shekharshan

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by shekharshan 6y ago
You can become aware on your own by accident. In fact a lot of us do that. Remembering to be aware means there is a muscle memory that does automatic mental state check, there is an intention behind this state check.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I would recommend unvarnished Buddhism, not mindfulness in a pill that is being taught by these crazy apps. Buddhism teaches mindfulness in the context of wisdom and morality, not just mindfulness. Moreover the word itself is a horrible tra
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by shekharshan 6y ago
To give a more concrete example, we have a single Angular app. The app has two areas, one where the user can search for records using free text while another where the user can create or update records. Our source of truth is a Postgres dat
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by shekharshan 6y ago
@yes_man, mammals capable of same emotions that humans have, are brought into this world just so that they can be stacked on top of each other in horrid conditions for 1/10th of their natural lifespan in order to be slaughtered and fed
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by shekharshan 6y ago
It’s more upsetting to know that over 2.7 million are killed for cosmetics. Humans truly know how to dispense misery on mass scale.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
The author highlights not teaching enough mathematical theory behind the various techniques. I have tried Andrew Ng's course on Coursera. It uses Octave from what I remember. After a point the lack of mathematical background started to
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by shekharshan 6y ago
Precisely. If I fast for 16 hours it does not do much. As a male in early 40s I have to hit atleast 18-20 hours of fasting to start seeing a difference. I have to restrict sugar intake also during the 4-5 hour eating window.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
TL;DR! For me, I can always fall asleep within 5-10 minutes of lying down. However on some nights I wake up EXACTLY between 3-4 hours fully energized as if I had 7-8 hours of sleep. Then going back to sleep becomes a problem. This typically
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by shekharshan 6y ago
The more strong your faith the more likely you are to suppress reason with violence, particularly when reason challenges strongly held beliefs.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
"Take him to Detroit"!!
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by shekharshan 6y ago
To implement file system in userspace or TCP stack in userspace how does the process invoke the device driver? I am sure the Kernel steps in at some point. What system calls would you invoke from userspace TCP stack to access the NIC?
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I got my hands on “Computer Systems: A programmer’s perspective” and it brought together hardware, compilers and C programming language in context of Linux. That was it and I was hooked.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
As a developer I try to understand issues and the factors/context behind those issues. My take is most developers tend to do that. If you act like that you cannot possibly be conservative or liberal. I have a hard time categorizing mys
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by shekharshan 6y ago
A couple of years ago I was just learning Python and was playing around with matplotlib. Running simulation of a dice roll 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 times started to show how the distribution starts to catch up with the expe
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by shekharshan 6y ago
Thanks, that is really great. I didn't know about that one.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
My organization is a big fan of Liquibase. We execute Liquibase using Jenkins. It has a lot of awesome features such as ability to re-execute some changesets if file has SHA signature has changed. You can also decide to re-run some SQL file
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I don't miss pre-2000 days when an admin would bounce the Linux servers and not bother to add a startup script for our JBoss or Tomcat servers in their service startup scripts. Our web servers would disappear for no reason from time t
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by shekharshan 6y ago
Focus on keeping your knowledge current. If you have sound grounding in modern stack from virtualization and up using containers and monitoring, I don't see why you should worry about anything. Always be ready to code and even be ready
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by shekharshan 6y ago
Thanks @voisin, this is very helpful.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
In my own Sangha (community) of lay people, we have several who observe the 8 daily precepts. Every retreat I have gone to, I have never seen monks eat more than one meal a day.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
@zhynn, Buddhists monks eat one meal a day throughout their lives. Even lay Buddhists who maintain 8 precepts do not eat after noon throughout their lives. As a practicing Buddhist I eat during a 4-5 hour window everyday of the year. Why ma
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I fast regularly and have a 5-6 hour eating window. During that window I just cannot eat more than 1500 calories. If typical caloric reduction can trigger starvation type response in the body, why does it not happen when we reduce calories
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by shekharshan 6y ago
The conservationists shared a portion of the revenue from the park with the adjacent villages. This helped create a symbiotic relationship between the gorillas and villages. Not saying that this solution will work with poachers but there is
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by shekharshan 6y ago
Thank you so much! I have Shaila Katherine’s book “Focused and Fearless” but not completed the reading. She is an amazing teacher.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
“All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise and will become separated from me”— Siddhartha Gautama. As a Buddhist we do “contemplation of death” meditation on a regular basis. It involves imagining our last few hours on o
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I couldn't understand this: "Domain is an instance of an operating system (or subsystem in case of container virtualization like OpenVZ and lxc) running on a virtualized machine provided by the hypervisor" So the domain itsel
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by shekharshan 6y ago
People will believe fantastic things on faith. When science comes in conflict with their world view they will invoke conspiracy theories and alternate facts. Such is the nature of humankind.
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I agree with the principal of it but I am not sure I can find a company that is not using software as a competitive edge to take poach business away from others (smaller companies) or cut costs through automation. The world we live in is se
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by shekharshan 6y ago
The problem stems from the fact that the initial translations of the Pali Canon to western languages comes from German monks who understood Pali well but could not find appropriate words in western languages to capture the semantics. Mindfu
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by shekharshan 6y ago
I think the author meant to say even developers do not understand the decisions some of the ML algorithms make. Anyone who had to debug ML may partially agree with that. But this doesn’t mean people don’t understand infrastructure. Fundamen

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