 4y ago
i wonder what tool dang uses to see comment replies and respond ? the ycombinator web UI does not encourage real-time or even near-time responses.
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by cmonnow 5y ago
My strict rule : Never write/store documentation that is separate from underlying 0s & 1s. It always goes out of sync. We are currently in the process of creating a data dictionary for our company. I put down a rule that we are not
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by cmonnow 5y ago
also doesn't mention religions which prohibits drinking of alcohol (Hinduism, Islam) because it is considered both harmful and intoxicating, which leads a man to commit sin due to lack of judgement, and how they have lived long healthy
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by cmonnow 6y ago
This is basically Google (Chrome) paying Mozilla (Firefox) to kill 3rd party cookies because Google has a better way to fingerprint users without 3rd party cookies, because they have SO MUCH data about us. This move is aimed at killing othe
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by cmonnow 6y ago
This is basically Google (Chrome) paying Mozilla (Firefox) to kill 3rd party cookies because Google has a better way to fingerprint users without 3rd party cookies, because they have SO MUCH data about us. This move is aimed at killing othe
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Ask HN: Tell me why wallstreebets is wrong
24 points by cmonnow 6y ago|26 comments
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by cmonnow 6y ago
Happy 2021 Bhrata! Ugadi (Kannada/Karnataka New Year) falls on April 13 2021 as per Panchang (traditional Hindu almanac followed in India). BTW, using Panchang, a Vedic pundit in a village can accurately predict solar/lunar eclips
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by cmonnow 6y ago
I never understood the fascination people have with self-referential 'paradoxes' like : "This statement is False". Pronouns do not have an independent existence. Until the pronoun 'This' resolves to an actual s
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by cmonnow 6y ago
Where did India get into the picture here ? The only protests going in India are those which are against government initiatives to help minorities. Interestingly, you didn't mention Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc. where minorities are actu
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by cmonnow 6y ago
Charity in Hinduism falls under 3 modes, as with pretty much everything else in Hinduism - Tamas, Rajas & Sattva Tamas - given at wrong place/time, to wrong (unworthy) person, without respect/decency, with contempt. Rajas - gi
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by cmonnow 6y ago
In other news, blacks willingly choose not to be slaves to white masters.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
> For example, western companies choose not to operate in the Chinese market In other news, blacks choose not to be slaves to white masters.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
it's called bias vs. variance tradeoff, or over-fitting, in stats/machine learning lingo.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
fine, then come to a middle-ground: search bar (on the top) for window-shoppers selection boxes (on the left) for focus-shoppers If I select 1440p under Resolution, I do not want non-1440p monitors in search results.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
> Bar-raiser program didn't have a feedback loop to track its effectiveness Which itself is a Bar-lowerer.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
supply vs. demand. as long as 9 other candidates are willing to run the LC gauntlet, the 10th doesn't stand out.
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by cmonnow 6y ago
> At 15 minutes a pop you can do 100+ leetcode questions a week. By that logic, most people would have completed all 1500 LC's in 4 months. Numbers say otherwise. Each medium difficulty problem takes an hour to solve, assuming you
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by cmonnow 6y ago
When you're under time-pressure, you actually spend more time thinking about how much time you have left, rather than thinking about how to solve the problem. It's like that parable. 2 students approached the master, wanting to be
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by cmonnow 6y ago
That advice seems like unnecessary mental gymnastics. Just take an unseen technical problem, solve it for the very first time in front of a colleague, then double your time as the expected time for candidates in an interview. When you'
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by cmonnow 6y ago
> People taking such myths seriously Well, atheists don't believe in anything before or after this life. It's usually such people who have no fear of committing crimes when they are confident they won't get caught. > wh
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by cmonnow 6y ago
> There is no escape from the inhuman hindu caste system. The Hindu caste system talks about spiritual evolution of the soul as it goes from body to body in each birth. You might be a lower-caste in this birth, but you might get upper-ca
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by cmonnow 6y ago
Tolerating the intolerant, or intolerating the intolerant - that's not a paradox. It's no different from the police using violence on violent people.

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