FlyingSnake

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by FlyingSnake 6mo ago
There is hope. India's Central Rice Research Institute is quite active and is working on some of the problems. https://icar-crri.in/popular-nrri-varieties/
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by FlyingSnake 6mo ago
I meant it as a pipe-dream that people jump into without knowing the hidden asymmetries. Farming of any kind is hard and learning that specific skillset is necessary to succeed.
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by FlyingSnake 6mo ago
Honestly the rice varieties in India should be promoted and protected more. The diversity and health benefits of these varieties is immense.
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by FlyingSnake 6mo ago
I grew up in similar environment in rural central India and I (half)jokingly say farming was my first real job. We rarely planted rice, but I have vivid memory of helping my father plant the rice saplings in the muddy puddles in my farm. I
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by FlyingSnake 7mo ago
People keep rediscovering the Bhagavad Gita in new ways https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/47/
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by FlyingSnake 7mo ago
You’re right, it was 2014. I was there on HN when docker was announced by shykes. It was a godsend because I was getting bummed by the alternatives like LXC, juju charms or vagrant. Here’s the announcement from 2013: https://news
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by FlyingSnake 7mo ago
Kindles are fun devices to hack and play with. I can grab an old kindle for €15-20 on eBay. I did the same last year and had lots of fun in the process. https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/
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by FlyingSnake 8mo ago
Exactly. This sounds like a barber advising which haircut to get.
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by FlyingSnake 9mo ago
2019 is also not vintage IMO. Vintage would be my MBP Air from 2011 that also run Arch and XFCE on a 4GiB RAM.
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by FlyingSnake 9mo ago
I am running XFCE on a 2019 vintage desktop. CachyOS and 16GB RAM. It is snappy and very performant for my needs and I work on it daily for software development
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
Inbound emails using AWS SES make sense, but not planning that as the part of the MVP. Is that a commonly requested use case for AWS SES users?
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
I’m working on a modern transactional email API platform. Developers can bring their own AWS SES keys and freely use their own domains for sending emails. I’m building it on Cloudflare Workers with advanced tracking, modern templates, and
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
Fair enough. We all have enough eInk devices in our cabinets. To each their own . What do you mean by “Rust for displays”? Bikeshedding?
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
That's an unfair criticism. Kindles and their eInk setup provide the perfect low-fi hacking experience that developers love. It's minimal, slow and barebones linux base makes it easier to hack für such fun projects.
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease! Shameless plug: I wrote abo
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
It also features many examples from pre-Colombian South American cultures
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
I’m running CachyOS for a year now as my daily driver (non-work) on my ancient desktop from 2019 and ancient Nvidia card. It is very fast and smooth. I mainly use it to development using LLM sidekicks and it doesn’t break sweat. I use XFCE
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by FlyingSnake 10mo ago
I use CachyOS as my daily driver and I gave up on i3 after few tries. It just doesn’t work. I’m happy with XFCE now and it is very performant.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
For a minute I thought this is an moon-shot to stop climate change by building real icebergs.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
I hope a pragmatic framework like SvelteKit, Astro or TanStack replace NextJS complexity vendors soon.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
> dang can we please get a bit better Markdown support? Great use case for an LLM to make these changes as HN is open source. It’ll also tell us if LLMs can go beyond JS slop.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Because it's the only other browser engine that's currently available in the market.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
It is a service available to Cloudflare customers and is opt-in. I fail to see how they’re being gatekeepers when site owners have option not to use it.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
“You’re absolutely right!”
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
The article itself talks about this self-selection/sampling bias due to a minuscule sample size of 813 people. Reducing “science community” to such a small sample is not convincing.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
>They ended up with a final sample size of 813 people. I want BlueSky to succeed but this sampling bias is simply too much to ignore. This comment (by nunobrito) from few days ago on a similar topic is best analysis of this topic. > T
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
HN is literally the website I open to check if I have internet connectivity. HN is truly a shining beacon in the trashy landscape of web bloat.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
We were promised mosquito laser zappers!
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
This seems like an abandoned project with no updates since 2019 (!!) Those looking for a more active and stable project: ubports is carrying the torch forward on the convergence front. I have personally used it on my old OnePlus device and
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
India also has the RuPay system which is a direct competitor to Visa/Mastercard and it has long overtaken Visa as the top provider. It’s also available in many global markets like SEA, GCC and others.

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