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>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed

I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.

"This feels like a particular awful thing to ask someone to do, but I believe if everyone truly were able to imagine the sudden death of the folks they love, it would change how they live."

I couldn't agree more.

I wouldn't say it changed my life. But "Deep Work" resonated very deeply with me.

An anecdote and a poll. I grew up in India in middle class family where education was considered important. A recurring nightmare (autual dream I see during sleep) I see even in my adulthood is about me about to take an exam and not being prepared for it. I do not see this nightmare often but I still remember it since the amount of panic I feel when I see it. I discussed with my wife and she also have these nightmare of similar nature. I wanted to check whether anyone out here see this and whether it is more prevalent in culture like Indian culture or is it a universal phenomenon?

I decided to comment after seeing a number of negative comments here. I went through the process a it was a positive experience for me. I ended up interviewing at 5-6 places and didn't receive an offer. I liked getting the interview feedback. The time saved in skipping the usual application process seemed worthwhile to me ( You spend 2(?) hours on the triplebyte interview. Then a short introducutory call with each company you are matched and the onsite interview). My only complaint was that I was looking for larger and my matches were all 5-50 employee companies. I guess not many large firm are using them. Overall I would recommend triplebyte for anyone who is interested in startups and who currently in a full time job search.

To clarify parent's point further, Hindi is not even "the" official language, it is just one out of 22 official languages.

Have you ruled out sleep apnea?

It was a known bug in the some go library. It was recently fixed. But at the time it caused concourse to stop working until restarted.

I evaluated concourse CI and I was impressed by the concept.

Pros - Setup was really easy.(I didn't use bosh). - Both server and build pipeline configuration (Yaml file) are easy to backup and recreate.

Cons - When I evaluated it , it had a few bugs which forced me to restart the server almost daily to keep it working. It should be more stable now.

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I worked on OpenVMS at the start of my career. I heard that the customer didn't want to port away from OpenVMS and this prevented HP from killing it off. One famous story in VMS folklore was where a building containing a datacenter catches fires and Unix admins run into the building to retrieve the backup disks and OpenVms admin do not since clustering give hot backup by default. Another story was of banks having data centers near the twin towers. The datacenters go down since the air conditioners go down due to the dust from the twin towers crashing. But the OpenVms cluster continue to operate since the half of the cluster is in New Jersey.

It was ported to Itanium while the x84 port and the POSIX compatibility project was never completed.

As an Indian who has lived in 7 apartment/homes in the US, I have yet to see a place which good ventilation in the kitchen. Usually the fan (if any) in the kitchen just circulates the air inside, which serves only to spread the smell. If I am lucky to have a window near the kitchen, I keep it open with fan near it as makeshift exhaust.

Houses in india have exhaust fans/ chimneys (electric or otherwise) that take the air in the kitchen and dumps it outside the house, which I believe is the only way to handle smells from indian cooking.

"(I refuse to get an HMO for moral reasons)"

Can you elaborate on this?

>>>>I'm probably gonna kill myself soon

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There was a amnesty window open a few months back. I recall seeing an ad for a no questions asked amnesty with 50% and so tax rate.

Yes. This is going to affect tax evaders on a lower spectrum of wealth. Those who aren't wealthy enough to have offshore accounts.

Even that is a step forward.

500 and 1000 Ruppee note cease to be legal tender as of today midnight. Everyone who has them can get it exchanged for 100 ruppee notes in banks,post offices etc until Dec 31. You need to provide a valid id to do an exchange, which means that the transaction will be traceable and Income Tax department (Indian version of IRS) will be matching them to declared income. ATM and banks are closed for the next couple of days.

Essentially people hoarding black money in 500 and 1000 ruppee denomination will be stuck with this money as they can't exchange them. (money obtained via undeclared/not-taxed transactions. One common method is show a lower amount in the legal documents. For example show that land/house is being purchased for 100K$ on documents while paying say 300K $ thereby evading tax on 200K $, but with the side effect making 200K$ black money). This is also slow down spread of fake currency in the country. (Only temporarily until fake of the new notes are created).

Having lived in India for most of my life makes me take a slightly pessimistic view of this measure

+ Small scale hoarders of black money will be affected by this move. + Once you cross a certain wealth, hoarding cash is impractical, so you start investing in land,gold etc. Those people will not be affected by this measure.

+ Average citizen will be inconvenienced. I can see the long lines forming at the banks for the new few days as people scramble to get the notes changed. Not to mention people who are travelling etc, who might be having no money except for the discontinued notes and no way to get more money for the next two days.

