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by amerkhalid 3y ago
When we were kids, it was common knowledge and cheaper to use headphones as a mic. Just plug headphones into mic jack and they work as mic.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
We don’t hear about traditional banks freezing money as much online banks. Maybe people who use traditional banks are mostly running traditional businesses with well understood risk profiles. Also traditional banks make you go through a lot
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I think they should get rid of all deductions at the individual levels. They just cause confusion and hide true cost of things. For example, I went to buy Jeep. 4xe version was $8000 more. But its battery lasts only 2-3 miles and it would h
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
> Change your job. Change your relationship. Change the city where you live. Change your primary hobby. Change your friends. Go back to school or start a business. Go somewhere you've never been before, the further away the better.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
> Multiply it by say 10k users and you've done some serious harm in the world. I would disagree. While resume driven open source projects are indeed painful to sift through, you have no idea where these projects may lead to. We shou
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Lol, I was actually defending ads. Like ads are perfect for taking a break to grab snacks or use restroom. Also ads provide pretty good stopping point, we are not as much binge watching TV as when on Netflix. Even when you can forward ads,
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
It has been so long since last I saw any ad on TV/videos that when I subscribed to YouTube TV a few months ago, watching ads made me nostalgic. I told my wife that I was really enjoying these ads. But after about a week it got really a
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
* generated audio that would summarize what had happened since last I logged in. Perhaps more details on family and close friends, and less on acquaintances. * maybe along same lines, a dashboard with summarized text version of updates. Upd
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Along the same lines, does anyone know what's the state of VR/AR in Godot? I have been interested in exploring this space, not sure if first-party libraries like ARKit would be easier to start with or a game engine. (Not planning
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Prevent creating accounts in countries they cannot operate responsibly. Disallow comments in languages they cannot moderate.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Thank you, looks perfect for my use case. I will check it out later today.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I take voice notes. I would really like a way for voice notes to be transcribed with timestamps. There are SaaS services that let you do that but they are for professionals and too expensive for stream of conscious personal notes. A while a
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I lean towards absolutist position but I think the big problem is algorithms here. If algorithms are promoting something then it is no longer a simple case of free speech. I hate it that these megacorps are hiding behind free speech when th
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
> I do not take the time to remove duplicates etc, it would take weeks. I can do that when I'm retired I used to take a lot of time organizing my photo library in Lightroom Classic. Now I have similar philosophy, just leave it. I am
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Early in my career, I was laid off during offshore outsourcing mania. Initially, they hired one of consulting company to handle oncall after work hours. We loved it, spent months training our replacements without knowing. We also documented
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I never understood the appeal of AirBnB. All these points about having a kitchen or living room to hangout sounded negative to me. But someone finally explained. It is vacation vs travel. I’m a vacationer, I don’t want to deal with parking,
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
This is a really good point. I don't understand the obsession with single family homes. We own a single family home and it kind of make me feel bad. We rarely use our yard, it is just maintenance for no good reason. Inside the house, w
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I am seeing a lot of similar theaters popping up with full service, dining and drinks, etc. I really enjoy going to these type of theaters because to me it is more of a dinner with a movie instead of a movie with a dinner. Even if movie suc
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
This is such an important point that most of the people don't get. For example, at one of my friend's company that hired a lot during pandemic and then did massive layoffs, the criteria to layoff was simple: Start with the newest
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I think you can still reconnect with your former colleagues even if you haven't talked to them in a while. Starting a business or looking for a new job is a great excuse to do so. I have been on both sides of conversations and it never
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Shareholders are not in management chain.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Great suggestions so far. Here are some of my ideas: Landscape designer: There is a lot to learn about various plants, climate zones, etc. I am learning for our home but feeling overwhelmed. We are considering hiring a consultant and probab
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Laser based mosquito killer machine. I remember seeing something about it once but cannot find it now. I think it would be awesome.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Been doing this on and off. In my ideal world, I’d have a powerful remote computer that could be used for all kind of dev work including game development. And locally I would use iPad to remote in. But so far whenever I used remote machine,
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I am from guess culture, it is almost impossible for me to decipher needs of everyone and communicate my needs without asking. Unless those needs are very standard traditional needs like offering water to a guest, giving up seat for an elde
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
> to create a cool website for them for a few hundred bucks I think this price range will push away serious businesses. I knew a consulting company that had hard time getting customers when they were charging under $1000 for simple WordP
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Microsoft Access was great for this. You could built a quick app in couple of hours and deploy in local network with a shared database.
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
I haven’t done this but have read about idea generation and validation processes like this: 1. Start with problems, small or big. Write them down. Do it for a few weeks or months. 2. Go through the list and come up with solutions to each pr
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Recently, my friends and I were discussing same thing about climate change that we are focused on symptoms instead of the main cause. It is a bit controversial but I think the best way to deal with climate change is to have less kids. I say
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by amerkhalid 3y ago
Instead of calling it contracting, call it consulting. Your top heading should be something like: Ruby/Rails Consultant 2013-current Then each of contracting gig should be subheading under it. Remove job title here. Just the company

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