User contributions for Roshan

11 March 2024

• 04:2304:23, 11 March 2024 diff hist +1,204 N Social and Personal Technology Created page with "I use the term 'technology' to often describe Social and Personal Technology: mental devices and machinery we use to get outcomes we desire. Lots of people would like to live life tech-free and just rely on things like willpower or memory to get the outcomes they desire. My memory is pretty good, and in many ways my willpower is decent, but both do fall short of getting me what I want, so I use technology to get what I want. A few examples are: # My friend Armaan is m..."
• 04:0004:00, 11 March 2024 diff hist +6 Airlines →SEA
• 03:5903:59, 11 March 2024 diff hist +6 Airlines →SFO
• 03:5903:59, 11 March 2024 diff hist +4,497 N Airlines Created page with "I don't fly as much as most people, but I do fly quite a bit, so here's my opinion about the airlines I've flown. == Where I Fly Out Of == The airports I typically fly out or into are on the West Coast: # SFO - San Francisco # HNL - Honolulu # SEA - Seattle # LAX - Los Angeles # BUR - Burbank Of these, SFO is my favourite. This is partly because this is home, and partly for a bunch of other reasons. === SFO === Overall recommendation: Fly United out of Terminal 3 f..."

7 March 2024

• 04:2304:23, 7 March 2024 diff hist −4 Motorcycle Accident No edit summary
• 04:2204:22, 7 March 2024 diff hist +4,145 N Motorcycle Accident Created page with "On May 17, 2022 I was riding my motorcycle when I apparently got involved in a collision with an Uber thumb|alt=A screenshot of Google Maps showing where I was in an accident|A screenshot of Google Maps showing where I was in an accident. I'd be more specific except that I literally don't remember what happened. Fortunately, my parents and younger brother were visiting me about then and were able..."
• 04:1404:14, 7 March 2024 diff hist +85 N File:Anthem Explanation of Benefits Motorcycle Accident.png No edit summary current
• 04:0004:00, 7 March 2024 diff hist +67 N File:Roshan's Hand With Bent Ring Finger.png No edit summary current
• 03:0103:01, 7 March 2024 diff hist +52 N File:RoshanHospitalBed.jpg No edit summary current
• 02:5602:56, 7 March 2024 diff hist +64 N File:MotorcycleAccidentLocation.png No edit summary current

4 March 2024

• 21:3721:37, 4 March 2024 diff hist +1,758 N Comma command Created page with "A while ago, someone on HN or Lobste.rs suggested the idea of having your custom commands be prefixed by a <code>,</code> and I started doing that a while ago. The comma-prefixed list of commands is empty. There's no standard command that does this, so it's an easy way to get autocomplete for your local commands. Also, you can just use one or two characters and not interfere with other things. Sometimes, I use these instead of aliases a..."

29 February 2024

• 09:0609:06, 29 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Main Page Protected "Main Page" ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite))
• 09:0009:00, 29 February 2024 diff hist +106 Blog/2024-02-28/Rust Panamax No edit summary
• 09:0009:00, 29 February 2024 diff hist +3,278 N Blog/2024-02-28/Rust Panamax Created page with "Today, my wife and I flew to Hawaii for her sister's wedding tomorrow on Feb 29. That's a 5.5 h flight and United doesn't have Internet access on the plane once you leave the mainland US so that means that if you do any programming at all, it all has to be offline. So naturally I prepared for the occasion. == LLM Assistant == My M1 Max Mac has 64 GiB of RAM which is good enough to run [https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b-GGUF a reasonably sized Mix..."
• 08:5308:53, 29 February 2024 diff hist +76 N File:Panamax-RS.png No edit summary current

