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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
> think Delta Chat is the messenger we should migrate to. Not really. WhatsApp and Signal allow you to place audio and video calls, Delta Chat (by design) can't. And that's critical for folks who have families and friends in ot
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
In the last few days, I've seen a lot of people getting angry at Spotify and (now) at Google Music. What I am surprised at is so few folks are talking about going back to physical media. Music CDs will take up physical space and might
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
Yep, always use Python virtual environments to manage dependencies. Here are my notes around that: https://ketanvijayvargiya.com/notes/39-python-setup/
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
Search, yes, and I need to spend an afternoon to get that working. (From what little I've investigated so far, it seems like it'll be some work to get that to work.)
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
I recently setup a personal website. My intent was to migrate a few old blog posts from WordPress and, more importantly, make my notes public. After trying a bunch of note-taking apps, I realized that most of my private notes didn't co
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
I went through exactly this thinking recently when I wanted to setup a blog for myself (and migrate an existing one off of WordPress). I tried my best (and I think I succeeded) in ensuring that I am not locked into one vendor, and it was p
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Setup blog and email on custom domain for (almost) free(ketanvijayvargiya.com)
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
Yep, thanks for sharing! Can someone recommend tools that can help me build something like this? So far, I've thought of Docusaurus+Gitlab+Netlify with a custom domain to build such a website but wondering if there's something bet
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by 6ak74rfy 6y ago
I recently saw a website on HN where a developer had put all his working notes on that website as an experiment. It wasn't a proper blog - just inter-linked notes the way I take on a personal level. I am not able to find that website n
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
I am backing up ~130 GB data (with a combination of large and small files) every 12 hours to S3. The first upload quite some time but all the later ones take ~10 minutes in total.
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
After looking at a few alternatives (Borg, Duplicacy etc.), I setup Arq on my Mac yesterday. One thing that irks me about these solutions is that they seem to scan my folders each time they want to backup. Are there tools that are smarter a
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
I was considering setting up a Nextcloud instance as a replacement for Google Drive. I did some math and realized that I’ll be paying a lot more on that route - 1TB on Lightsail+S3 vs Lightsail+SSD vs Google Drive. The last was by far the c
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
I am currently going through fast.ai's Deep Learning course and will totally recommend it because of its top-down approach. Has anyone done non-DL courses on their website? For e.g., any thoughts on Rachel's Computational Linear A
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
> If you install truecaller on Android, you're handing over ALL your personal information to them. That's what I remember too but the article said Truecaller only gets non-user's information when a user tags them so. Maybe
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by 6ak74rfy 7y ago
Public clouds will have outages - that's not the point. What's most concerning about this outage is that it is across all regions. That violates the fundamental assumption, of developing for the cloud, that failures in every reg
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Ask HN: What's Your Fitness Story?
1 points by 6ak74rfy 7y ago|1 comments
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
This sounds like a great guy. Can you give some concrete examples of various techniques and technologies that he brought to the table?
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Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I don't know if you meant to be sarcastic or funny here. However, business have to earn profit in the long run, otherwise who'd pay for all the employees, infrastructure costs etc.?
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I'd concur that the book was a huge eye-opener for me. Earlier, I used to think that I only needed to be right (for e.g., while making technical design decisions) and just say it out when I disagreed. This book taught me that the way y
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I was thinking the same. I'd double-check any architecture that proposes moving private keys around.
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I love Homebrew, especially since I (recently) realized I could use brew cask to install all my desktop applications. I liked the analytics feature in this release. Just the other day, I was looking at alternatives to official Chromium
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AWS Lambda – Internal Architecture(youtube.com)
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
> They are paying you to generate revenue (or save costs). One of the senior engineers in my company once told me, "business is the dog, technology its tail", not the other way around. While I later argued with a completely dif
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
This reminds me of the powerful arguments that Christopher McDougall presented in his book (Born to Run[1]) around bare-foot running [2]. I've tried running bare-foot and using old-ragged shoes and absolutely love it. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I too am thinking of going this route so as to reduce dependencies on custom software for something as important as note taking. However, how do you handle images in such a system? For instance, I sometimes take pictures of a whiteboard dis
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
On a slightly tangential note: how do you guys read research papers? Do you go through them word by word or you only skim them to get a general understanding? I try to do the former but the work seems so boring that I am hardly motivated
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
You should look at Siempo which is available in Play Store. It made things so inaccessible for me sometimes that I stopped using it, and I think your might like it for the exact same reason.
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General Thinking Tools: 9 Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems(fs.blog)
2 points by 6ak74rfy 8y ago|0 comments
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by 6ak74rfy 8y ago
I recently stumbled upon this link and found it to be a huge eye-opener. I am curious to know how often folks here apply similar techniques while reading books. Do you do this only for non-fiction? Or maybe, you do this for fiction or resea

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