roansh

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.

roansh

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

https://startreverie.com

Rates your sleep, tracks sleep debt, and tracks how workout timing, coffee time, AC temperature, etc influence your sleep.

2.0 is in review - adds support for recovery (based on sleep HRV, HR), and strain.

a demo video here https://x.com/rohitshindein/status/1985643097439813831

roansh

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Apologies for a noob (and off-topic) question, but what stops Apple from competing with Nvidia?

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I am in between jobs right now, and free to join immediately :)

  Location: Pune/Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: [email protected]
  Website: https://rohitshinde.in

I consider myself a generalist and pick up tools and languages based on the problem at hand. I am currently working as an individual contributor, I've also worked as a consultant, have led a team for some time.

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Hi :)

  Location: Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: [Backend, distributed systems focussed], tools familiar with: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, Lisp
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
  Email:[email protected]

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

  Location: Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, Lisp
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
  Email:[email protected]

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Benoit, thank you for this!

"What has government done to our money" is a nice read to understand money, inflation, central banks, exchange rates between currencies, etc.

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

It opens with describing what money is from the first principles.

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

How would you feel if your commits become publicly available for everyone to see forever?

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Slightly off topic but:

It is in money’s interest to turn everything into service based model?

Read some news recently that, big corps are buying up houses shooting up their prices enough that common man can’t afford them.

I guess once the acquisition is large enough, they can force you to pay more money for shelter.

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I wonder how many of layoffs that have happened, the ones coming are actually needed financially. For example: I suspect a lot of companies took the opportunity of the first covid lockdowns to fire some people?

Nothing against it since every company is just improving its chances of survival, just thinking out loud about the reasons they share publicly. Also, of course there would be some whose survival was in good shape, but the layoffs were just to increase the profits?

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

This is a good talk by Jonathan Blow on/against software complexity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

Also talks about the risk of losing knowledge, and a way to avoid that (make multiple copies).

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Emacs has a plug-in.

Slightly off topic but.. couldn’t resist

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Same for me :) This is a good trick to get out of depressive moods

While I think this[1] holds, I can still use the scale of the universe to get myself out of bad situations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30852360

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Had never thought of it this way. Where the tables turn, where we are significant, just like how we are from Earth's point of view. Agree, that is a terrifying thought.

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Haha. yes, nice one. Fits in line with Albert Camus's viewpoint which puts a positive light on it, in similar fashion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOfbObFOCw

But I am also coming to a conclusion that we shouldn't really let the scale of universe come in way -- but if we can let it affect things positively, great, no harm.

Reason being: For anything to make sense, it has to have some context (example: these words make sense to you, but not to one who doesn't know English). When we make the context (or space, or time) unfathomably larger, things we have control over lose their meaning, their impact, it literally becomes nonsense? And so we should probably keep it away. Good as a thought exercise & fun, but impractical. Now you can counter-argue saying what's "practical," but that defeats the point :)

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.

There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe

And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

It indeed is!

We are merely the vessels, and the agents. Information or the accumulated knowledge is the living entity. We are just adding to it, while also passing it down.

We procreate to keep the information alive.

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

You could also experiment in shifting negative self-talk into positive one. Like with all changes, this won't be easy, but I believe it is doable.

Use reason, different angles, perspectives, whatever the means to shift the negative tone of the self-talk?

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks. What is Logos? :)

roansh

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Alright I buy your point. I don't like it, but I do buy it.

I do see that ultimately everything is painted in my mind by my senses and I rely on this painting for my interpretation of the world. If I didn't have senses since birth? I wouldn't have the painting nor any understanding of the world except for, maybe, a sense of hunger and an urge of bodily secretions.

Regardless, the world continues to exist as is.

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