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sachdevapon Some Days I Can’t Do Life – When everyday life becomes a struggle (2020)

Is having an abusive family grown up a real lifelong challenge? Is having poor brain chemistry leading you to making decisions you don't "want" to make a real enough challenge? Is crippling anxiety that prevents you from doing anything and not having emotional support to fight it difficult enough?

Who are you to judge what a person's mind is feeling like? You have no way to know someone else's demons. So the bad taste in your mouth is no one else's doing.

sachdevapon Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

The 40% in a vacuum does not really complete the picture for me. Is it possible to get the same book at a lower price somewhere else? If it were the case why would there not be other retailers undercutting Amazon?

Maybe I am missing some monopoly related issue here, but I would love to know more.

sachdevapon Sugar-sweetened beverage intake and serum testosterone levels in adult males (2018)

Sugar is not fundamentally toxic. This is a very poor conclusion to draw, and even more so when, as someone else suggested, expanding this to all carbs.

Glucose is used in IV drips, and in emergency conditions, providing someone with glucose and electrolytes can prevent them from passing out.

sachdevapon 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

Can someone please guide me on how to check this leak to verify if my info was leaked?

sachdevapon 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

But parent is not talking about calling out people for having social media accounts. He/She is talking about those having a social media account judging those not having one as paranoid. You've just propped up a straw man here without addressing the point the parent comment made.

sachdevapon Emacs Symbolic Integration

One amazing use of symbolic integration: https://github.com/johnbcoughlin/calctex

Create latex equations in calc! :D

sachdevapon Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

I have not looked at the underlying study, but that article definitely does a terrible job of being clear on the caveats of the study. E.g. this nugget was left for the last paragraph of the article:

"Our exercise intervention was a simple home strength exercise program, which likely was not challenging enough in our unexpectedly active study population, where over 80% already engaged moderate to high intensity exercise," she said.

I would take anything from this study with a pinch of salt. I doubt if it was a well controlled study.

sachdevapon A Brief History of Surgeons

You're very right. I am guilty of not being familiar with Middle-Eastern contributions to Science, although I am familiar with extensive mathematics contributions. I'll look through this. Thank you!

sachdevapon A Brief History of Surgeons

Thanks for the sources. I'll be sure to go through them.

I am quite familiar with how Western history tends to misrepresent contributions of the East. It is rather unfortunate, and certainly extends beyond the realm of science.

sachdevapon A Brief History of Surgeons

This article really short-sells Sushruta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta

The Sushruta-Samhita covers hernia surgery, C-sections, prostrate removal ... a huge range of topics.

sachdevapon Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)

FYI, typo: you wrote "insulation" instead of "insulin".

sachdevapon Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

FYI, that is the wife/doctor's account you replied to.

sachdevapon India, Jio, and the Four Internets

I asked straightforward questions. I wasn't aggressive in what I said. I did call him out on his self-professed disappointment with the state of affairs which seems to be blaming the tech talent out of India for not working on solving fundamental issues. This sort of punting of responsibility for building India is common among Indian youth. The thought being - someone else is supposed to sacrifice their career and life to create a better India to solve my disappointment.

And no my work doesn't, but I'm not the one professing disappointment with Indian entrepreneurs.

sachdevapon India, Jio, and the Four Internets

Is someone else supposed to work on solving the local issues while you personally reap the rewards of working in the tech domain? Is your work pushing against the status quo of any of these fundamentals you talk about?

sachdevapon The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low

This is a big myth. Wealthy people are not going to just get up and leave America. Where do you think they would go?

sachdevapon The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low

And how many steps is your reasoning removed from "Taxation is thievery"?

sachdevapon Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and bad for innovation

If there are large spreadsheets documenting this, I would be interested in seeing some sources on this. Could you please provide some?

sachdevapon Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

Says who? If history is any proof, I highly doubt this will happen.

sachdevapon Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

I am running Emacs on macOS, and it only takes 43 MB barebones, and my regular setup takes about 81 MB. Both opening the same org-mode file. Point being that it really depends on what you choose to run on Emacs, and it does not have to be about 100 MB.

Just to add to that, I don't think anyone should be concerned about their text editor taking 200 MB anymore. I doubt it is worth worrying about.

sachdevapon Making Emacs Popular Again

>>What makes you say that? I don't think this is true.

>the same thing that probably made you say this :

>>I can't imagine greybeards programming in rust.

Guilty. I clearly had a blind spot there.

sachdevapon Making Emacs Popular Again

Guilty. I clearly had a blind spot there.

sachdevapon Making Emacs Popular Again

> I should also add that Elisp is an absolutely terrible programming language when compared to more modern alternatives.

This is a commonly seen complaint, and I do not completely disagree with you. But really, if there were better options to create an editor on top of some sort of lisp-machine equivalent, why are there such few equivalent editors out there?

I would be happy to move to a new mature ecosystem that allows the sort of flexibility offered by emacs, on which tools like magit and org-mode may become popular, but I am yet to find anything in the same ballpark.

sachdevapon Making Emacs Popular Again

magit is just superb. You are bound to love it! And the developer is extremely responsive too!

sachdevapon Making Emacs Popular Again

> I guess most of the core emacs devs are greybeards who started programming in the 80s or earlier, so what happens when they grow too old? Who will replace them?

What makes you say that? I don't think this is true. Not among the package maintainers anyways, and also of note here is remacs - I can't imagine greybeards programming in rust.

And popularity does not always mean more contributors, not when they are just the consumers of the product. The drop off in delta contributors / delta consumers is fast.

sachdevapon Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

Is revenue per employee some sort of standard measure in the industry?

sachdevapon Bye, Amazon

I don't think employment insurance concerns him. He has earned way too much money for that to be a problem.

sachdevapon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: Vancouver, BC
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: 3D simulation, computer animation, numerical simulation, optimization, biomechanics, VR.
  Languages: C++, Python
  Degrees: PhD in Computer Science (Focus in Biomechanical 3D simulation software)
  Resume: https://bit.ly/SachdevaResume-May2020
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachdevaprash/
  Email: sachdevaprash [at] gmail.com

sachdevapon US edits National Stockpile website after Kushner claims it’s not for states

Not a state that can sway Republican, unlike Florida. [0]

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...

sachdevapon US edits National Stockpile website after Kushner claims it’s not for states

More like some states only, like Florida. The Governor of Florida, if I might point out, had been declining calling for a lockdown/quarantine well into need, but Florida still has a much less sever case than NY, which has been asking for aid for weeks along with other states.

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...

sachdevapon US edits National Stockpile website after Kushner claims it’s not for states

I guess it is meant to be used by federal agencies where they "feel it's needed" for better chance of re-election, yes? Case in point, Florida [0].

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...