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by nsenifty 6mo ago
> or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars $110,000 US dollars
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by nsenifty 1y ago
The bigger danger is that all obituaries will be written by an AI.
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by nsenifty 1y ago
There was something magical starting to type a listing that started with `10 GOSUB 10000`.
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by nsenifty 2y ago
Been making yogurt at home for years. I just heat milk to the point when it's just about to boil over. Never measured the actual temperature, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 100C. I just cool it until it's warm to tou
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by nsenifty 2y ago
Same in Kannada, a South Indian language. You prefix "-ante" (roughly, _it is said_) and you can disown everything you say.
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by nsenifty 2y ago
> so a web app can run SQL queries locally and all the usual SQLite stuff "just works" from the warm/javascript's point of view Duckdb-wasm can do this.
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by nsenifty 2y ago
> and people drinks cow piss to cure COVID This is a false stereotype that has no place in HN. Yes, there are people who do that, but I bet a similar number of people per capita do that in Bangladesh too, we're not that different. I
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by nsenifty 2y ago
Kannada. It is called "Honge mara" in Kannada.
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by nsenifty 2y ago
Heh, I grew up in a small town in Southern India. One of the summertime activities for kids was to go shake these trees (they are everywhere), extract kernels and make a few bucks at the local markets. They were quite bitter. And the bitter
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by nsenifty 2y ago
The metre is a basic checksum, but there are more elaborated systems (pathas) of chanting verses that aids in correct learning and memorization. Some of it is described here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_chant#O
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by nsenifty 2y ago
Perhaps the title should have been "Brain uses Quantum effects in a useful/controllable way". Sabine explains it well in the video. To use quantum effects for computation, you'd need very controlled conditions and it was
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by nsenifty 2y ago
I'm Indian (in the US) and I've noticed a vast majority of my Indian friends name their kids Aanav, Aanir or Aanvi etc. some of which aren't even words in any Indian language. Now I probably know why.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
> Afaik this was stated in my Intro to ML course. Isbell?
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Politics and war discussions have been increasingly common at work too. Companies have promoting ERGs in the hope of diversity and in the name of "bringing your authentic self to work", and these groups have become a hotbed of act
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Yeah just change it to `SELECT OrderID`.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
"Will soon be able"
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Not to mention the travesty that followed in terms of bringing the perpetrators to justice. Most of them walked, owing to witnesses getting murdered in Canada under RCMP's watch.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Another example of RCMP and CSISs glorious due diligence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.M.B_Noor_Chowdhury This guy killed the President of Bangladesh and most of his family (women and children included) and is no
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Bosch ones (at least the one I have) can even be set to 100F. I haven't actually tested how well it maintains such low temps, but I use it for proofing.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Undiagnosed cataract is a big thing in developing countries. Vision loss from cataract is gradual so many older people don't realize they're turning blind.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Yes, this was my dad. He went from very healthy, active and social to suddenly aloof and reserved. People from his generation in India have a thing against regular medical checkups and only visit doctors when something is wrong. The visual
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Varanane = One (female) with a gifted face. God, Sanskrit names are so beautiful! Also, apt username (the three-eyed one)
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by nsenifty 3y ago
I didn't know about Shiva Sutra until today, but I just thought it was interesting they both have 47 syllables, although not identical.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
> Pāṇini, during his twelve-year-long tapas (fervour, ardour) to Śiva, hears the ḍamaru beat fourteen times. Fourteen classes of syllables drop, resonant, into his fervent ears. a i u ṇ ṛ ḷ k e o ṅ ai au c ha ya va
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Gating as late as possible was precisely the philosophy of the OMSCS program of Georgia Tech. They reduced the bar for admission and admitted as many as they could (given they didn't need to fit everyone in physical classrooms) but kep
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Because people don't tend to drive non-stop for hundreds of miles at cities (except perhaps taxis)? You also always have a charger nearby.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
It is junk, but "space junk" has a very specific meaning [1] and this is not it. Pretty much all rocket launches have debris designed to fall back down into ocean, some recovered and some not. Not only that, but defunct satellites
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Is it really "space junk" if it was meant to fall back into the ocean during launch? I thought it meant the junk orbiting earth and pose a risk of orbital collisions.
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Or about $0.20 per US person per day. Given average water use per person in US is 310 liters/day (82 gallons) [1] and average electricity cost/kwh is $0.17 [2], and assuming 14 kJ/kg. 310 * (14 / 3600) * $0.17 = $0.20. [
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by nsenifty 3y ago
SQL implemented in typescript types - https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

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