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• 20:48, 10 October 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-10-10/Ubers In India (Draft: new section)
• 20:46, 10 October 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-10-10/Origin Story (Draft: new section)
• 20:55, 9 October 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Ancient Neologisms (Created page with "Some neologisms seem like they've been around forever. Some people even believe that they've been around and describe their grandparents using them and so on, in some kind of Mandela Effect but they are nonetheless neologisms. I don't have a comprehensive list, obviously, but here are a couple. == Sweet Summer Child == Most commonly in "Oh you sweet summer child". The use of it to disparagingly mean "innocent and naïve" is decidedly from...")
• 20:42, 9 October 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page The Prisoner, Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker (Created page with "''The Prisoner'' by Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker is a frequently-cited source of the use of the phrase "sweet summer's child". It is from the collection of poems ''The Creole''<ref>Mary Scrimzeour Furman Whitaker, ''Poems'', J.B. Nixon, printer, 1850, 296 pages, digitized December 5, 2007, from Harvard University. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poems/mGQSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Google Books]</ref> <blockquote> Within a prison, pent, he stood, <br/> Dread Gulio,—that...")
• 20:24, 9 October 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page The West Wind, James Staunton Babcock (Created page with "The West Wind by James Staunton Babcock<ref>James Staunton Babcock, ''Visions and Voices'', American Antiquarian Society Collections, 1849. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visions_and_Voices/1xA_AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Google Books]</ref> is a poem frequently cited for its first use of the phrase "sweet summer child": <blockquote> Thou comest, summer breeze,<br/> With life and music on the air;<br/> I trace thee thro' those tossing trees,<br/> But where's thy dwelli...")
• 22:24, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Cocoballistic Syndrome (Redirected page to Lexicognosis Syndrome) Tag: New redirect
• 22:23, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Lexicognosis Syndrome (Created page with "Lexicognosis Syndrome is a condition whose sufferers accord higher importance than required to concepts or phenomena that have a name. As an example, a person suffering from this would not react if a coconut fell from a tree. However, if the a coconut falling from a tree were named Cocoballistic Syndrome, the person would find themselves experiences some measure of hysteria - primarily expressed by their attempting to warn other people about this phenomenon.")
• 20:49, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Category:Reviews (Created page with "This page lists products I've tried.")
• 20:47, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Ottobock Ankle Splint (Created page with "thumb|alt=A photo of an Ottobock splint worn by someone with a basketball shoe|To the Germans, my 9.5 US size is "Small" but it be what it be I have this Ottobock [https://www.ottobock.com/en-us/product/50S3 splint for my ankle] that I twisted playing basketball. My dad's an orthopaedic surgeon and suggested this particular make and model and it's honestly a lot better than the normal ankle strap you get from Walg...")
• 19:38, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Basketball with the lads.jpg
• 19:38, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Basketball with the lads.jpg
• 19:29, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Ottobock Ankle Split.png
• 19:29, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Ottobock Ankle Split.png
• 05:32, 24 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-09-23/Internet Exaggeration (Created page with "Why does everyone on the Internet exaggerate so much? If you were to listen to Twitter you'd expect that: * One time using fentanyl would instantly addict you for life * One time using LSD would break your mind open forever * A single dose of shrooms is going to make you lose your sense of self These are all objectively untrue. I know this because I have experienced all of these things: fentanyl in a hospital, LSD a few times at music festivals,...")
• 07:50, 21 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Ablative Error (Created page with "An Ablative Error is something you intentionally introduce so that it can be fixed by a process or person who needs to fix things irrespective of whether they need fixes. By providing a simple and weak target, you allow them to fulfill their inner urge while not damaging the thing that needs to be built. People with authority do not have to employ this technique since they can simply reject 'fixes'. People without are frequently governed in large organizations by th...")
• 06:38, 15 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-09-14/Politics (Created page with "I'm not American, so I can't really vote in US Politics, but it does affect my life quite a bit, both proximately and ultimately, since I live in the US and I'm married to an American and because my children (if everything goes well) will probably be American too. Given all this, I try to pay attention. And about the biggest surprise for me this time has been that the Republicans are actually making most of the sense. Democratic Party policies seem patently insane - eit...")