+ There will be attempts to circumvent this. I guess there will offers of "exchange x amount and get y % of it" given to middle to low income people in the coming days. But it is hard to scale this, so it wont affect the efficacy of the measure. + I have a hard time believing that the people close to the current Prime Minister / Government didn't know this was going to happen. (If this measure wasn't carefully planned not to affect "friends" of the current administration(look up Adani Group), I would be greatly surprised and will change my opinion about the current Prime Minister)

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How much of a $$$ is trinet? We had it in a earlier startup (20 - 30 ppl) and we got a significantly better health plan

You said "prepare for interview". I was doing it a few months back and I didn't enjoy it. One reason was I was thinking in the back of my mind about all the interesting (for me) thing I could be learning instead of the interview prep. I used to devote sometime to study something that genuinely interested me, regardless of whether it was helpful for interview.

Again, this helped me a little bit, YMMV

1)I get up early in the morning on weekends (relatively early like 7). I have sleep at a sane time on the night before to do this, instead of staying up and watching netflix till 3 in the morning on the night before.

Waking up at noon ruins the day for me. YMMV

2) Limiting the things you want to do. I had this nagging feeling that I should read all the interesting articles that come across in HN etc. I solved but installing a "save to wunderlist" chrome extension. I tell myself that I would read it later (which rarely happens).

They can, but it is significantly complicated and expensive than for a non H1B

I can see the pictures on the webpage. But if I click on them ,I get a adult content page in flickr.

I used this and found it to satisfactory, assuming you use a monitor and a keyboard.

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If you arrange the cables right, switching position takes only a minute.

I too share the worry of living forever. I am still religious but I wonder what will you do if you live forever.

Strangers greeting me on the street was a culture shock when I moved from India to US (to Salt Lake City,UT). Often my brain won't process it in time to return the greeting before the person has passed me. Sometimes I will bungle the reply (saying "same to you" in reply to "Good Morning") or just smile in return or nod. If you have greeted someone on the street and hasn't gotten any response back, please don't take it to heart.

Short answer is yes. Long answer is that it is that the level of corruption varies from place to place but the police susceptible to political influence everywhere. A daily interaction with the cops like a traffic stop can be similar to one in US , cop checks your documentation and issues a citation, or it can be “indian” one where he accuses you of a crime (that you have committed or not), gives a option of pay him x amount as bribe or paying a fine of 5x.

There are many honest policemen/women (as well as dishonest ones) but if you are pitted against someone well-connected politically or rich or (usually) both then chances are police is going to side with them and you will probably lose regardless of who is guilty. Unless something extraordinary happens,like you get showcased in the media.

It is not only police. The government machinery on the lowest level is inefficient and corrupt. You need to pay a bribe to get a power connection to your home, a drivers license etc. If you refuse to do so, you will be forced to spent your time in following up, complaining to superiors. It is doable to some extent but you will spent significant amount of your time and energy.

This is my experience in one of the better states in India, which makes me wonder about the rest of the country.

1) This is highly dependent on the place. In rural areas or smaller towns, there is high probability that someone will take you to the hospital.

2) There is no equivalent of 911 in India. You can call the police but they usually don't have ambulances. Most cases you will have to take the injured in a private vehicle to the hospital.

3) Harassment by police is a real thing in many places. They will suspect you of being involved in the accident. At least in my state (Kerala) there has been conscious effort to resolve this and seems to be working.

4) There is government hospitals who will treat you, no questions asked. But these are not present everywhere, and many don't have adequate resources (Operation theaters, Intensive Care Units etc) in many of these. So there is a chance that you will have to travel to bigger hospital to get appropriate care.

Anecdote. Few years back , I was driving to my home when police flagged me down and asked me to take a lady injured (she was pillion-riding on a two wheeler) to the hospital. Took then to fairly large government hospital (which is also a medical college). The attending doctor asked me whether I was involved in the accident and the told me I can leave. I informed the relatives of the injured (got numbers from her companion) and left.

Legally that is a gray area. You are supposed to leave the country if you are unemployed. But USCIS usually ignores it if you file for a visa transfer in less than month from losing your job. (Alternative is that you have to leave US and get a new visa stamped and return)

CSE341: Programming Languages by Dan Grossman

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Do you have a suggestion for a pulse oximeter that I can use overnight. Quick googling doesn't give me anything in the price range.

Talking from the perspective of someone on H1-B. Please keep any employee on H1-B on your payroll, in lieu of a severance pay. This will help them to minimize the issues that crop up with the immigration when you are out of a job for a extended period.