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Analog computing x Fountain of the Lions [video](youtube.com)
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by erbdex 2y ago
“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.” ― Rumi
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by erbdex 2y ago
In developing countries like India - a surprisingly high number of students do not have access to a computer. I have a lot of friends who had to learn enough on phone to bootstrap into buying their first laptop. One of my best friend - in h
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by erbdex 2y ago
Graphite[1] has interesting plugin ecosystem like Grafana[2] & has been around since 2009. Architecture of Open Source Applications book[3] has done a nice overview of the architecture. I really like how it reuses linux filesystem as da
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by erbdex 2y ago
Imagine the earth as distributed, massively parallel operating systems. Physical, chemical and biological conditions as $environment and available system calls. Seeds could be apps that can survive on certain hardware. I learnt from a billi
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by erbdex 2y ago
Perhaps a biased view but fter teaching students from colleges I feel that most who are "born in the high level" world float comfortably without needing to understand fundamentals (memory, OS interfaces, arch, drivers, crashes, ..
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by erbdex 2y ago
The market is going through a massive liquidity crunch and startup funding, therefore tech hiring is at an all time low since 2010s. This is not you but the market. Consolidate and don't take this as a judgement on your skills sir. C w
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ChatGPT confirms "The ponds are still relevant" (1993)(docs.google.com)
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by erbdex 2y ago
An alternative view based on Energy returns on Energy invested- 1. Most agriculture pumps orders of magnitude more Energy into the farm to make fewer calories of food. Petroleum becoming food is indeed useful as it is fungible for human con
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by erbdex 2y ago
While I am all for social justice.. i don't think a Marc or a Zucker or Jobs should be turned into villains. A corner of my mind forgives them because of how "the system" rewards specialization and how little of the outside w
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by erbdex 2y ago
It is incredible and fascinating how physics, chemistry and Biology come together in plant roots. I have been trained as a computers person and hated Biology in school so i have zero background in these waters but learning all this has been
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by erbdex 2y ago
While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale. One of the lesser known state supported entities out of India - https://apcnf.in/ is arguably one o
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by erbdex 3y ago
I am realising that passing context for $this is the tricky part as- 1. It is very difficult for me to tell you about my context as a user within low dimension variables. 2. I do not understand my situation in the universe to be able to tel
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Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists(cse.iitd.ernet.in)
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Visual watershed planning tool to explain story of water in your area(greengoodlabs.com)
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by erbdex 3y ago
+ Software limited the upper limits of thrust correction/per second to 10% of what was possible. In other words, it could perhaps correct itself in those many seconds but was allowed only small degrees of change.
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by erbdex 4y ago
"The Concord" models often get speculated as the future, but as often the energy economics does not sustain. There is perhaps a very probable risk of rising energy costs this decade, which might make such models unfeasible. In tha
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No.1 in “The Ultimate 10 Technological Disasters” of the world(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by erbdex 4y ago|0 comments
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by erbdex 4y ago
What is your software pipeline to manage screenshots? If we could: - bucket and tag - turn them to tasks - follow ups
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The Schism Breaking Apart the “Prepper” Community(slate.com)
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Saudi Green Initiative (English)[YouTube](youtube.com)
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by erbdex 5y ago
Series of stone tablets + a visual grammar, language that can be deciphered from scrach with new eyes.
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A commitment of $100mn to focus on climate change and green jobs(linkedin.com)
1 points by erbdex 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are you doing about the changing climate?
4 points by erbdex 8y ago|1 comments
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List of abnormal behaviours in animals(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ask HN: Where can we get a community to upvote questions anonymously?
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What are the main differences piloting Boeing vs. Airbus aircraft?(aviation.stackexchange.com)
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by erbdex 9y ago
- Acceptance that "learning that new thing" is coming in the way of "long term growth". - Not letting the browser or the Internet _decide_ the course of my actions. - Zero social apps, top level mute for whatsapp. - List
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by erbdex 9y ago
Let's connect on mail. Check profile.
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by erbdex 9y ago
We do. Come do an AMA for us next week. Tomorrow's is by a senior from the college who cracked GATE, went to IIT-D and is now working with Visa in Bangalore. EMail me.

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