28 February 2024

• 07:1207:12, 28 February 2024 diff hist +13 Million-Dollar Pothole No edit summary
• 07:1107:11, 28 February 2024 diff hist +3 Category:Concepts No edit summary
• 07:1007:10, 28 February 2024 diff hist +36 N Concepts/Million-Dollar Pothole Roshan moved page Concepts/Million-Dollar Pothole to Million-Dollar Pothole: This concepts thing isn't useful as an automatically constructed page Tag: New redirect
• 07:1007:10, 28 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Million-Dollar Pothole Roshan moved page Concepts/Million-Dollar Pothole to Million-Dollar Pothole: This concepts thing isn't useful as an automatically constructed page
• 06:5106:51, 28 February 2024 diff hist +7,237 N Blog/2024-02-27/Teenage Entrepreneurship Created page with "When we were kids, a few rupees would go a long way. With ₹200, you could get a pretty good meal (kababs!). And dollars? Dollars would walk a mile in the time a rupee would walk an inch. At the time the exchange rate was something between ₹40:$1 and ₹50:$1. When I visited Japan (where ¥150:$1) in 2018, I remember thinking to myself "oh, yen are more like cents! This country just prices everything in cents!" and only then realized that a similar thing applies to th..."
• 06:2006:20, 28 February 2024 diff hist +71 N File:SBI Maestro Debit Card.png No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 28 February 2024 diff hist +73 N File:IOB Visa Debit Card.png No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 28 February 2024 diff hist +99 N File:Chennai-to-Vellore.png No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 28 February 2024 diff hist +3,163 N Reddit Created page with "Reddit is actually quite incredible. It's like forums of old, except with SSO across all of them. It's actually quite fascinating how all these communities are formed and maintained by people, all of whom do it for free. But perhaps that's the thing with it: it's all free. The moment there is monetary reward, things get optimized by other people. I should know. When we were kids, some twenty years ago (hello, statute of limitations) Blog/2024..." current

27 February 2024

• 08:1508:15, 27 February 2024 diff hist +1,114 N Benjamin Zephaniah Created page with "A long time ago, the poet Benjamin Zephaniah came to the British Council in Chennai, and my friend Pipe and I went to go listen to the chap and see what was up. He's quite an entertaining fellow in person, but the part that sticks with me is that I have this whole thing with people interpreting art. Sure, ''la mort de l'auteur'' and all that, but some things are truly baffling. So I asked him if he ev..."
• 08:0908:09, 27 February 2024 diff hist +2,100 N Blog/2024-02-26/Refinement Created page with "A while back I was thinking about the role that critics play. It's actually somewhat important, associating and spotting the subtleties in art so that it doesn't go missed by those of us who don't have all that state in our head. I actually really appreciate that. But there's a thing with things where they slowly iterate themselves into a min-maxed version of itself, its Telos, if you will. In the case of critics, they slowly evolve into attempting a..."

26 February 2024

• 08:0508:05, 26 February 2024 diff hist +1,215 N Blog/2024-02-25/Racknerd Created page with "I have some sites on Cloudflare Pages and they're pretty damned fast, but when I started this blog/wiki, I wanted to make it a bog standard Linux machine just like anything else. And I wanted it to be a wiki so that anyone could edit it. Those requirements sort of led me down a rabbit hole I haven't been down for some 18 years now: low-cost VPS solutions. There's lots you can find on the Internet, but the one that was best for me was [https://www.racknerd..."

25 February 2024

• 08:0508:05, 25 February 2024 diff hist +1,742 N Blog/2024-02-24/Chinese New Year Parade Created page with "The LNY Parade was today in San Francisco and it was an absolute riot. I haven't seen that many children in the city ever and it's really nice to see. Near the end of the parade there were these huge fireworks being set off and it was starting to be a little like a lightweight Diwali. Julie remarked that it was unusual they were setting these off above everyone but we didn't think much of it. But later, [https://youtube.com/shorts/De1AaZllvJw we found out why]. It's beca..."
• 07:5107:51, 25 February 2024 diff hist +61 N File:Bijili-100-wala.png No edit summary current

24 February 2024

• 07:2107:21, 24 February 2024 diff hist +1,360 N Blog/2024-02-23/Setting MacOS Screen Resolutions Created page with "If you use a Mac, you know that most of the time it hides lots of stuff from you. One of the annoying things to me is that it doesn't let you select the screen resolution often. In my case, this is partly my fault since I have my 3440x1440 monitor hooked up to a USB dock so that I can use my Macbook Pro 13" at home (yes, the one with the touchbar!) Anyway, there's a GUI app called [https://www.madrau.com/ SwitchResX] that gives you a visual way to do this, but it costs..."
• 07:2007:20, 24 February 2024 diff hist +49 N File:Screenshot 2024-02-23 at 11.15.08 PM.jpg No edit summary current

