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• 09:44, 11 February 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Steve Yegge's Platform Rant (Created page with "{{HistoricalArchive |message=This was accidentally posted publicly and then archived since |source_url=https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611/ }} == Stevey's Google Platforms Rant == I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure...")
• 07:25, 8 February 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-02-08/Nominative Inversion (Created page with "frame|center|upright=999|Yosemite valley would never be called Death Valley, but the latter could have been called Valley of Eternal Rainfall Have you noticed that famous places with names that City of Joy or City of God are going to be depressing places? No one ever names an actually fun place City of Joy, and no one ever names a truly divine city City of God. Those nice places will have names like Malibu or Mon...")
• 06:20, 8 February 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Panamint Valley - Death Valley National Park.jpg
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• 01:14, 6 February 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Semantic Inflation (Created page with "Semantic Inflation is the phenomenon experienced by words intended to represent extremes where overuse reduces their significance until references to those extremes have to be raised even higher in order to recreate the same emotional strength. == Examples == Heavy-handed immigration enforcement that harms people might once have been described as unethical, but later as authoritarian, then evil, then fascist, until in 2026 it is often described as "genocide and eth...")
• 09:32, 31 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Apply HN for YCombinator S16F3 (Created page with "About ten years, Y Combinator attempted to have the Hacker News community pick a startup for them to fund for one of that summer's Fellowship Three. Some users warned that the thing would be gamed, moderators decided to proceed knowing that because it would be too hard to anti-game, the winner was one of the top users on the website causing a few days of drama on the website as he was not awarded and other top users either opposed or supported him. Finally, Apply HN was...")
• 01:42, 30 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page List of Veriphenic Bugs (Created page with "There is much Internet folklore about bugs where the issues seem like they could not be real or are simply a lay user mistakenly drawing relations between things incorrectly where these relationships are nonetheless borne out to be true. This is a list of such 'veriphenic bugs' * [https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles We can't send mail more than 500 miles] * [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28 Open Office can...")
• 01:16, 30 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Veriphenia (Created page with "Veriphenia is a phenomenon where a pattern that appears to be coincidental or superstitious turns out to be genuine. From Latin veritas (truth) and Greek phainein (to appear): "true appearing." === Contrast With Apophenia === Apophenia is the tendency to spot patterns between unrelated things. Veriphenia could be, in some sense, "appears to be Apophenia but later proves not to be". Category:Concepts")
• 23:22, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Real ID Cancellation (Created page with "thumb|The email I got sent. The letter is similar. A few weeks ago, I received a letter from the DMV explaining why they were going to cancel my Real ID in a few weeks. The letter explained that they incorrectly listed the expiration on my license as much later than it actually was. This isn't the first time that California has made a mistake with Real ID implementation. Many years earlier I received...")
• 22:06, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot DMV Cancellation of Real ID Email Notification.png
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• 05:50, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Amazon One Palm Authentication Discontinuation Email.png
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• 02:08, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:3D Print of a tall card holder in PETG on a BIQU CryoGrip Pro Frostbite.jpg
• 02:08, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:3D Print of a tall card holder in PETG on a BIQU CryoGrip Pro Frostbite.jpg
• 02:00, 28 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Bambu P1S with AMS2 Pro.webp
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• 23:30, 27 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-01-27/The Obvious Isn't Obvious (Created page with "When you live in San Francisco and around the Silicon Valley ecosystem, a mantra that everyone repeats is 'iteration'. Attempting to reach product-market fit is traditionally, here, described as an iterative process where you put out a minimum viable product and then work on it in response to customer feedback. This is so ingrained in the psyche here that if you were to say it, you sound like a freshma...")
• 23:13, 27 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Iteration Dogma (Created page with "The Iteration Dogma is the belief that adapting to evidence is far superior to picking the right prior. It is commonly employed in the startup-mindset of searching for Product-market fit where it is considered boringly true. == Examples == * Searching for product-market fit is the primary example. * Bayesian updating under prior-support, distinguishability of hypotheses (particularly truth from alternatives in the wikipedia:Kullb...")
• 02:23, 27 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-01-27/Life Is Intense (Created page with "thumb|Not the best knife work or care but good enough for the point I recently took a few of our knives to [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bernal+Cutlery/@37.7606847,-122.4244035,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x808f7e5bfe0b4d43:0x13c52491a71d9de0!8m2!3d37.7606847!4d-122.4218286!16s%2Fg%2F1233dpk4k?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Bernal Cutlery] to get them sharpened. == The Knives == When Juli...")
• 01:43, 27 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Carbon Steel Sabatier Knife Grape Slice.webp
• 01:43, 27 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Carbon Steel Sabatier Knife Grape Slice.webp
• 18:51, 26 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Bambu P1S (Created page with "We have a [https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/p1 Bambu P1S] to print with and a [https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/ams-2-pro Bambu AMS 2 Pro] to store and swap filament. This is a home 3D printer that is pretty easy to use and is at the level of Ikea to set up and use. There are a few catches to the thing, though. == Bambu Studio Model For Filament == The model that Bambu Studio has for your projects and your printer is that your printer and AMS<ref name=ams/> have a s...")
• 00:10, 21 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-01-20/An Old Acquaintance (Created page with "thumb|I don't actually look less nerdy than this in real life I went by Julie's place of work today to see if a friend of hers, Ben M., could help me with some rails on a server of mine. He could and that was nice, but I stayed for lunch and while walking back to my table after grabbing my meal I spotted a guy who seemed familiar. I suppose it's not that much of a surprise that any two people in tech could end up interacting in a...")
• 00:02, 21 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Roshan George - ca. 2013.webp
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• 20:08, 17 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Draft:Environmentalist Positions (Created page with "Many famous environmental organizations take positions that promote climate change. Other organizations that claim to be affiliated with environmental organizations also do the same. == Environmentalist Organizations == The biggest ones under consideration are the so-called Big Green * Sierra Club * Audubon * wikipedia:National Wild...")
• 08:13, 17 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-01-17/Citogenesis (Created page with "thumb|By the time you view the end result, you see only citations to other papers, making it appear like science Randall Munroe coined Citogenesis to reference the common tactic of putting something in Wikipedia, having reporters use it as a source un-cited, and then use that reporting to cite the Wikipedia article thereby closing the loop and making something seem real....")
• 08:10, 17 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png (Organize legend neater)
• 08:07, 17 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png
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• 23:29, 16 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2026-01-16/Otoscope (Created page with "thumb|Pretty simple device Recently, someone on the Internet mentioned a cheap otoscope. It's billed on [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KZ8TS7L?th=1 Amazon as a ear wax removal tool with a camera attached] but what it really works well as is a little camera with a handle that you can point places you can't get to: like under the sink or behind a desk. You can then take a look there and see what's going on behind the scenes that will require y...")
• 23:25, 16 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Amazon Otoscope - Inflamed Nostril Photo.webp
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• 23:20, 16 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Amazon Otoscope - HDMI Port.webp
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• 23:11, 16 January 2026 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Amazon Otoscope.webp
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