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New comment by rishav_sharan in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

rishav_sharan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:16:23 +0000

Can you share some thing to read up on this. Most of these claims do sound fantastical. I am not even sure how would one verify that Rigveda is an "unbroken" oral recitation over thousands of years.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

rishav_sharan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:37:26 +0000

Oh and some researchers are putting down the story of "seven sisters"/pleiades to around 100k years ago, back when the 7th star in the constellation was visible

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

rishav_sharan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:32:06 +0000

No. And it's not even close.

Rigveda would be around 1500Bce. Even Sumerian cuneiform would be far older at 3000 bce. If you want oldest oral records, some Australian aboriginal stories would be the ones at 8000 bce

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Canada's Forests Will Burn and Burn"

rishav_sharan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:11:35 +0000

The societal collapse and deaths that are about to happen.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Why can't India's government build a decent website?"

rishav_sharan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:07 +0000

Don't know about any agenda but indian gov sites suck big time. Ux, functionality, stability, information flow - every thing is barely adequate

New comment by rishav_sharan in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

rishav_sharan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:52:49 +0000

Here you go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loo_(wind)

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

rishav_sharan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:24:17 +0000

Well I genuinely like Teams. Being forced to work on a mix of Zoom & teams in my new work, I have found an appreciation of using M365 connected tools - Outlook,claendar, teams, sharepoint, copilot etc just work very well together for me.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal"

rishav_sharan — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:20:19 +0000

I wonder what happened to the other people who signed on notdivided.

I am assuming they quickly realized that they'd rather be rich hypocrites than less rich principled people

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

rishav_sharan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:09:04 +0000

Mostly good battery life. I am on the move a lot and can use a laptop with full day battery for mostly youtube and web dev.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:33:47 +0000

Sorry, typo. Meant macbook air m1.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:32:23 +0000

Would anyone knows if asahi is ready to be a daily driver on the m1 sir tet? How is the battery life against stock macos?

New comment by rishav_sharan in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

rishav_sharan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:07:30 +0000

The failure to compete will also make US care makers irrelevant outside of US. They are pretty well out on the way already.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

rishav_sharan — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:55:49 +0000

Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:12:55 +0000

Don't think so. Whales and dolphins seem to have a fairly sophisticated language with regional dialects and accents.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "[dead]"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:18:14 +0000

It's less a misunderstanding and more of a need to control.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

rishav_sharan — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:09:40 +0000

I like it. It gives me confidence that a random software will surely work well on my kde desktop

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Digg.com is back"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:51:21 +0000

A community driven link aggregator site. Think of a cross between Reddit and a forum. It was one of the biggest sites/communities in the 2000s.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Why Nim?"

rishav_sharan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:51:07 +0000

> Why did Rust break through, for example, while so many other excellent languages didn't.

Unfortunately, a lot of this is just enterprise sponsorship. Rust had Mozilla's backing. React had FB's backing, while Vue doesn't. And so on.

There are of course, many other reasons as well, but to me this seems to be a critical one.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

rishav_sharan — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:56:02 +0000

Question for the experts here; What would be a SOTA TTS that can run on an average laptop (32GB RAM, 4GB VRAM). I just want to attach a TTS to my SLM output, and get the highest possible voice quality/ human resembleness.

New comment by rishav_sharan in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

rishav_sharan — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:22:29 +0000

Not sure if you are talking about religion or porn games..