Hacker News: akhilcacharya

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 08:12:50 +0000

I don’t go on Blind, I don’t really see the appeal. You seem strangely unhappy about your own situation to be this fixated on Amazon

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 02:43:24 +0000

I legitimately, from the bottom of my heart, don’t care.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 02:42:43 +0000

The ones you haven’t gotten for a year? Doubt the perks at Intel were much more impressive.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:25:17 +0000

Don’t get it, why is this the response when Google did the same thing and the comments there defended it?

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work"

akhilcacharya — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:15:27 +0000

Another article about Amazon doing the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650430

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:46:16 +0000

Oops, my bad y'all!

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:20:30 +0000

I got an email yesterday and it was reforwarded by my skip level manager. I’m surprised you wouldn’t get it.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:01:57 +0000

They do though, they pay me around $180 a month for an unlimited transit card (that I can’t use) and a transit debit card for Uber (that is currently capped because I also cannot use it). For most other folks that pays for parking.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "An update on the recent issues surrounding a Reddit employee"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:56:26 +0000

I genuinely don't understand why a wanted criminal, famous socialite and multimillionaire thought (at the time) to be in hiding outside the country and known by nearly everyone would spend her time posting links to Reddit accruing millions of comment karma. It straight up does not make sense, and neither does whatever relationship that has to what just happened. It's a total non-sequitur.

It doesn't help matters that they were fairly well known as power user even before [0]. It's the lowest and least creative form of conspiracy theories - really superficial pattern recognition.

[0]: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-maxwellhill-moderator-...

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:53:18 +0000

Wait, has the Cambridge Microcenter had 3080s recently? When do they restock?

I've heard of lines in the morning at other Microcenters but don't know much about the one next to me.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:19:42 +0000

The obvious answer is they probably didn't, this is probably a pseudo QAnon/Pizzagate conspiracy theory where people were "censored" for the harassment of a random person.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast"

akhilcacharya — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:41:51 +0000

It's interesting that these encounters keep happening off the California coast - is the naval presence there unique compared to other regions?

New comment by akhilcacharya in "The price students pay for a prized IIT seat"

akhilcacharya — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:34:17 +0000

Honestly, anybody that passes a certain bar is probably fine for me. We already have that with medical licensing, board exams, residency matching, etc. If anything we could probably loosen the bar, since residency spots are artificially scarce because of the residency cap.

To be perfectly clear, I don't dispute ability exists - I just don't think that should be the ideal organizing philosophy for society.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "The price students pay for a prized IIT seat"

akhilcacharya — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:49:54 +0000

That's around my line of thinking, pure meritocracy is both too subjective and far too harsh to the people who aren't in the lucky egg club, especially in increasingly global winner take all games (an inevitable consequence of globalization).

I'm a failure by meritocracy by nature of losing at all of the tests we use to judge success and merit - test scores, elite school admission, elite institutions etc.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "The price students pay for a prized IIT seat"

akhilcacharya — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:11:05 +0000

I'm becoming convinced by the idea that meritocracy itself is bad and a terrible way to organize society. But perhaps I'm biased by being a failure in the meritocratic system.

New comment by akhilcacharya in "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"

akhilcacharya — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:54:52 +0000

Why is the 9P filesystem used to frequently for these applications? Is it just that much better than the alternatives?

New comment by akhilcacharya in "CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet"

akhilcacharya — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:45:36 +0000

I'm intrigued, which model Surface with which Linux distro would you recommend in the "impulse buy" territory?

New comment by akhilcacharya in "All Futurama Opening Quotes"

akhilcacharya — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 03:05:31 +0000

That's my favorite episode, personally!

New comment by akhilcacharya in "“Follow the Science” Is a Cop-Out"

akhilcacharya — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:58:58 +0000

The post office wanted to send everyone masks, but this was nixed by the admin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp...

New comment by akhilcacharya in "“Follow the Science” Is a Cop-Out"

akhilcacharya — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:55:52 +0000

It's strange to me that several references to Jackson, Adams, and DeBlasio's non response during the start of 2020 aren't paired with a similarly withering criticism of the then-chief executive who didn't even encourage mask wearing and pushed reopenings that we know are dangerous for aerosol spread, namely full capacity indoors restaurants and bars.

I don't dispute some restrictions are silly - closing playgrounds outside comes to mind, but they were reopened in my city once it became clear aerosol spread maskless indoors is far more dangerous than fomite transmission or masked aersosol transmission outdoors. Ultimately that is following the science.