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sabujp

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currently a googler working on TAP
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sabujp··on The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
If you feel handicapped now without your cell phone, just imagine what's going to happen when you lose/break your AR headset you wear everywhere (hopefully except when sleep) or when the bionic implant Elon plugged into your brain stops working. Pay up peasant.
sabujp··on CT Scan of a Pumpkin
and for mri https://www.clovisopenmri.com/blog/512
sabujp··on Gallium helps convert CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen
does the semiconductor industry not use large quantities of GaAs? Has the industry replaced its use with something else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
sabujp··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
cheaper pixel 6a coming i hope?
sabujp··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
i would hope that spotify has an experiments system that they can canary
sabujp··on Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do
if you use fb, unfollow everything and everyone and then either selectively follow what you like or don't ever follow anyone again : https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28#gis... , it will greatly reduce your time on fb.
sabujp··on The Math Behind “Spot It”
make your own https://macrusher.github.io/dobble-generator/
sabujp··on Review of the Buick Riviera’s ‘touchscreen’ from 1986 [video]
demuro has a much better review of all the quirks and features of the touchscreen plus how it interacts with the main gauge cluster and how it can even be used to eject the tape deck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq2PSLdc8rA
sabujp··on Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
being able to defeat latest stockfish level 6 and drawing against level 7 or 8
sabujp··on Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
you can do it using this script : https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28 , login, go to your news feed settings -> unfollow -> scroll down all the way to the bottom of the list (it won't work unless you do this!), then copy paste the script into the developer console.

UPDATE: I had to run it a few times, somehow even though it logged that it had unfollowed all of the items, there were still ~40 left the 2nd time, 3 the 3rd time, at which point i just unfollowed the remaining friends/pages manually.

sabujp··on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
1 costco pepperoni slice is 700 calories iirc, i can't eat 4 costco slices, but i assume a greasy pizza hut slice from a large pie is close?
sabujp··on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
coke zero with 700 calorie per slice pizza where i end up eating 3-4 slices
sabujp··on Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
you can play "sound" chess using general rules and get to about master level on lichess :

    * trade a piece (bishop for knight and vice versa) when it's being less effective than the opponent's piece
    * block opponents bishops
    * block opponents pawns 
    * don't give opponent's knights a perch (supported by a pawn) on your side of the board, especially near the middle
    * try to promote edge pawns to the middle or clear the path out of the way of your pawns
..there are many other rules, but you can apply these much more quickly (esp in speed chess) thinking "statistically" to improve your position. The end game is where it gets hard for humans and you actually have to think, especially if there are knights still jumping around, rooks and bishops are easier to visualize and block.
sabujp··on Canyon.mid
live : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRgGS4SuJ8
sabujp··on Facebook-owned sites were down
India runs on whatsapp. They'll have more backups now.
sabujp··on Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
top sink is british virgin islands : https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-havens-for-millionaires-...
sabujp··on I tried 30 mustards this summer
Also missing asian preserved mustard variants, e.g. my favorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasundi . Any type of spicy brown is my goto in the US.
sabujp··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
effort is good, but needs some work, no results here :

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=rxjava+2+api+docs

https://www.google.com/search?q=rxjava+2+api+docs&oq=rxjava+...

sabujp··on Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan
veritasium has a video about this that basically says the same thing about stressing the body (e.g. expose yourself to cold, eat less protein, do strenuous exercise) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k , extreme heat would probably also have the same effect
sabujp··on Silanano launches the first new commercial battery chemistry since 1991
you can find articles from several years ago that discuss using silicon anodes : https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aieee.org+silicon+anod...
sabujp··on El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so
back to 47519 now but yes there's a >50% chance there'll be more downward pressure tomorrow
sabujp··on Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
#3 https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2021_f... : is how i imagine >90% of HN commenters to be
sabujp··on Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
nice, has lots of other features like detecting low energy bluetooth and audio to tell you if you're getting closer or farther away
sabujp··on Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
what are currently the best open source projects that allow you to fully automate and manage deployment of your own personal (or multi-user) cloud photos/drive storage service? I found:

    [1]: https://github.com/nextcloud
    [2]: https://github.com/Piwigo with S3 extension: https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691
    [3]: others https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives-to-google-photos-showdown/ which mentions the most feature packed to be https://photoprism.app/
sabujp··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
yes, thanks for pointing that out!
sabujp··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
no my point is the EVs have far more electrical components, so if anyone is being disingenuous and not pointing out the entire picture it's the people also posting links to articles of ICE cars also catching on fire making people think it was the gas that combusted when it was actually an electrical fault. We have to look at the actual cause. Also I'm not saying EVs aren't the future, but there's still more work to be done in making electrical systems in cars safer, whether it's ICE or EV.
sabujp··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
this exactly, every recent fire / recall has been because of a short in some electrical system igniting something like the brake fluid, which also exists in EV
sabujp··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
“Brake fluid leaking from the master cylinder reservoir cap had been reported to enter the vehicles’ automatic braking system (ABS) wiring harness electrical connectors, causing short-circuits, melting, and fires,” the NTSB reported. By 2012, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knew of at least 260 vehicles that experienced a non-crash related fire.

Last i checked EVs also use brake fluid and they could end up exploding the same way. Please post a link to an ICE vehicle spontaneously combusting while off due to spontaneous combustion of the gasoline contained in its tank.

sabujp··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
last i checked electric vehicles also use the same braking mechanisms and could catch fire for the same reasons : https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/hyundai-... , please post an actual link to a known case of an ICE vehicle spontaneously combusting while being turned off due to some component of the gas/gas system being the main cause of the combustion.
sabujp··on What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
there's a 1:1 scale picture of the black hole fig 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf
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