FlyingSnake

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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Verstanden!
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Second this. I also find 512kb as a more realistic benchmark and use it for my website. The modern web has crossed the rubicon long time ago for 14kb websites.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
There’s https://512kb.club/ which I follow to keep my website lightweight
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
256 colors ought to be enough for anybody.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
I’ve built systems for iSeries and none of the modern fancy GUI IDEs come close to the speed of those IBM 5250 terminals. You can still see such terminals in action in POCO baumarkt in Berlin. One of the modules I saw in action was written
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Not COBOL but years ago I did some work on IBM AS/400 using RPG. For those who don’t know, RPG was originally written (in 1959) for punch cards and the programs had to be written in a pattern that resembles punchcard. It was a fun expe
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Golang functions are synchronous but all goroutine code is essentially async or “coloured”.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Isletwald in CH or Hallstatt in Austria were also quite far off the beaten path. That didn’t stop hordes of tourists from overrunning them.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
> Arguably, our solution to the problem is just to color every function async-colored. This is essentially how Golang achived color-blindness.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Be wary of imitating high status people who can afford to counter signal. https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high...
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Sometime around mid-30s I stopped caring about what people think about me and it had a great effect on my mental well being. I reconnected with age old Lindy wisdom and started reading classics that helped me with my midlife crisis. Not giv
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Everything is a remix. Previous art: “ Willingness to look stupid” by Dan Luu. https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ Precious discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942189
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
But humans were always multilingual the moment we left Africa. How else would the Sumerians, Romans, Persians, Indians, Chinese trade with each other? The "brag" is just a reality of most people of the world who aren't monoli
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Thanks for providing context. I’ve edited my comment and added a disclaimer to correct it.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
> many aren’t AI at all Reminds me of this classic: AI == Actually Indian https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/700-india... Edit: this is false and has been debunked. The real story is in th
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Nah man, I’m not aiming for any linguistic purity or any such thing. All I want is to experience the sounds, smells, quirks, slangs and unique things that make up the culture. e.g. when I read „Stasiland “, I knew exactly what Miriam felt.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
You brought in „superiority” into this not me. BTW how are monolinguals immune to the charge you’ve laid against me? At least we multilinguals can enjoy the “unfathomable expanse” in more dimensions than them.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
I’ve read these classics in the languages I know. I’ve also read translated classics from my mother tongues and I know how woefully inadequate they feel. I think our time scales are on different scales. I treat this as a lifelong pursuit an
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
This is such a sad and utilitarian take. I would rather do the opposite and try to learn as many languages as possible. I can’t imagine the fun of reading “Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish or Dostoevski in Russian.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
I think so, yes. My daughter speaks English and German fluently and I can see she has deep insights into these cultures. (She also speaks 2 other languages) She once told me that she likes to read conversational books like “Greg’s Tagebuch”
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Sometimes I really pity the monolinguals who can’t witness the beauty of the varied linguistic cultures of the world. It’s not a brag but here’s a sample of how my polylingustic life looks like: In the past week I had discussions about Clau
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
That seems to be a fair assessment. I’ve never heard of fourtyTwo and had to double check who they are.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
A decade of blindly copying YC model has made people forget that businesses are messy and require lots of trust building. Just because you believe in presentations and pie in the sky numbers doesn’t mean the businesses will believe them. I
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
My favourite tree is the Neem tree. It’s scientific name Azadirachta Indica means the “free spirited tree of India” and it comes from the Farsi word “Azaad Dirakht-e-hind”. A gem among trees. I love the slow web and once in a while I try to
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
That’s pretty impressive. I love when people give old devices a new life and save them from being eWaste. True to the hacker spirit.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Wonderful story! We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life. https://samkhawase.com/blog&#
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
How is it different from self hosting locally with Cloudflare tunnels or Tailscale? E.g. I have a PiZero attached to my router and it’s exposed to the internet via Cloudflare tunnels.
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
Omitting such an important story from the article feels sloppy. For me, no other story from Chemistry is as fascinating as Kekule dreaming up Benzene’s molecular structure. An important reminder to me about the power of narrative and storyt
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He who submits a resume has lost(residentcontrarian.substack.com)
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by FlyingSnake 1y ago
I might be lucky because mine’s still chugging along. May horde contains: few old MacBooks running Linux, old Kindles running dashboards, Android phones & tablets, iPhones from OG era and even a Chumby. All of them are still working fin

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