kirubakaran's HN Upvotes
on
histre
kirubakaran
Highlights
Life can be funny and cruel sometimes. You might think you are going through your darkest hours when, in reality, you are growing a solid backbone that will support the rest of your life.
Personally I think it's about perseverance, but mostly with an emphasis on learning and growing. You iterate, you learn and you eventually build up a skillset that is hard to stop even if things don't go your way.It's not for everyone though. Bar is super high, risk is high, long work weeks with little balance are the entry ticket.
I thought that tenure and financial independence were the roads to freedom, which is what I really wanted
It’s important to think not in terms of success or failure, but in terms of philosophy and mistakes. If you’re focused on the outcome there isn’t much you can improve on, the reasons for failure are many. Mistakes on the other hand stem from flaws in your philosophy, which you can readily revise. In a lot of the cases presented here, the mistake that stands out is working with the wrong people.
#nix
learned a lot from the comment section re practical difficulties
Show More
Highlights
But I recognize that if you need to do something slightly unusual, documentation is incomplete and scattered. For simple things, my contrarian view is that Nix is not hard at all. The subset of Nix I use can be learned in a couple of hours. I think the trick is to avoid getting sucked into packaging complex software with messy build systems. If the stack you use is well packaged in NixPkgs, it's a joy to use. If it's not, it's better to stay away.
Highlights
How is timescapes measurably worse
It starts with the assumption that our observations of cosmic expansion are false and due to time dilation from a clumpy universe, then works out how clumpy the universe must be to account for our observations.For timescapes to "work" time must run 38% faster in cosmic voids. This works out to a density difference of about 100,000 times what we observe with many existing methods.
Collect and share the web
Get started for free