mesarvagya | 3 months ago | on: How good engineers write bad code at big companies
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mesarvagya | 5 months ago | on: Say Goodbye
Reads like a fucking corpspeak [1]
mesarvagya | 1 year ago | on: How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Obligatory r/fucknestle.
Nestle has a long history of doing lots of fucked up things. I try to use as few Nestle products as possible. I don't get why government can't regulate these companies which has a monopoly on everything you eat or drink[1]
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
This may not hold true for companies that gives your RSUs and you want it to get vested.
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: How many jacaranda trees are there in Sydney?
Aren't these considered invasive plants in Australia [1]
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
There was a discussion sometime back in reddit [1]:
The conclusion: Pushing brain to its limit requires a lot of energy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/17ms04d/til_...
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Toyota's new $10k pickup
> If they could fit this out to pass safety regs in North America and keep the price under $20K
And add dealer's markup fee and hidden fees, it will automatically touch 30K
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Ian's Shoelace Site
For people who want to give different knots a try, Ian also has a practical book [1]
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
F = m * a
Keeping constant acceleration, compare hummer against corolla. Hummer is going to squash pedestrians.
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees
How about saving the Phytoplanktons?
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)
This. If it is a production issue that needs to be fixed, fix it fast with priority and create another ticket to take care of reviewers comments.
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
Or we can also use Logstash
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
> Is there anything good samaritan citizens can do locally (on a standard residential lot) to improve the particulate pollution levels outdoors around their house? (and possibly their neighbors' too?).
I would say electrifying your home would be a good first step. For example, we could replace following at home starting with:
Gas Furnace & AC -- Heat pump
Gas cooktop -- Electric cooktop
Gas Blowers, Mowers -- Electric versions of same
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: macOS command-line tools you might not know about
I liked the option of using `-v organ`
mesarvagya | 2 years ago | on: Come back, c2.com, we still need you
Most of SPA websites today cannot be downloaded through httrack.
mesarvagya | 3 years ago | on: Managers exploit loyal workers over less committed colleagues
IMO being loyal is like being sweet, which will attract ants of all sort and suck all juices out of you. Sometimes, being bitter (saying NO) is an art.
mesarvagya | 3 years ago | on: We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF
Yep. I installed their app and first step is to provide my phone#.
mesarvagya | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I installed APEC RO HI filter, which is really good.
mesarvagya | 3 years ago | on: Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?
This. Americans are too used to owning a personal car and driving it even though short trips can be replaced by public transit.
I agree US is too big to be covered by public transit, but if we want to win the climate war, US has to cover all its states and make public transit seamless. Once this goal is complete, discourage owning of personal vehicle.
Also a picture comparing car vs bus [1]. Now compare the green house emission between two.
[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/space-required-to-transport-60-pe...
mesarvagya | 3 years ago | on: Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
~12MWh or ~12KWh ?
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Now add "Why can't you use/ask AI agents to fix it?" which is being shoved through your throat by management.