Rest of What I Know
Rest of What I Know
Roshan George
I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.
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Roshan: /* My Stuff */ [[File:Screenshot - overmod.org.png|thumb]] [https://overmod.org Overmod] is a small program and directory that allows blocking and highlighting users on Hacker News. Other users can subscribe to my blocklist or...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot This is a wonderful story from a guy posting on YouTube about his experience as a steelworker. I never manage to find it when I want to, so I'm mirroring it here: {{Quote...
Roshan: /* Conversation */ [[Work Amplification]] occurs when a request takes a much smaller effort to make than a response. This is a problem in interactions both in the software client/server and in a human context. Any low-effort ask...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Baby Monitor Screenshot - Astra in the Snoo.webp|thumb|The Snoo is a godsend]] If there is any money you spend on baby sleep related things, spend it on...
Roshan: [[File:Uppababy Mesa on its base.jpg|thumb|The Uppababy Mesa car seat: the base is usually in the car and then you just lift the seat off and put it in the stroller and away you go]] [[File:Subaru Forester 2018 LATCH attachment...
Roshan: [[Friedman's Thermostat]] is a control mechanism that attempts to keep an output constant but is mistakenly believed to be causing the external variation that it is controlling for. A slightly more formal description might help....
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Roshan and Julie at City Hall just before getting wed.webp}}|thumb|Sari all the way from India, my shirt from Chinatown]] [[Julie Yu Kang]] and I did what many people do: we had a quick wedding at City Hall...
Roshan: I got recently annoyed with iTerm2 encountering random lag and using infinite CPU slowing everything down. It happened at a moment of personal exasperation so I decided to try out [https://ghostty.org/ Ghostty] since I've tried...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:A bad apple in a Costco bag of Envy Apples.webp|thumb]] There's a common adage about [[wikipedia:Bad apples|bad apples]] that goes like: {{Quote |text=One bad apple...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Julie and Roshan in Chinatown after dinner at Mr. Jiu's.webp|frame|center|A quiet and clean Chinatown!}}]] We went to [https://www.misterjius.com/ Mr. Jiu's], a Michelin-starred Chinese place, for dinner...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A recent Hacker News thread was about Andrej Karpathy's advice for success at Stanford. It's got a bunch of advice but what I was particularly struck by is the absence of one...
Roshan: [[File:Julie's Notion GPT - Custom GPT.png|thumb|Complete with unique logo]] I was a bit sceptical about OpenAI's [https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/ Custom GPTs] when they launched but that's because I did not know that...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Social Security Card Envelope.jpg|thumb|I have been renamed, but my daughter has a card now. Fair trade.]] Our daughter, [[Astra Meridian]], has a last name that's...
Roshan: Fix sentence fragment minimally I've been reading [https://unsongbook.com/ ''Unsong''] by Scott Alexander, and I happened to also encounter Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe's essay...
Roshan: [[File:Dallas Fed - AI Scenarios.png|thumb|upright=2|Go forth and multiply; and fill the Earth and subdue it; so that you may grow at a steady rate]] There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads on to...