• 22:59, 10 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-09-10/No one ever sees the end coming (Created page with "{{Template:Draft}} Status quo bias is almost universal. On the Internet, people call it "[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nothing-ever-happens nothing ever happens]". And for most nations this is true. They're small timers and life just goes on almost all of the time because no one is able to get going in any way. File:Run Off The Cliff Blissfully.jpg|thumb|alt=A Dall-E 3 generated cartoon of someone running off a cliff|This is how people...")
• 21:35, 10 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Run Off The Cliff Blissfully.jpg
• 21:35, 10 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Run Off The Cliff Blissfully.jpg
• 06:59, 6 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Mercury Bank - Dashboard Screenshot.png
• 06:59, 6 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Mercury Bank - Dashboard Screenshot.png
• 06:07, 6 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page The Emperor's Tailor (Created page with "The Emperor's Tailor is a story about how ideas can escape from the context in which they are expressed, leading to adverse consequences. Sometimes, when the smart play at being stupid, the foolish listen and think that what they're doing is wise. <blockquote> Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom, there was an Emperor. This Emperor loved clothes, and would frequently have his tailors design new and extravagant designs for him to walk around the city in. One day,...")
• 05:43, 4 September 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-09-03/Getting A French Visa (Created page with "Since I'm an Indian citizen, getting a visa is a common activity for me. Going practically anywhere is an exercise in paperwork. Some places are easy, like Hong Kong (which just needs an instant online application), some places are easy if you've got a US visa (like most of South America), and some places are hard (like the Schengen zone). For much of my life I've had a Schengen visa since either my parents applied for me to visit as a child...")
• 19:45, 29 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page The Decline of Empire (Created page with "Empires decline, and over time become backwaters, but the memory of the past remains long after the empire has lost what it can do. One thing that rapidly degrades as an empire declines is its state power, in its introverted sense. Lee Kuan Yew visited London in October 1946 and saw an empire still in power<ref>Yew, L. "Britain revisited". ''Asia Europe Journal'' '''1''', 311–313 (2003). doi:10.1007/s10308-003-0027-y [https://wiki.roshangeor...")
• 00:19, 29 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Big O Magnitude Notation (Created page with "Like Big O Unit Notation, Big O Magnitude Notation refers to a notation used to express orders of magnitude. == Formal Definition for Functions == A function <math>f(n) = O(10^k)</math> if <math>\exists n_0 \in \mathbb{R+}</math> such that <math>\forall n \geq n_0 : 10^k \leq f(n) < 10^{k+1}</math> == Formal Definition for Random Variables == Colloquially, one can say a random variable <math>X = O(10^k)</math> if its probability distribution function has meas...")
• 22:31, 28 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Unknown Nobility (Created page with "thumb|Loggers are Environmentalists A common trope on the Internet goes like <blockquote> Spend any time among X and talk to them and you'll find that they're the kindest people you know and care the most about Y. </blockquote> It'll usually be someone totally bogus who is usually much-maligned for some particularly characteristic. If loggers are not considered environmentally friendly, then if we spend ti...")
• 22:27, 28 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Twitter Screenshot - Loggers are Environmentalists.png
• 22:27, 28 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Twitter Screenshot - Loggers are Environmentalists.png
• 23:39, 27 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-08-27/Comprehension is Enough (Created page with "When I was a child, I remember reading a lot of books about "the supernatural". Ghosts and stuff like that. And to some extent I believed in their existence. There was no evidence of their existence, of course, which made them all the more alluring. If I could prove that they existed, I would have won a big battle for us all. A key discovery would have been made. So, even though I was scared running into a room as a 11-year-old I would have the "there's a ghost here" li...")
