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Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.

https://startreverie.com

Rates your sleep, tracks sleep debt, and tracks how workout timing, coffee time, AC temperature, etc influence your sleep.

2.0 is in review - adds support for recovery (based on sleep HRV, HR), and strain.

a demo video here https://x.com/rohitshindein/status/1985643097439813831

Apologies for a noob (and off-topic) question, but what stops Apple from competing with Nvidia?

I am in between jobs right now, and free to join immediately :)

  Location: Pune/Bangalore, India
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  Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
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Hi :)

  Location: Bangalore, India
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  Email:shinde.rohitt@gmail.com

  Location: Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, Lisp
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
  Email:shinde.rohitt@gmail.com

Benoit, thank you for this!

"What has government done to our money" is a nice read to understand money, inflation, central banks, exchange rates between currencies, etc.

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

It opens with describing what money is from the first principles.

How would you feel if your commits become publicly available for everyone to see forever?

Slightly off topic but:

It is in money’s interest to turn everything into service based model?

Read some news recently that, big corps are buying up houses shooting up their prices enough that common man can’t afford them.

I guess once the acquisition is large enough, they can force you to pay more money for shelter.

I wonder how many of layoffs that have happened, the ones coming are actually needed financially. For example: I suspect a lot of companies took the opportunity of the first covid lockdowns to fire some people?

Nothing against it since every company is just improving its chances of survival, just thinking out loud about the reasons they share publicly. Also, of course there would be some whose survival was in good shape, but the layoffs were just to increase the profits?

This is a good talk by Jonathan Blow on/against software complexity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

Also talks about the risk of losing knowledge, and a way to avoid that (make multiple copies).

Emacs has a plug-in.

Slightly off topic but.. couldn’t resist

Same for me :) This is a good trick to get out of depressive moods

While I think this[1] holds, I can still use the scale of the universe to get myself out of bad situations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30852360

Had never thought of it this way. Where the tables turn, where we are significant, just like how we are from Earth's point of view. Agree, that is a terrifying thought.

Haha. yes, nice one. Fits in line with Albert Camus's viewpoint which puts a positive light on it, in similar fashion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOfbObFOCw

But I am also coming to a conclusion that we shouldn't really let the scale of universe come in way -- but if we can let it affect things positively, great, no harm.

Reason being: For anything to make sense, it has to have some context (example: these words make sense to you, but not to one who doesn't know English). When we make the context (or space, or time) unfathomably larger, things we have control over lose their meaning, their impact, it literally becomes nonsense? And so we should probably keep it away. Good as a thought exercise & fun, but impractical. Now you can counter-argue saying what's "practical," but that defeats the point :)

How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.

There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe

And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...

It indeed is!

We are merely the vessels, and the agents. Information or the accumulated knowledge is the living entity. We are just adding to it, while also passing it down.

We procreate to keep the information alive.

You could also experiment in shifting negative self-talk into positive one. Like with all changes, this won't be easy, but I believe it is doable.

Use reason, different angles, perspectives, whatever the means to shift the negative tone of the self-talk?

Thanks. What is Logos? :)

Alright I buy your point. I don't like it, but I do buy it.

I do see that ultimately everything is painted in my mind by my senses and I rely on this painting for my interpretation of the world. If I didn't have senses since birth? I wouldn't have the painting nor any understanding of the world except for, maybe, a sense of hunger and an urge of bodily secretions.

Regardless, the world continues to exist as is.

I agree with you & the parent comment. I just wanted to play a little with reason :)

Where does 1 + 1 = 2 (or math) live? Is it in any way related to us, our experiences, our senses, or evolution? Is it part of objective reality or just some abstract idea?

I agree though, with just our senses, we can never experiences the reality - just as simply we cannot see molecules - but we know they exist? We understand the molecular machinery of the cell, though we cannot see nor experience it.

Thanks :)

Similarly I had the realization that when left alone, you can rapidly lose track of reality. Your emotions will influence beliefs and nobody can rebalance your mind. These beliefs can make you suffer deeply and sometimes they're completely bogus.. yet you can't easily extract yourself from this mindset, while when with others they can bring you back closer to a centered view. I kinda see social groups as balancing devices now.

I think I have experienced this. Also being among people constantly gives you these signals to process, which distract you from the self-talk. These external signals help you hook back into the collective thought?

How do you define truth, and objective reality? With your argument, it means we can't ever experience the true reality -- or ever know if it even exists!

They are always around :) you notice them when you need them?

Aaah :)

Basically everything is one. All objects, people, and I. All is one. Would that also be a right description of non-duality?

Btw, thanks! :)

I think this is true for everyone? But not to the extent you describe I think.

Man, this topic is hard. First off, how do you figure out who you are. What shapes up that? Is it a constant? Maybe we delude ourselves with a wrong image, and then we have these emotions that drive our behaviour, our actions which don't align with that image.

I think simpler is, letting go of the rigid definition of "who you are", not even concern ourselves with defining it. Experiment with many things, and then do what you enjoy doing?

Of course, legal & moral constraints should hold :)

I've been exploring these thoughts. I think the more we are lost in our own thoughts, thinking about the "I", the more unhappy we become. Every emotion stems from the "I". When we let go of the "I", the ego, things calm down. So ultimately, to become happy, I think you could try to train your mind to let go of your ego. This is a hard thing to do, but not impossible. Psychadelics, and meditation help.

This is not a mind trick either, it's the ultimate truth? There's no me & you. In 150 years, every human being alive today is going to die. We are all going to dissolve into the same thing. So, I can argue that, with time being the difference, you and I are the same!

There's no us vs them. It's just us.

It also fits in line with "doing something for others"[1]. The more we concern ourselves with others, the better we feel. Because we lose ourselves.

I think it also fits in line with if you can get in "flow" states while doing some activity. If it is what you can concern yourself with. The end result is the same - you lose yourself in it, and feel calm.

The comment[2] below raises a good question -- I used to think the same. That happiness is overrated, and we should rather go after suffering. But there's a flaw in that thinking. Suffering is not a necessary condition to do something useful. One can recognise a lack of something, work towards fulfilling a desire, and still be happy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30787818

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30788318

By the way, could someone please write about these terms? "non-dual self-knowledge", "duality, multiplicity and relativity". I googled but I don't quite understand them.

With uBlock, the web is a different place.

Did not realize Google shows these many ads!

Agreed. A subset of products are "stripe verified" on Indie Hackers - should be a good enough population.

I think the parent article is interesting, thanks for your contributions. I am not saying that the same should have contained revenue, performance data - just that it would be interesting to see :)