23 February 2024

• 20:0220:02, 23 February 2024 diff hist +1,199 N Blog/2024-02-23/fzf Created page with "<syntaxhighlight inline>fzf</syntaxhighlight> is a fuzzy-finder on the terminal. I use it for all sorts of stuff. Selecting a git branch: <syntaxhighlight lang=zsh> gco() { branch="$(git branch | grep -v '^\+' | fzf | tr -d '[:space:]' | sed 's/^\*//')" if -z "$branch" ; then echo "No branch selected" return 1 fi git checkout "$branch" } </syntaxhighlight> File:20240223-fzf-branch-switching.gif|thumb|alt=A GIF of the script above in use, selectin..."
• 20:0120:01, 23 February 2024 diff hist +39 N File:20240223-fzf-preview.gif No edit summary current
• 19:5319:53, 23 February 2024 diff hist +56 N File:20240223-fzf-branch-switching.gif No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 23 February 2024 diff hist +2,135 N Blog/2024-02-22/Moon Landings Created page with "Possibly the most unbelievable story I read today was that [https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/a-little-us-company-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-moon-but-questions-remain/ there was a private moon landing] and it almost didn't happen because the nav lasers crapped out. The guys on the ground then used the NASA payload's cameras to perform that function! Speaking of these lasers, why do they always manage to do this? There's a whole plane that flies along with Maver..."

22 February 2024

• 07:1707:17, 22 February 2024 diff hist +1,048 N Blog/2024-02-21/Motherboards and Locusts Created page with "Yesterday, I was trying to get a Supermicro board and Epyc processor up and running and encountered the strangest thing. It seemed that the combo would only work if I torqued the CPU cooler down to the 15 kg-cm it needed. I've never seen a processor that needed the cooler's force to keep it contacting all the pins. Strange. Another bizarre thing I read about today is about Locusts. The Wikipedia page is pretty det..."

21 February 2024

• 06:3506:35, 21 February 2024 diff hist +168 Main Page Add other sections.
• 06:3406:34, 21 February 2024 diff hist +722 N Why A Wiki Created page with "So why is this a wiki instead of just a normal blog or site? A static site generator would be faster and a normal blog would honestly do. Well, that's true but I'd really like folks to be able to fix things they find here if they ever feel like it. There are many times I go to a website and everything is fine except someone's made a little tiny typo. I'd like to fix that, say it's a minor edit, and move on but I really can't. Another reason is that it reminds me of whe..."
• 06:2906:29, 21 February 2024 diff hist +3 Blog/2024-02-20/My First Post No edit summary
• 06:2906:29, 21 February 2024 diff hist +1,190 N AMD Epyc 9004 Created page with "We have a bunch of these AMD Epyc 9004 series processors. Some are quite cool like [https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9654 Epyc 9654] which has 96 cores, and some are wild like the [https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9684x Epyc 9684X] which has that and an actual gigabyte of cache! Anyway, we're using them on some [https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13ssl-nt Supermicro H13SSL-NT] boards and also some [https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterp..."
• 06:2706:27, 21 February 2024 diff hist +56 N File:Supermicro-boot-screen.png No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 21 February 2024 diff hist +711 N Blog/2024-02-20/My First Post Created page with "Yesterday was my first post. I wrote about the Million-Dollar Pothole, which is a thing I've seen very recently all over the place. It seems like a rather obvious fallacy, but a lot of people seem to make this error so I thought it might be worthwhile to give it the name I've been using for a while. I also remembered this strange occurrence: my AKG Y600NC headphones wouldn't charge w..."
• 06:1106:11, 21 February 2024 diff hist +127 N Category:Troubleshooting Created page with "This is where I post about troubleshooting things. {{Special:PrefixIndex/Troubleshooting/|stripprefix=yes|hideredirects=yes}}"
• 06:0406:04, 21 February 2024 diff hist +137 N Category:Concepts Created page with "Ideas I have or techniques I frequently use. No originality implied. {{Special:PrefixIndex/Concepts/|stripprefix=yes|hideredirects=yes}}"
• 06:0206:02, 21 February 2024 diff hist +175 Million-Dollar Pothole Switch to an img tag

20 February 2024

• 08:2008:20, 20 February 2024 diff hist −158 Million-Dollar Pothole No edit summary
• 07:5207:52, 20 February 2024 diff hist −4 m Million-Dollar Pothole No edit summary
• 07:5107:51, 20 February 2024 diff hist +809 Template:Quote No edit summary current
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