• 19:23, 27 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Big O Unit Notation (Created page with "Big O Unit Notation is a variant of Big O notation that is used when you want to express a notion of order of magnitude. You can usually differentiate these two concepts by the fact that Big O Notation is expressed in terms of functions whereas Big O Unit Notation is expressed in terms of units. One writes that some process or action takes <math>O(milliseconds)</math> or is of length <math>O(kilometre...")
• 06:56, 21 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-08-20/Addiction (Created page with "Addiction is a strange thing. People talk about addictive things like they're an immutable property of the world. Cigarettes are addictive. Opioids are addictive. But clearly this cannot be that simple. [https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/opioid-use-disorder#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20American%20Medical,develop%20an%20addiction%20to%20them.&text=People%20misusing%20opioids%20may%20try,it%20is%20more%20easily%20available. The percentage of people who use op...")
• 18:09, 19 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Rage Sniping (Created page with "thumb|A typical story To rage-snipe someone is to post something intended to cause outrage so that they'll participate in a discussion instead of doing whatever they were originally doing. thumb|And the real story It's like [https://xkcd.com/356/ nerd sniping] except completely unfulfilling for the victim for the few seconds before they're hit by the bus. A classic example is for...")
• 18:06, 19 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Reddit Screenshot - Rage Snipe.png
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• 18:02, 19 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Twitter Screenshot - Rage Sniping.png
• 18:02, 19 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Twitter Screenshot - Rage Sniping.png
• 08:02, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Subaru Forester 2017 - crushed by rollover.jpg (Smaller and oriented correctly)
• 07:55, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Subaru Forester 2017 - crushed by rollover.jpg
• 07:55, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Subaru Forester 2017 - crushed by rollover.jpg
• 07:52, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-08-14/Fearless American Women (Created page with "Something that has always struck me about my time in the US has been the fact that women hear are positively fearless. Whether this is a cultural learning they have or that society here is safe enough that they can be so is unclear to me, but I have often been the beneficiary of this. == NC State == thumb|Picturesque. The view outside my window as I sat with crutches. File:Google Maps Screenshot - Hunt Li...")
• 07:42, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Google Maps Screenshot - Hunt Library to ES King Village.png
• 07:42, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Google Maps Screenshot - Hunt Library to ES King Village.png
• 07:37, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Gorman St Grad Student Residences in Raleigh, NC.jpg
• 07:37, 14 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Gorman St Grad Student Residences in Raleigh, NC.jpg
• 22:46, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-08-13/Google v Apple (Created page with "thumb|Typical Google Engineering I saw a Hacker News comment today about how Google Engineers never used their products and it struck me how I didn't ever believe anything but. When the comment was posted I thought to myself "Well, obviously not, they can afford iPhones and Apple Watches" but implicit in that is that the Android devices are not as good. That seems obvious to most people looking from the outside but it's ve...")
• 22:34, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:HN Screenshot on Google Dogfooding.png
• 22:33, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:HN Screenshot on Google Dogfooding.png
• 07:39, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-08-12/Gender Characterization (Created page with "In general, Western nations are considered more enlightened with respect to gender and related things. Of course, the usual topic of discussion on this front is the gender-equality paradox but a different thing struck me recently. A common thing on Reddit used to be the rapid characterization of someone's sexuality based on their traits. Gay rights were just becoming mainstream in the late 2000s/early 2010s and lots of people on Red...")
• 05:53, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Bozo Bit Phrases (Created page with "People like to claim things are more nuanced than they are. The truth is that you can capture 90% of the essence of something rather quickly. One way to flip the Bozo bit on someone is to see if they use tribal affiliation phrases. These are indicators that someone hasn't though through things carefully and that they are not self-aware enough to recognize that they are displaying markers as tribal members. Worse still, ofte...")
• 04:23, 13 August 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Intake Breathing Nasal Strips (Created page with "thumb|Dopey look is my own fault My friend Shreyas told me about [https://www.intakebreathing.com/ these nasal strips] the other day. I'm quite the snorer, so I thought I'd give them a crack. thumb|This is what it looks off my face They arrive in a nice box, inside of which are four of the actual plastic strips with the magnets on them and two containers with nostril st...")