pathikrit

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by pathikrit 23d ago
Why is it so hard lol? I have the Bank of America Rewards card for 25+ years. 2.62% cashback on everything, 3.5% on dining/travel. Maybe there are better ones out there but this is good. I have auto-pay setup so I don't have to wo
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by pathikrit 6mo ago
10-15 years ago HN was the place where everyone showed off their new shiny toys and people would jump over themselves to try some new framework or db or tool. Now, so much negative sentiment about AI coding. I bet if LLMs came 15 years ago,
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by pathikrit 7mo ago
Related: My project to display daily newspaper: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall
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by pathikrit 10mo ago
I love math but the symbology and notations get in my way. 2 ideas: 1. Can we reinvent notation and symbology? No superscripts or subscripts or greek letters and weird symbols? Just functions with input and output? Verifiable by type system
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by pathikrit 1y ago
I made a e-ink newspaper display: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall This would be amazing
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by pathikrit 1y ago
Do you need to know internals of a database or just use them as a tool. If you hit some bottleneck, you go deep.
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by pathikrit 2y ago
Cool! I make this as a hobby project: https://framed.news/ Would be cool to have a color option too
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by pathikrit 2y ago
My favorite conspiracy theory: After Tiananmen, the CCP planned many contingents next time something similar happened. Cue, the [2019 Hong Kong Democracy Protests][1]. The MSS releases Covid19 at the peak of the protests (actually they do p
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by pathikrit 2y ago
Most likely he realized once the authorities have his name - he can't run forever. That being said - some obvious stuff he could have done like grow a beard and shave it after and fly out of the country to somewhere cheap like Thailand
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by pathikrit 2y ago
Cool! Btw, I make this: https://framed.news/ framed e-ink news display
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by pathikrit 3y ago
Here's my version: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall/
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Show HN: A tiny toy CLI ChatGPT interface in Node.js (<200 LOC)(github.com)
1 points by pathikrit 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Node.js based e-ink live newspaper display(github.com)
3 points by pathikrit 4y ago|0 comments
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by pathikrit 4y ago
Why not respond with both X and Y? e.g. for the last 3 character thing, here would be an appropriate response: To get the last 3 characters, do `echo ${foo: -3}`. Are you trying to get the file extension though? What if the extension is not
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by pathikrit 4y ago
Teslas have creep off by default.
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by pathikrit 4y ago
Honestly, probably worth it just to not have to pay for hosting.
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Hyperart Thomasson(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pathikrit 5y ago|0 comments
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by pathikrit 6y ago
When I first read Monty Hall problem, I actually thought it was blindingly obvious to switch. The fact the presenter had 2 doors to chose from and the one he opens is a goat _should_ increase the chance of the other one being not(goat) righ
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Brahui Language(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pathikrit 7y ago|0 comments
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by pathikrit 7y ago
Haskell
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by pathikrit 7y ago
The speed record for a car over a kilometer has not been broken since 1937 [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125_Rekordwagen
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Mercedes Benz W125 Rekordwagen (1938)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pathikrit 8y ago|0 comments
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Site.Google.com(sites.google.com)
1 points by pathikrit 8y ago|0 comments
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Shoppinglist.Google.com(shoppinglist.google.com)
2 points by pathikrit 8y ago|0 comments
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by pathikrit 9y ago
Is there a database of leaked passwords somewhere? I would simply enforce that your password is not in the leaks? Probably would capture the most common 100k passwords anyway this way?
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by pathikrit 9y ago
My quick and dirty tl;dr: https://gist.github.com/pathikrit/a7845f72645159646fdb632bc3... Let C<A> be a higher-kinded type e.g. in List<Animal>, List is C and Animal is A. Let S be a subtype of T e.g. in cl
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by pathikrit 10y ago
I know someone in high-frequency trading who makes $150,000 and a bonus between $1m-$2m each year
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by pathikrit 10y ago
Honest question: If I want the diversity of a Ikea catalogue with higher price and quality, where should I go?
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by pathikrit 10y ago
Or just pay $100/yr to back it up to Dropbox (or even cheaper AWS Glacier)?
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by pathikrit 10y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump Some buffalo jumps were used for thousands of years and had CRUSHED BONES from millions of animals falling over compressed into walls tens of feet high.

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