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Layoffs, AI Style(gautamnarula.com)
1 points by gautamnarula 4y ago|0 comments
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by gautamnarula 4y ago
As a Magnus fan this saddens me, but his reasons are understandable: you've got one life to live and he doesn't enjoy spending a quarter of it preparing for these grinding, stressful matches. After five consecutive wins, including
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by gautamnarula 5y ago
I strongly recommend people avoid health products (supplements, vitamins, etc.) and electronics from third parties on Amazon for this very reason. It's worth paying extra to get these kinds of goods from a retailer that works directly
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Time Trouble Misery(gautamnarula.com)
1 points by gautamnarula 5y ago|0 comments
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by gautamnarula 5y ago
This jives with what I observed as an intern some on an AWS team some years ago. The oncall rotations seemed absolutely brutal and the engineers were so busy and stressed out fighting fires that they barely noticed my existence (which I was
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by gautamnarula 5y ago
Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."
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by gautamnarula 5y ago
Add that to the ever-growing list of reasons to get rid of the Electoral College.
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by gautamnarula 5y ago
For the "keep it fresh" part, I use Fellow Atmos containers for my beans (I'm sure there are other options too). They allow you to pump out the air by twisting the lid back and forth. I live by myself and only drink 2-3 cups
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Openings for Rapid Chess Improvement(gautamnarula.com)
3 points by gautamnarula 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best Programming Books of 2020?
38 points by gautamnarula 6y ago|10 comments
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
I can +1 Sceptre. I got a Sceptre 65" 4k dumb TV on sale for $320 last year and have been happy with it. I hope I never have to join a smart TV; my experiences with them have been almost universally bad.
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
Any recommendations on whom to follow on that front?
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
I have the Sceptre 65" "dumb" TV recommended in this article and have been really happy with it. I also got it on sale last year so paid only ~$350 for it-- wait until Black Friday/Cyber Monday if you're looking to
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
Mine is www.gautamnarula.com (or, if it's easier to remember, www.gautam.city, since my name is pronounced "Gotham"!). My elevator pitch: I'm curious about many different topics and have had some unconventional experienc
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New York in the Time of Coronavirus: A photo-essay(gautamnarula.com)
3 points by gautamnarula 6y ago|0 comments
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
The parent link has a link to a list of papers[1] that answer this question in the affirmative: For example, "Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population" [2] It&#x2
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by gautamnarula 6y ago
This is a good point. How many people who got in a car accident might die when they otherwise wouldn't have because all the ICU units were taken up by COVID-19 patients? How many people will succumb to an infection they caught in the h
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
I've seen 24 hours on cardboard[1] The best appears to be copper, which is 4 hours[1] which is why I bought some copper tape online and wrapped shared touch surfaces in my apartment with it (though be careful to avoid getting cuts when
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
I've started wrapping shared touch surfaces (doorknobs, handles, etc) in my apartment with copper tape. It's pretty cheap ($12 for 66ft on Amazon). You do need to be careful about gripping the surfaces though, because the sharp ed
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
Twitter is currently profitable, and has been since sometime in 2018. To your bigger point, I actually think nowadays we're finally seeing fewer "me too" type companies--fewer knockoff social companies (early 2010s), fewer &q
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
My evidence is mostly anecdotal too, but I have some insight into the new grad perspective both from being a recent new grad and running a site that aggregates new grad tech jobs [1]. Google is still pretty popular among new grads. Of the &
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
I don't like/didn't like this practice from DD (I think they're finally phasing it out after much criticism), but it worked exactly the same way tipping at restaurants works, so that is a precedent they can call upon as
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
>There is no big picture. There is only hill climbing and getting stuck on local maxima constantly. This really nicely describes why I think so much software becomes bloated. You see this with startups all the time--at first the product
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
Uber's greatest contribution has been losing so much money/having their share price performing so badly that SoftBank, and by extension the Saudis who poured money in the SoftBank Vision Fund, is hundreds of millions of dollars un
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
That was also in 2008, when the majority was opposed to same-sex: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/change-doesnt-usually-c... The link only goes to 2015, but polling had already changed 15-18 points in favor of mar
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
In that specific case, it's hard to justify taking Acela over a bus. Acela is at best an hour faster and something like 4x the cost (or more) It is certainly more comfortable, but unless we get true high speed rail that shortens the tr
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by gautamnarula 7y ago
I'm even more surprised it just requires a simple majority and not a supermajority. Seems like it could be really easily abused.
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Warming Wine(sawaiz.com)
2 points by gautamnarula 7y ago|0 comments
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
The tl;Dr is that Waymo may make the mistake that Xerox did when it failed to successfully commercialize the GUI-driven PC they created at PARC, while Apple and Microsoft eventually did successfully. The article argues that self-driving sta
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
1800-2000 is also not considered master. The official master title in the US is achieved at a 2200 rating.

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